The Summation of All Things in Christ

Studies in Ephesians with a Local Church Emphasis

Lesson 106 : From Darkness to Light – The Second and Third Command (5:5-7)

TWO COMMANDS AND THE JUDGMENT OF GOD – THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE JUDGMENT OF GOD – ‘FOR, BECAUSE …’ – TWO WORDS FOR ‘KNOWING’ USED HERE, DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE CERTAINTY OF WHAT PAUL IS SAYING – TRIAD OF SINS APPLIED TO THOSE WHO HABITUALLY INDULGE IN THOSE SINS – ARE THESE WHO PRACTICE SUCH THINGS THEREFORE WITHOUT HOPE? – PARENTHETIC COMMENT: ‘IDOLATER’ REFERS TO ‘COVETOUS PERSON’ ONLY – THIS CONTRAST IS BETWEEN BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS – THE BALANCE BETWEEN ‘PRESERVATION OF THE SAINTS’ AND ‘PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS’ – TWO ASPECTS OF THE KINGDOM: PRESENT & FUTURE – THIS IS NOT AN EXAMPLE OF THE ‘GRANVILLE SHARP RULE’ – THE SECOND COMMAND – DECEIVE – NO SPECIFIC GROUP IDENTIFIED – THE SECOND DESCRIPTION OF THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD – PAUL GIVES SUPPORT FOR HIS ADMONITION – ‘BECAUSE OF THESE’ REFERS TO THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED SINS – THE WRATH OF GOD – ‘COMING’ — NOW AND FOREVER! – ‘SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE’ – THE THIRD COMMAND – DO NOT BECOME – ‘TOGETHER–WITH PARTAKERS’ – ‘WITH THEM’, NOT ‘WITH THEIR SINS’ – WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?