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Atlanta Fire Chief Fired for Expressing Christian Beliefs | CNSNews January 2015
Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran was fired on Tuesday by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.
Why? Because, on his own private time, Cochran wrote a book expressing his biblical understanding of sexual morality.
John Macrthur and others have called out CA Gov Gavin Newsom for these billboards Sep2022
Secretary of Education said during a White House event Tuesday afternoon that college students needed to have access to abortions to be able to be successful in life.
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World Mag school article Sep 24 2022 Parental Pushback
A mother in Wisconsin said her 12 year old daughter asked to go to a medical facility.
She said she felt sad, worthless and she did not know if she was a girl.
Not knowing what to do she took her to a facility.
The counselors treatment plan was to tell this 12 year old your mother is your biggest adversary and will never accept you for who you are.
When the daughter came home mom was now the enemy
Mom was also told by the school if she did not go along with this, anything bad that happens to her daughter would be her fault.
School officials said we side with the child even if we have to hide it from teh parents.
WE now better how to help children and when you drop them off we are in charge
Other families joined in, suing the school and fighting back.
Of course a victory is not guaranteed
And as a side note eventually the daughter came back and said yes I am happy being a girl
Paul uses a phrase in the middle of this passage.
He says Wake Up
Cant you see what is happening.?
What’s worse is some of of you are participants.
At the least you are tolerant even supportive.
So lets see what Paul says we should do when we wake up.
What do we do when we realize we have to do something to counter this stuff we see and we know it is wrong.
This passage has a very important phrase repeated over and over.
In fact is is all through Ephesians
The word is "therefore” and that is going to be how I break down the passage
Paul writes with a series of challenges but he also provides reasons.
And the “therefore’s” connect the reasons to the challenges.
But before we can actually get there, we have to establish who we are.
Before we can know what do do we need to know who we are
I. Therefore Imitate God.
vs 1-2
This word imitate is the word we get mimic from.
Mimic God.
Copy his actions and attitudes.
And we need to spend time with God getting to know God for this to be possible
How do you imitate God.
Certain attributes we cannot, like the Omni’s
We can not imitate self existence, self sufficiency, eternality
But there are attributes of God which we share.
They are things like justice, wrath, wisdom, faithfulness, goodness, love, mercy, compassion, tenderness, forgiveness.
We can exercise these attributes and indeed we ought to.
James Boice said we have this going for us: We have the enabling life of God within through the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Just as physical genes should lead a child in the direction of a parent’s chief characteristics, so should a Christian’s spiritual genes lead in the direction of the moral character of God.
In the same way, God’s precious ‘children (those born from him) will be eager to copy him, as he enables them.
This was the teaching of Jesus himself.
Imitate God Through Forgiveness.
Because of the new life in chapter 4 and the promise of verse 32 that you are forgiven,… this is how you should conduct yourself
You are forgiven in Christ, a beloved child, therefore imitate God your Father.
God’s gift of forgiveness in 4:32 forms the basis of Paul’s exhortation here.
The connection is this: God in Christ has forgiven you.
This has made you His child.
Now be imitators of God in forgiving one another.
The motive is added with the words, as dear children.
In natural life, children bear the family likeness and should seek to uphold the family name.
In spiritual life, we should represent our Father to the world and seek to walk worthy of our dignity as His beloved children.
Make our Father proud.
Imitate God in Love
Another way in which we should resemble the Lord is by walking in love.
The rest of the verse explains that to walk in love means to give ourselves for others.
This is what Christ, our perfect Example, did.
He loved us.
The proof of His love is that He gave Himself for us in death at Calvary.
William Barclay calls this “the highest standard in the world.
We need to remember what God’s love is like and it is not what Gov Newsome says
Imitate God in the way He loves
A Forgiving Love
That is what we have in Jesus Christ—forgiveness—and because we find forgiveness there, we can in turn be forgiving
If you start thinking I did no thing wrong I do not need to be forgiven, you are making it hard to offer forgiveness to others.
We forgive in the manner we are forgiven
Again Boice says Do you know that, really know it?
So long as you think you are a pretty good person who does not really need to be forgiven, you will naturally have a very hard time loving and forgiving others.
But if you know yourself to have been a sinner under God’s just wrath, all that is changed.
God says that in his sight even the best of us is vile to the extreme:
A Giving Love
Before Adam and Eve were created God already gave them everything they would ever need
He gives life
Gad has given you what you need to imitate Him That by the Spirit you put off sin and pursue righteousness
Remember to imitate God is not natural therefore it takes supernatural help to go from a dead pagan to a living Christian.
God is love and the life that is like the life of God will be a life of love.
If love is the essence of God’s nature, it is the essential of the Christian character.
The model of love is Christ himself.
It is because he laid down his life for us that we are to love others to the point of sacrifice.
Imitate God in Light
Then Paul moves from love to light.
The emphasis here is we can be light only because Christ is the true light
And light exposes deeds or darkness
What the new life is not 3-7
Sexual Immorality
He says sexual immorality should not even be named among you.
It is completely unsuitable for the Christian community
To be accused of or talked about and joked about.
I think we should be clear that here we are speak of condoning or accepting these behaviors.
This is very different than someone acknowledging a problem and seeking help or forgiveness
If someone says I struggle with SSA, lust, pornography, they should see this as a safe place to come and wrestle with those issues.
A non condemning, supporting community.
Yet we see how some groups have ignored and hidden sexual abuse.
Some have ignored and redefined God’s plan for sexuality
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