Efésios 5
Kenneth Wuest · Citado em PreceptAustin
Efésios 5:18
Wuest: And stop being intoxicated with wine, in which state of intoxication there is profligacy. But be constantly controlled by the Spirit, Young's Literal: and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit, AND DO NOT GET DRUNK WITH WINE: kai me methuskesthe (2PPPM) oino: (Genesis 9:21; 19:32, 33, 34, 35; Deuteronomy 21:20; Psalms 69:12; Proverbs 20:1; 23:20,21,29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35; Isaiah 5:11, 12, 13,22; Matthew 24:49; Luke 12:45; 21:34; Romans 13:13; 1Corinthians 5:11; 6:10; 1Corinthians 11:21; Galatians 5:21; 1Thessalonians 5:7) THE MOST IMPORTANT VERSE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT! Well known pastor and author Charles Swindoll made this statement... I don’t know of a more important verse in the New Testament for the Christian than Ephesians 5:18—honest, no exaggeration. This verse tells the believer how to live an authentic, empowered life: “And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit.” It begins with a negative command: “Don’t get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation” (which means excess, existing hopelessly out of control). When you’re drunk with alcohol, you lose control. You also lose self-respect and the respect of others. “Don’t get drunk.” A positive command follows: “But be filled with the Spirit.”...This is a command, not a suggestion. It’s an urgent imperative, not a casual option...“Be filled” is a command, which means I play a part in it. For example, I cannot be filled with the Spirit while I have unconfessed sin within me. I cannot be filled with the Spirit while at the same time conducting my life in the energy of the flesh. I cannot be filled with the Spirit while I am resisting God’s will and relying only on myself. I need to be sure that I have taken care of the sins that have emerged in my life, that I have not ignored the wrong that I have done before God and to others. I need to walk in conscious dependence on the Lord on a daily basis. Many a morning I begin my day by sitting on the side of the bed, saying: This is your day, Lord. I want to be at Your disposal. I have no idea what these next twenty-four hours will contain. But before I sip my first cup of coffee, and even before I get dressed, I want You to know that from this moment on throughout this day, I’m Yours, Lord. Help me to lean on You, to draw strength from You, and to have You fill my mind and my thoughts. Take control of my senses so that I am literally filled with Your presence and empowered with Your energy. I want to be Your tool, Your vessel today. I can’t make it happen. And so I’m saying, Lord, fill me with Your Spirit today. I challenge you to begin every day with a similar prayer. “Lord, today, enable me to live out the authentic Christian life for Your glory.” Customize it with your own details depending on what may be the needs of that particular day. (Embraced by the Spirit: the Untold Blessings of Intimacy with God) See also... Galatians 5:16 Walking By the Spirit - In Depth Commentary Acts 6:1-5 Full of the Spirit and Wisdom - Hampton Keathley Acts 7:54-8:1 The Death of a Spirit-Filled Man - John Piper Acts 4:3, 5, 8 Filled with the Spirit (A Study of the Man Stephen) - Alexander Maclaren See studies by John Walvoord on The Person of the Holy Spirit... The Person of the Holy Spirit-8 The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Believer (Spiritual Gifts) The Person of the Holy Spirit-9 The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Believer (Filling) The Person of the Holy Spirit Part 10 The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Believer (Filling -2) . And - It is sad that too often this great teaching is taken out of its context. The point is that the Greek connective "and" (kai) clearly links it with the preceding verses (our daily conduct Ep 5:15, our redemption of opportunities God presents = Ep 5:16, the will of God = Ep 5:17). The obvious implication is that being continually filled with the Spirit is intimately related to the will of God and also to making the most of one's time in our daily conduct during our short stay on earth. And do not intoxicate yourselves with wine, in which, as if lying hidden in that dangerous vehicle, is riot, "dissoluteness" (asotia), the miserable license which bursts the bonds of conscience with dreadful ease, and breaks up the whole moral order. (Ephesian Studies: Expository Readings on the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians) (Bolding added) THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCTRINE of THE SPIRITUAL LIFE Respected Pastor Ray Pritchard wrote that the filling of the Spirit is the most important doctrine of the spiritual life. It is foundational to everything else. There is nothing we need more. Here is my definition of the filling of the Spirit: It is that state in which the Holy Spirit is free to do all that He came into my life to do. In a sense being filled with the Spirit is an impossibility-at least as far as it depends on us. Only God's Spirit can fill us. We need two things-emptiness and openness. You can't fill a jar that's already full, and you can't fill a jar that is not open. There must be a sense of need-"Lord, I'm empty and I need to be filled by Your Spirit." There must be a willingness-"Lord, I'm open to You..." The filling of the Spirit is really as simple as that. As long as we are conscious of our need and as long as we are willing to yield to the Lord, we can be filled with the Lord all day long. This power is available to us all day long. (Ephesians 5:18: Filled with the Holy Spirit?) (See also his sermon - Ephesians 5:18 How Can I