Eph-80-81 - Lesson 32 Pt-1- Ephesians 5: 1-8
I think maybe I ought to share with you before we go to Ephesians five, that in my mind, the greatest of all truths in the Word, if I... if you have to pick just one, is that there is only one, true God. And the reason for that, in my opinion, is that it starts the whole Bible. In the beginning God. Genesis 1:1 starts with God. That' s the greatest of all truths, that there is one, true God who formed, made and created. And that there is only one, true Son of God. And that Son of God is Jesus Christ. He is not God; he is the Son of God. And then I was just thinking today, too, along the line of... here Craig is teaching this week, the great Book of Acts on the rise and the expansion, and the historical background of The Rise and the Expansion of the Christian Church. And that this truth that Craig is teaching from the Book of Acts synthesizes, has its pinnacle, its apex, in the Book of Ephesians. The rise and the expansion of the Christian Church culminates with the truths that are revealed for the expansion .. .the rise and the expansion of the Church in the Book of Ephesians. That' s why Ephesians is the pinnacle. It is the greatest of all the revelations that have ever been given to the Church. I think last week I asked you to read two pieces of work that Walter Cummins did which I mentioned . Now, in the work of the Corps, I can' t help you much if you don' t help yourself after I make a suggestion. If you don' t utilize your ability and drive yourself to master some of that stuff, then a lot of the things that I'm teaching and will be sharing with you are just so much waste of my life and time. You' ve got to master those things when I make a recommendation. And I do not feel that you've done it; that' s maybe why I'm sharing it. And I'm not going to give you an exam, because if I did, you'd most likely all flunk and then I'd feel terrible. So, and I don' t want to feel terrible, so I ain' t going to give you an exam. But I know you did not master them. So get
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Tweet Format: mp3 Publication Date: 05-13-1981 On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.} And I noticed again that some of the things