Don't Go There!

Don’t go there!

Ephesians 5:3English Standard Version (ESV)

³ But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

As of this morning’s news we see another public figure disgraced with accusations of sexual misconduct. Yes, the world is exploding with stories and claims of people who have sexually harassed others in the work place or in the public.

We have come to a place in society when we cannot allow our sons and daughters to walk the streets of their neighborhoods, to play, to trick or treat, to go door to door selling fundraising items. We have come to a place in our existence that our children, and adults have no place of guaranteed safety from violence and being the victims of sexual predators.

Beloved, the Bible is clear on this topic! If we look to the Ephesians chapter 5, verse 3 reading, we see that we are to live and act like the forgiving and loving God that created us. We are called to live our lives understanding the sacrifice that Christ made on the cross, and we are to live daily as people of the example.

Respect for others, begins at home, and respect for others begins with parents teaching their children more about Christ than what the world can provide. When the world forgoes its personal relationship with Christ and his church over worldly activities, we are showing our children that learning and living as God intends falls somewhere below any worldly activity.

In his commentary Theologian Matthew Henry States: “These verses contain a caution against all manner of uncleanness, with proper remedies and arguments proposed: some further cautions are added, and other duties recommended. Filthy lusts must be suppressed, in order to the supporting of holy love. Walk in love, and shun fornication and all uncleanness. (Henry 2017)

Beloved our call for today is to come back to the Word of God and the World of God through Jesus Christ. Our call is to only go out into the world as a person of Christ instead of a person unto the world. When in doubt of how to act in regards to your morality and your treatment of others, go to God, seek out his word. And when it comes to the lusts of the body outside of marriage,

“Don’t Go There!”

Works Cited

Henry, Matthew. 2017. Bible Study Tools. Accessed November 29, 2017. https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/matthew-henry-complete/ephesians/5.html.