Review
- Last week we continued our series on Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.
- We will continue with second half of Ephesians today, in a series titled: Don’t Trip: A C.R.I.P. Walk Tutorial.
- For our purposes C.R.I.P. stands for Christ Revealed In Prayer
- This lesson is about how drawing close to Jesus affects our walk.
- In Ephesians and much of the rest of the Bible, walking is a metaphor for life.
- Your walk refers to how you live.
- The first three chapters focus of Ephesians focus on what we believe, but the second three chapters focus on how we behave.
Key Principle from Last Week:
- We choose how we identify and how we behave.
- God holds us accountable for how we identify and how we behave—not how we feel on the inside.
Ephesians 4:25-32
Ephesians 5:1-5
In Sum,
To C.R.I.P. Walk is to follow the principles of the Ten Commandments:
Love Principle |
10 Commandments |
Ephesians |
Love God |
1. You shall have no other Gods but me. |
Ephesians 4:30 Ephesians 5:5 |
2. You shall not make for yourself any idol, nor bow down to it or worship it. |
Ephesians 4:30 Ephesians 5:5 |
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3. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God. |
Ephesians 4:29 Ephesians 5:4 |
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4. You shall remember and keep the Sabbath day holy. |
Ephesians 2:6 |
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Love Your Neighbor |
5. Respect your father and mother. |
Ephesians 6:1-3 |
6. You must not commit murder. |
Ephesians 4:26 Ephesians 4:31 |
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7. You must not commit adultery. |
Ephesians 5:3 Ephesians 5:5 |
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8. You must not steal. |
Ephesians 4:28 |
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9. You must not give false evidence against your neighbor. |
Ephesians 4:25 |
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10. You must not be envious of your neighbor’s goods. You shall not be envious of his house nor his wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor. |
Ephesians 5:3 |
Ephesians 5:5
- I Corinthians 6:9-11
- “The apostle Paul, in writing here about the ‘unrighteous,’ is addressing a body of believers living in a city known for its gross sexual immorality.
- He lists a catalog of sins characterizing sexual impurity and says that those who commit them will be disinherited from the Kingdom.
- Does this mean that people who engage in sexual sin will lose their salvation?
- No, Rather, what the Word of God is saying is that sex sins obliterate the confidence, authority and power and blessings of the Kingdom. . . .
- Sex sins tend to dull our souls to the God-given joy of our salvation, robbing us of the strength that joy is designed to sustain” (Jack Hayford, Fatal Attractions: Why Sex Sins Are Worse Than Others, Regal:2004, p.61)
- Psalm 51:12
Ephesians 5:6-14
- Identification is everything.
- Act like children of God.
- God uses us as flashlights.
Ephesians 5:15-20
- Examine your behavior.
- Take advantage of the opportunity to act morally.
- Stay under the influence of the Holy Spirit
- God breathes into us like wind instruments to create poetic expressions of praise, worship, and thanksgiving.
© Joshua D. Smith, Ph.D., 2021