Ephesians 81-82_11a Ephesians 2:1-3
Ephesians 1981-82 Corps Teachings. Lesson 8 Part 1: Ephesians 2:1-3 EPHESIANS 2:1-3 December 9, 1981 Tonight we’re into the great second chapter of Ephesians, please. There’s a record here in Ephesians 2, verse 1 and verse 5, I just want to read to you the King James. Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Verse 5. Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath [God—past] quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) I want to handle the phrases, “dead to sins” and “dead in sins.” Here in Ephesians 2:1 the King James Version has the phrases, “who were dead in trespasses and sins.” And in 2:5, “when we were dead in sins.” Now in Aramaic, the word for “transgression” is spelled s-c-l-o-t-’. The word for “sin” is k-t-h-’. Sclot’, kth’. In other words, these are the Aramaic words. In Greek the word for “transgression” is paraptōma, p-a-r…p-t-o-m-a (long ō). Now put these words one right under the other, your Aramaic and your Greek. While the word for “sin” is hamartia, h-a-r…h-a-m-a-r-t-i-a. In Ephesians chaper 1, in verse 7, we read in the King James: Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood,… Then it’s the remission, “the remission of sins,” and this is the Aramaic word k-t-h’, while in the Greek (Am I right on this Walter?) it’s the word paraptōma. [Walter Cummins] That’s right. [Dr. Wierwille] (Okay, you better come sit up here with me a minute. Because I really want to be sure that I don’t miss any of this and you and I have…we’ve all talked this out.) Working this so minutely and so beautifully, so accurate and so beautiful, and Aramaic is more accurate than Greek here, which we’ll show you the reason for it. And this is why here in 1:7 it…it’s the word sins. Now in chapter 2, verse 5: Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins,… Is again this Aramaic word, spelled k-t-h’, but it is the Greek word for transgression, paraptōma, is used there. We do not believe that the Greek is the accura
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the root of sin. Sin—that word “sin” is always root. Sins (s-i-n-s) is the fruit of the root. You see, and when people…when people hear this…I’ve seen it many, many times in The Way Ministry when people hear this...when you’re born again you’re dead to sin and you’re dead to the fruit, the sins. Then people say, well if I’m born again, now I can sin all I want to—I’m still going to heaven. They use it as an excuse for their stupid living; that’s what they do. I remind you of what we just read in Romans 6:2. “Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” Verse 2, God, what? {forbid}. God forbid. Just because God did something so magnanimous, so fantastic, so unbelievably great, in Christ Jesus, it has to be a real stupid individual who says even mouths it or even thinks it, “Now since I’m saved, I can do as I damn please because I’m still going to go to heaven.” You’re absolutely righ