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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone.

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It is Monday, August the fifth, twenty twenty four. It

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is currently five forty one pm Central Time, and I

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am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas.

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Well.

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I thought my idea was a decent idea. I mean,

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I thought it was turn on the microphone, give some

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give everyone a very specific thing to listen to for

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the sermon's two point oh app challenge. Have them maybe

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look up some things that I think will be very

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interesting about the word salt and light, and okay, go

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ahead and read Ephesians four. And I just kind of

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threw it all out there right, just thinking, Okay, I've

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given everyone in a sense a buffet of things to

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choose from so that they can study, that they can

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like I kind of just handed everyone in a sense

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a buffet of spiritual food and that they could work

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on it on their own pace, do what they want.

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They could make a decision. So I kind of walked

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away from it. And then the more I thought about it,

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and the more I thought about it, I was like, well,

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do I just leave it there? I mean, I guess

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technically I could, because I didn't say, well, I'm going

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to do this or I'm going to do this. But

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in a roundabout way, I kind of set myself up

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for really kind of three different kind of three different studies,

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right and aroundabout way one is the most obvious. For

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the Sermon's two point oh app sermon challenge for that

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series that we have, I could begin reviewing all of

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the sermons or at least some of the sermons in

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that series that I told you to listen to, so

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hopefully everyone remembers I told everyone to look up. If

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you open up the Sermon's two point oh app to

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look up Tyler Primitive Baptist Church, Tyler Primitive Baptist Church,

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scroll down, look for Salt and Light, or look for

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a recent series Sultan Light twenty twenty four. And then

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there are thirteen sermons and listen to all of them. Right,

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So I told you to listen to them. But I

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also then gave me obviously it's easy for me to

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just grab a sermon and review it. Grab a sermon

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and review it, and then that would kind of add

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to our series, you know, the Sermon's two point zero

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app sermon challenge.

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So that would work pretty good.

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That would work well, okay, great, I you know, I

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could review one, I could review five, I could review six,

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I could review ten. In other words, I it gave

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me a lot of options, all right, So that's that's great.

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If I review some some people may notice. If I

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don't review any I doubt anyone would notice. They're listening.

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They know what to listen to. So in a round

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of oay, I'm not really obligated much to do there.

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But then I told everyone, since this salt in the

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twenty twenty four saltan Light Conference, it's key text is

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in the Book of Athesians, Ephesians chapter four, where we

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read these words. Aphesians chapter four, we read these words

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one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father

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of all, who is above all and through all, and

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in you all all right. That's Ephesians four five. One Lord,

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one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,

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who is above all and.

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Through all, and in you all all right?

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Okay. So since it's Ephesians four five is the key verse.

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I told everyone, we'll go to Ephesians and start reading

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Ephesians all week. Just read Ephesians four. Read Efesians four,

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not the entire book. Go to Ephesians four. I didn't

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specify that there jo there, but now let me specify it.

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Go to Aphesians four. I told everyone to go to

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Ephesians four and read Ephesians four over and over all week.

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So then I opened my Bible. I looked at Ephesians

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and my first thought was, hmm, okay, I could do

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something right there. Well, then I could, well, we could

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do that, well what about well, wait a minute, what

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about this? What about this?

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And I started coming up with all these ideas.

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I'm like, well, I kind of like I've given everyone,

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you know, something to do, and I could do reviews

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for the sermon's two point oh opp sermon challenge. But

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I could just start walking through Ephesians chapter four. I

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could I could just do that and then I and

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then I started looking. I'm like, well that could turn

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into a lot, but I really could end up with

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a series on Ephesians chapter four. I'm like, okay, well

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all right, so now I've kind of given myself two

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things to do, right, do the sermon reviews at the

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same time, start working through Ephesians chapter four. Okay, well

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this sounds like I've kind of I've kind of created

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now a big mess for myself. Okay. And then I'm like, well,

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wait a minute. I gave everyone a very specific assignment.

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This conference is called Sultan Light that comes from Matthew

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chapter five, where Jesus says you are sault and you

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were light. And I'm like, hmm, okay, well, Jesus is

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obviously pulling from the Old Testament. So I told everyone

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for their assignment, go to the go to the Old Testament,

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look up all the references for salt and light, and

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try to figure out what Jesus was trying to say

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and what he was pulling from. So I could then

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well turn on the microphone and do an entire series

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on sult and light. How salt is used in the

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Old Testament, and how does that impact Jesus use of

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it in Matthew five. Light is used in the Old Testament.

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How does that impact the use in Matthew chapter five?

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That could be an interesting study. So really, now I've

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got I got the reviews, I've got Ephesians four, and

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I've got all the verses about salt and light and

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the Old Testament. Yeah, okay, so I will finish all

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of this. Never I would be dead before I could

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ever come close to finishing any of this. So I'm like,

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what have I done? I don't know what I've done,

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so I don't know how much I'm going to do,

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but it's all right there. So then I thought, well,

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let me just look at Ephesians four. Right, so the

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Sultan Light that's going to take a lot of work.

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I need to do a lot of work. Okay, the

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sermon reviews. We all already know. If I do one

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sermon review that could take, you know, for one sermon,

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that could be three, four five hours of broadcasting. So

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I'm like, okay, so let me look at Ephesians four.

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So I opened Ephesians four and I started playing the

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first sermon from the twenty twenty four Salt and Light Conference.

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And when I started listening, I was like, well, this

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is kind of an interesting approach. They're just kind of

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going directly to Ephesians four. Five. Now I didn't listen

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to very much, so maybe in the first sermon they

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do correct this. But I'm like, I don't know if

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you can go to verse five without at least looking

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at verse one, two, three, and four, and not just that.

