The call for fragrant self sacrifice at the beginning of Ephesians chapter 5 echoes not through extraordinary acts of self sacrifice or courage but through the ordinary events of daily life: marriage, family and employment. It is here that the Lord Jesus is glorified in the Christian life.
Dr J Stewart Gillespie
Paul's letter to the Ephesians presents the church in a three fold fashion; as a building founded upon Christ, as a body united and blessed by Christ and as the bride joined to and part of Christ! It is this pattern of the church as the body, bones and flesh of Christ which paints the most intimate and dramatic of pictures of the relationship between Christ and the church! By the cross of the Lord Jesus, His people are brought into the most intimate relationship with Him!
Dr J Stewart Gillespie
Ephesians chapter 5: Husbands love your wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it.
God's new Society in marriage, family and service.
Christian practice is the out working of Christian doctrine.
Dr J Stewart Gillespie
Ephesians chapter 5 charts the path of being filled, continually by the Holy Spirit. This path is encapsulated by the 2 fold command of walk in love and walks as children of the light. We consider the possibility of the impossible when walking in love and we see the demands of the light in righteousness and revelation.
Dr J Stewart Gillespie
Be filled with the Spirit, is a command to all Christians in Ephesians chapter 5. It is within this chapter that we discover the secret as to how we may be filled, continually and presently with God's Spirit. Dr J Stewart Gillespie GraceinChrist.org
Rage rage against the dying of the night, to paraphrase Dylan Thomas' famous poem! The night and its unfruitful wickedness dies all around the believer. Chose carefully and chose wisely where you through in your lot and into what you invest your time! Redeeming the time means more than to be busy but rather to be fruitful for God! Our desires reflect our destiny and our belonging. Let us be careful what we are pursuing in time, for the destiny of that pursuit ends in eternity!
Dr J Stewart Gillespie
Bible Teaching
Ephesians chapter 5 Judges chapter 19 - the Levite and his concubine
We may not all have equal opportunities to serve God nor equal gifts nor may we see equal results but we each as believers in the Lord Jesus have equal opportunity to please God. The letter to the Ephesians contains 5 offerings; the ascending offering, the meal offering, the peace offering, the sin offering and the trespass offering. The 3 sweet savour offerings are to be seen in Christ and reflected in His people. The Christian life of service is a life of devotion to Christ, and in His service.
Ephesians chapter 5
Systematic bible teaching from Ephesians
Every Christian life is a fire that is lit, whose flames ascend to heaven with fragrance of a life lived to God's Glory! This Christian walk which becomes worship imputes lasting meaning to our life below. Like Anna who served in the temple for 84 years or Mary who poured out her fragrant sacrifice upon Christ or Enoch who walked with God and who was not because God took him, our lives too can be a fragrance from a flame that burns wholly to the Lord! Ephesians chapter 5 bible teaching from the Bridgend Gospel Hall, New Cumnock, Dr J Stewart Gillespie
