1/8/22
Pastor Rusty Milton
The Deception of Empty Words
Ephesians 5:5-10 ESV

People's thoughts and words can be deceptive. As believers, we must understand our culture's deceptive philosophies so that we are wary, but recognize that the Enemy will use these things to call us back into spiritual darkness if we let them. In Ephesians 5:6, Paul challenges the church to be alert against deceptive beliefs that do not contain truth, explaining that such philosophies of the world invite God's wrath. Rather, we are to offer our bodies as living sacrifices to the one true God, and to allow our minds to be transformed so that we bear the Mind of Christ.

Ephesians 5:5-10 ESV

 For you may be sure of this, that ueveryone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (vthat is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 wLet no one xdeceive you with empty words, for because of these things ythe wrath of God comes upon zthe sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore ado not become partners with them; 8 for bat one time you were cdarkness, but now you are light in the Lord. dWalk as children of light 9 (for ethe fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and ftry to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.