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I think you have to kind of look at how

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this whole thing is structured before you really can get

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into verse five, because Paul is trying to do something

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in Ephesians four, and he's doing it on the basis

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of what came in chapter one, two and three, and

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I'm like, WHOA, Okay, I would have I would have

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made made the first sermon all about the structure the context.

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I would have went that direction.

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Now I could, I could kind of bring this into

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my review, but I'm like, you know what, I'm not

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gonna the review could take five hours. I can just

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turn on the microphone today and we can just go

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look at Ephesian chapter four, and we're just gonna look

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at one word, now, the word. My original idea was

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look at that word prisoner, because that I think that

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could be interesting.

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But obviously there's a word before prisoner.

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In a vision Chapter four, verse one. Now I'm reading

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from the.

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New King James.

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It reads like this, I, therefore, the prisoner of the

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Lord beseech you. I therefore, or therefore, Paul, the writer

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to the Church at Ephesus, I the prisoner of the

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Lord beseech you. He is beseeching them. Now, the word beseech,

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that's not the one I'm going to focus on. But

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let's look up the word besiech really quick, because I

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think we can start building what's going on here, and

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I think it can get I think it can be

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very beneficial. All right, So I'm gonna pull up Ephesians four. No,

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I don't want to open up Apple podcasts. All right,

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I want to go to Ephesians chapter four. You go

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to a New Testament Fijians chapter four, opening up verse

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one and the anti linear, and I'm going to go

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to the word besiech. Now, the word besiech comes from

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this Greek word. All right, are you ready? Strong's g

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seventy parrakalao, parraclao, paracaleo, paakalao. Now it's used one hundred

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and nine times parakalayo. It's used one hundred and nine times.

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It's forty three times besiech, comfort, twenty three times, exhort,

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twenty one times, desire, pray, and treat basot. Strong's definition

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is this to call, to invite, to invoke by imploration

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or consolation, beseech, call for comfort, desire, exhort, right, So

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it's to implore, it's to invite, it's to call near

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the outline of biblical usage to call to one side,

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to call for, to summon, to address, speak, to call upon,

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which may be done in a way of an exhortation, entreaty, comfort, instruction,

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to admonish, to admonish, to exhort, to beg to entreat,

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to strive, to console, to encourage. It's the idea like, hey, hey,

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I look, I the prisoner. This is Paul speaking writing

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to the church of Ephesis. I the prisoner, beseech you.

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I entreat you, I beg you, I implore you, I

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instruct you, I teach you to do something. And he

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says to walk worthy. So Paul says, hey, I beseech you.

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But the beseech you is something comes before that.

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I therefore.

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I beseech you.

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Because of what came before.

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What came before sets up the foundation for the besieching,

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the instructing, and the teaching. And you can go through

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and then if you get to four or five, which

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is the key verse, the theme verse for that the

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Sault and Light Conference, which reads One Lord, one Faith,

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one Baptism, He's besieching them in a sense to listen

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as he instructs them on these things. But these things

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the reason he wants to know these things, there's got

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to be a specific reason that has something to do

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with what came before, for one. So I'm like, Okay,

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let me do a little bit of work on this,

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and let's see what we can come up with, all right,

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So let's see what we can find. So I did

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a little bit of work, and I've got a lot

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of it here in my notes, and hopefully we can

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work through this and this will be beneficial. Right since

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the Salt and Light conference is in Ephesians four five,

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I told you to read Ephesians four and the first

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word is therefore I wanted to go to prisoner.

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Besiech is obviously important.

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But before we can get to the prisoner, before we

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even can get to the besiech, we have to deal

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for He's going to beseech them, implore them, exhort them,

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challenge them, beg them to do something on the basis

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of what came before. Or we could put it this way.

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In Ephesians four one, the word therefore indicates a transition

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from the philological exposition and the argument would be in

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the first three chapters of Ephesians, we have a philological exposition,

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and chapter four, therefore, in this particular case, indicates a transition. Now, therefore,

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always whenever you see there, for it always indicates, Okay,

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what I'm about to say is because of what just

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came before, on the basis of what I have said.

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Now I say this, right, so.

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You always know that.

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But in this particular case, therefore what he's saying is

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based on what came before. But it also serves as

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a transition, because chapters one, two, and three have been

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a philological exposition, all right, And so it goes from

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a transition from the theological exposition and first three chapters

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to a practical exhortation in the latter half of the letter.

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So it goes from a theological exposition to a practical exhortation.

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Philological exposition to practical exhortation. Now here is the principle

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that you need to get down your philological belief. Your

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theology should lead to a practical application.

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So that's a very important point.

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Philological truth should lead to practical application. You practically practically

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apply the theology. Now, for many of us are Christianity.

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Let's just be well, I think we have, really I

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think we have three problems in Christianity. Right. We have

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the first problem where we have people who are so

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very philologically minded. They're very philologically minded, so Christianity is

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just a series of philological equations, philological problems, philological puzzles,

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and they're putting it together, putting it together, figuring it out.

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the putting together the puzzle, they love the study, they

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love the history, they love the books, they love all

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of that. But in many cases it just stays kind

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of like a theoretical theology and it never turns into

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a practical application. Right. I think that that's a major problem.

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even consider the practical application. They don't really care about

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the practical application. It's just the theology is interesting. Oh

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this is the right theology, that's the wrong theology. Here's

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the history of that theology, or here's the seventeen different

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viewpoints of that theology.

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at some point it's got to go from the theoretical

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to the practical. So you have those who love the

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theological exposition, the theological study, but they don't really think.

