Disjunctive conjunction

1. Disjunctive-conjunction
“but”
Ephesians is one of Paul’s ‘Prison epistles’:
The book is written after Galatians and Romans (62 A.D.) during
his first imprisonment at Rome. (The other ‘prison epistles are-
Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon) The background of the
church at Ephesus and Paul’s imprisonment is found in Acts 18-
21.
Paul’s epistles go to seven churches (Rome, Corinth, Galatia,
Ephesus, Philippi, Colossi, and Thessalonica) just as John wrote
to seven churches in Revelation (Rev. 1:11). The church they
have in common is Ephesus.
A conjunction is a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence:
And, But, Or, Nor, For, So, Yet.
2Cor 5
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciledus to himself by Jesus
Christ, and hath given to us the ministryof reconciliation;
Citizenship
Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, BUT
fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the householdof God;
Rom 1

2. 1 Paul, a servantof Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the
gospel of God,
2Cor 6
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
1Pet 2
11 Dearlybeloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from
fleshlylusts, which war against the soul;
Communication
Eph 4:29 Let no corruptcommunication proceedout of your mouth, BUT
that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto
the hearers.
Col 3
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
communication out of your mouth.
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his
deeds;
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after
the image of him that createdhim:
Jas 3
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold,
how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our
members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of
nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in
the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

3. 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unrulyevil, full of deadly
poison.
Condemnation
Eph 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,
BUT rather reprove them.
Amos 3
3 Can two walktogether, except they be agreed?
Paul says to “reprove them.” This does not appear to be a command to reprove
“the works,” but to reprove the people that commit the sins. A preacher has a
responsibility to reprove people that walk in darkness, and to preach to his flock
about them. In other words, a preachershould preach about certain subjects
(and people) to “warn” his own people. But the next verse (v. 12) tells us that
a preachershould not go into details about the darkness. He should not
describe sinful behaviour so much that he himself commits a sin.
Mark them Rom16:17
Try them 1John4:1
Judge them Mat7:15-16
Expose them Eph5:11
Separate from them 2Cor6:17
Avoid them Rom16:17
Turn away from them 2Tim3:5
Withdraw from them 2Thes3:6
Do not receive them into your house 2John1:10
Consumption
Eph 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; BUT be filledwith
the Spirit;
*Some people read the verse to say, “Be not drunk with wine IN EXCESS (or very
much).” The verse does not say that. The verse says, “…wine, wherein is
excess.” In other words, there is excess in the wine. The wine that a man takes

4. into his body calls out for MORE wine or excessive amounts of liquor. It is
addictive.
John 6
63 It is the spiritthat quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that
I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Changed walk
Gal 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of
the flesh.
1Thess 4:1-3 1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort
you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have receivedof us how ye ought to walk
and to please God, so ye would aboundmore and more.
2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain
from fornication:
Eph 5:15-17 15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as
wise,
16 Redeemingthe time, because the days are evil.
Changed understanding
17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the
Lord is.
Eph 1
18 The eyes of your understanding beingenlightened; that ye may know
what is the hope of his calling, andwhat the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints,

5. Changed speach
Col 4:3-6 3 Withal prayingalso for us, that God wouldopen unto us a
door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in
bonds:
4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
6 Let your speech be alwaywith grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may
know how ye ought to answer every man.
Result of filling of H.G.
Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they
were assembledtogether; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,
and they spake the word of God with boldness.
Eph 6:17-19 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Prayingalways with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and
watchingthereuntowith all perseverance andsupplication for all saints;
19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my
mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
1Cor 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all
things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an
incorruptible.
Clarity
Eph 5:32 This is a great mystery: BUT I speak concerning Christ and the
church.

6. 2Cor 3
12 Seeingthen that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
2Cor 11
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpentbeguiled Eve through his
subtilty, so your minds shouldbe corrupted from the simplicitythat is in
Christ.
1Cor 1
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the
flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confoundthe
wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the
things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God
chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
Phil 3
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have sufferedthe loss of all
things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not havingmine own righteousness, which is of the
law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is
of God by faith: