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GIVING THANKS ALWAYS - This is probably designed to be connected with
the preceding verse, and to denote that the proper subject of psalms
and hymns is thanksgiving and praise. This is indeed always t...
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3. THE WALK IN HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
Chapter S 4:17-5:21
_ 1. Not as the Gentiles walk (Ephesians 4:17)_
2. The putting off and putting on (Ephesians 4:20)
3. Followers of God (Ephesians 5
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THE WAY OF LIGHT AND THE WAY OF DARKNESS. There are other sins which
among God's people, should be literally unmentionable fornication,
uncleanness, coveting, filthiness, foolish speech, improper jest...
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THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
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Be very careful how you live. Do not live like unwise men, but like
wise men. Use your time with all economy for these are evil days. That
is the reason why you must not be senseless, but you must und...
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GIVING THANKS. See Ephesians 5:4; Ephesians 1:16.
ALWAYS. App-151.
AND. even.
FATHER. App-98.
THE NAME. See Acts 2:38.
LORD JESUS CHRIST. See...
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The subject pursued: the talent of time: temperance: spiritual songs:
thanksgiving: humility
15. _See then_ The more general exhortation to a holy life-walk is
resumed here, after the special entreat...
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_always for all_things] Because everything in hourly providence is an
expression, to the believing heart, of God's "good, perfect, and
acceptable will" (Romans 12:2). In view of this, the Christian wi...
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ΕΥ̓ΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ ΠΆΝΤΟΤΕ ὙΠῈΡ
ΠΆΝΤΩΝ. Cf. Ephesians 5:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:16 ff.; Colossians
3:17. The tone of spiritual exhilaration that St Paul requires is
strange in this context, where no effort...
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ΕΎΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΎΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_
ΕΎΧΑΡΙΣΤΈΩ (G2168) быть благодарным,
благодарить.
ΠΆΝΤΟΤΕ (G3842) всегда....
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DISCOURSE: 2120
THE BELIEVER FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST
Ephesians 5:18. _Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in
your he...
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GIVING THANKS ALWAYS, &C.— "Giving thanks to God for all the favours
that he has bestowed upon you, and even for your afflictions, as
occasions offer for the trial, the illustration, and improvement o...
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_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:3-20)
3.
Walk as children of light. Ephesians 5:3-14.
a.
Things the children of light do not do. Ephesians 5:3-8 a.
(1)
Do no
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Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THINGS - even for adversities; also for
blessings, unknown as well as known ...
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No Participation with Unbelievers
2 The sacrifice of Christ has many aspects. The opening Chapter s of
Leviticus deal with these in detail. The sin and trespass offering
seem to be entirely for m...
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5:20 is] (g-12) 'To him who is.' This alone gives the sense. 'God,
even the Father,' might be taken as meaning that the Father only is
God, and it is far from exact as a translation....
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THE OLD DARKNESS AND NEW LIGHT. RULES FOR THE MARRIED
1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of
beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the
self-sacrif...
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CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR
EPHESIANS
_LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_
CHAPTER 5
5:1-14 ~ LOVE
5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE
V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
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GIVING THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THINGS. — This temper of universal and
pervading thankfulness is dwelt upon in the First Epistle to the
Thessalonians (1 Thessalonians 5:18) as indissolubly united with
un...
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CHAPTER 24
THE NEW WINE OF THE SPIRIT
Ephesians 5:15
Very solemnly did the moral homily to the Asian Christians begin in
Ephesians 4:17: "This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, that
you must...
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CHAPTER 22
DOCTRINE AND ETHICS
Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1
The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands
further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
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εὐχαριστοῦντες πάντοτε ὑπὲρ πάντων
: _giving thanks always for all things_. Another _coordinate_ clause
giving a third and more particular way in which the being “filled
with the Spirit” should expres...
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A paragraph closely connected with the former, and specifying various
things belonging to the correctness and consistency of the Christian
walk....
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“REDEEMING THE TIME”
Ephesians 5:13
The earlier verses remind us of Isaiah 60:1. Awake, thou Christian
soul; arise from the, dust and put on thy beautiful garments! Stand on
the mountain-peak of pray...
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All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement
of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of
God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
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Teaching One Another In Song
Paul directed individual Christians to teach each other through
spiritual, vocal music (Matthew 26:30; Acts 16:25). Hendren says, "The
participle 'speaking' is plural, sug...
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(15) See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
(16) Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. (17) Wherefore be
ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is...
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In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its
fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need
on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
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I. INTRODUCTION
A. For the last few week in our study of Ephesians, we have been
looking at what the behavior of a Christian should be.