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of Christians who they whether they love theology or don't

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love theology, it's really irrelevant. They know philological concepts, they

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know them, they go to church, they hear them, they read,

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they may listen to sermons. But what happens is their

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practical application is completely inconsistent with their theological understanding. They

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have a thiological belief, but in practice they completely contradict it.

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we talked about like, well, based on your theology, that

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should greatly impact how you pray. But people's prayer is

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never guided by their theology. Everyone basically prays the same way.

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have Calvinists who pray like non Calvinists. It's it's just

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bizarre because what motivates prayer is is need, want, desire, fear, anxiety,

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almost superstition. It's it's it's a completely weird thing that

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drives it. So you've got those who are theologically minded,

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people who who have a theology, but in so many

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cases they contradict it. Right.

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Hey, God is absolutely sovereign.

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Nothing can happen to me apart from God's sovereign will.

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thought you said God is your protector, your shield, your defender.

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He a sovereign nothing can happen to you. Well, you

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look like you live in fear and anxiety considering all

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the guns you have. See your church has a security

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team with guns. Well, I thought you believed in God's

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power and sovereignty. See, your theology does not match your practice.

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really worry that much about the practice. You got those

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who have a theology but contradict the practice. And then

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the third kind sometimes you have in Christianity are the

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people who love the practical application. They love it, love it.

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do this, and I need three points to do this,

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and points to do this. And they almost reduce Christianity

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and almost into a moral system.

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dos and don't and a lot. And sometimes they may

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be very passionate, they may have zeal, but they have

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no philological understanding. They may quote scripture about, well, the

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Bible says I should do this, or I should do this,

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or I shouldn't do this, or I shouldn't do this,

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or should I watch this?

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I think this?

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philological discussion, all they can say is, well, the Bible

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says this, or the Bible says and you're like, well, yeah,

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but there's more to that text and just you just

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went and found a list of rules. There's who are

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those rules too? What is the historical context? And they

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do weird And sometimes these people are very passionate and

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they love God and they're pursuing, you know, living right,

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but they just don't have any theological basis, and this

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is a problem. This is the disconnect so Ephesians, the

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structure of Ephesians demonstrates. Let me state it again. The

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first three chapters sets up the theological exposition. What flows

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from the philological exposition in chapters four, five, and six

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is the practical exhortations. The practical flows from the philological.

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So your practical application must flow from the philological. It

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doesn't flow from the way you were raised, from the

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people around you. It doesn't flow from your own personal

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morality or what you think is right away, whatever anybody

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else thinks is irrelevant. You must establish the theological exhortation,

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and then what should immediately flow from that is the

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practical exhortation. But I think we have three types of

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Christians that we ever had. The theological minded never really

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consider the practical application in.

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inconsistent with it and you're practical living it out.

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zero knowledge when it comes to theology.

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You're just like, what are you? And sometimes they're ripping

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verses out of context. It's just it can be maddening

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and you'd want to correct them, but sometimes you feel

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bad in correcting them because you see that zeal, you

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see that fire, and you don't want to go throw,

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you know, a bucket of cold water upon it. At

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the same time, they need to be confronted for their

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bad theology. So where where do you fit in those three?

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Where do you fit well? Ephesians four that they're for saying, Okay,

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now you've got your theology. Now let's look at the

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practical application. But we can't look at the practical application

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until we kind of understand the philological exhortation that comes

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before it. So let's do a little bit of work

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here on Ephesians one through three. All right, let's just

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look at a couple of things in chapter one, verses

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three through fourteen. If you just want to look at this,

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you may want to mark this. Now.

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I utilize different sources here, so don't.

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I'm throwing this out as kind of just a you know,

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a simple kind of blueprint that I may I would

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possibly may change or or do some things with but

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I'm kind of going with this to keep it structured

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and then we you can tell me what you think,

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for the philological exhortation that lays the framework, the foundation

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for the practical application in a sense that flows from

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the stillological exhortation. Are you ready? So in chapter one,

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really you kind of have the introduction and verse one,

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chapter one, verse one, maybe chapter one, verse one, verse two.

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Chapter one, verse three. Blessed be the God and Father

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of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with

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every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. This

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establishes the idea of spiritual blessings in Christ. We have

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all spiritual blessings in Christ. We are not missing any

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spiritual blessing believers have in Christ, including election, adoption, redemption,

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and the selling of the Holy Spirit. Right, so Paul

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describes the spiritual blessings. We need to know those spiritual

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blessings because whatever practical application, typically practical application is going

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to be like do this, do this, do this, do this,

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do this, do this, do this. You're not doing it

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to get the blessing you already have the blessings. You

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have those blessings in Christ Jesus. Now you're doing you're

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putting into practice certain things on the basis of having

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these spiritual blessings. So that's really Chapter one, verses three

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through fourteen, Now and verses fifteen through twenty three, Paul

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praise for the Ephesian believers, asking God to give them

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wisdom and revelation to know Him better and to understand

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the hope and power available to them. And a roundabout way,

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Paul says, hey, guys, here's your spiritual blessing. Now, I

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pray that you will understand all the blessings you have.

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I really want you to understand all of these blessings

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you need to live well. And this part he's not

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giving any practical He's mainly giving you the philological. Here

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are the philological realities. These are the spiritual blessings you have.

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Right. So number one is spiritual blessings in Christ, all

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of chapter one, all of chapter one. The second thing

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he does in chapter two unity in Christ. Paul explains

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how believers were dead in their sins but made a

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life in Christ by grace through faith. Paul emphasized that

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Christ had broken down the dividing wall between Jew and Gentile,

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creating one new humanity and reconciling both to God. So

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in a sense, in Christ we have all spiritual blessings,

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and in Christ we have spiritual unity. Our unity is

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not based off male, female, Jew Gentile. It's not based

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on race, it's not based on geography. It's not based

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on what we like what we don't like. It's based

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off in Christ. In Christ, there's unity in Christ. They're

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spiritual blessings, all right. So Chapter one is the spiritual

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blessings in Christ. Chapter two is the unity in Christ.

