"Sleepers, Awake"
Grace Greater than Our Sin • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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· 4 viewsLast week, we focused on the fruits of being justified. This week, we look at the fruits of being sanctified and living a holy life.
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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.”
1. We walk through the world as lights in the Lord. (vs. 8-10)
1. We walk through the world as lights in the Lord. (vs. 8-10)
14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
2. We expose the works of darkness and take no part in them. (vs. 11-12)
2. We expose the works of darkness and take no part in them. (vs. 11-12)
12 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
3. The power of the gospel transforms the world. (vs. 13-14)
3. The power of the gospel transforms the world. (vs. 13-14)
2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.