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I. INTRO
A. Where we’ve been
B.
Where we’re going
C. Scripture
Eph
D. Prayer
E. Context
II.
BODY
A. Light & Dark do not mix
a. do not be deceived, the wrath of God is coming
Eph 5:6
1. what R the empty words of deceit?
what are the empty words?
deceit in the church
i. there is no hell
deceit in the world
ii.
don’t worry about sin…etc.
what are these things?
-Paul makes it clear in:
iii.
Instead o inheriting KOG, these folks will receive God’s just wrath
coming for who?
deceit in the world
-That’s why Paul says, “because of these things (godlessness o sexual immorality, impurity, loving/prioritizing $$ & acquisition of material stuff above/instead of God) HIS wrath is coming
read any book, listen to any commercial, any radio program, any movie, any song…their all trying to sell you a message as though it’s true!
-Church if we r willfully living in sin, we r partners w/darkness & clumped together w/that darkness which will justly receive the wrath of God
*Yes, God is loving
*Yes, God is merciful
*but Yes God is just & Holy!
~what do we do w/this info?
2. Our response:
i. humble ourselves by seeking God’s face in prayer,
ii.
turn from our ways to HIS ways,
-God will respond!
Heaven is for good people, so be good
multiple ways to heaven
all ways leads to God
who’s the sons of disobedience?
read any book, listen to any commercial, any radio program, any movie, any song…their all trying to sell you a message as though it’s true!
Jesus is the way, truth, life, no one comes to the father except through him!
b.
Light must not partner with darkness
Eph 5:7
1. Partner with darkness means to partake in it (so don’t)
i. this does not mean avoid all contact w/unchurched folks, but avoid joining in their sin
ii.
Expose:
Eph 5:11
2. Instead, the light exposes darkness
i. Expose: reprove/convince that darkness is darkness
-no compromising that sin IS sin
-we r to do so w/out engaging in gossip, slander, etc (which is also partaking in darkness instead of exposing it)
-let us show what is dark by living a life in the light through good & wise interactions
*This does not mean judging the world!
c.
You are not darkness , so walk like light
Eph 5:
1. walk means to live!
2. what makes us children of light?
i. we’re IN the Lord
ii.
we r not children of the light because we r good people
-we r children of the light because we’ve accepted Jesus as Lord & savior…making us “in the Lord”
-now that we R children of the light, we r free to ACT like it.
*how do we know?
B. There is evidence we are light in the Lord
a.
We know a thing by what it produces
1. Jesus said it this way in:
i. u can tell a bad tree by its bad fruit
ii.
u can tell a good tree by its good fruit
-what’s in a person naturally comes out!
*that is to say, Christian virtues grow naturally & spontaneously & not by obedience to a book of rules
Christian virtues … grow naturally and spontaneously’ and do not come ‘by obedience to a book of rules
Salvation is the mechanism that changes us from a bad tree to a good tree (the old creation becomes the new creation)
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Salvation is the mechanism that changes us from a bad tree to a good tree
-the old creation becomes the new creation
*so what’s the good fruit from a good tree?
b. the fruit of light is doing good
1. good: What God says is morally honorable, pleasing to HIM, & therefore beneficial
morally honorable, pleasing to God, and therefore beneficial
Vine, W. E., Unger, M. F., & White, W., Jr. (1996).
Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Vol.
2, p. 273).
Nashville, TN: T. Nelson.
c. the fruit of light is acting just
1. right: that which is righteous & just as God ordains it
3. the fruit of light is doing
d. the fruit of light is being true
1.
In this vs we see Jesus displaying what it means to be true
i. Jesus authentically lives & teaches God’s way w/out regard for any1’s approval
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Let’s do likewise by living authentically as a Christ Follower
C. Light must seek & live out what is pleasing to God
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