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Pastor Don Carpenter \/ General<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some Assembly Required \/ Family;\nLove; Holiness \/ Ephesians 5:1\u201316<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An ideal marriage\u2019s\nfoundation is not find entirely in a couple\u2019s romanticism, but in their\ncommitment to live a holy life according to God\u2019s will. Application Point:\nLearning to love as an individual will help you love your spouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Have you ever\nseen a product on a showroom floor and marveled at how awesome it looked? That\nshiny new all-terrain bike, or that beautiful contemporary desk for your home\noffice call out to your consumer inclinations. Have you ever broken down and\nmade the purchase, only to get a heavy box full of parts with the words \u201csome\nassembly required\u201d stamped on it? Why can\u2019t it be simple and come out just the\nway you see it on the showroom floor? Why do you have to put in work instead of\nconveniently having everything all in place? \nWouldn\u2019t it be great if life was like that? Especially when it comes to\nmarriage. But marriage does require work. Paul understood that as he helped the\nbelievers at Ephesus recognize marriage required putting the proper pieces\ntogether 2. Ephesians 5:21\u201333 is a common biblical text used to outline the\nroles of husbands and wives. The first twenty verses of chapter 5 are\nsignificant to a couple to understand\nhow to conduct themselves as Christians in general. Before Paul wrote about\nmarriage roles, he wrote about Christian roles couple to understand how to\nconduct themselves as Christians in general. Before Paul wrote about marriage\nroles, he wrote about Christian roles. \nThis evening we are going to discover that in order to build a good\nChristian home, we need a firm foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ephesians 5:1 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ephesians 5:2 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath\ngiven himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling\nsavour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Follow God\u2019s example of love\nand tenderness toward each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Walk in love as Christ\nsacrificially loved us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Lots of family issues would\nresolve if we learned from Christ our example about self sacrificing love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1000 Illustrations for Preaching\n& Teaching Greater Love Has No One \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ephesians 5:3 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it\nnot be once named among you, as becometh saints;<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ephesians 5:4 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which\nare not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let it not\nonce be named among you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Fornication<\/p>\n\n\n\n The term\nporneia (???????) (fornication) is to be taken in its proper sense and is not\nto be restricted to any one particular form\u2014the license practiced at heathen\nfestivals, concubinage, marriage within prohibited degrees, or the like. The\nmoral life of the Graeco-Roman world had sunk so low that, while protests\nagainst the prevailing corruption were never entirely wanting, fornication had\nlong come to be regarded as a matter of moral indifference, and was indulged in\nwithout shame or scruple, not only by the mass, but by philosophers and men of\ndistinction who in other respects led exemplary lives.\u201d The word porneia (???????)\nwas used of illicit sexual intercourse in general.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wuest, K. S. (1997). Wuest’s\nword studies from the Greek New Testament: For the English reader (Eph 5:3).\nGrand Rapids: Eerdmans.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Uncleanness<\/p>\n\n\n\n uncleanness: <\/strong>ceremonial\nand moral, Lev. 169a; consequence of sin (S T) Lev. 234; God\u2019s deliverance.\nJer. I 347; its removal, Lev. iv c; Passover requirements, Num. 74a; spiritual,\nJer. I 347<\/p>\n\n\n\n Index<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Covetousness\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n The word \u201ccovetousness\u201d is pleonexia<\/em> (?????????), \u201cgreedy desire to have more, avarice.\u201d \u201cNot\nonce\u201d is m?de<\/em> (????), \u201cnot even.\u201d\nExpositors says: \u201cThe strong negative m?de<\/em>\n(????) gives it this force\u2014\u2018Not to speak of doing such a thing, let it not be\neven so much as mentioned among you.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wuest, K. S. (1997). Wuest’s\nword studies from the Greek New Testament: For the English reader<\/em> (Eph\n5:3). