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{Sermons on Ephesians 5:15
Evidence for the Absolute Necessity of Precise Godliness
From Scripture
Scripture Examples}
For examples from Scripture:
David is said to be a man after God’s own heart (Acts 13:22). He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that the Lord commanded him all the days of his life, save only that concerning Uriah’s wife (1 Kings 15:5).
Of Josiah it is recorded that his heart was tender and perfect with the Lord his God and that he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left (2 Kings 22:2, 19).
Paul declares that he served the Lord urgently, night and day, forgetting those things that were behind, reaching forward to those things that are ahead, pressing toward the goal. “The life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God.” “For me to live is Christ, to die is gain.” “I do not run aimlessly, I do not fight as one that beats the air, but I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, while preaching to others, I myself should be cast out” (1 Thessalonians 2:9; Philippians 3:12–14; Galatians 2:20; Philippians 1:21; 2 Corinthians 9:26–27).
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