Bible Study - Ephesians Chapter 5

Three topics are handled in the first chapter. Walk in Love: (v1-6); Walk in Light: (v7-16); Walk in Wisdom: (v17-24) & Marriage - Christ & Church:(v25-32). The follwing are the questions for discussion from this chapter.

• Walk in Love: (v1-6)
• whom are we asked to imitate? Why? (v1)
• How are we asked to walk? How do we walk like that? How does god feel about it? (v2)
• What are we not supposed to do? (v3) Why?
• Foolish talking and corase jesting are mentioned in V4 among the things to forske. Why?
• 'Deception with empty words' - What comes to your mind? What can we do about it? (v6)
• Walk in Light: (v7-16)
• Why should we walk as children of Light? (v8-9)
• How can we find what is acceptable to the Lord? (v10)
• Have ' no fellowship with darkness, but expose them'- How is this in practice? (v11-13)
• How can we walk circumspectly? (v15)
• Walk in Wisdom: (v17-24)
• How can we understand the will of God? (v17)
• Why should we be drunk? (v18)
• What are we exhorted to do instead of drunkdness? (v18)
• How can this be practiced? (v19-20)
• Why is it said 'submitting to one another'? What would it imply? (v21)
• What is the instruction for the wives? Under what pretext is it given? (v22-23)
• Marriage - Christ & Church: (v25-32)
• What is the instruction for husbands? Under what pretext is it given? (v25, 28-29)
• What is the outcome of Christ's sacrifice? (v26-27)
• What does the word 'submission' brings to your mind? Do you find it a difficult life-style?
• Why is Christ 'head of the body' the Church?
• What does 'not having spot/wrinkle' to do with the Church?
• What does 'members of His Body - of His flesh & of His bones' in V30 mean to us?
• How is one flesh applicable in marriage?
• There is generelisation & specification in v33. Explain.

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