Ephesians 81-82_19 Ephesians 3:14-21
Ephesians 1981-82 Corps Teachings. Lesson 16: Ephesians 3:14-21. EPHESIANS 3:14-21 March 10, 1982 And now I’m blessed to take you to something much more positive and much more wonderful, Ephesians chapter 3. And of course tonight we start with verse 14 of this chapter which will be taking us into the second great prayer in the Book of Ephesians. In the King James, verse 14 reads as follows: Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, “For this cause” is a figure of speech, Corps. Anachoresis is the Greek word. It’s spelled a-n-a-c-h-o-r-e-s-i-s. It’s a return from a digression. That’s what the word means. You see, chapter 3 the first three verse…words in chapter 3 are the same, for this cause. Then we went off for a while on something else. Now we are returning from the digression in verse 14. This tells you that the original subject begun in verse 1 is being started all over again; it’s being resumed. You know, we are a temple, a habitation of God as believers, fellow citizens with the saints having access to the Father because of what God has done through Christ Jesus. So here we begin, “for this cause I bow my knees”—It’s a figure of speech. The bowing of the knee is a figure of speech, Corps. Euche is the word; e-u-c-h-e is the figure, that’s how it’s spelled. It’s an expression of feeling by prayer. And this opens the prayer all the way through verse 19. It’s not only that figure but it is also the figure known as Idiom. The Idiom indicates it’s prayer, not posture, not position, because both standing and kneeling in prayer and falling on your face are all used in the Bible. It’s a figure, the Idiom is a figure derived from the Eastern custom, people, where not only in prayer but if someone of great rank passes by, the Eastern people would fall prostrate on their face before reaching out. They’d just fall full length on the ground. Sometimes just bend the knee. Other times they’d touch their head all the way to the ear
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Tweet Topic: logospedia Format: AUDIO Publication Date: 1981-82 Victor Paul Wierwille was a Bible scholar and teacher for over four decades. By means of Dr. Wierwille's dynamic teaching of the accuracy and integrity of God's Word, foundational class and advanced class graduates of Power for Abundant Living have learned that the one great requirement for every student of the Bible is to rightly divide the Word of Truth. Thus, his presentation of the Word of God was designed for students who desire the in-depth-accuracy of God’s Word. In his many years of research, Dr. Wierwille studied with such men as Karl Barth, E. Stanley Jones, Glenn Clark, Bishop K.C. Pillai, and George M. Lamsa. His formal training included Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology degrees from Mission House (Lakeland) College and Seminary. He studied at the University of Chicago and at Princeton Theological Seminar