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SALVATION Planned in Eternity, Displayed in Community Be Imitators of God Ephesians 5:1-14

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SALVATION Planned in Eternity, Displayed in Community Be Imitators of God Ephesians 5:1-14

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  1. SALVATIONPlanned in Eternity, Displayed in CommunityBe Imitators of GodEphesians 5:1-14

  2. Ephesians 5:1-14 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not become partners with them; for at one time you

  3. were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

  4. 3 Questions: 1. What does it mean to imitate God? To imitate God is to allow the manifestation of God in our lives. To imitate is not to “play God” but to conform self to God’s will. “imitate” mimētēs “imitator”

  5. 3 Questions: 1. What does it mean to imitate God? His attributes fall into 2 categories: > Non-Communicable– cannot imitate – they belong to God alone Omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence > Communicable – can imitate – Divine attributes that are to be manifested in our daily living.

  6. 3 Questions: 1. What does it mean to imitate God? Moral attributes: - Love (1 Jn 4:8) - Holiness (1 Pet 1:14-16) - Goodness [including Mercy, Grace] (v. 9) - Righteousness (Isa 45:19) - Jealousy - Wrath

  7. 3 Questions: 1. What does it mean to imitate God? 2.Why are we to be imitators of God? > Because we are commanded to imitate Him - “be” [Imperative] > Because we are His beloved children [Indicative] “children” (tekna) those born from Him. Eph 1:5 “In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will”

  8. 3 Questions: 1. What does it mean to imitate God? 2.Why are we to be imitators of God? > Because we are commanded to imitate Him > Because we are His beloved children * It is not law that drives or motivates us to be like God. It is His love for us that draws us to be like our Heavenly Father. We obey because we are loved; we are not loved because we obey. The love of our Father precedes and stimulates the obedience of his children.

  9. 3 Questions: 1. What does it mean to imitate God? 2.Why are we to be imitators of God? > Because we are commanded to imitate Him > Because we are His beloved children Eph 2:4 “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved”

  10. 3 Questions: 1. What does it mean to imitate God? 2.Why are we to be imitators of God? 3. How are we to imitate God? > God is love. (1 Jn 4:8) > Walk in love (5:1-2) > God is Holy. (1 Pet 1:16) > Walk in purity (5:3-7) > God is light. (1 Jn 1:5) > Walk in the light (5:8-14)

  11. 1. Walk In Love (5:1-2) 1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 1 John 4:8 “Anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love.”

  12. 1. Walk In Love (5:1-2) Paul has already said: > Our walk is to be a worthy walk (4:1; Col 1:10; 1 Thess 2:11-12) . >Our walk is to be different from the world (4:17) > Our walk is to be done with wisdom (5:15) > Now we are to walk in love (v. 2) and walk as children of light (v. 8).

  13. 1. Walk In Love (5:1-2) People push love but they don’t tell you what it is. They live in the realm of human love which is sentimental and self focused at best. God’s love is explained through the theology of the cross.

  14. 1. Walk in Love (5:1-2) “as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”(v. 2) 1 John 4:10 “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

  15. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) 3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. 4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. 5 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not become partners with them;

  16. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) Eph 1:4 “Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.”

  17. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) What are the sins that threaten our purity? Two realms of sins (vv. 3-4) > Sexual sins (v. 3) “sexual immorality”-- (porneia) prostitution, fornication “all impurity” – unrestrained sexual behavior “covetousness” – desire to have more – insatiable desires A person who is covetous is an “idolater.”

  18. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) What are the sins that threaten our purity? Two realms of sins (vv. 3-4) > Sexual sins (v. 3) Col 3:5-7 “Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.”

  19. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) What are the sins that threaten our purity? Two realms of sins (vv. 3-4) > Sexual sins (v. 3) > Sins of speech (v. 4; 4:29-31) Eph. 4:29 “Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there bethanksgiving.”

  20. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) How can we fight sin and stay pure? >Let there be thanksgiving (v. 4d) Romans 1:21 “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.”

  21. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) If fornication and impurity are driven by covetousness, and covetousness is a deep discontented craving that dominates your life and even leads you to go against the will of God, then it is clear that the opposite experience would be thanksgiving. If you are overflowing with thanksgiving to God, then you are not dominated and driven by discontentment at what you have been denied. . ..

  22. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) Dethroning God
In other words, the root problem about being driven by the domination of earthly desires is that it dethrones God. So when Paul puts gratitude in the place of covetousness, he is simply putting God in the place of man, and specifically he is putting God in the place of self. Gratitude is the opposite of covetousness because it enthrones God. Gratitude says that God is the satisfaction of all my longings. Covetousness says that God is not adequate as a satisfying treasure; I must have money or I must have sex—God will not suffice!
John Piper

  23. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) How can we fight sin and stay pure? >Let there be thanksgiving (v. 4d) > Starve impurity (5:3, 4, 12) 3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. 4b Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, 7a Therefore do not become partners with them; 12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.

