Stipp's Sermons
Stipp's Sermons
Jill Riggins
11.4.1990 God's Prescription for Life (Ephesians 5:1-20)
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Sunday morning service at Broken Arrow (OK) First Church of the Nazarene, November 4, 1990. This message from Ephesians 5 outlines six parts of God's "Prescription for Life" - how to imitate Him:
1. the Plea (to imitate God)
2. the Pattern (Christ, as an offering)
3. the Perversion (self and sin)
4. the Punishment (exclusion from the Kingdom; hell)
5. the Path (holiness)
6. the Power (of the Holy Spirit)
The closing hymn is a prayer: "My Faith Looks up to Thee", beginning at
My Faith Looks Up to thee,
thou, Lamb of Calvary,
Savior divine.
Now hear me while I pray;
take all my guilt away;
O let me from this day
be wholly thine!
May thy rich grace impart
strength to my fainting heart;
my zeal inspire! 
As Thou hast died for me,
oh, may my love to Thee
pure, warm, and changeless be,
a living fire!
While life’s dark maze I tread,
and griefs around me spread,
be thou my guide.
Bid darkness turn to day,
wipe sorrow’s tears away,
nor let me ever stray
from thee aside.
When in life’s transient dream,
when death’s cold, sullen stream
shall o’er me roll,
blest Savior, then, in love,
fear and distrust remove;
O bear me safe above,
a ransomed soul!