Our Calling : our vocation as a special people for God’s purpose.

Ephesians 4.1: I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called…

Walk: This word is a reference to the ordering of your life.

Worthy: This word is a reference to a walk that is "fitting" or "matches" the calling. 1 Thes 2.10-12

Calling: This word speaks of invitation or vocation. Here it is one's vocation that corresponds to the purpose of God to have a special people on earth in time.

*The word “called” can mean different things depending on use, and to whom it applies depends on context, though not always so easily determined.  “Call” can mean to invite, summon, to name (called saints, 1 Cor 1.12), vocation as to purpose or induction as to being installed  in a certain group or function.


We are to walk in a way that matches our calling, that being our place and purpose among the people of God. If we fail here, we fail of the spiritual reality and God's purpose for us.

This spiritual reality exists through the work of the Holy Spirit in uniting all believers in one body to God. Christ has accomplished a sphere of peace with God in which one enters by faith, and all believers (Jew or gentile, male or female) are united together in this peace as one body.

Ephesians 4.2: … with all lowliness (humility) and gentleness (meek, unassuming), with longsuffering (patience), bearing with one another in love, …
vs 3: endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

We must have the attributes of humility, meekness, patience, and love to work out in our experience the spiritual reality of this union as one body (see 1 Corinthians 12.13). Each member is to always seek the edification (building up) of the church by doing his part in the church, the body.   We are not to think of ourselves too highly, since we share a common faith and are all members of th same body:  Romans 12.3

Vss 4-6: One body, and one Spirit… All these "ones" relate to the one people of God in connection with Christ through the Spirit.

One hope in Eph 4.4 is expounded in Eph 1.15-23: that you may know what is the hope of His calling. The one body with its hope is God's inheritance. As God's inheritance, we will experience His power in us.

One Lord means that Christ alone is our head.
One faith is that all believe the same truth for salvation.
One baptism is the one identification for all by being baptized into the body of Christ.

Vss 7-10: Christ led captivity captive: Christ the victor has redeemed and taken possession of slaves of sin and gives them as gifts to the church to serve (edify) the body, to make it in this present time the people He has called.

You are to order your life in a manner that matches your role in the people of God for service for the building up and unity of that people. Through this the Church will mature in faith and practice and impact the world around them concerning God and His salvation.