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Introduction of series on the New Identity:
Recap: We’ve discussed how a new identity with Christ requires us to set aside the temporary and embrace the eternal.
Our new identity in Christ is held up on pillars.
These pillars are attributes of Christ that we should have in common with him.
These pillars can be found in Eph 4:17-5:20.
In these verses, Paul describes the new life we achieve in Christ.
These are the subjects Paul discusses:
THE PILLARS OF THE NEW IDENTITY:
FOUNDATION: LOVE OVER EVERYTHING Eph 5:1-2
GRATITUDE OVER ANXIETY Eph 5:20, Phil 4:4-6
TRUTH OVER LIE Eph 4:25
PEACE OVER ANGER Eph 4:26
GIVE OVER TAKE Eph 4:27-28
ENCOURGE OVER GOSSIP Eph 4:29
FORGIVENESS OVER REVENGE Eph 4:32
SELF-CONTROL OVER PROMISCUITY Eph 5:3
GOD SPIRIT OVER DRUNKENNESS Eph 5:18
In order to make this next step, we need to understand Christ.
Paul singles out one particular attribute to imitate in Eph 5:1-2.
Christ’s foremost quality is love.
Imitating Christ is impossible without love.
IMITATE
What does it mean to imitate?
The greek word is mimetes.
Which means to mimic.
In our lives, we should start to look like Christ.
The KJV uses followers, perhaps they are picking up on a theme in the New Testament.
Jesus told Peter follow me and I will make you fishers of men.
Follow here means “come to me,” but notice how Jesus did not just say to come here because I need a friend.
Rather he said follow me because I want you to be like me.
Jesus’s goal is for us to be like Him.
Paul shares this goal.
Be like Christ.
Love God; Love Your Neighbor
There are so many attributes to Christ that Paul could have singled out, yet he chose love.
Jesus gave us the reason in Matthew:
THE FIRST AND FOREMOST PILLAR
Jesus is not creating a new commandment of God.
God did not change his dogma.
They first appear in the Torah.
Paul anchors the other attributes of our new life to love.
If we wish to have a life connected to Christ, we have to embrace love.
In John’s epistle, he explains how there is no connection to God or Christ without love:
John’s lesson here parallel’s Paul’s because they both mention how the sacrifice of Christ is crucial to understanding love.
God is the source of love, for he is love.
The sacrifice Jesus gave is the ultimate act of love.
It was a visual sense of love, but God has always loved.
He loved so that he created, but he loved also that he would redeem a broken creation.
Or as Luke puts it:
Two Points to understand here:
Just because you treat people with love does not mean that they will treat you with love.
This is misleading if we do not apply the rest of the scriptures to this.
People will become disappointed when they realize because you love others they wont love you back.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU! IT’S ABOUT CHRIST!
You love others because Christ loves you.
It is what he would do!
Christ want’s you to look like him.
“I want you to look like me!”
AGAPE
Is the greek word used to describe the love Jesus illustrated.
Agape love is not an affection or a romance but an action.
Having love like Christ’s means to act out love.
The strength of Agape love is
How you treat your enemies shows your true character.
Search yourself: if you hate your enemy, you do not reflect God’s love.
Our lives should reflect Christ’s.
Jesus fed the hungry, gave sight to the blind, healed the sick, but most importantly he was a friend to the sinners.
In Dane Ortland’s book Gentle and Lowly, he speaks of Jesus friendship to sinners.
In Luke 15:1 the sinners and tax collectors, the worst of the worst people of the time, drew close to Jesus.
Why? Jesus made them feel comfortable.
Speaking of Jesus, Ortland states, “This is a companion whose embrace of us does not strengthen or weaken depending on how clean or unclean, how attractive or revolting, how faithful or fickle, we presently are.
The friendliness of his heart for us subjectively is as fixed and stable as is the declaration of his justification of us objectively.”
We are never out of reach of our God’s love.
The greatest act of agape was performed on the Cross.
Paul calls it a pleasing aroma to God.
Jesus’s sacrifice was for the sinful, for those who appose God, but importantly it is available for those who draw near to Him because of His love.
It is His actions on the Cross that we can have a relationship with God no matter what our circumstance.
In John 15, Jesus states,
And the Cross is characterized in this light by Paul in Romans:
Ultimately, love is the foundation of our Christ-like identity.
Having gratitude, speaking truth, having peace, giving, encouraging, forgiving, having self-control, and living in God’s spirit all build off our ability to love.
Loving God and others shows our obedience and reverence to God.
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