Ephesians 5:1-16 Are you running with the wrong crowd?

Summary: A verse by verse examination of what the book of Ephesians in the Bible teaches. This message covers Ephesians 5:1-15 discussion of the company we keep.

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Ephesians 5:1-16 ¹Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;  ²And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. ³But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;  ⁴Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.  ⁵For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.  ⁶Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.  ⁷Be not ye therefore partakers with them.  ⁸For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:  ⁹(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)  ¹⁰Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.  ¹¹And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.  ¹²For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.  ¹³But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.  ¹⁴Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.  ¹⁵See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,  ¹⁶Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Romans 12:1-2 ¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.  ²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

John 8:28-29 ²⁸Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.  ²⁹And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

2 Corinthians 2:12-17 ¹²Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,  ¹³I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.  ¹⁴Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.  ¹⁵For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:  ¹⁶To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?  ¹⁷For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Galatians 5:17-21 ¹⁷For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.  ¹⁸But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.  ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,  ²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,  ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ¹⁶All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:  ¹⁷That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.