THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 5:15-33 CONTINUING PRACTICAL AND SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION (PART 1)

Mike Balloun teaches today. 06/19/21

THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 5:15-33
CONTINUING PRACTICAL AND SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION (PART 1)

VERSES: Genesis 24:67; Revelation 1:18-19; Luke 21:24; Acts 15:14; Daniel 7:13-14

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CONTINUING PRACTICAL AND SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO IMITATE GOD FOR LIGHT IN WALKING IN WORTHINESS UNTO THE HEAVENLY CALLING. The days wherein the Church is called, are to be increasingly evil. (Matthew 13:33, 2nd Thessalonians 2:7) “Let them grow up together until the Harvest.”

VERSE 14 “Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest (the erring foolish unwise Christians that are darkened in conscience asleep among the dead), and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
VERSES 15-21 “See then that ye walk circumspectly (rightfully, diligently), not as fools, but as wise (5 wise virgins of Matthew 25:1-4), Redeeming the time (by prudent and blameless conduct, gaining as much time and opportunity as possible in view of persecution and pending death. The word generally means to buy up, to buy all that is anywhere to be bought, and not to allow the suitable moment to pass by unheeded but to make it one's own), because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise (as the 5 foolish virgins), but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit (that is to say; purchase additional Oil beyond just the Oil of justification that came with the gift of the Lamp) Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God Christ” (all fitting to an environment for being instructed in Christ-likeness. Note that this should be fear of Christ as He is not only our Savior, but our Judge. The Greek is not God, but Christ).

CHRISTIANS ASLEEP IN THE WORLD are without fear of Christ. For to live is to serve Christ, to serve is to love. This is the only reason appointed by God for a Christian to pass from womb to grave in this life. All the World wants to live longer, but to what end? To enjoy the pleasures of this World, giving little thought to what happens after having lived. Until we Christians have the light of what living is now all about, we live in vain darkness. We, like the World, and for the same reasons as the World, are overly concerned about how long we live. What does it matter that we live to be 100 and in the process gain the whole world? In the getting more in this life, we lost our purpose for living; the saving of the soul, and that by holiness towards God and righteousness towards man while alive.

Luke 12:13-34… “Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?” And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.” And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows.......

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