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William Klock discusses the themes of Ephesians 5:3-20, emphasizing the church's identity and mission in God's plan for renewal.
Don’t Let Anyone Fool You! Ephesians 5:3-20 by William Klock The last three weeks we’ve been making our way through the fourth chapter of St. Paul’s letter to the churches in Ephesus, just getting into the first couple of verses of Chapter 5 last Sunday. This is rubber-meets-the-road stuff. In Ephesians 1-3 Paul writes about what the church is and our part in God’s plan to renew his creation. By the blood of Jesus’ sacrifice at the cross, God has purified us from the stain of sin and death and set us free from their bondage. And then, having purified us and made us fit for his holy presence, he’s filled us with his Spirit. He’s made us—his church, his people—to be his temple . He has made us stewards of his presence and his wisdom and his life. Through Jesus and the Spirit, he has given back to us the vocation that Adam rejected. And now he calls us, as he called Adam, to be fruitful and to multiple and to fill the earth. And as we fill the earth, we expand the temple. We carry God’s presence with us. We bring his light and life into the darkness. We confront the foolishness and injustice of the world with his wisdom. As I’ve said repeatedly, we are in the present God’s…
People in this episode
Host: William Klock
Topics covered
- Ephesians
- Christian identity
- God's presence
- Church as temple
- Renewal and recreation
Keywords
- Ephesians
- church
- God's presence
- renewal
- Christianity
- spirituality
- Paul
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Books & works: Ephesians
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