Week 5
January 28, 2023

Ephesians Chapter 1-3

The Wealth of The Believer
I Am Blessed
I Am Chosen
I Am Predestined
I Am Adopted
I Am Accepted
I Am Redeemed
I Am Sealed

Ephesians Chapters 4-6

The Walk of The Believer

Ephesians 5:1-2
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love (agape), as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

Ephesians 5:3-7
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons (NATURE) of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them.

Satan Uses Unholy Living As An Inroad Into Our Lives
SIN
S – Satan’s
I – In
N – Now

Ephesians 5:8-11
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship (sugkoinoneo – Partaking In Ungodly Deeds) with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

Who’s Ministering To Who
Are You Ministering Righteousness To Them
Or
Are They Ministering Unrighteousness To You

Ephesians 5:8-11
For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

We Should Make Sure We Expose Satan
Without Glorifying His Actions

Ephesians 5:13-16
But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.  Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.” See then that you walk circumspectly (Carefully), not as fools but as wise, redeeming (Kairos) the time, because the days are evil.

Chronos Time – Living In Time

Average Age
77 Years Old (28,105 Days)
28 (10,220 Days Left Average)

Leslie Flynn
It’s About Time
If You Are 35 Years Old, You Have 500 Days To Live

Subtracting sleeping, eating, hygiene, medical visits, odd jobs, chores
You Have 500 Days To Do What You Want

Kairos – Events, Opportunity Seized For The Glory of God
In Chronos Looking For Kairos Moments

It’s Not Counting Time
It’s Making Time Count

Ephesians 5:17
Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Lost to Be Saved (2 Peter 3:9)
Saved People Free From Satan (1 John 3:8)
Prosper In Every Area of Life (3 John 2)
We Walk Worthy of The Calling In Christ

Ephesians 5:18
And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled (Present Tense – Ongoing Experience) with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of God.

Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

This Is Husband And Wife Relations
Not Church Relationships!!!

In Ephesians 5:21, Paul said we were to submit “one to another in the fear of God” (see note 36 at Ephesians 5:21). Husbands are to submit to their wives, and wives are to submit to their husbands. The Scriptures teach, however, that there is a greater degree of submission on the wife’s part. Actually, husband and wife should submit to God’s will in every situation, but anytime you have two people together, there is opportunity for disagreement on what God’s will is. Therefore, there has to be a final authority in a marriage, or deadlock will be the result. The man has that final authority.

First, submission is voluntary.
Loving, Yielding – Not Dominating and Demanding

Second, Submission and Obedience are Not Synonymous
Obedience To God First, Submission Second

Third, Women Are Not Inferior To Men
Men And Women Are Equally Different

Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.

Some people have interpreted this verse to teach that the headship of the husband over the wife is absolute, even in spiritual issues. It has been taught that the man is the high priest of his home and that the woman cannot rise above the spiritual condition of her husband. Observation, as well as Scripture, teaches us this is wrong. This violates the very heart of the freedom Jesus brought us. In Jesus there is neither male nor female (Galatians 3:28), and we are all kings and priests unto the Lord (1 Peter 2:9).

As explained in note 35 at Ephesians 5:20, Paul never anticipated that people would take his instructions here and teach that a lost husband was the spiritual head of a Christian wife. That’s crazy. The headship of a man over his wife is in physical matters (see note 6 at this verse). The submission of the wife to her husband taught here in Ephesians 5 is establishing the leadership of the man in carnal (see note 16 at Romans 8:7) matters.

This passage is referring to the husband as being the savior of the wife. This further establishes the headship of the man over his wife as a physical head and not a spiritual head. The husband is supposed to provide for, defend, and protect the wife in physical matters. He is not the spiritual head of the wife. In Christ, every born-again person, male or female, is in direct relationship with the Father through Jesus and does not depend on a priest go-between (see note 2 at 1 Corinthians 11:3).
Andrew Wommack Commentary

Ephesians 5:24-33
Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

6 Times Paul States How To Walk
Walk In Good Works (Ephesians 2:10)
Walk Worthy of The Calling (Ephesians 4:1)
Walk No Longer As The Gentiles (Ephesians 4:17)
Walk In Love (Ephesians 5:2)
Walk In Light (Ephesians 5:8)
Walk Circumspectly (Ephesians 5:15)