This message and the message from last week
are both titled the same, Walking with God. And when I posted it
on the internet, I put part one and this will be part two. And it's simply an exhortation
of Ephesians chapter five. So I invite you this morning
to turn with me back to Ephesians 5. I want to talk to you this morning
about the believer's attitude, his attitude, and the believer's
conduct in this world. We covered these last 17 verses
of the chapter in the first message that I brought. And when we're talking about
the believer's walk, it's mentioned in all Paul's epistles, every
one of them. It's mentioned in Peter's epistles. It's mentioned in John's epistle. And it sits before the church
as a vital part of faith, the believer's walk. He walks with God. When you go
down the roll call there in Hebrews chapter 11 and it gets down to
Enoch, it says Enoch walked with God and then he was not. But he left his testimony. He
pleased God. But without faith, it's impossible
to please God. Enoch walked with God and he
walked by faith, so what am I saying? I'm saying if you have faith,
you'll have the fruit of the Holy Spirit which will enable
you to walk with God. There are no disciples of Christ
who didn't walk with him, they all walked with him. And I may not get through every
verse of this chapter, but I hope to sum up what they teach us
in the Believer's Walk, this walk, these things which constitute
our walk. And there's three things here
stated. Now you can write these down
if you're taking some notes or try to memorize these three things,
because where these three things are, the believer will walk with
God. And the first thing is this.
Now you remember the last thing he told us up here in verse 17.
Don't walk like a fool. Walk wise, knowing what the will
of God is. And so these three things begin
with this, obedience. Obedience, it's required. Obedience. And the second thing
is authority. I need to understand something
about God's authority and the authority, all his delegated
authority. I need to understand that if
I'm to walk as a wise believer and walk with God and not walk
as a fool. I need to understand something
about this obedience that's required of me. Let this mind be in you, which
was also in Christ Jesus. What did he do? He become obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross. Obedient is crucial
in this thing of walking with God. And then the second thing
is authority. Authority. And the third, and
probably the most valuable of all, is love. obedience, authority,
and love. And these three are the heart
and soul of our walk with God, and they must be understood if
we're to walk, he uses this word up there, and I dealt with this
last week, circumspectly. That is, being aware of what's
going on around you, being aware. I must have some understanding
of these things. obedience, authority, and love. So let's begin here in verse
18, and we'll work our way down through the chapter. He tells
us in verse 18, and be not drunk with wine wherein is excess. Our business was on a little
road up in Lexington, Kentucky, and where we put our cabinet
shop, that was a pretty rough area town and it was nothing
to go over there, you had to kick the wine bottles out of
the way to get in the building. This is where all the drunks
went. And they'd sit along through there and they'd drink that wine
until they just couldn't even sit up, and there was like a
halfway house just a little bit down, but they never, they stayed
down there, but they never got back once they got their wine.
They just pass out in the grass or whatever and drop their bottles
down there in his old cheap wine. And he's telling us here about
excess. He's not saying here, the Bible
doesn't teach this teetotaling stuff that religion talks about
all the time. Our Lord actually, in one of
His miracles, He turned water into wine. He's not opposed to
men drinking wine, and it just offends me terribly when some
religious nuts start telling me that what they had there in
the Lord's table was grape juice. It wasn't grape juice, it was
wine. It was wine. And you can't picture what this
is supposed to picture unless you use wine. You're not picturing
anything with grape juice except your self-righteousness and your
ignorance. So drunkenness, let me be clear
here on this thing of drunkenness. He's talking about excess. He's talking about getting to
that place where you can't talk clear. He's talking about getting
to that place where you can't think, you can't reason. All
the inhibitions of the flesh are taken away. The inhibitions
of your mind and reasoning, it's been set aside. And you do things
that normally you wouldn't do. That's what he's talking about
here, excess. Be not drunk with wine wherein
is excess, but be filled with the Spirit. And drunkenness,
as I've defined it to you, drunkenness is strictly forbidden in the
scriptures. It speaks clearly about it in
the scripture. You know, we're okay when the
scriptures talk about adultery, unless we're guilty, and then
we might try to defend it. But normally we're okay with
that. Scripture says that, and boy,
we're down on it. We're ready to get on the soapbox. And then
idolatry, boy, we're all over that. But it gets in these, and
I'm not gonna call them lesser because they're not lesser except
in our own minds, but it gets on these lesser issues and then
we won't, that's when we start bucking a little bit, isn't it?
