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MORE LIKE JESUS | PAUL DAUGHERTY | EPHESIANS 5-6:10

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Erica Kirk forgave her husband's assassin live on TV, shaking millions and igniting a global forgiveness movement.

Harvest time is the frame. The sermon opens with the joy of people choosing baptism, then turns toward the church standing together while the world feels divided. God is not finished yet, and the room is told they are there on purpose, with better days ahead because Jesus has a plan. Then it gets practical. Darkness is treated as real pressure, something believers resist by walking in light from the Lord. The word washes people clean. Scripture, worship, church, and the presence of God become the ordinary places where Jesus sanctifies a life. This is daily surrender, not a Sunday mood. Culture does not get to fill the heart, define the home, or set the tone for what a believer carries. So the house comes under the light. The TV, the music, the bedroom, the car, and the habits of the week all face the same question: what is forming the soul? Let the light in. That charge becomes a Spirit-filled invitation, with more of God and less of self as the way toward becoming more like Jesus. Wine is named directly. The sermon contrasts numb escape with God-given purpose, urging anyone stuck in nightly drinking to turn toward the Holy Spirit instead. The ending moves into prayer. Worship makes room for mercy, grace, forgiveness, righteousness, repentance, and fresh surrender to God's cleansing work. Forgiveness gets personal. The closing prayer asks Jesus to purify and sanctify while the listener chooses to forgive people who caused real hurt.

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A high-energy call to live as a united, Spirit-filled church.

The episode settles into a forceful appeal for unity, light, and Spirit-led worship. It keeps returning to the same ground from different angles: a divided world needs a united church, believers are called to live as light rather than darkness, and speech, song, and response…

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You want a high-energy sermon that frames Ephesians as a call to let the light in, be filled with the Spirit, and start again.

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