1. Last week we stopped at the end of Chapter 5 verse 20, wher...
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20._Giving thanks always. _He means that this is a pleasure which
ought never to lose its relish; that this is an exercise of which we
ought never to weary. Innumerable benefits which we receive from...
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Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this
picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace
and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
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GIVING THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THINGS,.... For things temporal, for our
beings, and the preservation of them, and for all the mercies of life;
for things spiritual, for Christ, and for all spiritual ble...
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Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Ver. 20. _Giving thanks always_] In our deepest miseries let us sing
cheerfully, as Paul and Silas in...
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_And be not drunk with wine_ As the heathen are when they celebrate
the feasts of Bacchus, their god of wine; _wherein is excess_ Which is
the source of all manner of extravagance, and leads to debauc...
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Things demanded by the correctness of the Christian walk:...
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GIVING THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THINGS UNTO GOD AND THE FATHER IN THE
NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST;...
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WALK IN LOVE
(vs.1-7)
Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of
chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us
as His dear children is our example. The...
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CHAPTER 5
We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________
of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________.
We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
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“GIVING THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THINGS IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS
CHRIST TO GOD, EVEN THE FATHER”
“Giving thanks”: This is. common appeal in Paul's letters
(Colossians 3:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:18). Th...
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15-21 Another remedy against sin, is care, or caution, it being
impossible else to maintain purity of heart and life. Time is a talent
given us by God, and it is misspent and lost when not employed
a...
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GIVING THANKS ALWAYS: God still by fresh mercies gives fresh occasion
for thanksgiving, and we must accordingly continue our thanksgiving
through the whole course of our lives without weariness. FOR A...
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Ephesians 5:20 thanks G2168 (G5723) always G3842 for G5228 things
G3956 God G2316 G2532 Father G3962 in...
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‘Speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord, giving thanks
always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God...
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_2. Precepts based upon the Self-sacrificing Love of Christ._
The connection of thought with chap. Ephesians 4:32 is very close;
God's forgiving love is directly presented as a motive (‘therefore')
fo...
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III. GENERAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES.
This part of the Epistle is difficult to analyze. The ethical precepts
are not arranged in any discoverable logical order. For convenience a
division into two sections i...
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Ephesians 5:20. GIVING THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THING. This is the third
and more general expression of the result of being ‘filled in the
Spirit' The phrases need not be limited to blessings, nor regard...
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IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
(εν ονοματ του Κυριου ημων Ιησου
Χριστου). Jesus had told the disciples to use his name in
prayer (John 16:23).TO GOD, EVEN THE FATHER
(τω θεω κα πατρ). Rathe...
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Ephesians 5:20
I. The duty of giving thanks is that duty which of all others may be
declared natural to man, and which can be declined by none but those
whose dispositions almost prove themselves not...
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Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_
Or, imitators of God,-
Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_
Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate
their father; thi...
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CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare
as filled with the Spirit.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul.
CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
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Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children
are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and
fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
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ALWAYS GIVE THANKS. _Thanksgiving_ is a form of praise and is to
always be the attitude of the Christian, no matter what the external
circumstances might be!!! IN THE NAME. Compare Colossians 3:17 and...
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_Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father, in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ._
THANKFULNESS TO GOD
I. The duty here enjoined is to give thanks. Thankfulness is such a
sense of...
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EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:1 New Life in Love. Paul gives general
instructions for holy living. Purity of life comes from avoiding evil
deeds and relationships and adopting holy practices....
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EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:20 To pray IN THE NAME OF Jesus means
to pray in faith, trusting in him as the one who represents his people
before God the Father (John 14:6;...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Ephesians 5:19. PSALMS AND HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS.—When the
spirit is elevated so that ordinary prose conversation is inadequate
to express the feelings let it find...
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EXPOSITION
EPHESIANS 5:1
BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words
are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had
urged the example of God in one very mo...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1);
Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse
of...
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1 Corinthians 1:4; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 4:11; 1 Thessalonians 3:9;...
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FOLLOWERS OF GOD
Ephesians 5:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to
the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push
aside....
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Giving thanks — At all times and places. And for all things —
Prosperous or adverse, since al] work together for good. In the name
of, or through, our Lord Jesus Christ — By whom we receive all good
t...
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The next duty St. Paul exhorts to, is that of spiritual THANKSGIVING.
Where note, 1. The time when it ought to be performed: ALWAYS; that
is, at least every day, and upon every solemn occasion, keepi...