Ephesians 81-82_20 Ephesians 4:1-8
Ephesians 1981-82 Corps Teachings. Lesson 17: Ephesians 4:1-8. EPHESIANS 4:1-8 March 17, 1982 Take your Bibles tonight and go to Ephesians 4. (Thank you everybody. I think that’s wonderful.) Perhaps it’s very providential tonight that we move into the practical section of the Book of Ephesians. And this practical section is…deals with the utilization of the greatness of God’s Word that you’ve learned in the previous chapters now putting it into practice in Ireland, England, Scotland, United States, all over the world. And on this day of the seventeenth of March, I think it’s wonderful that we can spend some time getting into this fourth chapter. In the King James, verse 1 reads: Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, The “therefore” shows it’s a transition, and this is a transition as I said from the doctrinal portion of Ephesians to the practical section. The word “prisoner” here is the Greek word spelled h-o, then d-e-s-m-i-o-s. Now that’s a different word here in 4:1 than it is in 6:20, it’ll come up again. In 6:20 it is the word, Greek word spelled h-a-l-u-s-e-i. In Ephesians 6:20 it is one who is bound by chains. Here it is a prisoner of the Lord like in 3:1 where Paul said he was a prisoner of Jesus Christ. Remember? This word here, like in 3:1, means sold-out prisoner to the Lord. He was bound to the Lord even though he was writing this epistle while he was in prison. See. The word “beseech” is the word that all of us know so well because when we talk about the speaking in tongues and interpretation that it edifies, exhorts and comforts and the holy spirit is spoken of as the paraclete, the comforter. That is this word “beseech,” parakaleō, p-a-r…k-a-l-e-long ō. It means to comfort, to exhort, to encourage toward a more loving endeavor. Perhaps lovingly implore is as good a translation of this word as you can have here. This word “worthy” will be real neat to you, Corps, be
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The literal translation of verse 7 is as follows: Ephesians 4:7 Literal translation according to usage But to each of us was given grace [that’s…right] according to the standard of the gift of Christ. The expanded of verse 7. Ephesians 4:7 Expanded translation So there was given to each of us divine favor according to the measure the standard befitting the recipient which is the gift and that is Christ in you. Oh, I don’t know if I want to do verse 8. It’ll take quite a bit of time to run through it because it’s...well, I think I’ll do it {someone claps}. Oh, shoot, getting tired. Don’t know what from, ain’t done anything {someone laughs}. Verse 8 is…to me is sort of like a transition. You begin another heavy section you know [chuckles]. You’ve just finished two of them you know, first three verses and then verse 4, 5, 6 and 7; they’ve been real heavies. And now you begin a third heavy w