Ephesians 5:3
3 But [kai] fornication, [porneia] and [de] all [pas] uncleanness, [akatharsia]
or [e] covetousness, [pleonexia] let it [onomazo] not be
once [mede] named [onomazo] among [en] you, [humin] as [kathos] becometh [prepo] saints; [hagios] KJV-Interlinear
3 But
do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is
proper among saints; NASB
Fornication, ‘porneia,’
certainly means illicit sex outside of the bonds of marriage, but the word represents
more than just sexual perversion. It represents
the indulgence of unlawful lusts, spiritually unlawful lusts that is. It refers to the practice of idolatry in
general which is the pursuit of anything that equates with evil. Therefore, anything pursued that is against
Gods will, is the act of fornication with that non-spiritual act, thought,
intent and so forth.
Cheating on God, by indifference
toward God or truth, is fornication with the carnal or non-spiritual life. It is the act of harlotry or the interaction
with that which is wicked. It is the
pursuit of gain by means of wicked or unacceptable activity. The method is evil and the gain is evil.
Uncleanness, ‘akatharsia,’
refers to all manner of impurity. The spiritual
life is the pure life, wherein the individual confesses his or her sins and
thus is placed by God in a position of fellowship and becomes pure, spiritually
speaking. When a person commits a sin or
some indiscretion of any sort and becomes out of fellowship, then they become impure.
All unbelievers are impure by
definition. All believers who do not
comply with Gods mandate to confess, are likewise impure as they live in the
carnal sphere rather than the spiritual sphere of fellowship.
Therefore, uncleanness
applies to all people who sin and live within that sin nature sphere. And, are thus separated from the purity that
Gods intends.
Greed, ‘pleonexia,’
refers to the practice of avarice which covers all manner of materialism, lust
activities, desires, intents, and so forth.
This covers all ongoing and habitual practices of the individual in
their daily life, and thus is their pattern of life by which they live.
In other words, you are
mandated to live in fellowship and function within the spiritual sphere, and
are to avoid and not function and live in the carnal state of life.
Remember that the sin
nature has two areas of function – human good is its area of strength, and sin
is its area of weakness. The sin nature operates in a broad spectrum from lasciviousness
to asceticism.
When you are out of
fellowship, all that you think, say and do, is tantamount to the promotion of
evil. You receive no spiritual benefit
even from spiritual activities which you do while out of fellowship.
You can only benefit from
spiritual activity, while in fellowship.
The spiritual life functions in the state of fellowship, which is the
state of purity, which is the state of holiness, which is the state of
separation from sin.
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