But scripture's clear, clear on these issues of drunkenness.
And wine is singled out here, not because wine is some special
drink, but because wine was the usual liquor that they served
in those eastern countries. And he's not forbidding the drinking
of wine, only drinking it to an excess. What happens when
a person drinks to excess? Well, it deprives a man of his
ability to reason. You can't reason with a drunk. I had two brothers, and I grew
up with them, and I loved them, both of them. But they were drunks.
And when they were drunk, you couldn't talk to them. Just couldn't
talk to them. And after a while, I refused
to talk to them. I waited until I got sobered up, and then I'd
go down and talk to them. It takes away your ability
to reason. You can't think clearly. Excessive drinking brings disease
to the body. Takes a while. Takes a while.
It don't happen overnight. but brings disease to the body.
And excessive drinking opens the door to every kind of sin. And I say that because it strips
a man of his inhibitions. It strips a man of those everyday
things that restrain him. It strips him of those things.
And he becomes vulnerable. Excessive drinking usually winds
up wasting possessions. And it always obligates others
to fulfill your obligations. I don't know how many times my
brothers have put their obligations off on my mom and dad or even
me. And we loved them and we'd do it, but it didn't make what
they did right. And I'm just trying to point
out some things to you. And it either knowingly or unknowingly
is a trespass of the law. But more than anything, it flies
boldly into the face of God and his holy scriptures and his commandment
to us to restrain from it. When he says, be not drunk, that's
what he means. He don't mean something else,
he means that. Be not drunk with wine wherein
is excess. And so, before you come to me
trying to explain it, there's no way you can justify drunkenness
in the Word of God. And that's what we have to follow,
isn't it? We follow the Word of God. He tells us this, when we profess faith and yet
we still persist in our old conduct and habits, and the Lord strictly,
He forbids this, He says, have no fellowship with the unfruitful
works of darkness. but rather reprove them. So that means I'm gonna get me
a little platform and I'm gonna go over to Texarkana or I'm gonna
go over to Shreveport and I'm gonna get up on my soapbox and
I'm gonna start preaching against drones. No, that's not what that
means. What that means is by your behavior
as a child of God, being restrained from these things,
then you set an example to those who are not. Now that's what
that's talking about. Reprove them. For it's a shame
even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
In 1 Corinthians chapter six, we're plainly told that men and
women who practice these things and continue on in these things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Not talking about people
who were guilty of it. He's not talking about people
who occasionally are drawn into it. He's talking about people
who persist in it. Who persist in it. Well, what
things? Well, here's the list. Fornications. Idolatry. Adultery. Effeminate. Abusers of themselves
with mankind. Covetousness, are you listening? Drunkards. Revilers or extortioners. Now listen to this. And such
were some of you, but you're washed. You're washed. You're sanctified and you're
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the
spirit of our God. Though be not drunk with wine wherein there's
excess, but be filled with the Spirit. Now, let's get into that
a little bit. How does a man fill himself with
the Spirit? You ever think about that? Be
filled with the Spirit. How in the world? Can a fallen
man be filled with the Spirit of God? How's he gonna do that?
He must be able to do it because he tells him to. But how? How can a man be filled with
the Spirit? I'll tell you how. By receiving
the things of the Spirit of God. What things? Well, I receive
a new birth from him, don't I? I receive a new birth from him. What else do I do? I'm enabled
to worship God. We are the circumcision which
worship God. How do we do that? In the spirit.
Isn't that what he says? We worship God. The Holy Spirit's work in this
world is to take the things of Christ and show them unto us.
