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vs. 1 - Commanded to Live Like God.
vs. 2 - Commanded to Love Like God.
vs. 3-7 - Commanded to Leave the Worldly Ways.
Today, we discover why we are to be different.
How About Our Change.
What We Were - “were sometimes darkness.”
This means that we were lost and in the darkness of sin and depravity.
We were blinded by the god of this world, 2 Cor.
4:4.
We lived like every other lost person, and we enjoyed it, Eph.
2:1–3.
The sins of verses 4–5 were who we were and what we did.
We were enslaved to sin.
We knew nothing else.
We wanted nothing else.
We were lost in the dark and headed to Hell.
We lived like the lost people we were.
What We Are - “are light in the Lord.”
When the Lord saved us, He delivered us from darkness.
When the Lord delivered us from darkness, He set us free from the power of sin.
He has changed and made us children of the light.
Since we have been changed, we are to walk in light and no longer in the darkness that once characterized us.
Consider Rom.
13:12–14,
Our lives once manifested the works of the world, the flesh and the devil.
Sin was a way of life for us.
Darkness was where we lived, and what we loved.
By the power of grace, the Lord has touched us, saved us, delivered us and changed us.
He has brought us out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Since that is true, we are to “walk as children of light.”
How do we do that?
We do that by avoiding sinful thinking and sinful living.
We do it by surrendering our all to the Spirit of God, Who will produce within us the “peaceable fruit of righteousness.”
We have been changed, and we should live different lives.
By the way this is not something we should have to be constantly encouraged to do.
If we are truly saved, and if we have been truly changed, then holiness should be a way of life for us!
1st of all there has been a Change in us.
Now,
How About Our Character.
These two verses deal with the reality of our spiritual walk.
If we are truly saved, and walking in the light, it will be clear from the life we live.
Paul says the “fruit of the Spirit” is seen in three ways.
Our Goodness -
Relationship with Others
Goodness refers to “uprightness of heart and life.”
It speaks of godliness in the motives, thoughts and actions.
It is the quality of godlikeness.
This has also to do with our treatment of others.
When we practice “goodness,” we are walking in love to those around us.
We are being God-like toward them, as we treat them like God treats us.
Our Righteousness -
Relationship with God
This word refers to our standing before the Lord.
When He saved us, God declared us righteous.
He took away all our guilt, imputed the righteousness of Christ to us, and made us holy in His sight.
Righteousness is seen in our lives when we live out the reality of who we are, and what we have been made in Christ Jesus.
It speaks of a godliness that makes a life as being different and as belonging to the Lord.
Our Truth -
Relationship with Self
This word has to do with honesty, reliability, and trustworthiness.
When this quality is seen in the life of a believer, it stands in stark contrast to the hypocritical, deceptive and false ways of the world.
- “Goodness” deals with our relationship with others.
- “Righteousness” deals with our relationship with God.
- “Truth” deals with the personal integrity of our own lives.
• These three characteristics are called “fruit.”
Fruit is the unfolding of life.
None of these things, taken to their perfect fulfillment, are things you will find in the lives of unbelievers.
They are the “fruit”, the proof, of the presence of the life of the Lord in us.
When we know Him, we will be like Him!
You will notice that he did not speak about praying a prayer, joining the church, being baptized, being good to people, doing good works, or giving to or serving the church.
All those things are good, but they are works that are easily accomplished in the flesh.
Anyone can do them, even someone who has never been saved.
On the other hand, the three characteristics Paul did mention, goodness, righteousness and truth, are only possible through the work of the Spirit in the life of a redeemed believer.
So, Why Walk as Children of Light?
#1 - Our Change
#2 - Our Character
and now,
How About Our Command.
The phrase “have no fellowship” means “do not be a partaker of.”
Those who know the Lord should not be a partaker of those things that are evil, even by association.
We are to avoid all things that are evil.
We are to avoid even the appearance of evil, 1 Thes.
5:22 .
We have to be in the world.
If we are not in the world at all, we cannot witness to the lost.
However, we must be careful that we do not allow ourselves to get trapped by the ways of the world.
We are to be a separate, holy people to the glory of the Lord.
The kind of sins we are to avoid have been mentioned in Eph.
4:25–31, and in Eph.
5:4–6.
This is not an exhaustive list of sins we are to avoid.
We are to avoid all sin!
The depth of our separation is pointed out clearly in 1 Cor.
5:9–11 .
We are to guard our hearts, our minds and our bodies.
Sin is all around us, but so is the help of the Spirit of God, 1 John 4:4 .
1 John 4:4 (KJV 1900)
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
If we trust Him, He will help us to live lives that are holy and pleasing to Him.
#1 - Our Change
#2 - Our Character
#3 - Our Command
But now #4
How About Our Commission
Our responsibility to abstain from sin goes farther than simply not doing sinful things.
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