Eph-80-81 - 38 Pt 2 _Ephesians 6:18 - 24
Closing of the 1980-81 Ephesians Corps Teachings. August 5, 1981 Take your Bibles and go to Ephesians chapter six, please. It hasn' t been very often that I've had to stand at a teaching platform to teach Ephesians to the Corps. But I'm blessed to be able to do this tonight. And I was thinking about the spiritual significance of it in the closing session, because there's just no words in my vocabulary to express to God and to you, the Corps, how thankful I am for the privilege that I've had these past two years to teach Ephesians. I think I took two years to do it, didn' t I? Weren' t we at this this two years? [No, just this year] Just this year? Well, we' re going back next year, so it will make it two years. It seems like two years to me, I guess, because I just spent hours and hours and hours in Ephesians and to come tonight to the closing six verses of this great Epistle is just a privilege that words cannot express. That any one man would be privileged to live and to work the Book of Ephesians with all of its greatness in our day and time is just a miracle of God. And then to be surrounded with not only a tremendous Research Department, but other wonderful men and women of the Way Corps and others, who so sincerel y desire to understand and to know God' s Word is a fantastic blessing. As I finished Ephesians this morning, before six o' clock, I was just so excited about it, I got on my little old Cushman and took a look around Way International. Didn't know what else to do, because, had it all finished, I was ready for the evening at six this morning, a little before. But I had to wait another 12 or 13 or 14 hours to get to it. So, I got on that old Cushman, and rode around and stopped to see people as they came along and I told them, ' I finished Ephesians, I finished Ephesians, I finished Ephesians,' see. And I believe they got about as excited about it as I was. In Ephesians chapter six tonight, verse 18, reads in the King James: Praying always with all pra
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in the literal, ha ha, according to usage. I got more papers up here than Carter has liver pills, or something. Then, I can' t find my... whatever it is I take off of it. Okay, verse 26. You be righteously angry.. .this is literal according to usage.. .and you will not be sinning. Don't go to bed even with a momentary irritation, ha ha. I don't think you get nearly as much fun out of this as I do. It's neat. It's absolutely scrumptious, see. At the opening, is that heavy word, remember? Anger. So it's a real heavy time. So what he is saying, in the heavy time, when your standing on God' s Word and sharing that with the believing neighbor, you' re righteously angry... you're not sinning. And you don't even go to bed with a momentary irritation. In other Words, when you go to bed, thank God the day is over. Say your last prayer and start snoring. Boy, that would save a lot of sleeping pill