Ephesians Lesson 26 of 39 part 1

I always like to remind folks that these teachings are non-denominational, not that we are not a member of a local assembly of like minded believers, but for the sake of reaching people we are just going to stick by what the Word says. This may or may not be in the literal since because as stated elsewhere, shortly after the ascension of Christ and His return as the Holy Spirit who from that point on would indwell all who became willing, things became spiritual. As Paul states in the Corinthian letters. All we like people to do is just search the scriptures, seek the Truth for themselves. For Truth is Spirit and that Spirit is the LORD, Christ Jesus. John in the small letter of 3John states that he rejoices greatly over the believers who live with truth revealed within and then through them when they walk in the spirit of Truth. Remembering that tradition in the scripture is always portrayed in a bad light, and a lot of tradition has been totally misguided, because there is no truth in them. Of course that is all we can ask, if people will just search the scriptures and look at what it says, and what it does not say. Do not take our word for it just seek the Holy Spirit in prayer and asking the tough questions He is more than willing to aid and help us to learn Christ. It must be stated that Jesus when He stood before Pilot and Pilot asked this quest, what is Truth? Jesus being all Truth did not answer him because being Truth revealed He did not need to say one word. Why? Because to do so would have taken from the Truth and bent it be it very so slightly and would have made it into a lie. Once we get into these deeper things, we just can not skip over what we think are little details that make it so interesting. In verse 5 of Ephesians 4 we will continue our studies of these seven things that make up a unity in the One Body of Christ, and they are, "The one Body, The one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of all." The next one we will start with is "one Lord." 

Ephesians 4:5a

"One Lord,..."

We are living in a world where we are seeing the New Age Movement, Islam or Muslim, Jewish, and even a form of Christianity "Christiandem" and the Oriental religions being pushed. These and others are coming in, and it is so tragic that this stuff can be taught in our public schools and no one says a word about it. Yes "Christiandem" is still in the schools but it is not the pure Christ likeness that we are to be. The reason for that is, it is all in the name of education. One of the areas of Satan's strongholds. But as we know you can not take a Bible to school, or pray in school anymore, but the ridiculousness of all this is there are so many gods coming up in this world, and yet we as believers are admonished that doctrinally there is only one Lord. What we'd like to show here is the word "Lord" coming out of the Old Testament back in Genesis chapter 2. In fact let’s turn back there and look at it for a moment. 

We must remember back in the Old Testament we have the word Lord used in two different ways. You find it used all capitalized, "LORD" and we have it used "Lord." In this chapter is a good example of what we are talking about. All the way through Genesis chapter 1 we just see the word, "God." God said this, God did this, God was pleased and so forth. But now all of a sudden in chapter 2, and verse 4 we see something different.

Genesis 2:4

"These are the generations of the heavens, and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and heavens."

Was it a typographical error? No. It is exactly the way it is supposed to be. Here we have LORD in capitals. Those for us who have heard the Holy Spirit teach Genesis, it is from this "LORD" that we really get the Old Testament term, "Yehovah" old LLX Hebrew or “Jehovah” new English-Hebrew. He is the anointed Son of the New Testament. He is the Sun in Malachi chapter 4 verse 2, He is the Spirit of all Truth, He is the ever revealing one (Exodus 3:14, the "I AM") in that we are to learn of Him (Matthew 11:29a).

Where as "Lord" in the small case is the word "Adonai," and in the Hebrew is translated over and over throughout the Scriptures as "Master". That makes all the difference in the world. It is the same God, but you see Paul is using the term, "Lord" here in Ephesians as the Master, part of our Savior and our Lord. Coming back to Ephesians we have, "one Lord" and we think we can literally take it out of the Old Testament setting that we have "one Master!"