November 26 2025

Wednesday November 26

“One Faith”

Ephesians 4:4-6

4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Today we're looking specifically at Ephesians 4:5 where we read of the fifth spiritual reality, “One faith”. The Apostle Paul has been talking about the seven essentials of oneness, the spiritual realities that we now experience in Christ Jesus because of His riches that He has bestowed upon us (Ephesians 1-3). It is these seven spiritual realities that gives us unity in the body of Christ. That is not just the universal body of Christ and what's sometimes called the invisible church, but it's basically speaking of the unity in the local church.

This is the local church, the body of believers, “the saints”, that Paul is writing to at Ephesus. He wrote to the local churches of Galatia in Galatians. He wrote the book of Philippians to the local church at Philippi. These churches and every local assembly of born-again, baptized, followers of Jesus Christ that are organized under spiritual leaders, under the discipline of the Word of God, guided by the Holy Spirit, teaching, fellowshipping, worshipping, evangelizing, and caring for one another, are the visible Body of Christ, His Church!

So far in verse 4, Paul has already mentioned one body, one Spirit, one hope. And yesterday we talked about one Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is Lord over all. Now today we're talking about the next word, one faith. One faith. Now it's important that we remember we're talking about unity. What brings about unity in the local body of Christ amongst believers is found in this essential spiritual reality that is called “one faith”. Now the word “faith” here is not speaking of a personal faith that we have. Like when we say, I have put my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I put my faith in His resurrection power. I have faith to believe that God's going to do this or that. No, this word here is not speaking of that kind of faith. That's a personal faith.

The “One Faith” here, is speaking of an objective faith. This “one faith" transcends mere personal conviction or subjective trust; it represents the objective, divinely revealed body of doctrine that forms the bedrock of Christianity. This “one faith” is speaking of the body of truth were find in the Word of God that you and I hold dear to our hearts we're not going to let change. So, it's “one faith”. There are not many paths to God. There is only one path to God. That path is through the Lord Jesus Christ. It's not “two faiths”, “five faiths”, or “ten faiths”. It's “one faith”, one body of truth that brings us into a revelation, a knowledge of who God really is through His son Jesus Christ.

We can’t miss the importance of this truth! We live in a day of apostasy. We live in a day when the Gospel message has been watered down. We have a good God, a good devil, a good everybody. Be good. Do your best. Go to church. Try to keep the ten commandments the best you can do, and God will understand in the end. But my friend, that's not what the Bible teaches. The Bible gives us one faith, one body of truth that guarantees us an eternal salvation through our faith in Christ, in Christ alone. So, we have “one faith”.

The essentials of this faith include the Lordship of Jesus Christ and His deity. He is God manifest in the flesh! I believe a great verse that speaks of this is Jude 1:3. Jude writing to the believers says, "Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to all the saints. For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into lewdness deny the only Lord God our Lord Jesus Christ."

So the faith that he's speaking of here is this body of truth, this original body of truth that the apostles have delivered to us once for all, it's unchanging. It's not negotiable. It has been always the same. My friend, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. “One faith”. This includes Jesus Christ’s virgin birth, His sinless life, His atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension into heaven where He's seated at the right hand of the Father right now. This includes salvation by grace through faith alone, not works. This speaks of the Trinity, God in three persons, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. This speaks of the authority of the Holy Scriptures as inspired and infallible. This speaks of moral ethical living, holiness, love, and avoidance of sin in our lives.

This “one faith” speaks of the hope of Jesus Christ and His bodily return one day and eternal life that is through Him alone. My friend, that's the “one faith” we must hold dear in our hearts and “earnestly contend for” even today.

God bless!