And we're actually commanded to forsake not the
assembling of ourselves together. That's another way. When we come
together to worship, if our heart is right with God,
we're going to be filled with the Spirit. That's the whole
point of it. We come together and we take the Word of God,
which is inspired by the Spirit of God, and we take the work
of Christ, who had the Spirit without measure. And by the Spirit
of God, He takes these things and reveals them to us. He takes
these hidden mysteries. Eye has not seen or ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of man. Not men, man, mankind. the things that God has prepared
for them that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto
us by His Spirit. And He don't just reveal them
to us, He reveals them in us. Isn't that what Paul said? He
revealed His Son in me that I might be able to preach Him among the
heathen. Christ in you, the hope of glory. And we come together to worship
God and to hear the preaching of the gospel. And as we hear,
we learn, and we grow, and we mature, and we're filled with
the Spirit of God. And then what else? The Word
of God. Now, my friend, whether you get
anything out of it or not, you need to read the Word of God.
Get familiar with the Word of God. Don't sit back there and
say, boy, that preacher, he just quotes the Word. How do you know?
You never read it. I might be quoting from Frank
or somebody. Get familiar with the word of
God so you know when I'm talking to you. Yep, that's right, I
read that. I read that. That's over in 2 Thessalonians
2, 13. God hath from the beginning chosen us to salvation. Yep,
that's the word of God. I read that, I know where that's
at. The Lord is my shepherd. Over in Psalm 23, yep, I read
that. I know where, read the word of
God. I know you're not gonna go over
there in Habakkuk or Obadiah or somewhere and you read this
thing and you come out and you just, what in the world's he
talking about? It's okay, it's okay. Get familiar
with it. Because in time, God's gonna
tell you what he said and what he meant. Meantime, get familiar
with it. Read it, read it. Rejoice where
you can. But read it, get familiar with
it. The Spirit of God inspired the
Word of God, and he so inspired the Word of God that it's profitable.
When? All the time. All the time. It's profitable. What's it profitable
for? Faith, repentance, exaltation, correction, instruction,
and righteousness. It's profitable. It's profitable. And then I'll tell you this,
if you get familiar with the word of God, it's different than
a preacher telling you something. If you can say in your heart,
God said that. Yeah, he said it, but God said
it. God said it. And I know he's saying the same
thing. It means very little if I say it, if you don't see that
God said it. Not gonna have any effect on you at all. Be filled with the Spirit. How
you gonna do that? Be filled with the word of God. You know how he said we're born?
We're born of incorruptible seed by the word of God. And that
word is preached to you through the gospel. That's the seed. That's the seed. That's what
produces Christians. You know what the very next thing
he says after 1 Peter 1.25? You know, he gets down to that
next thing. You know what he said? As newborn babes. That's what he said. You're born
again of the Word. Now, as newborn babes, having
been born of the gospel seed as the Word was preached unto
you, desire the sincere milk of the Word. The Word. Let God be true in every man
and liar. How else we gonna be filled with
the Spirit? Prayer. Prayer. Listen to this. He tells us this
over in Romans chapter eight. He said, likewise, the Spirit
helpeth our infirmities. What's he talking about? We don't
know what to pray for. You ever do that? You go in your
closet and you start praying and you're thinking the whole
while, I don't even know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking
about. This is coming out all mechanical
and it's not coming from my heart and I don't know how to pray
about it. My wife's dying of cancer. Do
I ask God to save her? Or do I ask God to take her? We don't know how to pray. That's
just the truth of it. We don't know how to pray. But
the Spirit of God helpeth our infirmities. He helps our infirmities. We
don't know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself
maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
He works in the heart. He works in the heart. Romans 8, 27, and he that searcheth
the hearts, he knows what's the mind of the
spirit. He knows. Because he maketh intercession
for the saints according to the will of God. Now we're right
back up there to verse 17 again. walk as wise knowing the will
of God. Somebody said this years ago,
prayer is the breath of the believer. Here's this old idolater and
persecutor of the church, old Saul of Tarsus. And somebody
came up to one of the apostles and they said, behold, he prayeth. He prayeth. He didn't say behold,
he's alive from the dead. He said behold, he prayeth. He's
breathing. He's breathing. And there cannot be a walk with
God without this filling. The Holy Spirit must fill us. We must take advantage of the
means of the Spirit and the means of the filling. I don't have
any power over who the Holy Spirit is going to quicken and who He's
