Ephesians 81-82_25a_Ephesians 5:9-21
Ephesians 1981-82 Corps Teachings. Lesson 22 Part 1: Ephesians 5:9-21. EPHESIANS 5:9-21 April 14, 1982 Ephesians chapter 5 tonight. We open with verse 9 of chapter 9 14 tonight. King James has a parenthesis here. And verse 9 reads in the King James. Ephesians 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) It is…it, it…it’s not really a parenthesis. There’s another figure of speech, and I’m going to spell this for you because you have perhaps not run into this as frequently as we have a Parenthesis. It’s whenever, it’s…it’s a short parenthesis, something that isn’t a complete parenthesis. It’s a little one, a baby parenthesis. And it’s called Epitrechon. It’s spelled e-p-i-t-r-e-c-h-o-n. It’s a very brief explanatory remark. Now [chuckles] this word “fruit”—“Fruit of the spirit” is King James. It’s a…it’s a figure of speech too. It’s this figure, Hypocatastasis, that we’ve had so frequently in the Book of Ephesians, where the main idea is replaced by an imported image, fruit of the spirit. Reminds you of Galatians 5:22, doesn’t it? See. The…the word fruit…ahh…“spirit” is really the word “light.” It should be the word “light,” not “spirit.” How it ever…how they ever got the word “spirit” in here must have been a—you know, somebody was thinking Galatians 5:22 and they just put it in. It’s the word…it’s the word for “light,” see, in Aramaic and most of the critical Greek texts. It’s the fruit of light. The usage of the word “fruit” and that figure is to me real significant here, because the fruit of light has goodness, righteousness and truth. See it? Now in order to have fruit, you’ve got to someplace start, I think, with a bud, you know, like you have apples. Before you can have an apple you’ve got to have a bud or something. And then as I was thinking of this scripture here and how beautiful it was. If you’re going to have the fruit of light, then you’ve really got to stay right on. You’ve got to have a bud, and suppose it freezes a
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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