Ephesians 5 reminds us that the Christian life can only be lived to the full by the power of God the Holy Spirit at work within us. He is the fountain of life 5:18 but more about that next time!
Because we are children of our Heavenly Father our love for others should be like Christ’s love for us when He gave Himself a sacrifice for our sins, this was like a precious perfume to God. We are to imitate Jesus as we love God and others our witness for the Lord will also ascend as a precious perfume unto Him 5: 1-2.
We are in the world but we are no longer of the world, Jesus was a friend of sinners but He never condoned sin. We must not avoid contact with the world or else when would we get opportunity to share the gospel? But we must never condone bad behaviour inside the church fellowship or outside of it. We must be on our guard against foolish talk and gossip indeed any behaviour that is opposed to what we hold dear as Christians 5: 6-7
Christians are no longer spiritually dead because they have been raised from death to life Romans 6:1-11 however it’s possible to be spiritually asleep, we need to wake up! to who we are already because of our union with Jesus Christ. In the parable of the wheat and the tares Jesus said that while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares amount the wheat and went away. The devil loves darkness but we are called children of the light so the promise remains we need to wake up! never forgetting our new identity in Christ, and Christ’s light will shine upon us 5:11-14 and Psalm 119:105.
Memory verse
“Awake,O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” Ephesians 5:14 N.L.T.
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