Study From the Book of Ephesians,6

                  Study From the Book of Ephesians, 6

Today is the sixth part of the series, “Study from the Book of Ephesians.” We study chapter 5 and as usual, we pick up a couple of biblical principles and lessons that can be applied in biblical counselling.  Remind our readers that those biblical principles and lessons can be applied either as self-help or in counselling others.

Chapter 5 talks about the charterers of the  church as a whole (body of Christ) and also as individuals. The apostle Paul argues   the church members to walk  in love, in light and in wisdom in a world full of darkness and deceptions. He ends up by description of the Christian marriage as a symbolic of the unity of the church and Christ.

So the structure of this chapter is as follows:

1. Verse 1 to 7: walk in love
2. Verse 8 to 14: walk in light
3. Verse 15 to 21: walk in wisdom
4. Verse 22 to 32: marriage – Christ and the Church  

Principle 9, verse 5:8: “-For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light...”

Lesson 9: “Once” something had been in the past and now has changed. Now God intends that His children act as beacons of light in a dark world, as lighthouses showing the way to spiritual safety for those about to sink into the eternal hell.

Principle 10, verse 5:18 “... And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit.”

Lesson 10: filling with the Holy Spirit is the answer of all addiction problems. Comparing with alcohol, the person who gets drunk loses control, in contrast with filling with the Spirit, he/she gains control. It is one of the items of the fruit of the Spirit, self control.

2/6/2019