Eph-80-81 - Lesson 30 - Ephesians 4: 17-24
We' re into a section of the Word of God in chapter four, tonight, where... the section of Ephesians, chapter four. In order to put the whole thing together, you have to begin with verse 17 and go through verse 24. And perhaps you will understand this as I teach it, because after verse 24, we get away. .. get started on the things you ' put away with' and later on, ' the things you put on;' they' re interspersed. And we' ll see some of this tonight. It' s, just again, an unbelievable privilege to teach the Word and the greatness of Ephesians in here just makes you stand in utter amazement. And I heard Vince refer to a statement that I make in the Advanced Class which is still literally true: they laugh at people who say they ' hear from God.' But ifl didn' t hear from God every day, I'd quit. Have to. Then He' s dead or I'm not living it; then I'd better get to living it. So I expect to walk that way and it' s just a wonderful privilege to work the Word. Again I'm real thankful for our Research Department. Wonderful men and women and their faithfulness. It' s just a wonderful privilege to be on that Research Team and to work the Word and have the privilege of working it and putting it together from a language point of view. I closed last week in Lexington with verse 16 of chapter four and I did it deliberately because I knew we' d have to start this new section and I wanted to teach it as a section. :17 This I say therefore, is King James, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind. The state of the Gentiles... walk not as other Gentiles walk. It' s real interesting. Eight different things that I've seen in here. They're all interesting words again in the verse, like every verse is. But the words ' in the vanity' are really significant, especially that word ' vanity.' It' s not some antique that you look in that has a mirror. The Greek word is mataiotes , m-a-t-a-i-o-t-e-s. It' s used only three times in
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