Eph-80-81 Lesson 37 Pt 1 - Ephesians 6: 10-17
I'd like for you to take your Bibles and turn to Romans eight. At the apex of all inspired Scriptures representing the length, the breadth, the depth, and the height, we come on this occasion to the finale of Ephesians. We' ve gone back before the overthrow and continued on to the ages to come, with all the rewards for the believers throughout all eternity. It is the full magnificence of God' s grace that has abounded toward us in Christ raised above all, who has filled all of us with all the fullness of God; who both descended and ascended above all; whose love surpasses all knowledge; whose riches are untrackable; who has given us a liberty beyond the liberty of anything man could ever have conceived. And has given us this Mystery, the great good deposit of ' Christ in you the hope of glory' to guard, as well as ' the unity of the spirit' to keep. We are already seated in the heavenlies as fellow citizens with all the saints and yet we' re down here upon the earth walking in this wilderness of sin and evil, but we are sealed until the day of the return. With all of this greatness from God' s Word and the truth of that Word , we must feel like Joshua of old, according to Numbers 13:30: Let us go up at once and possess the land, for we are well able. {Numbers 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.} And the portions of Joshua 14:10 and 11. And now behold the Lord hath kept me alive as he said these forty and five years. I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me. {Joshua 14:10,11 And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as He said, these forty and five years , even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war,
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set whereby you put off the old man. This phrase here 'speak every man truth with his neighbor' is one of them. The other one appears in verse 26, 'be angry and sin not.' ' Steal no more' is another one. 'Corrupt communication' is the fourth one. 'Grieve not the holy spirit' is the fifth one. ' All bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, evil speaking' is the sixth. And then ' be kind' and so forth, is the seventh. You see, the last phrase in that verse, in King James, For we' re members one of what? [Another] And it' s relative to the neighbor. Now you just look at that. Wherefore put away lying, speak every man truth with his what? [Neighbor] For we are members one of another. That doesn't mean just a neighbor who lives next door, but it has to be a believing neighbor because we are members one of what? [Another]. You could not be a member ' one of another' ifhe was an unbeliever. That's how