Walk in Love ( Eph 5)

1. Focus on how light affects others We are to expose. We can if we expose ourselves Can’t expect holiness from darkness. You have to make them feel bad before they can feel good. What we show (light) is God at work in us. We expose their emptiness, (no truth in them, ignorance) and teach them (show) truth, about Christ. Which is love. Which is forgiveness. Walk in Love (Eph 5)

2. KIF Spring 2012 Sermon Series - Ephesians GRACE to YOU

3. KIF Spring 2012 Sermon Series - Ephesians A Worthy Walkthird race behaviorBecoming who you are - Light

4. A THIRD RACE We are a newly created race. We are to be different. put off your old self…put on the new self

5. Ephesians 5:15-17 "Be very careful, then, how you live, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is." What is the will of the Lord? To live by Faith "Without faith it is impossible to please him," (Hebrews 11:6)

6. Wise - one who lives in accord with God's divine principles Fool – one who lives ignoring God’s divine principles Walk in Wisdom (Eph 5)

7. Truth Proverbs 6:23 "For the commandment is a lamp and the law is light." Psalm 119:105, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path."  II Corinthians 4:6 "God commanded the light to shine out of darkness. The light has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."  Eph 4:18 “They are darkened in their understanding” Light and Darkness Ignorance

8. Holiness Eph 5:8 Live as children of light Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, Romans 13:12,13 "So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.  Light and Darkness Evil

9. Ephesians 5:15-17 "Be very careful, then, how you live, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is." Redeem – take advantage of the opportunity and buy up

10. Walk in light  Contrast  8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light  11Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,  but rather expose them Command  Commission 

11. 2 Corinthian 4 6For God, who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;

12. This Treasure • II コリント 4:6,7 For God, who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has  shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves

13. Ephesians 5:15-17 "Be very careful, then, how you live, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,"

14. Filled with the Holy Spirit John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.

15. Filled with the Holy Spirit John 7:37-39 If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive