Ephesians 81-82 Edited Transcript
This publication is a transcript of the audio recordings of Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille’s 1981-82 Way Corps teachings on the Book of Ephesians. This is an edited transcript. One of the challenges of a transcript such as this one is that the original material was, of course, spoken rather than written. By its very nature the spoken is more informal and colloquial than something designed from the beginning to be edited for printed publication. As an edited transcript, grammatical corrections and possibly minor changes commonly applied when converting the spoken word to the written one for the sake of readability has been completed. Just like the verbatim transcript, the goal is to protect the integrity of the original teaching and communicate the heart of the teacher. Table of Contents EDITORS’ PREFACE OPENING OF EPHESIANS—September 2, 1981 BACKGROUND OF EPHESIANS—September 9, 1981 KEY WORDS IN EPHESIANS—September 16, 1981 STRUCTURE OF EPHESIANS—September 23, 1981 EPHESIANS 1:3-5—September 30, 1981 EPHESIANS 1:5—October 6, 1981 EPHESIANS 1:6-9—October 28, 1981 EPHESIANS 1:10-23—November 13, 1981 EPHESIANS 2:1-3—December 9, 1981 EPHESIANS 2:4-10—December 16, 1981 EPHESIANS 2:11, 12—January 13, 1982 EPHESIANS 2:12-14—January 20, 1982 EPHESIANS 2:15-18—January 27, 1982 EPHESIANS 2:19-22—February 3, 1982 EPHESIANS 3:1-6—February 10, 1982 EPHESIANS 3:7-13—February 17, 1982 EPHESIANS 3:14-21—March 10, 1982 EPHESIANS 4:1-8—March 17, 1982 EPHESIANS 4:9-14—March 24, 1982 EPHESIANS 4:15, 16—March 31, 1982 EPHESIANS 4:17-32—April 5, 1982 EPHESIANS 5:1-8—April 7, 1982 EPHESIANS 5:9-21—April 14, 1982 EPHESIANS 5:22-33—April 21, 1982 EPHESIANS 6:1-9—May 5, 1982 EPHESIANS 6:4-20—May 19, 1982 EPHESIANS 6:10-12—May 26, 1982 EPHESIANS 6:13-17—June 2, 1982 EPHESIANS 6:18-21—June 9, 1982
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the foremost men in the cities of the provinces from whose ranks were elected the high priests of Asia. Now these high priests, they were the heads of the imperial political religious organization of the province in the worship of Rome and of the emperors. Now a little more history about Ephesus: the first known settlers in the Ephesian area were known as carians or legeles. “Legeles” I call it. And they worshipped a fertility goddess. In 1200 B.C. the Ionians from Athens colonized and settled there in Ephesus. And they brought with them their version of the fertility goddess called Artemis. That’s Greek. The Greek goddess Artemis is the Latin goddess Diana. The Roman or Latin is Diana. And this of course, Diana became a dominate factor in the cultural life of Ephesus. A temple would be erected to her, which had to be rebuilt several times as a result of war, burning and destruction. In