  24. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) How can we fight sin and stay pure? >Let there be thanksgiving (v. 4d) > Starve impurity (5:3, 4, 12) 1 Cor 6:19“Flee sexual immorality” 1 Cor10:14“flee from idolatry.” 2 Tim 2:22“So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.”

  25. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) How can we fight sin and stay pure? >Let there be thanksgiving (v. 4d) > Starve impurity (5:3, 4, 12) > Remember your identity (1) We are His saints (1:1b) (hagioi) (1:15, 18; 2:19; 3:8, 18; 4:12; 5:3; 6:13) Eph. 1:1 “To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus.”

  26. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) > Remember your identity (1) We are His saints Eph 1:4 “Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.” 1 Pet 1:14-16 “As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.’”

  27. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) > Remember your identity (1) We are His saints (2) We are His church (ekklesia) “called out” (1:22; 3:10, 21; 5:23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 32)

  28. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) > Remember your identity (1) We are His saints (2) We are His church (3) We are His body (1:22-23; 2:16; 4:4, 12, 16; 5:23, 30)

  29. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) > Remember your identity (1) We are His saints (2) We are His church (3) We are His body (4) We are His temple (2:20-22; 4:12, 16) Eph 2:21-22In whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

  30. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) > Remember your identity (1) We are His saints (2) We are His church (3) We are His body (4) We are His temple (5) We are His children (5:1)

  31. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) > Remember your identity (1) We are His saints (2) We are His church (3) We are His body (4) We are His temple (5) We are His children (6) We are His bride (5:21-33)

  32. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) Eph 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

  33. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) How can we fight sin and stay pure? >Let there be thanksgiving (v. 4d) > Starve impurity (5:3, 4, 12) > Remember your identity > Read and heed warnings (vv. 5-6) 5 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

  34. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) How can we fight sin and stay pure? >Let there be thanksgiving (v. 4d) > Starve impurity (5:3, 4, 12) > Remember your identity > Read and heed warnings (vv. 5-6) - Denied to idolaters: inheritance (v. 5b) “hasno inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God”

  35. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) How can we fight sin and stay pure? > Let there be thanksgiving (v. 4d) > Starve impurity (5:3, 4, 12) > Remember your identity > Read and heed warnings (vv. 5-6) - Denied to idolaters: inheritance (v. 5b) - Assured for idolaters: wrath (v. 6b) “Wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience”

  36. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) > Read and heed warnings (vv. 5-6) - Denied to idolaters: inheritance (v. 5b) - Assured for idolaters: wrath (v. 6b) “Wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience” “Let no one deceive you” [Present | Active | Imperative] Stop it! * Don’t be blind to the seriousness, pervasiveness, and destructiveness of sin.

  37. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) > Read and heed warnings (vv. 5-6) - Denied to idolaters: inheritance (v. 5b) - Assured for idolaters: wrath (v. 6b) 1 Cor6:9-11 “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”

  38. 2. Walk In Purity (5:3-7) > Read and heed warnings (vv. 5-6) - Denied to idolaters: inheritance (v. 5b) - Assured for idolaters: wrath (v. 6b) Gal 5:19-21 “Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”

  39. 3. Walk In Light (5:8-14) 8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. 13 But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, 14 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

  40. 3. Walk In Light (5:8-14) 1 John 1:5 “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”

  41. 3. Walk In Light (5:8-14) > What we were (v. 8a)

  42. 3. Walk In Light (5:8-14) > What we were (v. 8a) > What we are (v. 8b) “but now you are light in the Lord.” 1 Thess5:4-5 “But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. 5 For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.”

  43. 3. Walk In Light (5:8-14) > What we were (v. 8a) > What we are (v. 8b) > How we live (vv. 8c-13) - Fruit of light(v. 9) for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true

  44. 3. Walk In Light (5:8-14) > What we were (v. 8a) > What we are (v. 8b) > How we live (vv. 8c-13) - Fruit of light(v. 9) - Desire to please God (v. 10) and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. “discern” (dokimazontes) “putting to the test,” “approving,” Examine the issue in order to take the right course of action.

  45. 3. Walk In Light (5:8-14) > What we were (v. 8a) > What we are (v. 8b) > How we live (vv. 8c-13) - Fruit of light(v. 9) - Desire to please God (v. 10) Eph 5:16-17 “Making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”

  46. 3. Walk In Light (5:8-14) > What we were (v. 8a) > What we are (v. 8b) > How we live (vv. 8c-13) - Fruit of light(v. 9) - Desire to please God (v. 10) - Expose the darkness (vv. 11-14) Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. (v. 11)

  47. 3. Walk In Light (5:8-14) Light has a dual effect(v. 14) “for anything that becomes visible is light”

  48. 3. Walk In Light (5:8-14) Light has a dual effect (v. 14) > It exposes (Negative) – sinner is exposed by light – sees the nature of hisdeeds > It transforms (Positive) – “becomes visible is light” “it is even possible (after all, it happened to you!) for light to turn the thing it shines upon into light also.” J. B. Phillips

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