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Chapter 5 - God’s high standards for the church
Week 9:
(Summary: Our Walk: Love, Light & Wisdom)
a. Be imitators of God
b.
Love gone wrong
c.
Walking in Wisdom
*Week 10:
(Summary: Submit to one another)
a.
How to know the Will of God
b.
What are you full of ?
Wine or the Spirit?
c. God’s plan for marriage and family
Chapter 6 - Fighting our spiritual battles
Week 11:
(Summary: Our Christian Duty)
a.
Our duty towards our children
b.
The Christian Employee in the workplace
c.
The Christian Employer’s duty
*Week 12:
(Summary: Put on the Armor of God)
a.
What Satan has always wanted
b.
The Christian armor
c.
Our Prayer life
Be Imitators of God (5:1) Only place in the bible where these words appear
William Barclay The highest standard in the World
Alexander Maclaren The sum of all duty
James Montgomery Boice asks the following question:
Q: How is it possible to imitate someone who is infinitely above us, the sovereign God of the universe ?
God’s Attributes Some attributes we share.
Justice, tenderness, forgiveness, goodness, love, mercy, compassion, faithfulness
Theologians call these communicable attributes
Others Some attributes we do not share: self-existent, self-sufficient, eternal, all powerful (omnipotent), everywhere at once
(omnipresent), all knowing (omniscient).
Theologians call these noncommunicable attributes
2 Books A.W. Pink, The Attributes of God, Stephen Charnock, The existence and Attributes of God
As dear Children (5:1) Paul adds, as dear children.
Children naturally take after their parents
Imitators of His Attributes
When Alexander the Great discovered a solidier in his army who was a coward, and also named Alexander, he told the
soldier to renounce your cowardice or renounce your name.
Those who carry his name are to be imitators of God’s character
Earlier Paul said earlier, God predestined us as children () predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself,
according to the kind intention of His will
Walk in Love (5:2)
walk Our daily life is characterized by love
Our walk should be a worthy walk
Our walk should be different from the world
Our walk should be in the light
Eph 5:1 Our walk should be in love
Our walk should be in wisdom
Q: What does this verse mean?
In what way?
And given himself for us (5:2)
Christ Gave Himself He gave his life as an offering and sweet smelling aroma.
But also, he became man and gave up his privileges
He gave himself (cf ) The Kenosis section
and offering and a sweet-smelling aroma (5:2)
aroma well pleasing (cf )
The sin offering () and the trespass offering ()
5 Offerings Leviticus has 5 offerings #1-3 were #1 burnt offering, #2 meal offering, #3 peace offering
Burnt () total devotion to God
Meal or grain () Perfection
Peace () Peace between God and Man
These were all a soothing aroma to God (cf , ,; , , ; ,)
4 & 5 #4 Sin and #5 Trespass offerings were repulsive to God because Christ bore sin.
When Christ was raised, sin was put to death,
that act of love was a fragrant aroma.
The Perversion
Fornication (5:3) Paul does not say love God and do as you please.
Pay attention to what God requires
Q: Isn’t following the rules out of fear or servile duty?
Profound Love Should be out of profound love towards God
Πορνεια porneia (pornography) Not talking about x-rated movies or films.
NKJV - Fornication, NIV - obscenity, ASB- filthiness, NASB - immorality.
All refers to sexual intercourse outside of marriage
Not the #1 Sin First in the list but not because it is the #1 sin or the most serious.
But because it is related to love.
Worldly love is the opposite
of Godly love.
Worldly love is based on attraction to someone.
Someone meeting my needs, fulfilling me.
Based on how I feel.
Jesus, .
This is counterfeit love and inevitable leads to “sexual immorality or any kind of impurity” (NIV).
self-control porneia (immorality) refers to sexual sin.
But the opposite of this word, the antonym is enkrateia (self-control).
Paul spoke to
Felix and his wife Drusilla ()
Sexual Control Felix understood Paul regarding lustful passion, his self-control.
Life contrary to God’s righteousness
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