I have disappointed myself repeatedly and failed to live up to my own standards time and time again. Why? Because if I judge myself, in almost every area of life, I cannot truly say I have been faithful. The other word I mentioned as a source of guilt is the word, “faithful”.
The Louw-Nida lexicon module gives the definition, “pertaining to being holy in the sense of superior moral qualities and possessing certain essentially divine qualities in contrast with what is human – ‘holy, pure, divine’.” If this is what holy people are like, then this letter is not for me. What does “holy” mean anyway? Let’s look it up in BibleWorks. After all, I’m anything but holy, if “holy” means I’m perfect in all my ways like God is perfect in all His ways. So if I’m sitting in a Bible study and we read this verse, I immediately could be forgiven for thinking this might not include me. I see a potential source of guilt in two words, “saints” and “faithful”.Īs most people know, if they have been attending church for any significant amount of time, the word, “saints” means “holy ones” (Greek, hagios, a word that also means “holy” when used as an adjective). Right off the bat, if people read this wrongly, there could be a pretty serious pressure of guilt piling up. And in this first verse there is enough material to fill an evening of discussion.
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To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus…Ĭontinuing in my little series of posts showing how to prepare a Bible study in Ephesians featuring software from BibleWorks, the place to start is at the beginning. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,
Paul’s letter to the Ephesians opens with these words,
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BibleWorks is only available for Windows, but I installed it on my Mac by first installing Windows XP on VirtualBox and then installing BibleWorks via disc images transferred across my home wi-fi network (the MacBook Air has no cd/dvd drive). New for me, however, is that for the first time in my life I’m using a Mac computer (11″ MacBook Air and OS X Snow Leopard). I’ve talked about BibleWorks before, but let me just say again that it has no equal when it comes to serious study of the Bible in the original languages. These posts feature wonderful Bible software called BibleWorks (version 9), provided to me gratis by the nice people at BibleWorks. I still plan to do that, but today want to move forward with a look at Ephesians 1:1. In my first post in this series, I promised that I would be continuing a word-study on prognosis, following up on my findings shared previously.