not. I don't know if He will or not. But once he does his work in
the heart, then there's means involved. Spiritual means. Means according to the will of
God. And there just cannot be a walk with God without this
feeling. Let me read you a few passages
here from Romans chapter 8 before we move on. In Romans 8.8, he
said, So then, they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
I don't care what you do. I don't care how you dress. I don't care what, you can't
please God in the flesh. You have to be born of God. But, he said, you're not in the
flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the spirit of God
dwell in you. Now, if any man had not the spirit
of Christ, he's none of his. He's not gonna be able to produce
any fruit. He's not gonna be able to do anything. Because
the fruit is the fruit of the Spirit. But if Christ be in you, the
body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is alive because
of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised
up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies
by His Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we're
debtors not to the flesh to live after the flesh. If you live
after the flesh, you're gonna die. But if you through the Spirit
do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. If we'd walk with
the Lord, we must be led by the Spirit. If we'd be led by the
Spirit, we must be filled with the Spirit. And if we would be
filled with the Spirit, we must be partakers of the things of
the Spirit. In 1 Corinthians chapter two
and verse 14, after saying all that he said about the preaching
of the gospel and his great mysteries and the revelation of the spirit,
and that he didn't preach according to the spirit of this world,
but the spirit which is of God. Then he gets down to verse 14
and he said, but the natural man receiveth not the things
of the spirit of God. Why? Why would he not receive
the Word of God? Why would he not receive God's
messenger? Why would he not receive the
things of the Spirit of God? Well, he tells you. They're foolishness
unto him. You mean you really believe I
gotta go down there and assemble with those people to in order
for the Spirit of God to work in me, for me to be matured,
for me to learn, for my faith to grow? Yep. Ha! That's foolishness. It is to
the natural man. It is to him. And I could go
on and on and on, giving you examples of that very thing. Are you with me so far? All right,
let's look at verse 19 through 21 of Ephesians chapter 5. You're
gonna be filled with the Spirit. What's gonna happen then? Well,
you're gonna speak to yourselves in psalms, in hymns, in spiritual
songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. When God fills our hearts with
the Spirit of His Son, it's like a well of water. Isn't that what
Christ told us? It's a well of water springing
up within you. It starts bubbling up. You can't suppress it. You can't
hold it down. When God fills the heart, it
just bubbles up. It's going to come out, ain't
it? Sure it is. You're going to speak to yourselves
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. You're going to sing,
make a melody in your heart to the Lord. Listen to this over in Colossians
3 verse 16. Let the word of Christ dwell
in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one
another in psalms, and hymns and spiritual songs singing with
grace in your hearts to the Lord. As drunkenness takes away the
restraint and causes the excess of sin to rise up in the man,
so to be filled with the Spirit causes that excess of grace to
rise up and enables him to worship and make music in his heart to
the Lord. It bubbles up from within. And then look at this, verse
20. We're still talking about walking with the Lord. Giving thanks always for all
things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ. How thankful the believer He
is. I'm not gonna say that he ought
to be because he is. He is. There may be other things
come in and from time to time kind of blind him to it, but
he's thankful. You don't think he's thankful?
Try to take it away from him. Try to take the gospel away from
a believer. You ain't getting it. You ain't getting it. You remember Jacob wrestled with
the Lord? He wouldn't turn him loose. You ain't getting it back. No.
You don't think he's thankful? Try to take it away from him. Strip him of everything else
and see what he says. Oh, he's thankful. He's still
thankful. Even The believer's complaints
will eventually be turned to thanksgiving, seeing them as
the Lord works them in God's eternal purpose for his good,
for that believer's good and for God's glory. What have we gotten that we haven't
received? Somebody know something? Nobody
else seems to know, but you know it. Where'd you get it? Where'd
you get it? Boy, that guy sure is smart.
No, no, the Lord gave it to him. What have you gotten that you
haven't received? And if you received it, why do you act like
you didn't? Why is it everything we do evil,
the devil made us do it? And then when God gives us something,
well, I did that. Huh? giving thanks always and for
all things. Our Lord was come into the flesh
and it said never a man spake like this man. He's the greatest
preacher ever to walk the earth. This is God and man in one person. Never a man spake like this man.
