Ephesians 81-82_05 Key Words in Ephesians
Ephesians 1981-82 Corps Teachings. Lesson 2: Key Words in Ephesians. KEY WORDS IN EPHESIANS September 16, 1981 Well bless your hearts. I’d like for you to take your Bibles tonight and go to 1 Corinthians 15. I believe that I can understand why Paul said and wrote what God asked him and inspired him to say and write as holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy spirit. In 1 Corinthians 15, beginning with what, verse 8. 1 Corinthians 15:8, 9 8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as [if it were]…one born out of due time. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not [fit or] meet… Or wonderful enough, or great enough, spiritually sharp enough… 1 Corinthians 15:9b …to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. Verse 10. 1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me [did not prove to be empty];…but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Verse 11. 1 Corinthians 15:11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed. And in Ephesians chapter 3, I can understand why Paul said, verse 7: Ephesians 3:7, 8 7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. 8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles [the untrackable] the unsearchable riches of Christ; Verse 9. Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is [the administration] of the mystery, which [was]…hid in God, who created all things [period]…. Standing today where Paul stood in the original declaration of that revelation of the Mystery is an awesome responsibility and privilege, and that, to me, the least of all saints in this time, is this grace given also is not explainable. Ephesians is the apex. It is the top. Geometrically speaking, it is the vertex of all Christian revelation. The key to this, the greatest of
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He is also the guide into the all truth…shall guide you. But suppose you don’t want to be guided? Suppose you do not want to be steered into the all truth? Suppose you prefer to run adrift in the Old Testament law and refuse to come to the apex of revelation of Ephesians? You will end up on the road of life to a degree at least of destruction, hurt, when God made it available to come into the harbor or park in the garage, guiding you all the way into the apex, the abundance of the greatness of His love in Christ Jesus. Every time I think of all these things it’s like a sword in my heart and soul. How far we live below par, how far we allow the Adversary to frame us, to screw us up. How far we allow him to attack our lives. Can we never come to believing the greatness of what God says we are in Christ Jesus? Really “the Church” so-called…(may I have some coffee), has lived so far below pa