A. Their Love for God. 4:1-8
V.1 a) Abounding - In the Received.
I. Abounding - Believers ought to grow, go on and not draw back.
Heb.6:1; 10:39; Eph.4:13-15
II. Walking - Ephesians describes how we ought to walk:
1. Walk in the Prepared Work. 2:20
2. Walk Worthy. 4:1
3. Walk in Love. 5:2
4. Walk as Children of Light. 5:8
5. Walk Circumspectly. 5:15
III. Pleasing - There are at least 6 Scriptural ways to please God
1. Preaching the cross pleases God - 1.Cor.1:21
2. Giving pleases God - Phil.4:16-18
3. Walking worthy pleases God - Col.1:10
4. Obeying parents pleases God - Col.3:20
5. Faith pleases God - Heb.11:6
6. Giving thanks and doing good pleases God - Heb.13:15-16
Who we desire to please determine whom we serve. Gal.1:10 V.2 b) Audible - Given Requirements.
These young believers had already received the instruction to walk in holiness.
V.3 c) Abstinence - From sexual Relationships.
I. The Will of God: Sanctification (What). v.3
II. The Way of God: Should (How). v.3-12
III. Sanctity in Sexual matters and Social lives.
This includes abstinence from pornography, sexual fantasy, homosexuality,
sexual intimacy before marriage and adultery. 1.Cor.6:13-20
V.4 d) Agreeable - Relating in a Rightful way: Reserved and Respectful.
Believers should live in his body by the right spirit, with a life that has been waiting for the right one,
a separated life still possessing virginity, with a life that hasn’ t dishonoured itself in various unclean sexual ways.
V.5 e) Abased - Lustful Rise.
Believer’ s life should be governed by the spirit and not by sexual lust.
V.6 f) Advantage - Of man and the Lord’ s Response.
Unclean sexual relationship affects peoples commitment and it can bring the judgment of God.
V.7 g) Appeal - To be Restrictive.
Believers are called to a new life in Christ. Eph.4:24
V.8 h) Advise - To the Rebellious.
If anyone rejects these words concerning sanctification in sexual matters and wants to live as the world,
he then has not rejected Paul or man but God Himself, he will receive as a child of God the consequence
of his rebellion against the designer and creator of man. Heb.12:5-11
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