Ephesians Lesson 33 of 39 part 4

We are to walk as a result of the revelation of what was stated earlier where Paul stated that God was fashioned in the likeness as a man, the man Jesus Israel's Messiah and Adams promised seed Who is the I AM of NOW, Christ. Since He has paid the sin debt, the ransom held by Satan and He has now declared us "a child of God," not by anything we have done physically, but rather what He has done. When we understand the mysteries of God by rightly dividing the Word of Truth and willing partake of His garden cup, He then makes us a son in the circumcision of the heart. 

There are a lot of Churchy and false religious things that a person can do after redemption such as staying within the confines of religion, joining the local Church, being baptized, and so on ans so forth. We are not against any of these, but there are multitudes that are doing that for their salvation, and are ignoring the finished work of the cross. By not examining themselves and are taking the Lord's Supper in an unworthy manor and not believing in it for their eternal destination. Do you think God is pleased when people ignore the work of the cross? Heavens NO He is not pleased. When He has done and provided everything that need be done. When people get the idea that if we just join the Church, then we will make it? I have to be blunt, they are not going to make it at all! Neither will they make it by skirting around God's established high road in which His Life, Love and Light are restore to Life within us. We do not care what Church it is, whether it is mine, yours, or anybody else’s. What makes this so? Look with me at Matthew 8 beginning with verse 8;

Matthew 8:8-13 “The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to them that followed, 'Verily I

say to you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. I tell you, That

many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham,

and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the

kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and

gnashing of teeth.'

Jesus said to the centurion, Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it

done to you. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.”

The question revealed here is, who are the sons or children of the kingdom? If all mankind are potentially sons or if it is just Israel who are potentially sons then, what keeps them from being accepted and then cast out into utter darkness? Our answer is in plain view in Philippians 2:7-8.

We have to come back and recognize that it is all tied up in the Lord's Last Supper and the death of the cross that made it possible for God to make us His dear children. And consequently since He loved us first, that love is to be returned, and we are to walk the walk that He wants us to walk. And then as Paul does so often, shows us the other side of the coin.

Ephesians 5:3

"But fornication*, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you as becometh saints;"

*this is both sexual and spiritual immorality, idolatry (of self-will, self-rule) which is wickedness and lawlessness in all it’s rankest forms. This immorality and idolatry are based in all Religions of the world order.

Paul does not go through all the long list like he did in Ephesians chapter 2 or Galatians chapter 4, or Romans chapter 3. Oh it is a horrible list, but he does name some of the key ones, and among them is covetousness. But we need not skip over fornication because it is also known as idolatry of which religion is its greatest offender. Because religion has become the idol at its center. The key is what was revealed in Philippians 2:7-8 and the self, self-will, self-rule of mans fallen nature. The fornication of the familiar spirit common to all and this binds Israel's past to the present as Romans 10-12 reveals. Now that reminds us of Romans chapter 7, so let’s look at it for a moment. A lot of people have problems with this chapter in Romans because they can’t quite figure out what Paul is showing by using himself as an illustration. Where his restored spirit is waging a battle within him for supremacy over his self-will. Whether he is talking about a lost person or about a believer who has all these problems, the one thing we want to see here is here in verse 7.