Coming up next on renewing your mind.

You remember the Old Testament summary of the law of God that

Micah provides, what does the Lord require of thee?

But to do, justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God,

so that His justice and righteousness are communicable

attributes that we are called to emulate.

In the Bible, we are commanded to do many things.

But when we look at the list, there are some things that seem

impossible to follow. For example, can we really be holy as

God is holy? Today, I'm renewing your mind,

RC Sproul examines the attributes of God.

And in particular, those aspects of His character that we do have the ability to reflect.

Here's RC.

In our last session, we looked at the distinction between the

incommunicable attributes of God and the

communicable attributes of God. And we recall from that occasion

that the incommunicable attributes of God refer to those aspects of God's

being and nature, which are not shared by the creature,

things like infinity and eternality and on the presence and

omniscience and attributes of that sort. Today, I'd like to begin by looking at a

comment that the Apostle Paul makes in his letter to the Ephesians

in the fifth chapter of that epistle, beginning at verse 1,

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