#814 – Imitators of God (Ephesians 5:1)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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We are called to imitate God as His children. O Lord, may we be a walking reflection of You out of the overflow of being Your beloved children.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	Ephesions chapter 5 verse 1.
0:09.0	Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children.
0:16.7	What a simple verse and significant verse,
0:21.2	like this command to be an imitator of God. Like how weighty a
0:28.0	command is that today for you for me to imitate God, to reflect God, to let the character of God be evident in our lives.
0:42.5	Like we could just spend hours right now thinking about what does that mean?
0:47.8	Like the character of God, his love,
0:50.6	imitate the love of God toward others today.
0:54.6	Imitate the holiness of God, right after this in Ephesians chapter 5,
0:59.0	we see may sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness not even be named among you.
1:06.0	So to pray that God would make us holy in every way just as he is holy to imitate God in this way.
1:15.3	You just think about the fruit of the spirit even that Galatians five gives us
1:19.8	love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control, like these are all
1:27.2	fruits of the character of God, his spirit living in us, so let's imitate God. So how do we do that and I love the second part of this
1:35.9	verse Ephesians 5 1 therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.
1:43.0	children.
1:44.0	Ah, this is who you are.
1:47.0	This is who I am.
1:49.0	A child of God,
1:52.0	loved by God. Loved by God.
1:55.0	So how do we imitate God?
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