Ephesians was written to Christians living in a notoriously immoral, sinful culture. For example, the main religion in Ephesus, the “sin city” of its day, was the worship of the multi-breasted goddess Artemis (Ar′-tuh-mis), or Diana (kjv). Statues portrayed her with multi-breasts exposed to depict her gift of fertility. The huge, official statue in Ephesus was housed at her dazzling temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The marble temple, which took 120 years to build, was approximately 225 feet wide by 425 feet long. That is more than twice as wide as a football field and about one and half times as long. There were 127 marble columns, 60 feet tall, on the porch surrounding the temple. The worship of sex in Ephesus is no different from our culture today. They worshiped sex through Artemis, while our culture worships sex through TV, books, movies, the internet, etc. It’s all based on a false idea of love. The world lives in lust, while Spirit-filled living is living in love. This passage reveals four requirements for living in love …
