The Positive Negatives

Jesus makes us new

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Ephesians 5:1

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children

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Only real Christianity has positive negatives

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Ephesians 5:3

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you

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God’s perspective of sex is “echo” but our perspective is “eco”

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Ephesians 5:5

For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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Greed is living at your means

The difference is between “first fruits” and leftovers

Joshua 7:21

“When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

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Ephesians 5:4

Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.