Morning: This morning we looked at living as "Children of Light." In Ephesians 5:8-14, the apostle Paul sets forth three images of comparison between God's children and sons of disobedience. The first image contrasts darkness and light. The readers were once darkness, that is part of the rebellious world system the serves Satan's purposes and rejects God's purposes, but now they were light. As children of the light they were to find God's will and do it. The second image was a contrast between fruit and fruitlessness. They were to produce the fruit of light (which is goodness, righteousness, and truth) in their lives, and they were to avoid the "fruitless" deeds of darkness (which is sin). The second image was a contrast between hidden and revealed. The deeds of darkness are shameful to discuss, but we are to expose them for what they are, so that they will no longer be hidden, and those who practice them might find forgiveness.
Evening: We looked at the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, Article IV. Salvation.
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