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Chapter three we have the mystery of the Gospel revealed.

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Paul discusses the mystery of Christ, which was not made

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known to previous generations but is now revealed by the

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Spirit that Gentiles are.

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Coirs with Israel.

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the Spirit, to grasp the love of Christ and to

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be filled with the fullness of God. So in a

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roundabout way, we have three basic basic theological exhortations. Here understand,

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all spiritual blessings are found in Christ. You have them

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by grace you have they're because of Christ. Number two,

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we have unity in Christ. And number three, the mystery

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of the Gospel is revealed. And a part of that

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mystery is that the gentiles now are partaking in these

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blessings and this unity. Right, I think that's pretty good.

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to break this section down, all right, and we'll just

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look at chapter four, we won't go to five or six.

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If you look at chapter four, you have the call

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to live worthy.

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live a life worthy of the calling they have received,

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highlighting humility, gentleness, patience, and love. Chapter four, Yeff also

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emphasizes maintaining the unity of the spirit through the bond

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of Peace. Chapter four, he hits a reminder of the

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one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith,

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one baptism, one God and Father of all.

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this one, this because we have unity in Christ.

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Jesus. If we are all in Christ, then that from

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that philological reality should flow practical unity. We have spiritual

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unity in Christ. What should flow from that would be

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practical unity. Now the reason it doesn't we could get

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into all kinds of discussions. All right, then gifts for

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building up the body. And chapter four seven through ten,

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Christ has given grace to each believer as he appointed it.

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Emphasizing his victory and ascension. Christ gave different ministry gifts, apostles, prophets, evangelists,

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and teachers to equit believers in the work of Christ.

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of God, resulting in a mature body. So because of

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the thological exposition lays down all the truth. Now, what

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should flow from that is well, these practical applications, right,

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These practical applications should the way we live. It should

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call about being unified, right, and we should be built up.

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These are all things that flow from it in chapter four.

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Right now, we can break down chapter four a little

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bit more. But since you're going to be reading chapter

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four all week, I'll let you look for how these

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things in chapter four relate to all that that came

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in chapter three that I outlined pretty good. Now here's

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the question, what is the connection between Ephesians one through

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three and Ephesians Chapter four, verses one through sixteen.

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I was trying to break it down a little bit.

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I could do a lot better.

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I got a lot more notes, but I'm just trying

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to get you started there. All right, see the basic

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the theological exposition in one, two, three, and then therefore,

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based off all of that philological exposition, here should be

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the practical application of it. So let's think of it

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this way, right. Chapters one through three of Ephesians provides

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the philological foundation, emphasizing the believer's identity and unity in Christ,

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the transformative work of grace, and the revelation of the

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mystery of the Gospel. That's the theological foundation. Now Chapter

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four begins with the word therefore to indicate that based

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on this rich theological foundation, believers are called to live

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out these truths in very practical ways. This includes living

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in unity, using their gifts for the edivocation of the church,

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and growing towards maturity. Therefore, in Ephesians four, one connects

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the doctrinal truths of the first three chapters with the

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practical exhortations that follow, emphasizing that our behavior should reflect

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our identity and calling in Christ. Behavior should flow from

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the spiritual reality of who we are in Christ.

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Or I could say it this.

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Way, are the theological realities of Chapter one, two and

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three really speaks to the positional reality that we.

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Have in Christ? Jesus four, five and six, or at.

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Least chapter four. Well, I think we could even look

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in five and six. I think we could probably I

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think it would stay true. Is now we have to

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live out or a sink to live out in practice

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what is true in our position. Because what happens despite

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these theological truths scented in Ephesians one through three, Christians

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sometimes live in ways that.

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Do not align with these truths.

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This inconsistency can manifest in various areas of our life,

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such as our personal behavior, relationships, church life, and engagement

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with the broader community. And then here are some ways

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in which I think this can happen. Now, this is

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not perfect, but I want you to see this. So

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let's kind of lay the framework here. Let's lay this

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all down. I know I went through that relatively quick,

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but I'm I'm trying to help when you start listening

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to these sermons on Ephesians four and you start reading it, now,

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hopefully I've provided you a structure that will make it

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much better.

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So here we go here.

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So first, I want to just state there are three

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kinds of Christians. Right. The first Christian is the one

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who loves the philological puzzles. They love to study it,

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understand it, may debate it, figure it out, determine which

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one is right, which one is wrong, But it's all

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about the mystery, the puzzle, solving it. They're theologically minded.

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In many cases, the theological mindedness never actually leads to

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practical application or practical living, and that's a problem. The

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second are this is the majority of Christians. They have

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a theological understanding, they have a theology, they have a doctrine.

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They can even articulate their theology to some level. But

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over and over and over in their life you're like, well,

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if that's what you believe theologically, then that makes no sense.

521
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And that makes no sense, and that makes no sense,

522
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and that makes no sense. This is not it's not

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even so much. We're not talking about sin per se.

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We're just saying the way they think, the way they

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act it's not. I mean, we all are contradictory to

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our theology in the sense that we all sin. I'm

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talking just like you know, like again, how you pray,

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You're praying not consistent with your theology. Wait, you say

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that nothing can happen from the sovereign will of God,

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but yet you're the ones saying everyone should have three guns. Well,

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wait a minute, why do I need a gun if

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God's If God's the one protecting, I don't understand. And

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There's just countless other examples like that. I'm just using

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simple ones. So so I think that's I think that's

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a major majority of Christians. Is that inconsistency.

