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Deep Revelation From the Book of Ephesians Season 4: Effective Gentleness
March 10, 2025 · 18 min
In this episode, Rabbi Schneider approaches the topic of humility and gentleness and what it means to be at the mercy of the Creator.
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Walking Worthy of Your Calling 0:00 Walk in humility. Recognize you're like a vapor. You're here today and gone tomorrow. Because you're a child of God, you go into his glory when you die, but you have to recognize that we are simply at the mercy of God,0:11 our creator, who should humble us.0:23 Now as we approach chapter 4, beloved ones, Paul moves from the theological to the practical. And so we're moving now into the practical. Now knowing0:35 what we know, how should we then live? And so let's pick up now with this practical application beginning in verse number 1 of chapter 4. Paul continues,0:47 therefore, in light of everything that I just told you, you've been chosen by God. God chose you in Ephesians chapter 1 before the foundation of the world to be his.0:59 You're not like the rest of the world. God chose you out of the world. You did not choose him, he chose you, Jesus said. Paul continues, he says, therefore, I, the prisoner of the1:11 Lord. Paul saying, I'm as the prisoner of the Lord, in light of what I just told you, imploring you. Think about that word, imploring you. It's like I am begging you. I am1:22 challenging you as strongly as I possibly can in light of everything that I've told you that you've been chosen of the Lord, supernaturally sealed by the Holy Spirit,1:34 God's own possession. He says, I'm therefore imploring you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with1:46 which you have been called. Think about this. I want you just to get this again. In Ephesians chapter 1,1:58 Paul tells us that God chose his own in himself before the foundation of the world, and then he, listen now, predestined us.2:11 If you know God, it's because you were, listen, fore loved. God does not love you because he saw that you were gonna choose him. Jesus2:23 said, you did not choose me, I chose you. So when the Bible speaks of foreknowledge, it doesn't mean that God knew that you would choose him, therefore, he chose you. Therefore, if that was the2:34 case, his choice of you would be based on your choice of him, but that's not how it is. Paul told us in chapter 2 of Ephesians that you and I were by nature children of wrath even as the rest. There was nothing2:46 different about you and I from everybody else, but God simply chose to love us. You were for love. God, for reasons that we don't understand, had nothing2:58 to do with who we are. He just chose for his own sovereign purposes to love you. So Paul says in Ephesians 1,3:10 he chose you before the foundation of the world. And as a result of being chosen, he predestined you to adoption through Jesus to himself. And so now Paul,3:22 in light of this says, I'm there for knowing you've been chosen. Knowing you're for love. You're you've been I mean, you're not like the world. Jesus said if you were of the world, the world would love you, but I3:34 chose you out of the world. So Paul says, therefore, I'm imploring you, come out from the world. Be different because you're not of the world. So listen, he says, therefore, I,3:46 the prisoner of the Lord, because he was in prison for most of his ministry. I implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you've been called.3:58 You're the temple of the Holy Spirit. And how do we walk out in such a way that we're revealing to the principalities of the air, as I covered in the last broadcast,4:10 that we're the dwelling place of God. How do we walk as 1 that's walking worthy of our calling? Number 1, he says, you do it by walking in humility and gentleness.4:22 So Jesus modeled this for us. He came meek and lonely. A bruised reed, he did not damage. Everybody that came to him with a humble4:34 spirit, he treated so tenderly. And he talked about his love for children. He said, if you cause a little 1 to stumble, it'd be better for you4:46 to have never been been born. He had such a heart of gentleness towards childlike people. And he's walking he's asking you and I to to become like a child,4:58 to come in that spirit of humility, to strip ourselves of all our defenses, because of our insecurities and our fears, to come out of all the false personas that5:10 we put on, to try to be macho and strong and manly, and for women to come out of walking in a spirit of sensuality, to try to attract attention because they wanna feel love, you5:22 wanna feel love precious 1. He says, no, I want you to come out from that and walk worthy of your calling. I want you to walk as a child in the spirit of humility.5:34 Because we know as it relates to humility that but by the grace of God, my friends, there go we. Again, there was nothing different about you and I. God just chose to5:46 save us. Paul says you are by nature a children of wrath just as the rest. But then he continues, but God but God being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved you, he saved you. He made5:58 you alive in Christ by grace through faith. And