Paul exhorts believers to walk according to their calling recognizing the diverse gifts and building up in love. Be eager to maintain unity of the Spirit, having ONE mind, NO divisions. There is one body, one Spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all. Trinitarian Unity

Today Paul shows us that while we were once dead in our sin Christ has made us alive in Him! Through the work of God we are brought near and are now fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God!

Paul tells us of our future hope of physical resurrection and the present offer of reconciliation with God that is secured with the guarantee of the Spirit. We are alienated from God as fallen sinners, but in Christ, God draws us near and has restored us relationally to him. The initiative was wholly God’s! This is GRACE!