Eph-80-81 - Lesson 34 - Ephesians 5: 9-12
Last week I was not here and Walter Cummins did such an admirable job of, again, teaching the Word. And he allowed me the privilege of doing the translations. So, beginning with Ephesians 5:9, the following is the literal according to usage of that verse. 5:9 of Ephesians: For the fruit of light in all of them is goodness and righteousness and truth. For the fruit of light in all of them is goodness and righteousness and truth. Now the expanded one. And this expanded one is, I believe, uniquely interesting. Because this whole chapter deals with one God in opposition to the many gods that the mystery religion had in Rome. And I expanded this because there are three words in verse nine: goodness, righteousness, and truth, those three words. But verse eight had declared to us that we walk as children of light. God is light. And that we are light, we are light in the Lord Jesus Christ and we walk as children of God. Then, this verse nine, verse nine, talking about the fruit of the spirit in King James... I translated it, the expanded one: For the fruit of the light in your life is in all believers. Or should the Research Team decide to go with the singular, I would be amenable to saying ' is in every believer. ' For the fruit of the light, see. The light, God is light. When you're born again, you have God in Christ where? [In you] That's the light. Light. The fruit of the light in your life is in all believers. Then in the center of the page, I put the word ' goodness' which serves to guard others from the adversary. Then in the center of the page I put, ' and righteousness.' See, the fruit of the light in your life is in all believers, goodness, which serves to guard others from the adversary, and righteousness, the God given justification to every believer whereby that believer stands in the presence of God without any sense or consciousness of sin, guilt, or condemnation. Then in the center of the page, I put ' and truth,' which will keep you from being deceived by
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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