Eph-80-81 - Lesson 33 - Ephesians 5: 9-13
I want to start by, again, reading these fabulous expanded translations that Dr. Wierwille gave you last week of the first eight verses before we start going in the ninth verse. Verse one is: Become therefore imitators of God like as beloved sons. And then verse two, which of course is the great theme verse for Rock of Ages ' 81, this coming August. And boy, this is a tremendous verse in light of Jesus Christ Our Passover has just come out and a lot of other things. Of course that' s the tone for the whole year. It says: And conduct your life in love... and it' s... the theme is God' s Call to Love... Conduct your life in love , yes, even as Christ also loved you and surrendered himself for you a sacrificial offering to God for a sweet smelling fragrance. And of course, Jesus Christ our Passover is all about how Jesus Christ is the sacrificial offering. And how he did love us and gave himself for us. And so we' re to conduct our lives, our walk in love. I was thinking how in this context here, our four major research books are all sort of capsulized in this section, because walking in love is sort of the theme ofreceiving the holy spirit today. To learn how to walk by the spirit, walking in love, of course is central to that in I Corinthians 13 which is covered in there. And then the sacrificial offering, that' s Jesus Christ our Passover. And then as you saw last week in verses, this whole section, especially verses three, four and five... fornication, uncleanness, idolatry and all those things.. .sort ofrelate to Jesus Christ is Not God . And then the inheritance mentioned in verse five ties into Are the Dead Alive Now? Because most people think you have an immediate inheritance of some kind when you die, you go to heaven. But that's not the case, because you have to wait until Christ returns which is the subject of that particular book. But, I thought that was kind of neat how all those four major research books that we have are all wrapped up in this particular
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Tweet Format: mp3 Publication Date: 05-20-1981 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