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And it's hard because.

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You look at some of the theological truths you're like, well,

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wait a minute, how is that supposed to play out

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in real life? It sounds good, you know, at church,

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but how is that supposed to work when I get home?

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That's always the struggle. And then the third kind of

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Christian is the one that's all about the practical application.

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They have zeal, they have passion, but they really have

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no theology, and.

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All three are in error.

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Ifphesians, the way the book is structured demonstrates in a sense,

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we need to work on correcting this because Ephesians one

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through three provides a philological exhortation. Chapter four begins with

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therefore and now is going to lay out the practical

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application that flows from that philological exhortation. But sometimes we

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can be inconsistent with that. Let me give you an example.

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Ephesians chapter one, verses three through fourteen is all about

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who we are in Christ Jesus. That our identity is

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in Christ Jesus, that I have all spiritual blessings. In effect,

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to look at it, that I that He chose me

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in Him before the foundation of the world, that we

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should be holy and without blame through Him and love

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He has predestinated us. It tells us all that we

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are redeemed. It tells me everything I am in Christ Jesus.

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This is my identity in Christ. It's my positional reality.

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It's my identity. It's my positional reality. That is my identity.

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That's philological exhortation, philological truth. Now, because that is your identity,

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then how should that impact or how should that play

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out practically? Well? This is according to one source, believers

565
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are this is the theological truth. Believers are chosen, redeemed,

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and adopted by God. Now, how do we live inconsistent

567
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to that? We struggle with our self worth, We struggle

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with seeking validation from worldly achievements, or we seek validation

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from our relationships rather than embracing their identity in Christ.

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We have this wonderful, perfect identity in Christ. We have

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this perfect positional standing. And then what do we do?

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We find ourselves not happy about this, and we're struggle

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with this, and.

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We struggle with that everything from you know, self worth,

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seeking validation and wrong things. We have all of these

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problems because we are living inconsistent with the reality, the

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theological reality presented in Ephesians chapter one. All right, I

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think that's very important. Number two grace and forgiveness versus

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legalism and unforgiveness. The theological truth salvation is by grace

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through faith, not by works. Ephesians two eight and nine

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clearly articulate that. So how do we in how do

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we live inconsistent to that truth? Well, we have we

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adopt a legalistic mindset. We begin to judge others harshly.

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We withhold forgiveness despite receiving immens grace and forgiveness from God.

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We live inconsistent with it, and so we become legalistic,

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law based, unforgiving, judgmental, no mercy, and we seek to

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destroy people like we live inconsistent to it. Unity in

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the body versus division. The philological truth is believers are

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united in Christ, breaking down the barriers between different groups.

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We live inconsistent. When we begin to harbor prejudice, we

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engage in divisive behavior, are failing to promote unity within

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the church. Because Ephesians says that the wall has been

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broken down, there should be unity because we have spiritual

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unity in Christ. We have spiritual blessings our that's those

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spiritual blessings include our identity, they include our forgiveness, They

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include our positional standing before God because of grace alone.

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And so what do we do We live inconsistent with

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our self worth, seeking validation through other sources. We begin

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to become legalistic and unforgiving. All of that is contradictory. Well,

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we have unity in Christ. We have spiritual unity in Christ.

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And then what happens will begin to have prejudice against people,

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and we become divisive and we fight, and we have

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all of the problems. The idea of spiritual growth the

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philological truth, believers are called to grow in knowledge and maturity,

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inconsistent living as when we begin to neglect spiritual disciplines

606
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like prayer, Bible study, fellowship, leading to spiritual stagnation. Now,

607
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why do we do Bible study and all of that

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stuff to grow? Not so that we can gain blessing.

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We already have all spiritual blessings. Not that we can

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gain salvation. We already have salvation. So it flows from

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that philological reality. The philological reality is that believers are

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called to live a life worthy of our colleague, because

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we are called, we are chosen, we are predestined. Well,

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we sometimes live very inconsistent with that in our behaviors.

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I think we can clearly see that. I think we

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can clearly see that some more concepts here, all right,

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if we truly understand, well, well, we kind of went

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through all of that, so I guess we could say this.

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The practical outworking a philological truth and a believer's life

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is crucial for authentic Christian living. Recognizing and addressing these

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inconsistencies is essential for personal growth, the health of the church,

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and the effective witness of the Gospel in the world.

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By continuing to align our lives with the truths of

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our faith. Christians can live in a way that truly

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reflects their identity and calling in Christ. So when you

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look at Ephesians four. In fact, now let's go to this. Now,

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let's go to Ephesians four. We'll do a little bit

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here working on this. It's not gonna fit, it's not

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going to always work perfectly, but you'll get some of

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the idea here. You'll get some of the idea here.

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So for example, I there for the prisoner, I there

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for the prisoner of the Lord. Beseech you. Now, I'm

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gonna implore you. I'm going to beg you. I'm calling

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here because I want to challenge you. I want to

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teach you something on the basis of all all of

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these stiological truths in chapter one, two and three. Because

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of this stiological you know, exhortation. Now, I'm beseeching you.

638
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Here's the practical exhortation if you want to do it

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that way, the practical challenge. I now call, I beseech

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you to walk worthy of the calling with which you

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were called. We have an eternal, sovereign call on our

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lives as a believer. Now we are to seek to

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walk worthy and practice. Now, remember, we're already perfect, we're

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already made worthy in our position because we're in Christ Jesus.