even the faith is not your own. It was given you as a gift of God. So we're to walk in humility. We're we're no different than anybody else.6:10 We need to not judge people, not accuse people, not condemn people. We need to be tender towards people. We need to think not more highly of ourself than we should. We need to humble ourself.6:22 And humility also means that we're walking in dependency on God. A lot of people say, oh, I'm gonna be doing this. I'm gonna be doing that. Jesus said, don't say you're gonna do through the through the prophet.6:34 He said, don't say you're gonna do this tomorrow or that tomorrow. You don't know what your life's gonna be tomorrow. You don't know if you'll be here tomorrow or not. Don't don't have that kind of a spirit. That's evil.6:46 Walk in humility. Recognize you're like a vapor. You're here today and gone tomorrow. Because you're a child of God, you go into his glory when you die, but you have to recognize that we we we we are we are simply at the6:58 mercy of God, our creator, that should humble us. And 1 of the things that helps us be humble is to recognize if we're not humble, God's gonna judge us in in discipline.7:10 He's not gonna judge us and reject us, but he's just gonna discipline us until we become humble. So Paul says walk worthy of your calling with all humility, and he continues on with that next verse,7:22 that next word, and gentleness. Some of you heard me share this before, but I had a really supernatural incident take place about a year ago. And I was, I was7:34 in New York City, and I just got done preaching to a group of pastors in New York City. It was a wonderful experience. And I was staying at a hotel with my team who was coming to film the event,7:46 and that night in the hotel in New York City, right before I was leaving the next day to fly back to Columbus, I had a dream, and the Lord spoke to me in the dream clear as a bell. And the Holy Spirit said to me,7:58 you don't always have to use power. Sometimes it's more effective to use gentleness. And, of course, even gentleness comes only from power, but the Lord was saying to8:10 me, you don't always have to use force to get your point across. Sometimes I can more impact my people8:21 when you're gentle. And so I it really it really stood out to me. It was a very marked word, so clear, so specific. The Lord was saying to me, you don't always have to use force.8:34 Sometimes my tool, the anointing that I wanna bring from you is gentleness. So I woke up woke up the next day, and I met the met met downstairs at the hotel8:46 as we were waiting for our ride to the airport. I met 1 of my team members, and I told him about this dream I had last night when the Lord spoke to me. And he showed me he'd come pulled out of his backpack the book he8:57 was reading. And the book he was reading was called Gentleness. Here I've got the dream and lo and behold, he's reading a book and the word the main theme of the book was on gentleness.9:10 So the fruit of the spirit is gentleness. The opposite of this caustic sound behind me. Right? That that siren. Soon there's gonna come a time there's there won't9:22 be any sirens. Right? When we're in the New Jerusalem, we're not gonna hear any sirens going off this alarming sound to the soul. We we're thankful for ambulances and police, but, hey, the time's gonna come when we're9:34 not gonna need them. We're just gonna be surrounded by gentleness and peace and shalom. And so we should do our best to walk in a way that9:46 people aren't threatened by us. We need to have supernatural insight into other people's vulnerability. Sometimes9:57 we're intimidated by people, and because we're intimidated, we get threatened and we come across harsh and we come across rough. But notice once again what10:09 Paul says, walk worthy of your calling with all humility and gentleness, with patience showing tolerance for 1 another10:21 in love. I love that word patience because for me, this is something that I've really had to work at in my life, being patient. Some people are born just more naturally10:33 patient. Others of us are born with the natural disposition that is less patient. We all have to work on developing supernatural patience, but it's harder for those of us that10:45 are real high energy. We're we're we're we're external. We're driven. We're focused on things, and and we run into situations in life that slow10:57 us down. And when something slows us down, our soul gets disturbed. And so this was something in my own life that I had to really work at because in the11:09 natural, I just I just, I I I had to stop operating, when I got angry because something was slowing me down, because I lacked patience.11:22 But the thing is is that overcoming these things is what produces God's strength in us. So don't let your weaknesses11:34 become disturbing to you because your weaknesses are God's opportunity to make you strong. Because we get strong, beloved 1, by overcoming11:46 our weaknesses. The more we have to work at overcoming something, the more strength we build. So don't be discouraged with yourself. Just recognize this is a a a11:58 a an issue that needs to be overcome. And as you face this thing and begin to climb the