Being People of the Light
Richard Bradley
Ephesians 5:8-14
We're living in a dark world and maybe in one of the darkest times of history. I don't think anyone of any serious intellect would be willing to dispute that. One has to go on a serious search to find any light at all in this crazy, upside down world and this is a shame because our world is ever so much darker than it should be.
Why would that be? This is true because God's people have been left here by Christ to be people of light; of God's light to a dark, forbidding world. We look up in the night sky and see a full moon and are amazed at how bright our surroundings can be. But like the moon, ours is a reflected light. While the moon reflects the light of the sun, Christians reflect the light of God's Son.
Ephesians 5:8-14
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says: ''Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.'' NKJV
Look at what Paul wrote about believers being people of light.
THOSE THAT REFLECT HEAVEN'S LIGHT ARE AWARE OF THEIR PAST
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord . . . . .
In verse 8 Paul is referring to what we and the Ephesians used to be before our salvation. The Ephesians were lost, having no relationship with God. There was no light to reflect because they had never been exposed to God's light and neither could be. Just as Moses reflected God's shekinah glory in his face, we believers reflect God's shekinah glory in our lives because o ...
Richard Bradley
Ephesians 5:8-14
We're living in a dark world and maybe in one of the darkest times of history. I don't think anyone of any serious intellect would be willing to dispute that. One has to go on a serious search to find any light at all in this crazy, upside down world and this is a shame because our world is ever so much darker than it should be.
Why would that be? This is true because God's people have been left here by Christ to be people of light; of God's light to a dark, forbidding world. We look up in the night sky and see a full moon and are amazed at how bright our surroundings can be. But like the moon, ours is a reflected light. While the moon reflects the light of the sun, Christians reflect the light of God's Son.
Ephesians 5:8-14
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says: ''Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.'' NKJV
Look at what Paul wrote about believers being people of light.
THOSE THAT REFLECT HEAVEN'S LIGHT ARE AWARE OF THEIR PAST
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord . . . . .
In verse 8 Paul is referring to what we and the Ephesians used to be before our salvation. The Ephesians were lost, having no relationship with God. There was no light to reflect because they had never been exposed to God's light and neither could be. Just as Moses reflected God's shekinah glory in his face, we believers reflect God's shekinah glory in our lives because o ...
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