Eph-80-81 - Lesson 37 Pt 3 Sharing (VPW) - Athletes of The Spirit
This is a break moment between Craig Martindale teaching Athletes of The Spirit and Dr. Wierwille teaching the same subject. Do you want to stand up a minute here and reach for the heavens and breathe? Well, quite a night. [Laughter] Ha ha ha. Give you something to chew on for a day or two. Well now, I guess it' s up to me to sort of wind this thing all together here and see where we end up at. So whenever you' re able to sit down again and feel halfway comfortable .. .we will go to Ephesians six. I do not believe there is any other Christian group in the world, basically, who believes what we believe Ephesians teaches. But there' s no other Christian group that can put the Word of God together, either. And therefore, I believe it's just an exciting moment in your life and the history of it. As Craig told you, I was working this back in 1970 already. But like so many things that I've worked, it contradicted everything I believed and was taught previously. And you can' t go beyond what you' re taught. Like once upon a time, I believed Jesus Christ was God. I believed the holy spirit was God. God was God and all that stuff. Today, I do not believe that at all. I believe he was the Son of God. So the same way with this whole section in Ephesians. I really never understood the greatness of it and I'm real thankful that after all these years , at least we can approximate the greatness of the truth of it. And perhaps some of you younger men and women, as you now take what we' re sharing, you carry it much further than we have been able to carry it. One of the questions that I have asked myself regarding Ephesians 6:10 through 17, and closing it out.. .as I said tonight, it' s the apex of it all...is how does this relate itself to the one great truth that was so magnified in the fifth chapter and in the sixth through verse nine, namely the one God? And the final illustration being the family with the husband as the head of the wife. How does all of this relate itself to at
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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