Thursday, December 06, 2012

Ephesians 5:8-10

8 For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light].

We are now light, because we are now one with the body of Light. We are now one with the Light, Jesus Christ, so how could we be anything but light? The powerful Truth about light is that it cannot be both light and dark. Good water and bitter water cannot come from the same fountain, James 3:11. We are either one or the other.

For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we do not belong either to the night or to darkness. 1 Thessalonians 5:5

 9 For the fruit (the effect, the product) of the Light or the Spirit [consists] in every form of kindly goodness, uprightness of heart, and trueness of life.

We are plainly shown here the Truth that it is the Spirit that causes us to do what our Father wants. This is our victory and this is our peace. Far too many want to bring us again to bondage, teaching and preaching what we have to do for our Father. This teaching would be like teaching what the branch has to do on its own to produce fruit, or what the hand must do on its own to serve the body. There is no separation between us and our Father at all. All that He is, we are now one with just as Jesus is. We are new creatures in Christ, every old thing in our life’s has past away and now all things are new!

10 And try to learn [in your experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable to Him].

The great thing that we are shown here is that we can actually know what is pleasing to our Father. Our Father doesn’t hide things from us, we have real fellowship with Him.

But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future]. John 16:13

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