Introduction:     The first three chapters of this Book deal with the believer’s wealth and the last three deal with the believer’s walk. The first three chapters deal with doctrine (Election; Predestination; Adoption; The Sealing of the Holy Spirit) and the rest of the Book deals with duty. Doctrine is always related to duty! Doctrine without duty produces dry intellectualism and cold formalism. Duty without doctrine produces only superficial, surface Christians or those who are self-righteously legalistic. Doctrine and duty together produces balance in our walk with the Lord! Why is the Christian life described as a walk? A “walk” denotes life (because only the living can walk); “walk” denotes movement (the believer is someone on the move); “walk” denotes progress (the believer is ever moving forward); “walk” denotes agreement (how can two walk together unless they be agreed). The Christian life is described as “a walk with the Lord.” How are we to walk with Him? Notice we are to:

I.                    WALK IN INTEGRITY (V.1)

INTEG'RITY, n The entire, unimpaired state of any thing, particularly of the mind; moral soundness or purity; incorruptness; uprightness; honesty. Integrity comprehends the whole moral character, (Webster’s 1828).

“Therefore” connects the last half of this Book to the first (expound, since all these things are true…). What you believe affects the way you behave!

“Worthy” = to carry the same weight (your walk is to weigh the same as your talk). Why

is this important?

A.                 Because Of Our Heritage

The Apostle Paul’s (and others) example. We have a whole train of people that have walked before us.

B.                 Because Of Our Calling

What is our calling? (Heb 3:1) "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;"

Because our calling is a heavenly calling it is a high calling! We need to live up to our calling! To walk in integrity is a choice!

II.         WALK IN HUMILITY (V.2)

Words that describe the Christian’s lifestyle.

A.                 A Sense Of Moral Smallness

Lowliness – humiliation of mind

B.         A Sense Of Controlled Strength

Meekness – gentleness

C.                 A Sense Of Self-Control

Longsuffering – forbearance (patience; To put up with)

III.               WALK IN UNITY (V.3)

A.        Requires Our Diligence

• “Endeavoring” = to use speed, i.e. to make effort, be prompt or earnest: - to (give) diligence, be diligent, to endeavor is to labor, study. Preserving unity in the body of Christ takes effort!

• To “Keep” = to guard.

B.         Requires The Divine

• The “unity of the Spirit” = the unity produced by the Spirit. It is not our job to produce unity; it is our responsibility to guard the unity that the Holy Spirit of God produces in His Church!
• “In the bond of peace” = that which is used to bind. The binding mechanism is the peace that the Hoy Spirit produces.

So the Bible says, in the Church of the Living God, that there is to be a unity that is produced by the Holy Spirit and when that unity is manifested it will be known because our hearts are bound together, not by likes and dislikes and differences of opinion, but by the peace of God and peace is the absence of strife, and conflict!

Conclusion:       You’re “talk” talks, and you’re “walk” talks; but you’re “walk” talks more than you “talk” talks! How is you’re walk?