Bitterness, Forgiveness, and Being Like God
The Lord's Day Morning May 28, 2006 Ephesians 4:31-5:2 “Bitterness, Forgiveness, and Being Like God” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter four. We finally come to the end of this chapter, but Paul's line of thought continues on into chapter five. In fact, this section from Ephesians 4:25 doesn't really end until about Ephesians 5:4. The same train of thought continues. The Apostle Paul has been calling on us as Christians to live distinctly as Christians in this world, both to enhance the unity of the body of believers, especially in the local church, and to glorify God. And he has been giving us specific areas in which we are to live distinctively as Christians. Having been saved by grace, we are to…