Choose How You Wil Live

Ellen

If I am talking about you, Jesus wants to and can forgive you. You just have to come to him and say I want things to be different. Get in touch with a leader at the church and we will help you with that.

Finally, Paul doesn’t just tell us what not to do; he actually gives some things that we can do. He talks about the difference between the light and the dark. Dark being the place before we knew God and light being the place after. In other words, people that are in the light don’t live like the darkness. Check out verses 8-10.

I think verse 10 encompasses all we’ve been talking about this morning.

“Find out what pleases the Lord.” The heart of a devoted follower of Christ says, “My desire is to find out what pleases the Lord and then to follow through on that action.”

That is the key to imitation.

If you wanted to imitate me you’d probably want to find out some of the things that make me happy (this is a test).

Things like chocolate chip cookies, Miami Dolphins, golf, the movie Shawshank redemption

It wouldn’t be a good imitation if:

You got oatmeal raisin cookies, The New York Jets, Croquet, The movie “escape from elcatraz

That’s just not me.

It’s the exact same way with God.

You want to imitate God?

There are certain things that please him and certain things that make him unhappy. Paul even supplies us with a list of things that pleases the Lord.

All goodness

Righteousness

And truth.

Live a life of love.

Keep away from sin.

Find out what pleases him and do it.