Let your Light Shine

Let your Light Shine:  Light (the Christian life)                   

                        Darkness (life outside of Christ)

Matthew 5:14-16

14 Ye are the light of the world (“The”) (Whole World) (Reflect God). A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid (Glowing for others to Look Up/Find you Up).

15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel (Basket / Clay Pot / Hide), but on a candlestick (Lamp Stand); and it giveth light unto all that are in the house (Give Light to Everyone). 

16 Let your light so shine before men (Everybody / Everywhere), that they may see your good works (Excellent Deeds), and glorify your Father which is in heaven (Your God).

Ephesians 5:8-9

8 For ye were sometimes darkness (Once-Didn’t Know / Old Life) (Heart Once Full Dark), but now are ye light in the Lord (Belong ? Gospel): walk as children of light (Act like People of the Light): 

 9 For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth; (Effects of the Light-Goodness, Honesty, Truthfulness)

Philippians 2:15

15 That ye may be blameless and harmless (Live Clean (Clean Up Act) and Innocent), the sons of God (Children), without rebuke (No one Talk about you / you must not do anything that they can say is wrong), in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation (Evil, Wicked World), among whom ye shine as lights in the world (bright lights (stars or beacons shining out clearly)

John 1:4-5

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehendeda it not.

- In Jesus There is Life and the Life is our Light

- Our Light shines in a Dark World

- The World can’t put our Light Out