Ephesians 5: 8-14

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[The following transcript is auto-generated from the recording and has only been lightly edited.] Ephesians chapter 5, and I’m reading verses 8 to 14, page 1176 Ephesians chapter 5, verses 8 to 14: For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. And find out what pleases the Lord, have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shamefulful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. but everything exposed by the light becomes visible, and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. light. This is why it is said, “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” When God God first created the world, it was without form, and it was empty. And we read in Genesis 1, verse 2, that darkness covered the deep, the deep deep is water. It was just a lump of earth surrounded by a huge ocean, and it was all in complete darkness. God did not create people at that point. They simply would not have survived, just water, just darkness. I mean, it would be unbearable to think of. But, you know, if God had made everything apart from the light, so the land, the plants, the animals, the birds, the fish, everything there, but men no light. Can you imagine what it would be like then if you created the first people? They would have stumbled around, maybe they would have found some food to eat, but maybe not, and life simply would not have made any sense in the darkness. How wonderful, then, it was that God, on the very first day of creation, said, Let there be light. It was the first thing that he created, having made the heavens and the earth. This earth that was surrounded by darkness, God created light. Let there be light. The light makes all the difference. In the light, you can make sense of your surroundings. You can move forward, you can make plans, you can work, you can do things, you can live. But actually in Genesis chapter 1, there is another type of light that is given. It’s the light of knowledge. Imagine Adam and Eve, created on the sixth day of creation. There’s light. They have all the food that they need. The animals are there, the land, the sea, a beautiful world. God saw all that he had made. It was very good. But, you know, still, life would not have made much sense, because here are Adam and E, they would find themselves in this world and they really wouldn’t know what it’s all about. Maybe you’ve watched some of those Bourne Identity films. They came out, I don’t know, 15, 20 years ago. And one of them begins with Jason Bourne, and he’s literally swimming in the sea, and he doesn’t know why he’s there. And gradually, he comes to work out as he gets attacked, and it’s an exciting film, I recommend it. If Adam and Eve had just been created, they would have been there, not in the middle of an ocean, not in the darkness, but in a beautiful world, but they wouldn’t know what it’s all about. Why are they here? What are they supposed to do? God gave them light. He told them. He spoke to them, the light of knowledge. I guess they would have been able to figure out that they could eat the fruit from the different trees. I guess they would have figured out how to build things, how to raise a family, how to work, but they wouldn’t really know why, what really is this all about? But God spoke. And when God spoke, they did know where they came from. They had been created by God. They knew why they were there. They were to look after this world that God had made. And they were to know God and relate to God and love God. And that knowledge was just as important as the physical light. This was spiritual light. But then something terrible happened. Adam and Eve turned against God. They disobeyed him. They rejected the light that God had given, that spiritual light, and they were plunged into darkness, and all their descendants

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