From Darkness To Light

You have been redeemed out of the kingdom of darkness to display God’s standard for sexual purity and shine the floodlight of Christ so others can be redeemed.

 

 

Purity is to be the standard among God’s saints – vss 3-4

³ But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.  ⁴ Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

 

The impure are excluded from the kingdom and experience God’s wrath – vss 5-6

⁵ For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.  ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

 

Saints have been redeemed from darkness; do not return to it – vss 7-10

⁷ Therefore do not become partners with them; 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.

 

Saints are to expose the works of darkness by shining the light of Christ on them – vss 11-14

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.”