The dead heard his voice and lived. But he preached in Chorazin and
Bethsaida and Capernaum and hardly anything came out of it. Now that, we won't try to evaluate
preachers by what happens. That ain't all he is. Sometimes
nothing visible happens, but something happens in the heart
of the people listening to him. And our Lord preached in Chorazin
and Bethsaida. He preached in Capernaum. He
preached in these places. And nothing happened. Except
that a few sick folk were healed. And the Lord went to pray. You know what He did? He said,
I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because
You've hid these things from the wise and proven. and reveal
them on the back. Boy, we wouldn't have thanked
God for it. We've been looking ourself up
and down and everything else, wondering what I did wrong, wondering
what I said wrong, wondering what I... No, thank God, thank
God. You see, when his gospel's preached,
his purpose is accomplished. My word's not gonna return unto
me void. It goes out, it's gonna accomplish
its work. It may just be to warn you Or it may be the last word,
it might be a word of judgment, it might be the last word you
ever hear. Do you wake up and face God in judgment? I don't
know. But I'm to give thanks always
and listen to this and for all things. My house burns down,
whew. Lost it all, all them heirlooms,
all them pictures, all that. You gonna be able to thank God?
You can if you know who's running his Providence, and you know
why he's running it, you can. Might not do it that instant,
but you will. You will. I thank the old Lord. Give thanks always and for all
things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus.
Now watch this, verse 21. Submitting yourselves one to
another in the fear of God. I began this lesson by telling
you about three things. Obedience, authority, and love. And obedience is one of the first
fruits of the Spirit. He told those folks, those Thessalonians,
he said, I know your election of God. Our gospel came to you
in power, it came in the Holy Ghost, and you become followers
of us in the Lord. You become obedient. You become
obedient. And a sure evidence of our election
through the coming of the gospel is our obedience. He tells us that this is an evidence. Our new birth is evidenced by
this obedience. He tells us in Romans 3, one
of the evidences of our being under sin or being a depraved
sinner is that there is no fear of God before our eyes. And then
he tells us this evidence of the new man. is the fear of God. He said the fear of God is the
beginning of all wisdom. So here's this new man born God
and he fears God. God is the supreme authority
and he has delegated that authority to his son who now sits at his
right hand. And before this thing is over,
God's gonna show that his son is the blessed and only potentate
King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Every knee's gonna bow and every
tongue's gonna confess that he's Lord to the glory of God. I don't
care if it's a devil in hell, he's gonna confess. He's gonna
bow down and confess it. And those who know him, fear
him. and they obey him, and they understand
something about his authority. And it's a reverential fear.
It's a fear born of love and respect. And he's the supreme
authority, and all his delegated authority bears his name. Let
every soul be subject unto the higher powers. Now listen to
this, because there is no power but of God. He's the authority. powers that be are ordained of
God. Whosoever therefore resisteth
the power resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist shall receive
to themselves damnation. He tells us therefore we must
need to be subject not only for the sake of wrath but also for
conscience sake. You ought to walk with God with
a clear conscience. Obey his authority. Bow to his
authority. and then we're comforted in this. You say, how can you get comforted
in authority? Well listen to this. We are in him dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily and you are complete in him,
now listen, who is the head of all principality and power. You
find comfort in that? Boy, I do. You mean he's orchestrating all
this power down here? Yeah. That's exactly what I mean. There
is no power but of God. And there is a supreme authority
behind all power. And we're comforted in that power
when it's working together for our good. In John 17, in verse
2, Let me show you this delegated
authority again. As thou hast given him power,
talking about Christ, over all flesh, that he should give eternal
life to as many as thou hast given him. All power, he told
his disciples, He's stepping up on this cloud and the angel's
gonna receive him up into glory. And he looked back there at his
disciples and he said, all power is given unto me in heaven and
earth. Now you go preach. Well, they're not gonna submit
to me. Yeah, they will. Yeah, they will. Because all power has been given
unto me. And when they see that authority,
that delegated authority in you, they're gonna submit to you.