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But now this is trying to walk and away worthy

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of that. And look what he says, with all, how

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do we walk worthy with all lowliness, gentleness, with long suffering,

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bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the

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unity of the spirit and the bond of peace. There

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is one body, one spirit, just as you were called

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into one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith,

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one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is

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above all and through all, and in you all that. Hey,

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because we are called, because we are in Christ Jesus,

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there should be this natural walking worthy. Here's how we

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walk worthy, and that should flow into a unity. But

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it's all on the basis of that. Theological truth goes

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on to say in verse seven, But to each one

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of us grace was given according to the measure of

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Christ's gift. Therefore, he says, when he ascended on high,

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he led captives captive and gave gifts to men. Now

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this he ascended, what does it mean that he also

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first descended into the lowest parts of the earth. He

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who descends is also the one who ascended at the

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far above all the heavens, that he might feel all things.

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So now it's just a kind of reminder, right that

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this the one that we believe in, the one that

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we are in Christ, Jesus, we have redemption, the one

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who we have all of these things. Okay, he ascended,

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so he's now there in heaven. But guess what he

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has done. Look at verse eleven. He's given some apostles

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and prophets, and evangelists and teachers and pastors, for the

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equipping of the ministry, for the equipping of the saints,

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for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the

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Body of Christ, till we all come to the unity

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of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son

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of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of

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the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we should

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no longer be tossed to and fro and carried about

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with every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men

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and the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. But speaking the

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truth and love, we may grow up in Him all things,

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into Him who is the head Christ.

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So the idea is okay, Christ, who we believe.

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Now practically what should happen well from Christ and from

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the spiritual unity. Now, what should flow from it is

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a practical unity lived out and these attributes that he

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gives here in the first part. But it also we

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then should be pursuing spiritual knowledge and growing because Christ

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has given this to us teachers, that we listen to

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so that we may grow and we're no and not

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that we stop fighting one another, but that we no

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longer are tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine.

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We are built up complete spiritually and there's unity that

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flows from it. All. Right, then, so there's that part

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of it. Then starting in verse seventeen, you get the idea.

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I'm not going to go I'm not going to do

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everything for you, but you can read from verse seventeen

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to thirty two. But what I want you to do

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is you read as you read Ephesians four. Here's here's

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I'm going to help you with your assignment as you

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read Ephesians four, verses one through thirty two. What I

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want you to be thinking as you read is how

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does that relate to the philological exhortation and chapters one,

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two and three. Now it's not it's not always going

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to be so simple and so easy. I wish it was.

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It's not always the case. But you can look and say, okay,

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how how does that relate to what came in chapter

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one two three? Because the this entire chapter begins with

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therefour now because of the philological exhortation. Now I'm transitioning

711
00:42:19.599 --> 00:42:23.599
to a practical exhortation and immediately says.

712
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:25.559
Walk worthy, and how do you walk worthy?

713
00:42:26.079 --> 00:42:28.159
Look? Why? What? What?

714
00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:30.559
What is it in Ephesians one, two and three?

715
00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:32.400
Just think of it this way? You can, you can.

716
00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:35.119
I can just help you immediately with a good example,

717
00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:41.719
walk worthy with all lowliness. Now, figure out what lowliness is?

718
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.280
What is it in chapter one, two and three that

719
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.599
should give you lowliness of mind? What should what is

720
00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:52.039
it in chapters one, two and three that should lead

721
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:57.360
you to being gentle? What is it in chapters one,

722
00:42:57.440 --> 00:42:59.559
two and three that should lead you to have long

723
00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:05.400
suff and bearing with one another in love? All of

724
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:11.360
it flows from that philological exhortation. You've got to connect

725
00:43:11.519 --> 00:43:14.599
all of this to chapters one, two and three. If

726
00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:18.000
you do that, you're getting the idea behind the I

727
00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:21.880
beseech you. I am imploring you based on this. And remember,

728
00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:25.360
there are three kinds of Christians, right, I'm gonna just

729
00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:28.239
I'm gonna I'm gonna end with this, and you're one

730
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:32.320
of them. You're the philologically minded one. Right, And it

731
00:43:32.360 --> 00:43:34.679
looks even in this forty three minutes, Get what if

732
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:37.960
I done? See? I love hermeneutics. I love to figure

733
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:40.320
out the structure. I love to figure out how this

734
00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:43.199
fits with this. See. I love the puzzle. See I

735
00:43:43.320 --> 00:43:46.000
love the puzzle. I've put the puzzle together. I think

736
00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:48.199
I've done halfway okay with it. May not be the

737
00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:52.960
most exciting teaching, but it's very practical. It's very much

738
00:43:53.199 --> 00:43:55.719
hopefully helpful and helping you be able to exegete the

739
00:43:55.800 --> 00:43:59.320
text properly. But it all it's all a hermoneutical puzzle.

740
00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:03.920
I love putting together the hermoneutical puzzle. I love that.

741
00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:07.440
I love that. That's fun. Right, I could have I

742
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:10.519
could have fourteen notebooks here putting this together and cross

743
00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:11.440
referencing this and.

744
00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:13.719
This, and I could turn in the paper and like,

745
00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:16.000
look at this, I have exeguted this, I.

746
00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:20.119
Have demonstrated it. Why therefore is a transition from a

747
00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:24.239
theilological exhortation to a practical exhortation. I've now demonstrated how

748
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:28.119
the practical exhortation is related to the theilological exhortation. I've

749
00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:31.519
given cross references, I've given sources here, you go, all

750
00:44:31.559 --> 00:44:34.440
right there. I love that, But you know where my

751
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:42.800
weakness is. As soon as I'm done with that, I'm

752
00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:45.280
ready to move on to the next theological puzzle, the

753
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:47.800
next hermineutical question. I'm ready to move on.

754
00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:49.920
Am I going to actually do anything with it?

755
00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:01.280
I don't know. I probability I want, because.

756
00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:03.280
High probability I will not.

