Ephesians 81-82_13a Ephesians 2:11&12
Ephesians 1981-82 Corps Teachings. Lesson 10 Part 1: Ephesians 2:11&12. EPHESIANS 2:11, 12 January 13, 1982 Well, take your Bibles tonight in Ephesians chapter 2, verse 11, please. The King James reads as follows: Ephesians 2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; The Aramaic word for the word “wherefore” would be translated “because of this.” Because of this. And if you have access to your translations of verse 10 that we closed with, in the last time that I taught you. Walter taught you last week again. And I’m sure thankful for that great teaching on the Book of Proverbs. But verse 10 says, and I’m going to do the expanded one. Ephesians 2:10 Expanded translation Therefore we are His, God’s possession, due to God’s work with His son, God’s own creation, His masterpiece, who were created in Christ Jesus with the specific view to good works which God prepared beforehand and made ready and available to every believer in Christ Jesus in order that we should, could and ought to walk in them and regulate our lives accordingly. That’s why verse 11 says “because of this.” The Greek reads “wherefore,” or “on account of which”; it’s a connective showing cause and effect. The word “uncircumcision” is a name that was introduced and brought into these texts because of the contempt that certain people had for certain other people. “…by that which is called”—those words, literally is “this so-called,” “the so-called.” This so-called circumcision. That whole phrase should be translated “who are called uncircumcision by the so-called circumcision.” Literally and truthfully some of the circumcision boys were as uncircumcised as the uncircumcised boys, and some of the uncircumcised boys were more circumcised than the circumcised boys. (You hadn’t figured that one out yet, but don’t worry about it.) The Circumcis…Circumcision made “in the flesh made by
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to life is the now, for when you’re dead, you’re dead, there is no more, because the unbeliever has no hope, and hope deals with the return of Christ and life with his coming, for the dead in Christ shall rise and those believers living at that time shall be changed. Then afterwards the resurrection: number one of the just, number two of the unjust, then the judgment and the rewards. There is no hope for a life beyond the grave without the true God. That I believe, Corps, is the greatness of Ephesians chapter 2, verses 11 and 12. [Prayer] Father I thank you for working the Word within our hearts and lives, and the spirit guiding us into all truth. Thank you for the inevitable greatness of your love, your mercy, your grace, your compassion and everything else. For being so tender to us Father when we were so hard-hearted and so dead-set against you. Thank you Father for having called us o