Love vs Lust - Ephesians 5:1-5

INTRODUCTION: After verse 1? - Chase McClean - bounce the eyes.

Walk in Love - Ephesians 5:1-2

Ephesians 5:1 ESV

1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

be imitators of God - huh? imitate God.

as beloved children - Kayne, Pastor Lee- walking in the snow.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV

2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Walk in love - present tense. Keep walking in love.

As Christ loved us - this is how you imitate God.

Gave himself up for us - love is giving in nature.

A fragrant offering and sacrifice to God - Christ gift was an offering to God. Our love towards others is also a gift.

You cannot love without sacrifice.

Not in Lust - Ephesians 5:3-5

But sexual immorality - pornea - pornography - porn stats - . …This is where the sex trade, and homosexual revolution came from.

and all impurity - more general sin,

covetousness - likely still in sexual desire, I wish my wife looked like her or he acted like him.

Must not be names among you - ???

Saints - holy people.

Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking - Just in case you thought we were talking only about big things.

cursing, Lord’s name in vain. dirty jokes. racist jokes.

instead let there be thanksgiving - you speak to anyone who has been addicted you can’t just take something away you must replace it with something else.

Lust always wants more, but God says to be thankful for what you have.

cross reference Matthew 12:36-37

Ephesians 5:5 ESV

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.

for you may be sure of this - don’t miss this.

immoral or impure - difference?

being covetous is idolotry. You might say that you just want something, but you want it more than God himself and thus have made it God. You have put a image of a woman where God should be.

has no inheritance in the kingdom - Its not yours.

Here is the problem. Everyone is this.

CONCLUSION: John 8 probably