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*BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT, PART 1*
*Ephesians 5:18*
By Dr. Wayne A. Barber
Turn to Ephesians 5. We are coming to that verse that I have been looking forward to, verse
18: “And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit.”
Turn back to chapter 3 and to the prayer that I have told you over and over again has
everything to do with the teaching of this book.
It sums up chapters 1, 2 and 3 and sets up
chapters 4, 5 and 6.
You can see it bleed into almost everything Paul says in these last
three chapters.
In verse 16 of chapter 3, Paul says, “that He [God] would grant you, according
to the riches of His glory [that refers to everything they have in Jesus Christ], to be
strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man.”
Paul has told them that they have every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus.
Now, they are
to be strengthened, and we are to be strengthened, according to what He has given to us.
Verse 17 tells us the way we are strengthened is by our willingness to accommodate Jesus
in all the areas of our life.
How do we accommodate Him?
We are willing to obey Him.
It is
by my willingness to surrender, my willingness to obey, that I am strengthened in the inner
man by the Spirit of God.
This thought in that prayer literally permeates the rest of the
book.
God lives in us.
We have all of God we are ever going to get.
Isn’t that wonderful?
Now God wants to control us from within.
He wants all of us.
That is the key.
The key is not
getting any more of God.
The key is God getting more and more of us.
In chapter 4 he tells them to put on the new man, the new garment, a brand new
lifestyle.
Remember, a garment is something that people see.
Therefore, what he is literally
saying in the context of his thought there is if you are strengthened on the inside, it is going
to show up on the outside.
The garment is a lifestyle.
The Holy Spirit is living inside of me,
strengthening me.
The degree I am willing to surrender to Him is going to show up in a
difference in the way I live and the way people see me on the outside.
In chapter 5, he tells them to imitate God’s love, and he warns them to walk wisely, making
the most of the time.
In verse 17 he says, “So then do not be foolish, but understand what the
will of the Lord is.”
I don’t think you can miss what he is saying here.
He is talking about the will
of the Lord.
The general will of the Lord is that we obey Him in every area of our heart.
But that
willingness to obey gives us the ability to have wisdom from above in order to make wise decisions
to redeem the time as we live as children of light in a world of darkness.
Paul continues the thought of walking wisely in a world filled with darkness in verse 18:
“And do not get drunk with wine,...but be filled with the Spirit.”
What does it mean to be
filled with the Spirit of God?
There are two things I want you to see, and they are in stark
contrast to each other.
The first part of the verse says, “And do not get drunk with wine.”
The verb there is in the present tense.
It means, “Don’t ever allow it into your lifestyle.”
It is
an imperative mood, which means it is a command.
There is no option.
It is also in the
middle voice.
We all have this responsibility.
Never, ever, ever be drunk with wine.
Now why would Paul bring that out, especially in contrast with being filled with the Spirit
of God?
I love to look at historical settings and the culture of an area and what is going on
during the period a person is writing his letter.
For example, if you don’t know anything
about Gnosticism when you look at I John, you miss the whole reason why John wrote the
letter.
It is helpful to know what is going on their time.
What do they associate with pseudo2
spirituality and those kinds of things?
If I understand the setting and the culture of the time,
“drunkenness” was a word used in religious circles.
As a matter of fact, they thought drunkenness
was a means of communing with their spirits and gods.
In worshiping their “gods” in
the pagan temples of that day, they would start with a wild frenzied dance and work themselves
into an emotional peak.
Then they would begin to drink wine.
The drunker they got,
the more they would act in all kinds of wild ways.
Sexual orgies would break out and somehow,
in their perverted way of thinking, they thought that when they got into this state of mind,
totally influenced by the wine, totally intoxicated by the wine, far beyond clear thinking, that
somehow they were moved into a realm to where they could communicate with their gods.
That was typical theology of that day.
It had nothing to do with our God.
It has nothing to do
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