DISCOURSE: 2114 CHRIST’S LOVE A PATTERN FOR OURS Ephesians 5:2. _Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour_. TO restore us to the Divine image is one great end of all that the Lord Jesus Christ has done a... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2115 FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF INDULGED SIN Ephesians 5:5. _This ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wr... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2116 A CONSISTENT WALK ENJOINED Ephesians 5:8. _Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light_. MANY imagine, that when they have believed in Christ, the work in them is complete: and, if they were then to die, it is true that they would be compl... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2117 PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY Ephesians 5:9. _The fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth_. THERE is in the minds of many a prejudice against the writings of St. Paul, as though they contained nothing but dissertations about predestination and election, and wer... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2118 AN EXHORTATION TO CARELESS SINNERS Ephesians 5:14. _Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light_. THERE is a harmony in the Scriptures which many overlook and destroy: detached passages are often wrested to establish a favourite system [Note:... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2119 REDEEMING THE TIME Ephesians 5:15. _See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil_. WHILE the Christian has so many corruptions within, and temptations without, he needs to be continually urged to vigilance and activit... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2120 THE BELIEVER FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST Ephesians 5:18. _Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lor... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2121 THE MARRIAGE UNION Ephesians 5:21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefo... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2122 THE PERFECTING OF THE CHURCH IS THE END OF ALL THAT CHRIST HAS DONE FOR IT Ephesians 5:25. _Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious Church, not havin... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2123 UNION WITH CHRIST Ephesians 5:30. _We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones_. THAT the eternal Son of God assumed our nature, and lived and died for the salvation of men, is doubtless the fundamental truth on which we are to build our hopes. But we shall have a ver... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2124 UNION BETWEEN CHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE Ephesians 5:32. _This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church_. CHRISTIANITY is a mystery altogether—a great mystery: as it is written, “Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Sp... [ Continue Reading ]