be Filled With the Holy Spirit?) John MacArthur echoes the importance of this doctrine writing that... If we do not obey this command, we cannot obey any other—simply because we cannot do any of God’s will apart from God’s Spirit. Outside of the command for unbelievers to trust in Christ for salvation, there is no more practical and necessary command in Scripture than the one for believers to be filled with the Spirit. (MacArthur, J: Ephesians. Chicago: Moody Press) (Bolding added) Comment: The implication of MacArthur's statement is that every time we encounter an imperative in the New Testament, in a sense we are confronted with our desperate need for the Holy Spirit's enabling power to carry out that commandment! There are more than 1500 commands (imperatives) in the New Testament, so we will have many opportunities to learn to depend on the Spirit's filling and empowering! How are you doing with this ongoing "exercise?" E.g., men, Paul commands "Husbands, love (present active imperative) your wives!" (Eph 5:25) Try to do that in your own, innate, natural power! You simply can't do it! (I speak from much experience! ...and many failures!) If Paul's command were not enough to convince us of our constant need for the Spirit's filling, he adds "just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her!" And so clearly Paul calls us to... Die to self. Depend on the Spirit. And for the ladies (wives) Paul issues an equally difficult command "Wives, be subject (present passive imperative - continually be willing to be subject) to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord." (Col 3:18). It is worth emphasizing that all of the commands (and behaviors) Paul calls saints to practice in Ephesians 5:19 through Ephesians 6:19 are in the CONTEXT of being filled with the Spirit: worship, marriage, family, children, employees, spiritual warfare, praying -- all call for continual dependence on the Spirit of God for successful completion! To try to carry out any of the NT commands in our own strength leads to sure failure and frustration. The old (not revised) NLT paraphrase presents an accurate sense of the meaning of the original Greek... Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, let the Holy Spirit fill and control you. Drunk (3182) (methusko from methuo = drink to intoxication) means to have one's faculties impaired (as by alcohol) or become intoxicated. Both wine and the Spirit do their work deep in the human psyche. They effect people below the level of consciousness, down at the foundations of personality. The Spirit is not merely with God's people but in them. The present imperative with a negative commands them to stop an action already in progress (or not to start this practice). A T
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Wuest has an interesting comment on methusko writing that = 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 (methusko) with fat.” The word, therefore, refers to the condition of a person in which he is soaked with wine. (Wuest, K. S. Wuest's Word Studies from the Greek New Testament: Eerdmans) Here are the 5 in the NT... Luke 12:45 "But if that slave says in his heart, 'My master will be a long time in coming,' and begins to beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk; John 2:10 and said to him, "Every man serves the good wine first, and when men have drunk freely, then that which is poorer; you have kept the good wine until now." Ephesians 5:18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, 1 Thessalonians 5:7 (note) For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. Revelation 17:2 (note) with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality." Methusko - 30x in the non-apocryphal Septuagint (LXX) - Ge 9:21; 43:34; Deut. 32:42; 1Sa 1:14; 2Sa 11:13; Ps. 23:5; 36:8; 65:9, 10; Pr 4:17; 23:31; Song 5:1; Is 7:20; 34:5, 7; 49:26; 55:10; Je 25:27; 31:13, 25; 46:10; 48:26; 51:7, 39, 57; La 3:15; 4:21; Ho 14:7; Nah 3:11; Hab 2:15. Wine (3631) (oinos) (Dictionary Article on wine) is the fermented drink common in the Ancient near east. The wine most commonly drunk in Paul’s day was either nonalcoholic or had very low alcohol content. Fermented juice was mixed with water (as much as 8 or 10 parts water to 1 part wine) to lessen its power to intoxicate, particularly when the weather was hot and much fluid was consumed. Because water was frequently contaminated, as in many third world countries, the slight alcohol content of common wine acted as a disinfectant and had certain other health benefits. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones - Drink is not a stimulus, it is a depressant. It depresses first and foremost the highest centers of all in the brain. They are the very first to be influenced and affected by drink. They control everything that gives a man self-control, wisdom, understanding, discrimination, judgment, balance, the power to assess everything; in other words everything that makes a man behave at his very best and highest. The better a man’s control, the better man he is.… But drink is something which immediately gets rid of control; that indeed is the first thing it does.
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Wuest writes that "Filled is pleroo, “to fill up, to cause to abound, to furnish or supply liberally, to flood, to diffuse throughout.” In Acts 6:15 we have Stephen, a man filled with faith and the Holy Spirit. Faith filled Stephen in the sense that it controlled him. The Holy Spirit filled Stephen in the sense that He controlled him. Therefore, the fullness of the Spirit has reference to His control over the believer yielded to Him. (Wuest's Word Studies from the Greek New Testament: Eerdmans) Adam