Ephesians 81-82_08 Ephesians 1:5
Ephesians 1981-82 Corps Teachings. Lesson 5: Ephesians 1:5 EPHESIANS 1:5 October 6, 1981 Take your Bibles and go to Ephesians tonight, please, to chapter 1 where I want to cover one verse with you tonight that I wanted to cover so badly last week and didn’t finish. But I felt it had to be finished before I went south, because otherwise the thing will cool off and then I have to heat the soup all over again. But verse 5 of Ephesians 1, King James says, “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ… himself, according to the good pleasure of his will”: Ephesians 1:5 KJV Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, Darby translates it: Ephesians 1:5 Darby Having marked us out before hand for adoption through Jesus Christ [to] himself according to the good pleasure of his will. Lamsa translates it: Ephesians 1:5 Lamsa And he marked us with his love to be his from the beginning and adopted us to be sons through Jesus Christ as it pleased his will. Knox translates it: Ephesians 1:5 Knox Marking us out before hand to be his adopted children through Jesus Christ. The Amplified translates it: Ephesians 1:5 Amplified For he foreordained us to be adopted as his own children through Jesus Christ in accordance with the purpose of his will because it pleased him and was his kind intent. The New English translates it: Ephesians 1:5 New English And he destined us such was his will and pleasure to be accepted as his sons through Jesus Christ. Good News to Modern Man: Ephesians 1:5 Good News to Modern Man God has already decided that through Jesus Christ he would bring us to himself as his sons. This was his pleasure and purpose. And the New International Version: Ephesians 1:5 NIV He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ in accordance with his pleasure and will. The Revised Version has: Ephesians 1:5 Revised Having foreordained us unto adoption as sons throug
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but rather it indicates means, not time, meaning He chose us by predestinating us. Does not mean He chose us having first predestinated us. It means He chose us by predestinating us. Thus, the question is not who is predestinated but to what are they predestinated. There are three Greek words I want you to put down. I will give you all the Scriptures relating to them, and when you have worked all of those that’s all that can be known from the Word regarding it. The first word is the word is proginōskō (p-r-o-g-i-n-long ō-s-k-long ō), proginōskō. All of you students know what the word pro means and you also know what the word ginōskō means. When you put these two together, these two words together the Greek words, they are translated foreknow twice (Romans 8:29; 11:2); translated foreordained once (1 Peter 1:20); translated know (k-n-o-w) once (Acts 26:5); and translated know before (2 Pe