Rise and shine - Ephesians 5:8-14

Rise and Shine
Ephesians 5:8-14

Who we were vs. Who we are
You were dead in your sins,
now you’re alive.

You were a child of
disobedience, now you’re a
child of God.

You were a child of wrath,
now you are a child of
righteousness.

You were a stranger and alien to God’s
promises, now you are a fellow citizen
of God’s household and entitled to an
inheritance.

You were darkness,
now you are light.

How Did You Become Light?
You did not become light by
looking within your
darkened self.

You did not become light through
an enlightened guru or spiritual
guide.

You did become light through some
secrete knowledge.

You were declared to be
light by The Light and
Maker of Light.

God Is Light
1 John 1:5–7
5 This is the message we have heard from him
and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in
him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have
fellowship with him while we walk in darkness,
we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we
walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of
Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

God is Light
James 1:17
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, coming down from the Father of lights
with whom there is no variation or shadow due
to change.

God dwells in light
1 Timothy 6:15b–16
15 …… only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord
of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, who
dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one
has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and
eternal dominion. Amen.

God is clothed in Light
Psalm 104:1–2
104 Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD my God, you are very great!
You are clothed with splendor and majesty,
2 covering yourself with light as with a garment,
stretching out the heavens like a tent.

The Son is the Light
John 8:12
12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the
light of the world. Whoever follows me will not
walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 9:5
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of
the world.”

We are to walk in Christ’s light
John 12:35–36
35 So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you
for a little while longer. Walk while you have the
light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who
walks in the darkness does not know where he is
going. 36 While you have the light, believe in the
light, that you may become sons of light.”

Who is light?
• God is Light.
• God’s Son is Light.
• God’s Children are Light.

Ephesians 5:8–14 (ESV)
8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light
in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of light
is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try
to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in
the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose
them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that
they do in secret. 13 But when anything is exposed by the
light, it becomes visible, 14 for anything that becomes
visible is light. Therefore it says,
“Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”

What You Were vs. What You Are
8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you
are light in the Lord.
Eph. 4:18–19 18 They are darkened in their
understanding, alienated from the life of God
because of the ignorance that is in them, due to
their hardness of heart. 19 They have become
callous and have given themselves up to sensuality,
greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
You’re not like that anymore, You Are Light.

Behave like what your are!
Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of light is
found in all that is good and right and true),
• Good – moral excellence, how we treat others
• Right – living correctly before God, God’s
morality instead of the worlds.
• True – opposed to lies, deception (inward
character).

Children of light desire moral wisdom
10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.
• Try to discern –Examine and evaluate issues in
order to discern the right moral course of
action that is ‘pleasing the Lord’.
Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the renewal of
your mind, that by testing you may discern what
is the will of God, what is good and acceptable
and perfect.

Children of Light shouldn’t
play in the dark.
11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of
darkness, but instead expose them.
Literally: “Stop participating in the unfruitful
works of darkness.”
When believers behave as “children of light”
their very behavior exposes the unfruitful
behavior of believers that don’t.

Children of Light shouldn’t
play with children of darkness.
The Unbeliever: 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be
unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what
partnership has righteousness with
lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with
darkness?

Fruit doesn’t grow in the dark
What grows in the dark? Mold and bacteria
Expose mold to the light.
Clean away bacteria.

Children of light have nothing to hide
12 For it is shameful even to speak of the
things that they do in secret.
• Children hide in the closet to eat stolen
cookies.
• Grownups eat stolen cookies in the dark.

Is there a dark corner of your life
you’d be ashamed to have
exposed?

What thrives in darkness
hates light
John 3:19–20
19 And this is the judgment: the light has come
into the world, and people loved the darkness
rather than the light because their works were
evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things
hates the light and does not come to the light,
lest his works should be exposed.

The presence of light brings judgment
1 Corinthians 4:5
5 Therefore do not pronounce judgment before
the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring
to light the things now hidden in darkness and
will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then
each one will receive his commendation from
God.

Expose yourself to the light
13 But when anything is exposed by the light, it
becomes visible, 14 for anything that becomes
visible is light.
‘It is even possible (after all, it happened to
you!) for light to turn the thing it shines upon
into light also’ J. P. Phillips
Light exposes.
Light transforms.

Light Produces Light
13 But when anything is exposed by the light, it
becomes visible, 14 for anything that becomes
visible is light.
8 for at one time you were darkness, but
now you are light in the Lord.

Therefore it says,
“Awake, O sleeper,
and arise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”

2 Corinthians 4:4
In their case the god of this world has
blinded the minds of the unbelievers,
to keep them from seeing the light of
the gospel of the glory of Christ, who
is the image of God.

Isaiah 60:1–2
60 Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.
2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,
and thick darkness the peoples;
but the LORD will arise upon you,
and his glory will be seen upon you.

Hebrews 4:13
13 And no creature is hidden from his
sight, but all are naked and exposed to
the eyes of him to whom we must give
account.

Come out of darkness into Christ light, so
his light can shine on you and reflect off
you.
Wake Up and Shine!

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