Living under the influence
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Introduction:
Introduction:
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15 Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, 16 making the most of your time, because the days are evil. 17 So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Eph 5:15-17
I. From Foolish to Wise
I. From Foolish to Wise
17 So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
eph 5:17
(v.17) “So then” You will remember that in (v.15-16) Paul says be careful how you walk. He then says walk as a wise man not as a fool. Make the most of your time, because the days are evil and short. Clearly Paul is comparing and contrasting two types of people. The Fool and the Wise. Paul says there is too much stake to waste time in superficial endeavors. You will notice that this verse begins with a conjunction.
(v.17) “So then do not be foolish” The conjunction at the beginning of the sentence signals a closing argument or statement that fully encapsulates a previous teaching. Paul then goes right in. ‘Stop being foolish” I bet you can guess what kind of verb foolish is. It is an imperative. Where is your clue? “do not” It is also a “present” verb meaning “you are to daily not be foolish” Also this is not a warning to not do it in the future, but it is a warning to stop doing something that you are already involved in. I can see Paul just shaking his head like my Dad used too and saying “Boy what were you thinking about!!!” “Grow UP” Paul is saying “Put and end to foolishness.
-Now let’s take a look at this word “foolish” and how it is used.
-Fool---is translated by two greek words: The Bible makes a distinction between unintentional foolishness & intentional foolishness.
Moronos -means naive(unintentional foolishness)like that of a child.
a. aphron- lacking foresight—this is the inability to separate personal life experiences in order of importance. These are people that take small issues and make them big, or they take weighty important issues and make them small/blow them off. Let me take you to a text where this word is used. This is intentional foolishness.
-lets take a look at its word usage in scripture:
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16 And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man was very productive. 17 “And he began reasoning to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?’ 18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 ‘And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.” ’ 20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’
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(v.16) This man was not lucky. It was his skill that help make the land productive. So we are not talking about a dumb man.
(v.17-18) In this verse he did the smart thing he diversified his funds. He took his overflowing resources and he built bigger barns to fill them larger, so that he would not miss any morsel of his money
(v.19) Then he began to mediate on his success and came to the conclusion that “he could finally rest, relax, and sin” The implication is here is that since there is no afterlife to which I will be accountable I am about to enjoy myself until I die. I am going out with a bang.
(v.20) Notice what happen next. In verse (v.17-18) that man did all of the talking and planning then in the final verse “God Spoke” I like on this:
1 The plans of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
Interpretation: Plan all you want, but it is God who settles accounts!!!
(v.20) Can you imagine hearing these words in heaven spoken by God!!!! “You aphron! This very night your soul is required of you, and now who will own what you have prepared?”
21 “So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
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(v.21) Notice that God is not rebuking that man for storing up treasure(saving his money) He is rebuking him for taking no thought in his eternal home and spending all of his money given to him by God on himself. He had plenty of earthly wealth but he never put anything in the heavenly bank account. Then he figured out real quick who was really in control.
-I went to this parable to give you a real-time view of this word. This man was bright, successful, and cutting edge. But as far as eternity was concern “He was a Fool”
17 So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
eph 5:17
(v.17) “but understand what the will of the Lord is” in opposition to living as a fool live with an understanding mind. Particularly when it comes to the will of God. Let’s define the word understanding:
a. Understanding---To employ one’s capacity for comprehension, to perceive. This word entails the assembling of individual facts into an organized whole.....In our modern vernacular we say “that person finally connected the dots”
Where should we be exercising our understanding?
(v.17) “The will of the Lord” The most common prayer for most Christian is Lord what is your will. We must do a theological work on this.
Is Paul talking about God’s specific will for each person’s life or his universal will for all believers?
When we pray we are seeking God’s specific will; Lord what school should I go to? Lord should I marry this person? Lord should I take this Job? Lord am I called to preach?
Nothing wrong with these prayers, but before we ask God for his specific will we need to evaluate are we following his universal will spelled out in scripture for all believers.