757
00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:06.480
You can don't act all shocked or surprised, because again,

758
00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:08.199
you're one of these three kinds of people. So the

759
00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:12.119
first one is philologically minded, hermoneutically minded. Love the puzzle,

760
00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:15.559
love the mystery, love solving it doesn't change anything in

761
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:19.880
their life of any significance. The second is where most

762
00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:22.480
Christians fall in. You have a theology.

763
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:25.039
You have it, you know it, you learn it. You

764
00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:27.920
may even have stacks of notebooks where you've written it down.

765
00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:30.880
You may even be able to win an award and

766
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:35.960
a wanna because of all the things you've got memorized. However,

767
00:45:36.760 --> 00:45:39.119
so many things in your life is so inconsistent with

768
00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:41.159
your theology. And I'm not talking about sin, I'm just

769
00:45:41.239 --> 00:45:43.719
talking Well, wait a minute. You say you believe this,

770
00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:45.920
then why are you praying that way? Why are you

771
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:48.719
thinking that way? Why? Wait? That isn't what are you

772
00:45:48.840 --> 00:45:55.440
talking about? That's not consistent with your theology. That's where

773
00:45:55.440 --> 00:45:57.639
we that's where a lot of us find ourselves. We

774
00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:01.280
have the theology, we're just inconsistent it and we don't

775
00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:03.880
even immediately catch Oh, I believe that we're saved by

776
00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:06.159
grace alone, through faith alone, because of Christ alone. I

777
00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:09.280
believe you're saved by an imputed righteousness. However, if you

778
00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:11.079
don't do this, this, this, and this and this and this,

779
00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:13.360
you prove you're never saved. Well wait a minute, how

780
00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:17.559
can doing this prove imputed righteousness? It's imputed, it's not infused.

781
00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:23.400
So immediately you're being inconsistent with your theological belief. That

782
00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:26.719
inconsistency is a cancer in all of us. We're all

783
00:46:26.840 --> 00:46:29.079
inconsistent in some way, shape or form. And then the

784
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:31.920
third kind of Christian is all about the practical, the zell,

785
00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:35.760
the passion, the love, and they want to do this,

786
00:46:35.960 --> 00:46:37.639
and do this, and do that, and they go and

787
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:40.159
they and you may even be convicted by all of

788
00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:42.800
their zell And it looks great until you start talking

789
00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:44.400
to them and you're like, oh, what are you doing

790
00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:48.480
at that passage of scripture? You're absolutely destroying That's not

791
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:52.880
what that passage means. No where, that's a that's a

792
00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:56.719
theological heresy from four hundred a d. What are you

793
00:46:56.800 --> 00:46:58.440
talking about. No, that's not how you.

794
00:46:58.519 --> 00:46:59.320
Define the trinity.

795
00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:02.599
No. Oh, if you talk about the deity of Christ anymore,

796
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:05.239
I'm going to scream. You're destroying the hypostatic union. You're

797
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:08.360
destroying everything. I think you've gone full blown Gnostic on me.

798
00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:10.159
And they don't have a clue what you're talking about.

799
00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:12.360
But you know what, they got passion and they got zeal.

800
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:18.599
Ephesians comes along and says, hey, guys, we're going to

801
00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:21.079
be an Ephesians chapter four. We're going to be an

802
00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:24.960
Ephesians chapter four. Now, guess what we're going to be

803
00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:26.199
an Ephesians chapter four.

804
00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:29.719
And what we're going to do is demonstrate to you.

805
00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:31.920
It's almost like Paul under the inspiration of the Holy

806
00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:33.920
Spirit is I'm going to demonstrate how the Christian life

807
00:47:33.960 --> 00:47:36.960
should work, and I'm going to do so in one word, therefore,

808
00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:43.679
therefore is it serves as a transition because four five

809
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:48.000
and six is the practical exhortation that flows from the

810
00:47:48.039 --> 00:47:53.880
theological exhortation. Because my theology should lead Think of it

811
00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:57.320
this way, your theology, this is how it should work.

812
00:47:57.599 --> 00:48:01.440
Your theology should serve as a little voice in your

813
00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:07.719
brain that's constantly saying, I beseech you. Therefore, and it

814
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:11.400
gives you those practical exhortations. But it's on the basis

815
00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:17.639
of that theology. The more theology you understand and know,

816
00:48:18.440 --> 00:48:22.280
the more it should lead to the practical exhortation.

817
00:48:23.960 --> 00:48:25.400
It should work that way.

818
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:30.920
It often doesn't. How do I know this? Go find

819
00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:32.880
someone who maybe in their second or third year of

820
00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:36.840
Bible college or a seminary, or maybe they just graduated

821
00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:39.599
from seminary or Bible college. You know what you tend

822
00:48:39.679 --> 00:48:43.199
to find. Not always this is somewhat of a stereotype,

823
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:48.360
but a lot of arrogant, condescending think they know it all,

824
00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:52.599
want to argue with everyone, fight with everyone. They're right,

825
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:56.079
everyone else is wrong, everyone else is stupid. No one

826
00:48:56.119 --> 00:48:58.800
else knows how to read their Bible, and he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa?

827
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:01.760
How did all of that iological knowledge lead to you

828
00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:06.920
becoming and just an arrogant, condescending jerk who seems to

829
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:09.599
have no compassion or love for anyone and just thinks

830
00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:17.800
you know everything. And I was guilty of that. I mean,

831
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:20.679
I've told the story a million times. You know, I've

832
00:49:20.679 --> 00:49:23.320
become a Christian. I've got the entire Bible read within

833
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:25.400
a week. I got the entire thing read within a week.

