Danger of Matthew 25:1-13 If You Misapply Ephesians 5:18

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Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; KJV

This is an exhortation to be sober as in be filled with the Holy Spirit, rather than getting drunk with wine.

Those who misapply Ephesians 5:18 either by principle or/and by seeking a phenomenon of that sensation of a "continual filling" of the Holy Spirit, are in danger of identifying with the foolish out at the market seeking to be filled with extra oil, hence the Holy Ghost, when they ARE the kingdom of Heaven as the wise are, but at risk of being denied by the Bridegroom for when He comes in Matthew 25:1-13 .

Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

The work of iniquity is seeking to be filled with that Holy Ghost when they ought to know that they have been filled for how they are in that kingdom of Heaven. That work of iniquity is denying Him for why the Bridegroom does not know them, but although they missed out on the Marriage Supper, they are still in that Kingdom of Heaven.

Below are the truth in scripture for how misapplying Ephesians 5:18 to mean otherwise as if promoting believers to seek a continual filling of the Spirit is actually a work that denies Him.

Matthew 9:17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

That means after salvation, we are not leaky vessels needing a continual filling of the Holy Spirit.

John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

That means after salvation, we would never hunger nor thirst to be filled again.

More scriptures for reproof for misapplying Ephesians 5:18

 

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Luke 11:9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?

13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

That means after knocking at the door of Jesus Christ in receiving that promise of the Holy Spirit, we would never ask the Father again for the Holy Spirit unless that makes Him look evil as if He did not give us the Holy Spirit the first time as promised by faith in Jesus Christ.

So don't continue to misapply Ephesians 5:18 to promote believers to seek a continual filling of the Holy Spirit when the Holy Spirit has been in us since salvation as promised by the Father by faith in Jesus Christ.

 

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Colossians 2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:

7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

That means there can be no more filling of the Holy Spirit to be had as if we are not complete in Christ. See how misapplying Ephesians 5:18 as if believers are to seek a continual filling of the Holy Spirit denies us as complete in Christ?

So that is another way for how that can become a work of iniquity that denies Him when we are complete in Christ.

 

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Ephesians 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

See how misapplying Ephesians 5:18 as if saved believers need to seek a continual filling of the Holy Spirit when the reality of Christ in us filleth us all and thus by practice or belief, becomes a work that denies Him & that Truth in us?

 

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2 Corinthians 11:1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Reprobates means disqualified and so you may see with His help how that false witness of misapplying Ephesians 5:18 can disqualify a saved believer from attending the Marriage Supper in Heaven when Jesus Christ has been in us since salvation that there is no receiving Him again, let alone "another filling of the Holy Spirit".

 

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Ephesians 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

There is a book out teaching falsely, that there are 3 baptisms with the Holy Ghost, when there is only one baptism with the Holy Ghost as the one hope of our calling in Jesus Christ,

And so there is no receiving the Holy spirit again, let alone another filling of the Holy Spirit when the new reality in Christ Jesus is the Father is in us all .... always as Jesus Christ is.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

 

[Scarlett O.]

The patience of the moderators is running very thin. I am closing this thread and do not start yet another one on Ephesians 5:18. And do not tag me in a reported post.