The New Walk (5): More Reasons Why – Filled With…
The Lord's Day Morning July 23, 2006 Ephesians 5:18-21 “The New Walk (5): More Reasons Why — Filled With the Spirit” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Please open your Bibles to Ephesians chapter five, as we continue through Paul's letter to Ephesus and to us. We've said since Ephesians 4:17 that it has been Paul's concern to exhort us to live distinctively as Christians in this world; not to be like the world, but rather to be in the world and not of it; to be distinct in our desires and our behavior and our living from the world. And in Ephesians 4 and in the first part of Ephesians 5, Paul gave a series of concrete examples of ways in which we were to be different from the world. We were to be different from the world in our truth-telling; we were to be different from the…