Immorality Running Rampant

“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

“But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.” (Ephesians 5:1-5 NASB1995)

To be imitators of God is to be followers of Jesus Christ. It is not to imitate God in the sense of pretense or impersonation, but this has to do with us becoming like God in heart, mind, word, and deed. This has to do with us emulating our Lord, i.e. us patterning our lives after the character of God, following Jesus Christ in obedience to his commands in holy living. And this requires that by faith in Jesus Christ we must deny self, die to sin daily, and follow our Lord in obedience wherever he leads us in doing his will.

And the “love” in which we are to walk is not human fleshly passion, but it is agape love which comes from God, because God is love, which loves like God loves, and which centers in moral preference. It prefers what God prefers, which is all that is holy, righteous, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his New Covenant commands. For the believer in Jesus Christ it means to prefer to live through Christ, choosing his choices, and obeying them in his power, because we love our Lord.

Therefore, immorality or any impurity or greed must not be among us in any fashion. It isn’t that we cannot talk about this subject, for it must be talked about. And we must learn what must be done to eradicate such things as these from our lives and from the gatherings of the church, the body of believers in Jesus Christ. But we, as the body of Christ, are to be living in moral purity and in faithfulness to our Lord, and to our spouses, and we are to no longer be living as slaves to sin, but as servants of righteousness.

Nonetheless, in the USA, where I live, and this may be true of nations all over the world, sexual immorality is running rampant among those who participate in the gatherings of the church, or what are falsely being referred to as “churches” but which are businesses of human origin being marketed to the people of the world in order to attract the world to their gatherings. So, the majority of these gatherings appear to be making moral and biblical compromises in order to not offend the ungodly and to grow their numbers.

And addiction to sexual immorality, particularly in the area of pornography addiction, is running rampant in the majority of these “churches,” from what I have been able to ascertain. And so many people have, thus, altered and diluted the gospel message to make it less offensive and/or more acceptable to be addicted to sexual immorality. And so they teach Scriptures out of context, and they make them say what they do not say if taught in context, and in order to appease human flesh and to keep people coming back.

Few, it seems, are teaching the biblical gospel of Christ these days. So many have reduced the gospel to a mere verbal confession of Christ as Lord and a belief in his bodily resurrection, but that is taken out of context. For Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught that salvation from sin, resulting in eternal life with God, requires that we put sin to death in our lives and that we now walk in purity of devotion to our Lord, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as servants of righteousness in obedience to our Lord’s commands.

For, if we read the Scriptures in their correct biblical context, we should see repeated over again that “no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.” For if sin is still our practice, and not obedience to our Lord’s commands, we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God, regardless of what faith in Jesus our lips profess. For Jesus taught that not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the ones DOING the will of God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22] 

Walking in The Light  

Based off 1 John 1-2

An Original Work / November 16, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I lift up my voice, and

Sing praise unto God,

I will fellowship with my

Lord and Savior, King.

In Him there is no darkness.

He is in the light of truth.

If we walk in His light,

From sin He purifies. 

If we repent of our sins,

He’ll forgive us now,

When we humble ourselves, and

Before Jesus bow.

The man who says, “I know Him,”

But does not obey His truth,

There is no truth in him.

In darkness still he’s found.

Do not love the world of sin,

For it is hell bound.

If you follow the world, you’ll

Not in Christ be found.

The world and its desires 

Will not last; they’ll expire.

The one who does God’s will,

Receives eternal life.

See that what you have heard from

Christ remains in you.

Then, you’ll remain in Christ, and

In His Father, too.

This is what He promised us –

His eternal life with God.

So, continue in Him, and

You’ll receive a crown.

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Immorality Running Rampant

An Original Work / January 7, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love