PT-1 "Intro to Eph. 5:15-17

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/15/2019 11:16 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                  Focus:  PT-1 “Intro to Eph. 5:15-17”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Eph. 5:15-17

 

            Message of the verses:  “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.”

 

            John MacArthur entitles his 17^th chapter of his commentary on Ephesians “Walking in Wisdom,” and as we can see it only has three verses in it. 

 

            When we think of how we use the word “fool” in our life these days it is not the way that the Bible talks about a person who is a fool.  I have always thought that the first of April, “April Fool’s Day” is a good description of a person who does not believe in God.  “The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good” (Ps. 14:1).  This verse speaks of a person who is an atheist who has no room for God and who cares nothing for God.  I am sorry to say that our country, the United States of America, is divided between those who believe in God and those who don’t, and this is a by-product of evolution. 

 

            Every person who is born is born an enemy of God, separated from God because of their Adamic sin.  These are some verses that speak to this truth “Romans 5:8, 10; Eph. 2:3; and Col. 1:21.”  1 Corinthians 2:14 tells us “But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.”  Let us now look at Romans 1:21-22 “21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools.”

 

            There are many people today who do not believe in the One True God, and yet they have gods of their own that they do believe in, and this again as we have seen in some of these verses is foolishness. 

 

            John MacArthur writes “When the fool sets himself up as his own god, he will naturally ‘mock at sin’ (Prov. 14:9).  Sin is that which is against God, and since the fool does not recognize God, he does not recognize sin.  The Spiritually self-sufficient fool makes his own rules and justifies his own behavior, and in doing so he refuses to acknowledge sin and its consequences.”  Once again we can draw evolution into this quote as a reason people do not believe in God for after all if we are just an accident then why would we be accountable to any God who may have created all we see.

 

            Another thing that a fool does is, and he can’t help himself, is spread his own foolishness.  The more he believes his foolishness the more he will tell others about it. It makes no difference what his intellectual level, or academic achievements, talents, wealth, or reputation, the mouth of the natural man can spiritually do nothing but spout folly as seen in Proverbs 15:2 “The tongue of the wise makes knowledge acceptable, But the mouth of fools spouts folly.”

 

            We will continue our discussion, Lord willing, on fools in our next SD, and then we will begin to talk about wisdom, a much more pleasant subject.

 

Today’s quotation is from Jonathan Edwards who said “Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.”  (This passage truly speaks to my heart.)

 

6/15/2019 11:44 AM