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Week 3
Summer 2000
Homework
4:25-5:2; 5:3-14; 5:15-21
Conclude Ephesians Background
Situation: Why was this letter written?
Date:
Chronology:
Third Missionary Journey 53-57
Roman Imprisonment 61-62 AD
Neronean Persecution 64AD
Structure 3: 1-13
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Structure 3:14-21
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Structure (4:1-16)
1 Therefore I,
the prisoner of the Lord,
implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which called,
2 with all humility and gentleness,
with patience,
showing tolerance for one another in love,
3 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in…peace.
(Unity)
4 There is one body and one Spirit,
just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 one God and Father of all
who is over all and through all and in all.
(Diversity)
7 But to each…grace given according to the measure of Christ's gift.
8 Therefore it says,
"WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE A
HOST OF CAPTIVES, AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN."
9 (Now this expression, "He ascended," what does it
mean except that He also had descended into the
lower parts of the earth?
10 He who descended is Himself also He who
ascended far above all the heavens,
so that He might fill all things.)
11 And He gave some as apostles,
and some as prophets,
and some as evangelists,
and some as pastors and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service,
to the building up of the body of Christ;
13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith,
and the knowledge of Son of God, to a mature man,
to the measure of stature belongs to fullness of Christ.
14 As a result, we are no longer to be children,
tossed here and there by waves
and carried about by every wind of doctrine,
by the trickery of men,
by craftiness in deceitful scheming;
15 but
speaking the truth in love, (modifies "grow", How)
we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head,
even Christ,
16 from whom the whole body,
being fitted and held together by every joint supplies,
according to the proper working of each part,
causes the growth of body for the building up self in love.
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Structure: 4:17-24
17 This I say therefore,
And affirm together with the Lord
That you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk,
In the futility of their mind,
18 being darkened in their understanding,
excluded from the life of God
because of the ignorance in them,
because of the hardness of their heart;
19 and they,
having become callous,
have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of
every kind of impurity with greediness.
20 But you did not learn Christ in this way,
This I say therefore,
And affirm together with the Lord
That you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk,
In the futility of their mind,
21 if indeed you have heard Him (surely)
and have been taught in Him,
just as truth is in Jesus,
22 that,
in reference to your former manner of life, (modifies "old self")
you lay aside the old self,
which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
23 and that you be renewed in the Spirit of your mind,
24 and put on the new self,
which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness
and holiness of the truth.
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