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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Tweet Format: mp3 Publication Date: 05-27-1981 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