The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

We come now to the time of the reading and explaining of the Word of God.

This is when we hear from heaven.

We have offered our worship and our praise humbly to the Lord.

Now we hear His voice.

And our text today is Ephesians Chapter 5, if you will, take your Bible and turn to

Ephesians Chapter 5.

For those who are visiting us, we are working our way through the book of Ephesians.

We've been doing it for quite a long time, but it's been a marvelous journey for us, and

we find ourselves in chapter 5 and looking again for the second time at the opening seven verses of Ephesians 5.

Let me read them to you.

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.

There must be no filthiness and silly talk or coarse jesting which are not fitting, but rather

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