Living In The Light - Part 4
Ephesians 5:15-20
So be careful how you live. Don't live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don't act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Intro:
Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world-like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden.
Luke 11:36 If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light.
- Be Careful How You Live
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- Ephesians 5:15 So be careful how you live. Don't live like fools, but like those who are wise.
- Philippians 2:15 ...so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.
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- Make the Most of Every Opportunity
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- Ephesians 5:16 Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.
- Colossians 4:5-6 Live wisely among those who are not believers, and make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone.
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- Understand What the Lord Wants You to Do
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- Ephesians 5:17 Don't act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.
- Ephesians 5:10 Carefully determine what pleases the Lord.
- Matthew 6:10-13 May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us today the food we need, and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us. And don't let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.
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- Be Filled With the Spirit
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- Ephesians 5:18 Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
- Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere-in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
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- Keep Worshipping
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- Ephesians 5:19 Singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts.
- Hebrews 13:15 Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise of God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name.
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- Give Thanks
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- Ephesians 5:20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
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