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March 4 - Ephesians 5 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here. It is Monday again.
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  How do we get to the start of another new week?
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  It is the 4th of March and you delight me with your company.
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  Thank you for joining me. It is so great.
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  Here we are. This is the 4th year that we
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  have been recording this and doing this together.
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  And you might have been here from the very start.
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  You might have just arrived last week or somewhere in between.
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  Doesn't really matter. Doesn't.
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  Because here we are taking another step for today and for
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  tomorrow and for the day after. Each day that we are able to
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  dive into God's Word and let His truth permeate, regulate,
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  punctuate our daily lives. It is a good day.
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  So welcome, welcome, friends, and thank you for welcoming me
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  into your day so that I can join you as we both come before our
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  mighty and wonderful guide to learn more about His nature, his
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  character and what He wants to to share with us today.
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  So, Holy Spirit, come, be present here.
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  Settle our hearts so that we can be open to your words.
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  Speaking into our lives and our context today.
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  Oh, what a wonderful privilege we have.
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  Friends. Let's do it together, shall we
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  as we continue this week reading through the rest of Ephesians.
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  Just a couple more chapters left.
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  And then what a treat we get to start reading the Book of Mark
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  together in the lead up to Easter.
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  But for today, why don't you join me to read together?
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  Ephesians Chapter 5. Imitate God.
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  Therefore in everything you do, because you are His dear
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  children, live a life filled with love.
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  Following the example of Christ, He loved us and offered himself
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  as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
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  Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed
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  among you. Such sins have no place among
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  God's people. Obscene stories, foolish talk
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  and coarse jokes, These are not for you.
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  Instead, let there be thankfulness to God.
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  You can be sure that no immoral, impure or greedy person will
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  inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God, for a greedy person
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  is an idolater, worshipping the things of this world.
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  Don't be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the
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  anger of God will fall on all who disobey him.
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  Don't participate in the things these people do.
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  For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light
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  from the Lord. So live as people of light, for
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  this light within you produces only what is good and right and
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  true. Carefully determine what pleases
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  the Lord. Take no part in the worthless
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  deeds of evil and darkness. Instead, expose them.
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  It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly
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  people do in secret, but their evil intentions will be exposed
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  when the light shines on them, for the light makes everything
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  visible. This is why it said Awake O
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  sleeper rise up from the dead and Christ will give you light,
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  so be careful how you live. Don't live like fools, but like
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  those who are wise. Make the most of every
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  opportunity in these evil days. Don't act thoughtlessly, but
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  understand what the Lord wants you to do.
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  Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your
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  life. Instead, be filled with the Holy
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  Spirit singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among
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  yourselves and making music to the Lord in your hearts, and
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  give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of
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  our Lord Jesus Christ. And further submit to one
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  another out of reverence for Christ.
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  For wives this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
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  For a husband is the head of his wife.
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  As Christ is the head of the church, He is the Saviour of His
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  body, the church. As the church submits to Christ,
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  so you wives should submit to your husbands and everything.
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  For husbands this means love your wives.
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  Just as Christ loved the church, He gave up his life for her to
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  make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God's Word.
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  He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church
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  without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish.
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  Instead, she will be wholly and without fault.
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  In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love
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  their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife
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  actually shows love for himself. No one hates his own body, but
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  feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the Church and
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  we are members of His body. As the scriptures say, a man
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  leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the
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  two are united into one. This is a great mystery, but it
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  is an illustration of the way Christ and the Church are one.
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  So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves
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  himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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  Oh Jesus, you call us to be children of the light, to live
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  as though in the light. And although that is what our
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  hearts desire, you know we mess up.
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  You know we struggle. You know we are broken, sinful
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  people. Yet still, despite our fallen
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  nature, despite the sins that we commit every single day, through
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  everything you did on the cross for us, Jesus, you present us
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  holy and blameless before God. We are loved and we are accepted
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  because of what you have done for us.
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  What a gift we have in you, Jesus, and what love and embrace
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  we have in you. Your Father, your spirit thank
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  you that you don't leave us out in the cold.
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  You don't leave us with this long To Do List of things to
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  avoid and things we have to participate in in order to make
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  us acceptable. No, no, we are acceptable
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  because you loved us and you save us.
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  So we just love you back, and we are so grateful for everything
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  you've done for us on that you accept us because of what you
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  do, not because of how good we are.
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  So we place you in the highest place in our lives and declare
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  Your Lordship over all it's in your name that we pray.
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  Jesus, oh man.