And so he tells us, submit to one another. Submit yourself. Don't try to be, I don't know,
up here looking down your nose. Just get down here on the same
level. Grace is the great leveler. Brings us all down on the same
level. And then he tells us this. He
starts giving us some examples. Why submit yourselves unto your
own husbands. Don't miss this. As unto the
Lord. That is realizing that his authority
and his station is of the Lord. And for your good. In Colossians
3.18, he said, wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands
as it is fit in the Lord. And then in Titus 2.5, they're
told to be obedient to their own husbands, that the word of
God be not blasphemed. This is God's delegated authority. And there's nothing that I've
ever read concerning a wife's obedience to her husband Because
he deserves it. He don't. Ever. He don't deserve it. But it says
be obedient as unto the Lord. You wanna please him? Be obedient
to your husband. Recognize him as God delegated
authority over you, his station higher than yours. Why? According
to the purpose of God. according to the ordinance of
God. You're not obedient to Him because He deserves it, because
He ain't ever gonna deserve it. But do it out of love for Christ
and respect to God and His Word. And then the husband, he tells
us in verse 23, is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the
head of the church. How is Christ the head of the
church? Responsibly. Huh? Who took the blame for all
your sins? Christ did. He was responsible for us. So, the husband's the head of
the wife, first of all, responsibly. He's responsible for her. Representatively. Don't dismiss your wife. You
might be the very means by which she's converted. Just be patient. Be patient. And authoritatively, he's the
savior of the body. He's the protector. He's the
defender. Therefore, as the church is subject
unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in certain
things. That ain't what it says. says
in everything, in everything. All right, that's enough about
the wives. We've crippled them pretty good. Husbands, love your
wives as Christ loved the church. I'm gonna be as honest with you
as I can. When I read this, I just want
to crawl in a hole. I've never even began to ascend
up that mountain of love that he had for his church from my
wife. I cared for her. I missed her. But I didn't love her as Christ
loved the church. He's talking about a responsibility.
Men take that thing and dismiss it like it don't mean anything.
Oh, how Christ loved His church. Even while we were yet sinners.
Even while we were enemies. Even in our rebellion and spiritual
adultery. You ever read the book of Hosea?
God said, Hosea, go out here and marry a harp. What? Go out here and marry a harp. because that harlot represents
my people. That's what they are, the harlots. And Hosea did, and Hosea loved
her. He loved her. Oh, God, he loved her. And here she is, she's sleeping
with everybody in town. And she comes outside her door
the next day and there's some oil and wine and bread. Boy,
that guy was just sweet, he's so sweet. That wasn't that guy. Even while you were yet enemies,
he loved you. He loved you. And he put the
corn and the wine and the bread. Even while you were kicking and
rebelling and Pulling away and jerking the shoulder and all
the things that the scripture talks about the rebel doing.
Even while you're doing that, he loved you. He loved you. And his provenient grace was
providing for you every day. Every day. But you didn't know
it. And finally, when you just wore out, you're unlovable now. You got older. And you look bad,
and you're poor, and now you're being sold into slavery, and
they got you tied up down there on the auction block, and nobody
even wants you. And who buys you? Your husband. Your husband. Why? Because he
loved her. The Lord loved us. and gave himself
for her. You want to love your wife? Give
yourself for her. I'm going to tell you something.
When you give yourself, everything else goes with it. It won't be
a problem. Just give yourself. I'm not told to love her when
she deserves it. She never will. Never will. It's no different than a man.
but to love her as Christ loved the church and gave himself for
it. Love is that upon which the whole
law hangs. Where there is no love, where
love is not the supreme motive, there can be no walking with
God. I can't find a clear definition
for this, but I'm confident that it's true. A woman's love is
born of her husband's love for her. Where'd you come up with that?
I'm gonna show you. First John chapter four, verse
19. We love him because he first loved us. Huh? Your love for Christ was born
of his love for you. And I believe that's the way
it is. The man and the woman sit here as a picture of that,
and I believe that's exactly how it is. Her love for you is
born of your love for her. Verse 28, so ought men to love
their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth
himself. These things are a great mystery.
Paul said, but he said, I speak concerning Christ in the church.
Obedience, the fruit of the Spirit, authority, the Lord our husband,
love, the effect of spiritual wisdom. Christ is our wisdom. Of God are you in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom. Wisdom. How we gonna know how
to walk? Study Christ. You won't have
no problem. As you have received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk ye in him. Oh my. That's right. This is the spring we draw from. Christ. Christ in you. The hope
of glory. I hope this has been some benefit
to you. Thank you.