Each believer is exhorted to live a life worthy of our calling in humility, meekness, patience, and love, making the effort to attend and keep the bond of the Spirit in peace (mindful and attentive, not being a push-over).
The point is made that all believers are One (not divided into Judaism and Christianity, and I add, subdivided from there).
There is one body of Christ, one Spirit, one Lord, on faith, one baptism, one God and Father above all, through all, in us, each one. The Oneness Jesus prayed for in His priestly prayer before His death is emphasized (reference John 17).
Every one of us is given grace, or gifts.
Through the Lord’s work to go down (descend) in order to ascend, He acquired gifts which He gave to mankind. He ascended to fill all things – including earth, cosmos, and the Heavens — with His triumphant redemption being fully complete.
Some of which He gave are His people. Certain of His body is given in the 5-fold offices to equip the holy…