Lets me give you 4 words to help you gain understanding of God’s universal will for all believers.
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3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
-Are you saved? We got unsaved people in the church asking God “Who should they marry”
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3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;
-Are you being sanctified? Are you yielding your bodies to the Lord
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13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, 14 or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. 15 For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.
-Are you being submissive to the human institutions God has put in place to maintain order. Are you being submissive at work or are you always in the break room gossiping and stirring up trouble.
Finally our text today:
17 So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
Are you Spirit-filled there is difference between being indwell by the spirit and spirit-filled?
-Saved, Sanctified, Submissive, Spirit-Filled are all spelled out in scripture. God is not hiding them from you. You see before God begins to speak to you and spell out his hidden or specific will to you, you ought to be making these four things the direction of your life.
17 So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
17 So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Summary: Paul says “stop being hard headed and sit down long enough to gain understanding and connect the dots on what the Spirit is trying to do in your life.
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What’s the HS trying to do Paul?
-Paul says “I am glad you ask” lets keep talking
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18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
eph 5:
(v.18) “And” this is a connecting conjunction letting us know that Paul is still in the same thought. He has not changed subjects.
(v.18) “And” this is a connecting conjunction letting us know that Paul is still in the same thought
(v.18) “And do not get drunk” Paul has just given us a clue as to how some of the believers at Ephesus are wasting their time. Let’s do a little historical work. Ephesus is the location of one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world and that is the Temple of Diana or Dionysus. In the ancient world people felt that when they got drunk that took them to a deeper union with the Gods. So alcohol became a part of their way of worshipping their Gods. They imported that right over to their new relationship with “ Christ” they probably figured since we are drinking this real wine during communion it must get us closer to the one God. Paul had to straighten out their ignorance.
(v.18) “And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation”
What kind of verb is drunk??
-It is a negative imperative. Meaning it is a command not to do something. This tell us that the behavior is already going on, and Paul is putting a stop to it.
“for that is dissipation” We don’t use that word
“Stop getting drunk with wine, which leads to wild living” ISV translation that word dissipation could also refers to “wasteful living”
-God is not pleased with any type of activity when a person goes into another state of drunkenness or meditation....In Eastern Religions of worship during meditation turning off the mind is encouraged so that you go into a different state of consciousness. It’s like what “weed smoker say; man when I am high my thinking is so deep” Well in Christianity we don’t turn off the brain during meditation, We do the exact opposite we focus, and we heighten the activity of the brain so that we can inhale whatever God has for us.
18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
(v.18) “And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit”
“but” Instead of being controlled by alcohol “be filled with the spirit” we need to do some work on this phrase
What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit? and who does it?
a. filled-present(daily)(moment by moment), passive(not something you do, but something done to you), Imperative(commanded by God)
-This present an interesting dilemma.
How can Paul commands us to do something that we don’t do?
“be filled” remember it is in the passive, so it is not something we do it is something do to us......Analogy of Horders to explain this process. They are willing to come in and clean up the house the residents only responsibility is to let go of their junk an allow the cleaners to clean and organize. Well the HS indwelling you is only in the family room of your house. He is trying to clean, but you must fully yield to him, so he can go to work.
-So what Paul is commanding is “Yielding to the Spirit and Let him Fill you!” Stop fighting him!!!
-Paul is strategic when he uses the word “Filled” they certainly knew filled because their full cups of wine had totally rendered them useless as they stumble around during the communion service.
-Paul also uses this word “filled” to help us see the extreme levels to which the Spirit wants to fill us.....In our modern vernacular we would says “filled to the brim” when we say that it conveys the idea of so tight nothing else can fit. Let’s take a look at some of it’s usage in the text
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6 “But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.
(v.6) Overcome with grief after Jesus told them he had to die and leave(Sorrow)
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4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
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(v.4) This time fulness is related to time. (We would say at the perfect time)
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2 And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
(v.2) Notice during pentecost the HS filled the room so much in so you could not notice anything else. (He took over)
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1 In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.