mountain, you're gonna have a great reward, and you're gonna be supernaturally strengthened because as I've said so12:10 many times, his power is perfected in your weakness. But patience is a virtue of the Holy Spirit, and all of us need to work at developing it. And oftentimes, the12:21 result of not being patient, as I said a second ago, is that we get angry. Because when something, comes, you know, we're in traffic. What do we do12:33 when when when traffic is real slow? We have a tendency. You know? We cram on the steering wheel. Here in Jerusalem now, sometimes I hear people honking. There's no place to go. Everything's backed12:45 up. You can't get around anybody. It is what it is. And, yes, some people are so angry. They're so impatient. They lay on their horn, and they leave their horn blaring for, like, 4012:57 seconds and blaring on their horn. It's not gonna accomplish a thing. No one's able to move, but they're so angry. They're so impatient that they just, bam,13:09 they go on that horn and it's going and it's going and making a ton of noise disturbing everybody that hears it. And rather than just blaring on your horn, which accomplishes nothing, some of you13:21 are challenged with your driving, you just need when you feel that, you just pull yourself back and you say, god has called me to develop the virtue of13:32 patience. And this applies to many of us in our marriages or with our children. How many of us struggle with patience in our marriages? You know, I like something that I heard a long time13:44 ago, and this is obviously a generality, but I think it's true in some cases, many cases, like when when men and women go to the, let's say, to the store together, women13:56 are shoppers and men are hunters. In other words, a woman goes to the store and, of course, I'm speaking in generalities. Please don't be offended if you're a woman. And a woman will go to the mall, and she'll think, oh,14:07 I gotta go to the mall to get so and so. But when the woman goes to the mall, oftentimes they, you know, kinda look in this store and they wanna look at this and they wanna look at this. A man goes to the mall. He knows14:18 exactly what he's going to the mall for. He goes exactly to that 1 spot to buy what he came to the mall for and then he leaves. A woman will take her time and shop. Men can become very impatient.14:30 I don't naturally like as personally, like going to the grocery store because it's just like, I have to really work on my patience with that when when I'm with my beautiful wife, Cynthia Marjorie, that takes so great14:41 care of me. And if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be enjoying all the comforts and preacher comforts that my wife blesses me with, but it takes work for me to be patient. But now I actually kinda like it because I've14:52 worked at it for so long. I just enjoy being with my wife, and I just enjoy honoring her and blessing her just by being with her. But it took a lot of work for me to overcome impatience.15:05 So once again, your weaknesses are God's opportunities, but you've got to recognize in yourself where your soul is out of sync with God's15:16 spirit and make it a challenge, take it on as a personal challenge to bring yourself in to the spirit of the Lord. So God tells us here through the apostle Paul that we need to walk in a spirit of15:28 gentleness with patience. So whether it's with your spouse or your children, remember when you start feeling that irritation because you're not patient, remember, pull your soul back. You have the15:40 authority to pull your soul back. You might feel like this. You're anxious, you're angry, you're you're impatient, but you know what? You don't have to release it. You don't have to act on it. You pull your soul back15:53 in the spirit and you abide in him. And as you do that, more and more you're gonna get sealed. Your mind and your psyche, your personality will16:04 become sealed by the Holy Spirit and you'll find yourself living beloved ones, God's beloved ones, in more and more of his16:17 divine shalom. God bless you and God empower you to overcome every obstacle you ever face. By the grace of16:28 God, Cynthia and I together are a really strong team and our anointing and gifting is almost opposite of each other. I'm really good up in the air, a visionary,16:40 big concept person. Cynthia is really gifted on the ground. So for example, if we're traveling somewhere in our automobile I'll be completely lost, but Cynthia has a great sense of direction16:52 and can navigate us to get wherever we're going. So I say that to say I'm a big concept person and 1 of the things that I realize is that in the spirit, in order to grow and to be17:04 released in the goodness of God, we need to stretch ourselves and do what feels unnatural. This is why Jesus said, even sinners love their friends. He said, I'm calling17:16 you to go beyond that. I'm calling you to stretch yourself and love your enemies. And this pertains, beloved, even to our finances. We need to stretch ourself and honor the Lord with our finances. We need17:28 to let go and let God. Will you do that in your life?In this video 0:00 Walking Worthy of Your Calling
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