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Eph 5
Who hear has ever bought a knock off brand or imitation product?
When I lived in Chicago I would see all sorts of shops and guys selling imitation rolexes, Prada and Gucci, Nikes and Jordan shoes.
Likewise when, “professor McNay” and I were in Ukraine, we saw imitation Starbucks, Pepsi, and other products.
The word imitation can have negative connotations in our culture
Paul says we are to be imitators of God
Imitation can have negative connotations in our culture
you don’t want the imitation you want the real thing
Imitation, knock offs, wannabe, fake products - the imitation is not as good as the real thing
When we were first married I wanted to by a pair of Michael Jordan shoes to play basketball… the problem they were hundreds of dollars… so i found the same pair being sold in China.
They said they were the real thing, but at a fraction of the price.
I bought them and to this day i have never had a pair of shoes that hurt my feet so bad.
Imitation
clothes, purses, coffee etc.
So yes, there is a negative connotation with the ideal of imitation… but there is also a positive and even necessary imitation in our lives.
who has heard the saying, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
In fact, George Bernard Shaw said, “Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”
To learn something is a far greater task than just intellectually understanding, to learn something is to embody
Parenting is Imitation
Not only do parents figure out how to parent through imitation, but in large part parenting is to be imitated by your kids.
Children imitate their parents
Children learn to work by watch their parents
Construction during seminary
SLIDE***Picture of Owen and me going to work.
Children talk like like their parents
Children talk like like their parents
They walk like their parents
Children will learn to work by
They learn their sense of humor from their parents
They learn how to walk with God by their parents
They learn to mature by watching their parents
Maturation is imitation
We mature by aspiring to be like those further alone than us.
Discipleship is Imitation
Paul says in , “For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers.
For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
Paul urges the corinthian Christians to imitate him, as he is their father in the faith.
The Big question is not whether or not you are an imitator, for we all are, the question is who are you imitating.
Look with me at
So Paul says “be imitators of God as beloved children”
What a wonderful statement.
We are not imitators of God as far off servants,
we are not imitators of God through obligation,
no we are imitators of God as beloved children.
We imitate God as a child imitates their father or mother
Van Til - “We are to think God’s thoughts after him”
We Imitate God as one who is loved by God
says, that God’s love has been poured into our hearts.
We then as children who have been filled with the love of God are to imitate this God who is love.
And how do we do that?
If you you need a change of thinking around your work
Try and discern what God thinks of work
If you have opinions around the role of church in your life
try and conform you opinions to God’s opinions
For God has thoughts about everything, therefore we should think God’s thoughts after him.
“be holy for I am holy”
God poured out his love into our hearts, we then pour out the love of God into the world.
Our imitations of God are lacking,
We imitate God because:
we are made in his image
We are beloved children
beloved children act differently than unloved children.
What does it look like to imitate God?
Walk in love
We no longer walk the way the gentiles walk, as we saw in Chapter 4 - the gentiles walk:
Futility of their minds
darkened in their understanding
Alienated from the life of God
Ignorant
hard hearted
Callus
No, we walk in love
We live our lives imitating God, who is love.
We then as children who have been filled with the love of God are to imitate this God who is love.
And God is not
But it its not enough for Paul just to say walk in love
But it its not enough for Paul just to say walk in love
Paul does not leave love in the abstract, but instead he gives us the example of God himself in the flesh, who we are to imitate.
walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us,
“walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us”
but rather we
To imitate God, to walk in love is to follow the example of Christ.
To imitate God, to walk in love is to follow the example of Christ.
The love Christ had for us was a love with teeth, a love we experience.
The love of Christ rebukes us in our sin
The love of Christ delights with us in our joy
The love of Christ is patience with us in our weakness -
The love of Christ comforts us in our fear - when the worries of this world overwhelm us.
The love of Christ is faithful toward us even when we are cowards
The love of Christ dies for us, even when we deserve to die.
You see, the love with which Christ loved us is so powerful, so magnificent, so astounding, that its strength was demonstrated most clearly when Jesus hung upon that cross for you and for me.
This is the love we are to have for one another,
If we love one another as Christ loved us we will...
rebuke one another for sin
rebuke
delight with one another in joy
be patient with one another in weakness
comfort one another in our fear
be faithful to one another
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