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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
Copyright 2007

LIVING AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT

This entry was posted on 05-13-2008 and is filed under uncategorized.

Today we begin a new series of Bible studies that I'm calling "Living as Children of Light." The study is based on the text in Ephesians 4:17 - 5:21. The keynote text is Eph. 5:8 (NIV), "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light."

Paul begins, "So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do..." (Eph. 4:17). The Gentiles represent darkness in this text. Darkness is the opposite of light. God is light. Gentiles are darkness. So we who are the children of light must no longer think, speak, or act like unsaved, nonChristian Gentiles. Living like a Gentile is an insult to God. He expects and demands better than that from us. Paul wasn't just telling the Ephesians this - he was insisting on this (in the Lord). Living like Christ is not optional - it is obligatory.

Hymn: The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin, The light of the world is Jesus; Like sunshine at noon-day His glory shone in, The light of the world is Jesus. Come to the Light, 'tis shining for thee, sweetly the Light has dawned upon me; once I was blind, but now I can see: The Light of the world is Jesus. (Philip P. Bliss)

P.S. Thank you for your prayers. The tornadoes that swept through S.W. Missouri took 15 lives. We took to the basement but our house suffered no damage.