-(v.1) Notice that Jesus robe or symbol of his Sovereignty and expression of his Kingship filled the Temple.
18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
(v.18) the HS is not into partial fillings, or like they do at Subway when the measure out your steak and cheese. He wants to fill you to the extreme. Once you give the HS permission to leave the family room of your life to go into every room, closet, piece of furniture, clothes, shoes, and shoebox he will began to fill up everything in the house.
Wuest’s Word Studies in the Greek New Testament Chapter Five
“A curious use of the word occurs in Homer, where he is describing the stretching of a bull’s hide, which in order to make it more elastic, is soaked (methuskō (μεθυσκω)) with fat.” The word, therefore, refers to the condition of a person in which he is soaked with wine.
Winterizing home in the Lansing. Hot air was leaking outside the window(waste) and cold air in the winter, and hot air in the summer were leaking inside the house.
Back in the day when we left Momma house to go play outside “She said you better not run back and forth in this house. You either in or out. and if you come in then you in for the day. Why Mom do that? Because she was trying to keep the inside either cool in the summer or warm in the winter.
In the same way Our Job is to keep the HS power working through us and not wasting it by allowing sin to come into our life. We are to keep the doors locked and the windows shut, and when we do that the HS warm air will fill us and his power will be manifested through us.
What will be the result?
Worship!!!!
19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
Eph 5:19
-External proof
(v.19) “Speaking to one another in Psalms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord”
(v.19) Speaking to one another in Psalms this is not strange because in antiquity they would speak the words of songs as well as sing them.
(v.19) Psalms were related to deliverance and salvation, Hymns often were song Praising God and his attributes. Spiritual Songs were sung to encourage us in our journey. Paul says that Spirit-filled people are always speaking and singing the praises of God.
This is the External Proof of being Spirit Filled; Disclaimer this can be faked!!!
Internal Proof
(v.19) “Singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord” These are songs that come from the HS. These are songs no one every hears but you. They come from a heart fully submitted to the HS and full of Praise and Thanksgiving.
a. Bitter people can sing on the outside but they can’t sing with the heart
b. Hard-hearted people can sing on the outside but they can’t sing with the heart
c. Wicked people can sing on the outside but they can’t sing with the heart.
-You see the Heart don’t lie!!!! The outside can go through the motion but the heart won’t.
-Paul wants us to know that Spirit filled People love coming to the church to worship the Lord, only they don’t stop worshipping when they leave. Their worship goes with them when they go home, when they go to work, when they go to their child's basketball game, when they go out to dinner.
-It’s hard for them to stay mad and bitter; Then Paul tells us Why?
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20 always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
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(v.20) The Spirit-Filled “ALWAYS” giving thanks for all things; How is this even possible? This text tells us that we can give thanks in all things.
When I lose my Job “give thanks”
When my spouse of 40 years is dying “give thanks”
When I am alone this Christmas because my Mom passed last year “give thanks”
When my husband/wife left me for another person “Give thanks”
When my child won’t do right “give thanks”
When I just found out that my cancer is spreading “give thanks”
When you look back at 2019 and you had more bad than good happen “give thanks”
Paul How can you do that?
(v.20) “In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father”
(v.20) This text says that if you look at your problems through humans eyes then you are right these things are not things you can be thankful for they all lead to despair and depression, but when you look at these things through the eyes of Jesus, even the bad stuff can turn around for your good. Every trial becomes a victory!!!
28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
13 Now on the day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 14 a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, 15 and the Sabeans attacked and took them. They also slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 16 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 17 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them and slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 18 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 19 and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 20 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. 21 He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” 22 Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.
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13 Now on the day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 14 a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, 15 and the Sabeans attacked and took them. They also slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 16 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 17 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them and slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 18 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 19 and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 20 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. 21 He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” 22 Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.
Job 1:
-This is what Spirit-Filled looks like
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