Study Desk

God is able to do much more than we ask or think through His power working in us.

There is one God. He is the Father of us all. He is over us all. He is the One working through us all. He is the One living in us all.

All of us are to be as one in the faith and in knowing the Son of God. We are to be full-grown Christians standing as high and complete as Christ is Himself.

I tell you this in the name of the Lord: You must not live any longer like the people of the world who do not know God. Their thoughts are foolish.

Their minds are in darkness. They are strangers to the life of God. This is because they have closed their minds to Him and have turned their hearts away from Him.

You must become a new person and be God-like. Then you will be made right with God and have a true holy life.

You must be kind to each other. Think of the other person. Forgive other people just as God forgave you because of Christ's death on the cross.

Do as God would do. Much-loved children want to do as their fathers do.

Live with love as Christ loved you. He gave Himself for us, a gift on the altar to God which was as a sweet smell to God.

Do not be guilty of telling bad stories and of foolish talk. These things are not for you to do. Instead, you are to give thanks for what God has done for you.

Be sure of this! No person who does sex sins or who is not pure will have any part in the holy nation of Christ and of God. The same is true for the person who always wants what other people have. This becomes a god to him.

Do not let anyone lead you in the wrong way with foolish talk. The anger of God comes on such people because they choose to not obey Him.

This light gives us truth. It makes us right with God and makes us good.

Always give thanks for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Do not work hard only when your owner sees you. You would be doing this just to please men. Work as you would work for Christ. Do what God wants you to do with all your heart.

Owners, do the right thing for those who work for you. Stop saying that you are going to be hard on them. Remember that your Owner and their Owner is in heaven. God does not respect one person more than another.

Put on the things God gives you to fight with. Then you will not fall into the traps of the devil.

Because of this, put on all the things God gives you to fight with. Then you will be able to stand in that sinful day. When it is all over, you will still be standing.

So stand up and do not be moved. Wear a belt of truth around your body. Wear a piece of iron over your chest which is being right with God.

The covering for your head is that you have been saved from the punishment of sin. Take the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God.