Eph-80-81 - Lesson 32 Pt-2- Ephesians 5: 1-8
Verse four in King James reads, Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. The word ' filthiness' in the Aramaic is ' swearing's' or ' profanity' or ' cursing.' Thou shalt not use the name of the Lord thy God in what? [Vain] That is what this is talking about. And any time you have idolatry , those men are going to use the name of God in vain. That' s profanity. Neither filthiness which is profanity, using the name of God in vain, nor foolishness in King James. You see these ' nors,' these ' neither, nor, nors' that are in here is the figure of speech spelled p-a-r-a-d-i-a-s-t-o-l-e. {paradiastole}. This repetition separates out certain actions that are not even to be named among saints. Filthiness, foolishness, talking, jestings, these are not even to be named among saints. This ' foolish talking,' ' words that are senseless or ofr eproach' is the Aramaic. The word ' reproach' according to the Funk and Wagnall Standard Collegiate Dictionary 1974 says, 'to charge with or blame for something wrong. ' So these words mean, ' you do not use the name of God in vain nor words that blame Him for something wrong, for evil.' Blame God for evil. Man, I thought it today, the contracts that are written. Acts of God. Ha ha, you know, storm, fires, acts of God. This verse says, this verse says, Never any words that blame Him, God, for evil. That' s the Word 'foolish talking.' That' s ' foolish talking.' Now the word ' jesting.' Jesting is ' making fun of.' The dictionary again, the same one, has this to say about the word ' jesting.' ' Something said or done to provoke laughter.' And I wrote ' saying or doing anything to provoke laughter.' You do not say or do anything, making Him, making God a laughing stock.. 'Which is not convenient ' meaning, ' these which are not necessary,' ' not becoming.' They are ' discreditable ,' ' unbefitting,' dealing with the one true God and idolatry in relationship to it. The litera
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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