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Melody In Our Hearts Elder John (Pat) Young

Ephesians 5:17-21, “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of
the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the
Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and

making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto
God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one
to another in the fear of God.”

First it must be understood, how this epistle of Paul, is first to the Ephesian Church,

but also to the faithful in Christ Jesus, and is therefore not limited to the Ephesian
Church, but also is addressed to the saints of God in all times and places, who call
upon Him by His Son Jesus Christ through His Spirit; hoping to receive every word

of this Epistle, as equal recipients with the Ephesian Church, an Epistle to all the
faithful in Christ Jesus everywhere, who walk together as the Church of Christ in this
same truth: A thorough instruction of the fundamental and essential doctrines of
Christ to all His saints who are found worshiping Him in truth. Here Paul expresses
the doctrines of the foreknowledge of God in the election of His people in Christ,

having predestinated them unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself,
according to the good pleasure of His will, making them as such who are accepted in
Him, as joint heirs having obtained a precious inheritance by the redemption, and

forgiveness of sins through His blood, according to the great riches of Eternal Grace.

Paul then speaks of the effectual calling of His elect by the Spirit of God, according
to the riches of of eternal salvation by His grace, teaching how the elect were all rec-
onciled to God by the death of His Son; how through Him we all have access by the

Spirit unto the Father. Paul further teaches us how we are no longer strangers and for-
eigners in the earth, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, but are blessed of the
Lord, and are builded together, an habitation of God through the Spirit.

It is of this same Spirit, and by this same truth the apostle Paul is teaching us, that
saints are led of God by His Spirit into a life and liberty in the gospel of Christ
through these truths; as ,how we ought by that same Spirit to believe, walk, live and
worship our Lord and Saviour according to this, and all truths which He has given

us!