834
00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:28.400
I'm reading, I'm studying, I'm listening to sermons, I'm buying

835
00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:34.440
Christian I'm buying Christian books, systematic theology. I'm working, working, working, working, working, working, working,

836
00:49:34.639 --> 00:49:36.480
and then i end up going to Sunday School. You know,

837
00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:38.719
it's within a couple of months of being a Christian

838
00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:41.039
and I'm coming into the Sunday School class and I'm like,

839
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:46.159
you're a joke. You're an absent. How did you become

840
00:49:46.199 --> 00:49:48.400
a Sunday School teacher? You don't even have a clue

841
00:49:48.440 --> 00:49:52.159
what you're talking about. Did you even read the material

842
00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:55.039
for today? Because I got the quarterly right here, and

843
00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:57.599
I've got it marked, and I've got it charted out.

844
00:49:57.920 --> 00:50:00.480
You're an idiot. So I was a I'm as scending

845
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:03.039
little jerk to Sunday school teacher. You've probably been teaching

846
00:50:03.079 --> 00:50:10.079
Sunday school for fifteen years. Guess what my philological knowledge

847
00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:20.400
it did in no way, shape or form match my life. Therefore,

848
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:24.920
your job is to read Ephesians four and figure out

849
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:29.320
everything that follows, how it fits or how it's connected

850
00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:34.119
to the philological exhortation in chapters one, two, and three.

851
00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:38.840
Because of this theological truth, I now exhort you to well,

852
00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:43.239
to walk worthy? And how do I walk worthy? Lowliness

853
00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:48.480
what theological truths and Ephesians one through three should make

854
00:50:48.599 --> 00:50:53.480
you have? Lowliness of mind, lowliness of character? However you

855
00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:56.079
understand lowliness, you can look up loneliness and that's what

856
00:50:56.159 --> 00:51:00.119
you figure out. How gentleness? What is an Ephesians one, two,

857
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:08.719
and three should make you be gentle? All right? Fifty

858
00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:14.519
one minutes? Oh, I feel like I feel like I

859
00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:19.559
went way too fast through some of that. Maybe I

860
00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:19.920
don't know.

861
00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:21.519
Hey, all I can do.

862
00:51:21.679 --> 00:51:23.800
I've done it. I can't do anything about it. It's done.

863
00:51:24.199 --> 00:51:26.000
I can't go back and try to reteach it. I

864
00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:27.519
can't go back and try to say well, now let

865
00:51:27.559 --> 00:51:28.840
me do it again, and I'm going to go slower

866
00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:29.239
this time.

867
00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:30.639
I know I went quickly through that.

868
00:51:31.199 --> 00:51:33.599
I tried to break down Ephesians one through three and

869
00:51:33.679 --> 00:51:36.599
four and chapter four. I tried to break it down.

870
00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:38.599
I know it wasn't perfect. I didn't break chapter four

871
00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:43.840
down perfectly. I have some I could definitely clean up

872
00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:46.320
the outline for chapters one through three, But I tried

873
00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:48.280
to tell you I was just laying down some of

874
00:51:48.360 --> 00:51:51.679
the basic kind of like the basic sketch. You have

875
00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:53.280
to go in and color it in. You have to

876
00:51:53.320 --> 00:51:53.719
fill it in.

877
00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:55.519
You have to do your work right.

878
00:51:55.679 --> 00:51:58.840
So for the rest of this week Ephesians four, Ephesians four,

879
00:51:58.840 --> 00:52:01.320
Ephesians four, Ephesians four, read it, read it. I've told

880
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:03.519
you now specifically what you need to connect to, what

881
00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:05.760
you need to be listening to all of the sermons

882
00:52:06.039 --> 00:52:08.559
and the Salt and Light twenty twenty four conference from

883
00:52:08.679 --> 00:52:11.480
Tyler Primitive Baptist Church that's on the sermons two point

884
00:52:11.519 --> 00:52:14.000
oh app thirteen sermons. Be listening to them all from

885
00:52:14.039 --> 00:52:17.079
Ephesians chapter four. When you listen now, you can consider

886
00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:20.199
how they connect it to Ephesians chapters one, two, and three.

887
00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:22.400
If they don't do that, well, then you can determine

888
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:24.679
if that's a good thing or a bad thing. All right,

889
00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:28.360
and then sult and light. Since Jesus talks about salt

890
00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:31.280
and light Matthew chapter five, I can one hundred percent

891
00:52:31.400 --> 00:52:34.679
assure you that he's pulling the He's using salt and

892
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:38.119
light based on how the Old Testament uses salt and light.

893
00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:41.199
So your job this week is to go through the Old.

894
00:52:41.079 --> 00:52:42.800
Testament and find out how they use salt and light

895
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:45.800
and then see how that impacts the interpretation and meaning

896
00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:49.039
in Matthew chapter five. Now, please note all the things

897
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:51.639
I gave you. See, those are assignments. I love that.

898
00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:57.800
I got no problem fulfilling the assignments. I got no problem.

899
00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:01.760
I'll get an A and all the assignments. I'll get

900
00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:04.360
them done better than you. I'll get them done faster

901
00:53:04.519 --> 00:53:06.519
than you, and you won't be able to touch me.

902
00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:09.639
And the knowledge I gain from it, I can beat

903
00:53:09.679 --> 00:53:15.159
you in any argument. Probably won't be any better a

904
00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:20.719
person by the time it's over. Now that is my struggle.

905
00:53:21.960 --> 00:53:25.559
What is yours news? I f at yahoo dot com.

906
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:29.199
That's news. I f at Yahoo dot com. Everyone have

907
00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:34.000
a great day. I'm gonna go eat some food. God

908
00:53:34.039 --> 00:53:34.360
bless