Ephesians 5

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Pastor Debra Groller • Ephesians • Chapter 5 Pt 2 • 11/5/24 • Today we continue to talk about the attributes of the new life in Christ. These road signs are the keys to discipleship, holiness and victory. Let’s encourage one another to the finish line! • 1) We learned last time we were together more new life attitudes. • • The New Life____________ God with a life of love (5:1) • • The New Life is ______________ pure (5:3) • • The New Life replaces ________ obscenity ______________ and course joking with ________________ • • The New Life ____________ darkness and lives as ________ in the Lord (5:8-14) • 2) Verses 15-16 speak about time, are we spending our time ___________to the coming of the Lord. Time here in the Greek is the word__________ better translated _____________. Also, the Greek word for _________ is exagorazō and means – buy back a slave from the slave market. So, with that being said we might read these verses this way- Do everything you can to make up for ________________, make the most of every____________ you have ______________ and make the most of every opportunity. Remember the world is watching! • 3) Verse 18 Gives us our next attribute. The New Life is being filled with the _________ instead of being___________. While The Bible does not prohibit drinking alcohol it does prohibit being_____________. We should instead come under the influence of the ___________. God knows and we need to know too that alcohol abuse _________ lives. We get a visual example of this in Proverbs_______. Surrendering control to the Spirit of God is ___________The exhortation here is if you are going to come under the influence of something choose __________- He is El Elyon God______________ • 4) Verses 19-20 tell us the New Life has a desire to ___________ the Lord and ___________others to do the same (5:19-20) • 5) In verses 21-32 Paul shifts our attention to 3 areas marriage____________ and workplace • 6) These Scriptures also give us yet another attribute of the New Life which is the New Life practices ___________ in whatever role you may be in. What is Biblical ________ • We will talk all about that next week! • Group Question • Ephesians 5:18 says do not be drunk with wine which is debauchery, but be filled with the spirit • 1) What is debauchery • 2) How can we be filled and stay filled with Gods Spirit

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