Verse 15- 16
\nI) See then that ye walk circumspectly.
\nA) Circumspectly= cautiously, with watchfulness.
\n1) The tense being, be constantly taking heed.
\n2) 1 Peter 5: 8 Be sober, be vigilant, why?\u00a0 Because the devil is constantly lurking about for a chance to spring upon and devour you.
\nB)\u00a0 Not as fools, who are as the simple and pass on and are punished.
\nProverbs: 22: 3.
\nC) But as wise, who see the danger, though not necessarily the enemy and take precaution.\u00a0 Proverbs 22: 3.
\nII) Redeeming the time.
\nA) Redeeming= to buy up, to save from waste.
\nB) Time= not referring to hours and minutes, but seasons, opportunities.
\nEcclesiastes 3: 1-8 reminds us that to everything there is a time and season.
\n1) To a gardener, there is a time for preparing the soil and a time to plant.\u00a0 If he prepares to prepare the soil before the planting season, his crops do not mature and bring forth fruit in time to ripen before the growing season ends.
\n2) This same truth applies to men, there are times they appear to be more receptive to reproof than at other times.\u00a0 We must learn to know the seasons and always be prepared to \u201cgive an answer\u201d.\u00a0 1 Peter 3: 15.
\nJohn 9: 4 the night cometh when no man can work, so take advantage of chances to give men the gospel.
\nC) Days evil- in opposition to that which is good and righteous.
\n2 Timothy 3: 1-7.
\nVerse 17- 18
\nI) Wherefore be ye not unwise.\u00a0 This is a prohibition against something that is already in practice.\u00a0 Thus, stop being unwise and change the unwise practice.
\nII)\u00a0 But understanding what the will of the Lord is.
\nA) Already mentioned is separation from and reproof of evil people and practices.
\nB) Already mentioned is walking cautiously, with guarded steps.
\nC) The next has to do with drinking of alcoholic beverages.\u00a0 This is not just a prohibition against drunkenness. It is a warning against the dangers that lie also in the process of achieving that state.
\n1) The phrase wherein is excess is to be applied to the process as well as the state in which the process leads.
\n2) The word excess has in the idea of unsavedness, there is not a saving, redeeming virtue in either process or the state.
\nConsider Proverbs 23: 29-35, Look not (with desire) and
\nProverbs 20: 1. Wine and strong drink are deceptive, they hide the truth.
\nHow many men have you heard say \u201cI can quit any time I want\u201d yet their lives be destroyed by the very thing they claim they have mastery of.
\n3) Drunk- intoxicated to the point of control.\u00a0 It is the desire state that determines the process.\u00a0 Thus a drunkard follows a process of selling everything he has in order to by dink that will lead to drunkenness.
\nIII) But be filled with the Spirit.
\nA) Filled- saturated to the point that you cannot absorb any more.\u00a0 It has the same idea of control as drunk.
\nB) Spirit- the Holy Spirit of God. Ephesians 3: 19.
\nHow does this filling manifest itself?
\nVerse 19-21
\nI) Speaking to yourselves (as a Christian body).\u00a0 This is not a personal pep talk, it\u2019s how we are to communicate or joys of salvation with each other.
\nA) Psalms- religious words put to music.\u00a0 David\u2019s psalms are often addressed to the chief musician.
\nB) Hymns are words, not necessarily put to music.\u00a0 The root of this word is to hum, as you think about the words you often hum a tune to carry them along.
\nC) Spiritual songs refers to music in general, some songs that are not religious in nature may still have good moral lessons, many are folk lore and pass on history.\u00a0 These 3 divisions are not to be considered as separate but as one main thought.
\nD) Singing and making melody in your heart.\u00a0 The singing to one another springs from a song residing in the heart.\u00a0 It is not a performance, but an expression of something within.
\nThis is why we do not applaud when people sing, but say amen.\u00a0 We are not rewarding them for entertaining us well (as worldly performances) but something within us ought to agree and say \u201cAMEN\u201d.\u00a0 When these words are said the singer knows he\/ she has struck a familiar chord with the listener.<\/p>\n

This is one way we pass on our joys and praise to fellow believers
\nII) Giving thanks always, for all things.
\nA) Giving thanks- saying thank you, expressing gratitude.
\nB) All things is to be understood by the context of which it is given.
\n1) Note in this epistle there is no mention of trail and persecution, though we not it was present from history and the warning to walk circumspectly.
\n2) If not referring to the trials, then the reference would be to all the blessing of which he has spoken.\u00a0 Thus we are to give thanks for all the blessings that allow us to face the trials and still sing.
\nC) To God the Father, here is the source, provider of all the blessings.
\nD) In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, here is the securer of the blessings.
\nThe Father has a storehouse full of blessings, abundant to the needs of his children, Jesus Christ is the key to that storehouse, bring the proper key and you will find the door will always open to you. John 16: 23- 28.
\nIII) Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God
\nA) Submitting- is the idea of a military unit falling in ranks, gathering up in battle positions under the command of one head.\u00a0 It is a voluntary idea.
\nB) One another- is the idea of others first, see Philippians 2: 3.\u00a0 The main thrust being there is no room for self- exertion or self- promotion.\u00a0 It is a sweet reasonableness, easily to be entreated.
\nSee 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 and James 3: 17.
\nC) Fear of God- this is the realm.\u00a0 It is not a wholesale surrendering of all rights, but that which lies within the bounds of God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n

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