Ephesians 5:18-21

Be filled with the Spirit

Dos and Don’ts - We may say the Christian life is not a list of Dos and Don’ts, we need to be careful, it does have it, but it is not the power that saves rather than a result of being saved.

Reckless Living - Juxtaposes Drunkenness and being filled with the Spirit

Drunkenness - not in control (minds are distorted) / no wisdom (foolish, folly) / Not in touch with reality- indeed may be the issue - life

Be filled with the Holy Spirit

This is passive.... Are there steps?…this leads to legalism… However we are to position ourselves to be filled with the spirit.

Not one time filling … but ongoing … this is where Charismatic fall short.... because the spirit filling is consistant and continually filled

Minds transformed, hearts stirred, wills subdued - Alistair Begg

Ephesians 1:13 CSB

In him you also were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed.

You have the Holy Spirit within you: not the OT being filled

Prayer

Ephesians 1:17 CSB

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.

Ephesians 3:16–18 (CSB)

I pray that he may grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power in your inner being through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love,

Read the Word Of God to be Filled with the Spirit

2 Timothy 3:16–17 (CSB)

All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

The Holy Spirit will equip us through God’s Word and be with you when you carry it out

Gather together to worship

Hebrews 10:24–25 CSB

And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works, not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching.

Galatians 3:5 (CSB)

So then, does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law? Or is it by believing what you heard—

Romans 10:17 CSB

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.

Colossians 3:16 CSB

Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

Effect of Spirit(fullness)

Speaking( addressing), Singing, Making, Giving, the Submitting

1. Praise (sing of it!)

Speak (addressing)

Psalms

Hymns

Spiritual Songs

Singing and Making Music

“We don’t sing enough, my Brothers and Sisters! How often do I stir you up about the matter of prayer, but perhaps I might be just as earnest about the matter of praise! Do we sing as much as the birds do? Yet what have birds to sing about, compared with us? Do you think we sing as much as the angels do? Yet they were never redeemed by the blood of Christ!” “Holy song from Happy Saints.” Sermon #3476, published Sept. 16, 1915.

Not being an just audience and performer, Spurgeon Speaks to this -

The institution of singers, as a separate order is an evil, a growing evil, and ought to be abated and abolished; and the instruction of the entire congregation is the readiest, surest, and most scriptural mode of curing it. A band of godless men and women will often instal themselves in a conspicuous part of the chapel, and monopolise the singing to the grief of the pastor, the injury of the church, and the scandal of public worship; or else one man, with a miserable voice, will drag a miserable few after him in a successful attempt to make psalms and hymns hideous, or dolorous. Teach the lads and lasses, and their seniors, to run up and down the Sol-fa Modulator, and drill them in a few good, solid, thoroughly musical tunes, and you, O sons of Asaph, shall earn to yourself a good degree.

Charles Spurgeon. The Sword and The Trowel, June 1, 1870. 276-277.

2. Giving Thanks

To the Lord -Humility, we recognize where our source of goodness comes from.

3.Submitting to One Another

“To arrange under” - Military Term, Biggest challenge we have in leadership the military, (Submission to authority)

Dangers of people in church who do not submit to another 3 Jn 9

3 John 9 CSB

I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have first place among them, does not receive our authority.

They don’t have their own agenda; they don’t want to dominate. They eagerly step aside and give way to others. - John MacArthur

Our Motive for submission - Fear of Christ

Matthew 28:8 CSB

So, departing quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, they ran to tell his disciples the news.

Acts 9:31 CSB

So the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.