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Ephesians 5:1-2 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
The apostle Paul spends the second half of the book of Ephesians with great instructions on how to live our lives as Christians. He tells us of how we are separated now; we are children of light, instead of the children of darkness before our Salvation. 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. (ESV). The world is lost in sin, living in the darkness and death of it. Most are blind to it, and sadly there are those that deny it. There are eternal consequences for both. You must understand that the world is not a good place; as a whole it is condemned by the fallen state of the world through the generational sin by Adam in the garden of Eden. We as descendants of Adam, must be rescued from that snare of sin, through the perfect sacrifice for sin through Christ, to atone for our sin debt to a Holy God.
So many times we want both; we want the temporal pleasure of sin, and the eternal reward of heaven. We want to live in our sin as long as possible, and then claim the victory of Christ when it is convenient to us. We may even claim Christ, but continue in sin, living our lives in a false gospel of God’s grace. We feel that we can always do as we wish, then ask for forgiveness afterwards. That is sadly a soul that has not been redeemed, a soul that is truly not saved, but a soul that hopefully will have their hearts opened to the truth before it is too late. 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.
Our nation has become so weak, and that weakness has infiltrated our church. We have tread upon the sanctity of marriage, allowing the acceptance of homosexuality into our pulpits. We have moved to a place that we adapt the Bible into what we want to hear, and delete that which requires repentance and turning from our sin. We move to take up issues with hunger or persecution; those issues that are safe, yet we tread upon abortion and gay rights in the ruse of equality and decision. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. There is a such thing as Absolute Truth, and it is found in the Word of God. There is a standard which is not able to be bent into our liking, a standard that we all will come to answer to the One who gave it to us. We will stand before a righteous judge and account for all our lives one day; will you do the best you can to live by the truths you have found, or adjust them to fit?
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