Living Lights (Ephesians 5:8-20)

Living Lights (Ephesians 5:8-20)

  1. Lightning Bugs
    1. Most efficient Light producers around.
    2. Every stage of a firefly’s life, it is bioluminescent.
  2. Old State (Eph 5:8a)
    1. What is darkness? (Eph 2:1-2, 2:12, 4:17-18, Jude 13)
  3. New State (Eph 5:8b)
    1. The Great Transformation
  4. 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
  5. 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)
  6. Remember those Lightning Bugs!

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