TITLE: Pure Desire

2. TITLE: Pure Desire • TEXT: Ephesians 5:1-7 • THEME: The believer’s desires and behavior should be pure.

4. The challenge for every believer is to do more than “talk the talk”- it is to “walk the walk.”

5. Uses of this metaphor • 4:1 "Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called

6. Uses of this metaphor • 4:1 "Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called." • 4:17 "should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind

7. Uses of this metaphor • 4:1 "Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called." • 4:17 "should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind." • 5:2 "walk in love”

8. Uses of this metaphor • 4:1 "Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called." • 4:17 "should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind." • 5:2 "walk in love." • 5:8 "walk as children of light."

9. Uses of this metaphor • 4:1 "Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called." • 4:17 "should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind." • 5:2 "walk in love." • 5:8 "walk as children of light." • 5:15 "not as fools."

11. Walking the walk means

12. Walking the walk means • doing what Jesus would do.

13. Walking the walk means • doing what Jesus would do. • Jesus makes a difference in our life.

14. Walking the walk means • doing what Jesus would do. • Jesus makes a difference in our life. • living differently than the rest of the world

15. Walking the walk means • doing what Jesus would do. • Jesus makes a difference in our life. • living differently than the rest of the world. • not living as a subculture, but as a counterculture.

17. Walking in love is a • teenage believer who refuses to join in teasing and making fun of another student, but rather befriends and encourages that young person at a difficult time.

18. Walking in love is a • father and mother who love their young children enough to turn off the tube and spend their time teaching them, talking with them, playing with them, and loving them with their lives

19. Walking in love is a • senior saint whose husband has long since gone to Heaven. Though she's lonely, her focus is not on her solitude but on encouraging other lonely people with cards, letters, and phone calls

21. What is the difference between walking in love and walking in Lust?

22. I. God wants us to walk in love ( 1-2)

23. I. God wants us to walk in love ( 1-2) • A. We walk in love by imitating God.

24. "be imitators of God." • The word imitators comes from mimetes, from which we get the English terms mimic and mime, someone who copies the characteristics of another.

25. Eugene Peterson's-The Message: • "Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents."

26. Ephesians 4:32 • be "kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you."

27. Romans 8:29 • tells us that the reason for our salvation is that we might be "conformed to the image of his Son."

28. Matthew 5:48 • "be perfect, just as your Father in Heaven is perfect."

29. 1 Peter 1:16 and Leviticus 11:44 • "Be holy, for I am holy."

30. 1 John 3:2 • "We know that when he is revealed, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is."

31. Rom 5:5 • "because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us."

32. I. God wants us to walk in love (1-2) • A. We walk in love by imitating God. • B. We walk in love by loving as Jesus did.

33. Ephesians 5:2 • "walk in love as Christ has loved us."

34. Ephesians 5:2 • "walk in love as Christ has loved us." • Paul is in effect saying, "Look at Jesus." We can't love like he loved on our own. This is not a natural ability, but a supernatural ability, because Jesus lives in us.

35. Matthew 18:22, • we are to forgive "seventy times seven." • His point was we are to keep on forgiving and keep on loving.

36. I. God wants us to walk in love (verses 1-2). • A. We walk in love by imitating God. • B. We walk in love by loving as Jesus did. • C. We walk in love by giving of ourselves.

37. Ephesians 5:2 • "he has given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God."

38. Romans 5:8 • "But God demonstrates his own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

39. "Sir," said the lad, "I did not lose it; I gave it—for France."

41. II. Satan wants us to walk in lust (verses 3-7).

42. II. Satan wants us to walk in lust (verses 3-7). • Satan is in the business of counterfeits, reproductions, and fakes. His counterfeit of love is lust. People want true love, but try to settle for lust—cheap fleeting fantasies. Only Jesus gives true love.

43. II. Satan wants us to walk in lust (verses 3-7). • A. We avoid walking in lust by putting off sexual immorality (verse 3a).

44. Ephesians 5:3 • "Let it not even be named among you as is fitting for saints."

45. Ephesians 5:3 • "Let it not even be named among you as is fitting for saints." • (NIV)"Among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality or any kind of impurity."

46. Fornication • comes from pornea, which refers to all sexual sins. Uncleanness refers more generally to anything that is unclean or filthy.

47. I Corinthians 13:5 • "love does not seek its own."

48. "My hand is in the cookie jar resisting temptation."

49. "My hand is in the cookie jar resisting temptation." • "There are open cookie jars all around us.

50. II. Satan wants us to walk in lust (verses 3-7). • A. We avoid walking in lust by putting off sexual immorality (verse 3a). • B. We avoid walking in lust by putting off greed (verse 3b).