Ephesians 5:15-33

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Ephesians: Part 1
God’s Reconciliation in Christ, Chapters 1-3
Ephesians Part 2
Our Response to God’s work in Christ, Chapters 4-6
First, some questions.
Would you rather have a set of rules to follow, or be empowered to make your own decisions? What about at home?
Is everyone at church supposed to serve everyone else? Why or why not?
Why do we sing in church?
Ephesians 5:15–33 CSB
Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise—making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit: speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of Christ. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word. He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless. In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, since we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
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Ephesians 5:15–21 CSB
Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise—making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit: speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of Christ.
Don’t be idle, because of the devil (previously mentioned in Ephesians and who will show up later) will attack you unguarded.
psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord
Praise singing had an unusually prominent role in Jewish worship. The book of Psalms is huge, and devote Jews would sing them from childhood and have most memorized.
We know that praise singing was an early Christian practice. It is mentioned before Jesus’ arrest that they sang a hymn. Acts and 6 NT letters mention praise/worship singing.
Roman governor in Asia Minor, Pliny the Younger, wrote to emperor Trajan complaining that Christians sing hymns “to Christ as a god”.
Household Codes
Ephesians 5:22–33 CSB
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word. He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless. In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, since we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
“submit” is missing in Greek from the commands to the wife
What is the duty of the wife? What is the duty of the husband?
What does this passage teach us about the church?
Application
What does this section teach us about worship?
What does this section teach us about prayer?
What does this section teach us about the Father, Son, and Spirit?
Love dominates the next section of the letter. What about here?
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