WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT
Ephesians: Cosmic Truth For Common People – Part 10
Ephesians 5.2-14
vv. 8–9 “… now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true) …” (esv)
OUR LIGHT IS DEMONSTRATED BY OUR …
Careful Conversation
v. 4 “Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.” (esv)
v. 12 “For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.” (esv)
v. 11 “… the unfruitful works of darkness … expose them.” (esv)
Sexual Expression
v. 3 “But sexual immorality and all impurity … must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.” (esv)
Genesis 2.24 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” (esv)
v. 5 “For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure … has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.” (esv)
Financial Satisfaction
v. 3 “… covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.” (esv)
v. 6 “… or who is covetous (that is, an idolater) …” (esv)
Call To Mission
v. 14 “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” (esv)
Jesus: “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8.12 (esv)