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Filthiness<\/p>\n\n\n\n obscenity <\/strong>(aischrot?s, <\/em>\u201cshameless talk and conduct\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Walvoord, J. F., Zuck, R. B., & Dallas Theological\nSeminary. (1985). The Bible Knowledge\nCommentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures<\/em> (Eph 5:4). Wheaton, IL: Victor\nBooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFilthiness\u201d is aischrot?s<\/em>\n(?????????), \u201cobscenity, shameless, immoral conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wuest, K. S. (1997). Wuest’s\nword studies from the Greek New Testament: For the English reader<\/em> (Eph\n5:3). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Foolish\nTalking<\/p>\n\n\n\n foolish talk <\/strong>(m?rologia, <\/em>lit., \u201cstupid words\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFoolish talking\u201d is m?rologia<\/em>\n(?????????), from m?ros<\/em> (?????),\n\u201cfoolish\u201d in the sense of the lack of forethought and wisdom. impious, godless,\nbecause such a man neglects and despises what relates to salvation, and logos<\/em> (?????), \u201ca word, speech.\u201d Vincent\nsays: \u201cTalk which is both foolish and sinful. It is more than random or idle\ntalk.\u201d \u201cWords obtain a new earnestness when assumed into the ethical\nterminology of Christ\u2019s school. Nor, in seeking to enter fully into the meaning\nof this one, ought we to leave out of sight the greater emphasis which the\nwords fool, foolish, folly<\/em> obtain in\nScripture than elsewhere they have or can have. There is the positive folly as\nwell as the negative to be taken account of, when we are weighing the force of m?rologia<\/em> (?????????): it is that talk of fools<\/em> which is foolishness and\nsin together<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wuest, K. S. (1997). Wuest’s\nword studies from the Greek New Testament: For the English reader<\/em> (Eph\n5:3). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Jesting<\/p>\n\n\n\n coarse <\/strong>jesting (eutrapelia, <\/em>\u201cvulgar, frivolous wit\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Walvoord, J. F., Zuck, R. B., & Dallas Theological\nSeminary. (1985). The Bible Knowledge\nCommentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures<\/em> (Eph 5:4). Wheaton, IL: Victor\nBooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesting\u201d is eutrapelia<\/em>\n(??????????). Vincent says: \u201cOnly here in the n.t. From eu<\/em> (??), \u2018well\u2019 or \u2018easily,\u2019 and trep?<\/em> (?????), \u2018to turn.\u2019 That which easily turns and adapts itself\nto the moods and conditions of those with whom it may be dealing at the moment.\nFrom this original sense of versatility<\/em>\nit came to be applied to morals<\/em>, as time-serving<\/em>, and to speech<\/em> with the accompanying notion of dissimulation<\/em>. Aristotle calls it chastened insolence<\/em>. The sense of the\nword here is polished<\/em> and witty speech as the instrument of sin<\/em>;\nrefinement and versatility without the flavor of Christian grace. \u2018Sometimes it\nis lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in shrewd\nintimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection:\nsometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty\nhyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of\ncontradictions, or in acute nonsense \u2026 Sometimes an affected simplicity,\nsometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being. Its ways are unaccountable\nand inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and\nwindings of language\u2019 (Barrow).\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wuest, K. S. (1997). Wuest’s\nword studies from the Greek New Testament: For the English reader<\/em> (Eph\n5:3). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ephesians 5:6 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let no man deceive you with vain\nwords: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of\ndisobedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ephesians 5:7 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Be not ye therefore partakers with\nthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPartakers\u201d is sunmetochos (??????????)\nfrom metech? (??????), \u201cto hold with\u201d another, and sun (???) \u201cwith,\u201d the\ncompound word meaning, \u201cpartaking together with one.\u201d The prohibition is that\nthe saints should not participate with the sons of disobedience in the vices\nmentioned in verse 5 The prohibition is in the present imperative with the\nnegative m? (??), \u201cStop therefore becoming joint-partakers with them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ephesians 5:11 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n And have no fellowship with the\nunfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cReprove\u201d is elegch? (??????),\n\u201cto reprove or rebuke so as to bring out conviction or confession of guilt.