Living Lights (Ephesians 5:8-20)

Lightning Bugs
1. Most efficient Light producers around.
2. Every stage of a firefly’s life, it is bioluminescent.
Old State (Eph 5:8a)
1. What is darkness? (Eph 2:1-2, 2:12, 4:17-18, Jude 13)
New State (Eph 5:8b)
1. The Great Transformation
Being light is an Biblical Image
1. Genesis 1, Exodus 10:23, Exodus 25, 2Sam 22:29, Isa. 49:6
2. Christ is the Light (Matt 4:16, Jn 8:12, 10:16)
3. Dante’s Paradiso Canto XXX
How then shall we live? (Eph 5:8-10)
1. Eschewing Evil (Eph 5:11a)
2. Exposing Evil (Eph 5:11b, Jn 3:19, 16:8)
  1. In the church, called Church Discipline.
  2. Outside the church, called exposure, convicting, rebuking
3. Not drunkenness (Eph 5:18)
  1. Any loss of control in order to get an artificial relief from life
  2. which also in some way causes us to sin.
4. Filled by the Spirit (Eph 5:18)
  1. v.18-21: 1 long sentence with the 1 command and 5 participles
    1. Speech centered on God and his character and nature (Eph 5:19)
    2. Thanksgiving (Eph 5:20)
    3. Submission to one another (Eph 5:21-6:9)
  2. Stand firm in the lord (Eph 6:10-18)
  3. Pray always (Eph 6:19ff)
Remember those Lightning Bugs!

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