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And now unleashing God's truth, one verse at a time.

Here's grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

We come now to the Word of God, the Scripture, and I ask you to open your Bible to

Ephesians, the book of Ephesians. We are working our way through Ephesians and find

ourselves at chapter 5. Ephesians chapter 5. And this becomes for us a high point. That's hard to say with

regard to Ephesians because everything seems like a high point, but this is indeed a high

point. I want to read the opening seven verses of chapter 5 for you, though we'll only

cover the first two, at least you'll

have them in mind.

Ephesians 5 1.

Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children.

And walk in love just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant

aroma.

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you as is proper among saints.

And there must be no filthiness and silly talk or coarse jesting, which are not fitting,

but rather giving of thanks. For this you know with certainty that no immoral or impure person

or covetous man who is an idolater has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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