\u201d\nTrench says that the word \u201cimplies not merely the charge, but the truth of the\ncharge, and further the manifestation of the truth of the charge; nay, more\nthan all this, very often also the acknowledgment, if not outward, yet inward,\nof its truth on the part of the accused; it being the glorious prerogative of\nthe truth in its highest operation not merely to assert itself, and to silence\nthe adversary, but to silence him by convincing him of his error.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wuest, K. S. (1997). Wuest’s\nword studies from the Greek New Testament: For the English reader (Eph 5:11).\nGrand Rapids: Eerdmans.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching\nHoliness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ephesians 5:15 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n See then that ye walk circumspectly,\nnot as fools, but as wise,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ephesians 5:16 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Redeeming the time, because the\ndays are evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCircumspectly\u201d is akrib?s (???????),\n\u201cexactly, accurately, carefully.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wuest, K. S. (1997). Wuest’s\nword studies from the Greek New Testament: For the English reader (Eph 5:15).\nGrand Rapids: Eerdmans.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n TIME MARCHES ON<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was once a middle aged man who was considering going\nback to school to get that degree he had always wanted. But he was balking at\nthe idea because he was now over 50 and what good would it do him now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He went to his dad for advice and his dad asked him how long\nit would take to get the degree. The man told his dad it would take 3 years of\ngoing to school full time. His dad then asked him how old he would be when he\ngraduated after those 3 years. The man said 53. Then his dad asked him,\n“Son how old will you be then if you don’t get the degree?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The point of the story is that TIME marches on. Regardless of\nany decisions we make in our lives — Time marches on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore walk accurately, in love, in purity, and in good\ncompany. This is the family\u2019s firm\nfoundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pastor Don Carpenter \/ General Some Assembly Required \/ Family; Love; Holiness \/ Ephesians 5:1\u201316 An ideal marriage\u2019s foundation is not find entirely in a couple\u2019s romanticism, but in their commitment to live a holy life according to God\u2019s will. Application Point: Learning to love as an individual will help you love your spouse. Have … Continue reading A Firm Foundation<\/span>
\nVarious persons have observed that no one has any more religion than he or she\ncan demonstrate in an emergency. This was certainly true of Arland D. Williams,\nJr., a bank examiner with the Federal Reserve System in Atlanta, who was aboard\nthe ill-fated Boeing 737 that crashed in the frigid Potomac River shortly after\ntaking off from Washington\u2019s National Airport, January 13, 1982.
\nIdentification of the hero was announced in June of 1983. Representatives from\nthe Coast Guard said when a helicopter lowered a line to survivors, Williams\nindicated he was trapped (it was later discovered his seat belt was jammed) and\npassed \u201cthe line on to other injured persons.\u201d By his not grabbing the rescue\nline, thus saving valuable time, other passengers were saved.
\nIn presenting the medal to Williams\u2019s mother, Virginia L. Williams, Mattoon,\nIllinois, his teenage son, Arland D. Williams, III, and daughter, Leslie Ann\nWilliams, President Reagan said: \u201cYou can live with tremendous pride in your\nfather.\u201d
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\nMany trees appear to be healthy when we see them in summer. But, in the winter,\nafter their leaves have all fallen off, we sometimes find that hidden\nunderneath the lush green of the summer foliage was a parasitic plant called\nmistletoe, which had been slowly sucking away some of the tree\u2019s vitality.
\nWe as Christians sometimes have hidden sins, which\u2014like the mistletoe\u2014slowly\nsuck away our spiritual vitality. Although not always evident in times of\noutward spiritual health and fruitfulness, we must always examine ourselves for\nthose small, often unseen, parasites of sinful habits that will sap our\nvitality. And we must also remember that just because they are not apparent now\ndoes not mean that in another season of our life God will not reveal them for\nall to see.654
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