This morning, I'm going to take a quick poll. At the end of our sermon last week, I challenged you to read the Bible at least four times this past week. I want you to raise your hand if you accomplished that goal this week.
Look at that. That is fantastic. That's most of us in here this morning. We read our Bibles at least four times this week. Don't stop. Every single week, this next week, I challenge you again: read the Bible at least four times again this week. The change might not be immediate, but I promise you, if you dive into God's Word consistently, your life will change. Amen. It will. Make it a practice of reading God's Word as much as you possibly can.
I want to read for us one verse that we just read, verse 27: "God is the Lord, and He has given us light." Today, our sermon title is "Living on the Rock, Walking in the Light."
I want to tell you a story about a woman who walked in literal darkness her whole life, but she became a shining example of what it means to walk in the light of Christ. Frances Jane Van Alstyne Crosby, or better known as Fanny Crosby, was born on March 24th, 1820. Raise your hand if you know who Fanny Crosby is. You've heard that name before. Okay, good. She passed away February 12th, 1915. By the way, she was related to Bing Crosby. I don't know if you knew that. They were very distantly related.
Crosby was one of the most prolific hymn writers to ever live. As a matter of fact, she wrote over 8,000 hymns and gospel songs with more than 100 million copies printed. She was a prolific musician. She could play the piano, the organ, the guitar, and the harp. She was a gifted soprano singer, and she did this all while being blind since the age of six weeks old.
Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks of age, and then at six months of age, her father unexpectedly passed away. So, in her life, she knew a lot of strife. She was raised by her mother and her mother-in-law. She went to blind school. She was a prolific writer. She began writing poem after poem, even at an early age.
About her affliction, she said, "It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank Him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow, I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things around me."
Wow. How often do the beautiful and interesting things around us distract us from the worship of the Most High God? I think it does. Fanny was on to something here. She also once said, "When I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior." What a life of true walking in the light of God.
She was a gifted soprano singer, and she said, "If perfect earthly light..." She not only was musically gifted, she had a tremendous, brilliant memory. By the age of 15, she had memorized Genesis, the entire book, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Proverbs, Song of Solomon, most of the Psalms, and Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. By the time she was 15. I think by the time I was 15, I had beaten Super Mario Brothers. She was a little bit more gifted than I am. Oh, to have that type of memory.
Fanny Crosby was a woman who in her lifetime never saw the light of day, never knew how to walk, but she knew how to walk better than most Christians that I know. I want to read for you a verse, a couple of verses from one of her hymns. She wrote, "Blessed assurance," "To God be the glory," "Pass me not, O gentle Savior," "Rescue the perishing," "Jesus, keep me near the cross," "Tell me the story of Jesus redeemed," "How I love to proclaim it," and "All the way my Savior leads me." Many of us know most of these by heart.
Here are verses one and three of "All the Way My Savior Leads Me."
Verse one: "All the way my Savior leads me. What have I to ask beside? Can I doubt His tender mercy who through life has been my guide? Heavenly peace, divinest comfort here by faith in Him to dwell, for I know what'er befall me. Jesus doeth all things well."
Verse three: "All the way my Savior leads me. Oh, the fullness of His love. Perfect rest to me is promised in my Father's house above. When my spirit, clothed immortal, wings its flight to realms of day, this, my song through endless ages: Jesus led me all the way."
You know, many, many, many, many, many, many, many blind people have seeing-eye dogs that help them. Fanny Crosby had a seeing-eye God that helped her walk in the light. Using her as a great example, let's dive into Scripture today and learn how we also can walk in the light.
Turn to Ephesians chapter five. We're going to read verses one through ten this morning.
"Therefore be imitators of God as dear children and walk in love as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you as is fitting for saints, neither filthiness nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man who is an idolater has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them, for you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth, finding out what is acceptable to the Lord."
Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for your Word this morning. I pray that you would just infuse it into our hearts. May your Holy Spirit just speak to every one of us.
As it so often happens, you speak to us individually. I can be preaching one sermon, Lord, but you speak to each individual heart as you see fit. And we pray that you would do that today.
Father, I pray that our lives would be changed, that we would go from here walking more in the light of Jesus Christ than we were before we came into this room this morning. Lord, as we go through our day-to-day, as we go through Monday through Saturday, getting ready to come back to church next week, I pray that our lives would be walking in the light of Jesus Christ.
Lord, reveal to us today how you want us to accomplish that this week. We pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.
I want to talk to you first about salvation matters. Salvation matters. I want to clear up a misconception that some people in the Christian faith have. They think that as long as I pray that prayer to accept Jesus Christ, then that's all I have to do. And yes, that is all you have to do to become saved. That's all you have to do is just believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, that He rose from the dead. That's all you have to do.
But that's just the beginning, friends. That's not the end of our life as Christians. It's not just a one-and-done proposition. I think a lot of times evangelicals think, "Well, I'm going to evangelize this person, and as soon as they pray that prayer, I'm just going to move on to the next one," without even thinking any more about this precious soul that just accepted Christ as their Savior.
I want to talk to you today about a little word called discipleship. So often we accept Christ, and then we're left on the road without any guidance, without any way to go, and not knowing exactly what we're supposed to do next. You see, this is as far from the truth as is possible. Peter explains it eloquently in 1 Peter chapter one: "But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, 'Be holy, for I am holy.'"
We don't automatically know how to be holy just because we've accepted Christ as our Savior. We have to work at being holy. The process is called sanctification. We are never finished with it on this earth. Sanctification is one of those theological words that basically means becoming more like Christ as we move along in our life.
You see, discipleship is the curriculum for sanctification. In other words, we have to work at being holy. We learn how to act like Christ through discipleship. Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ." True faith, once you've accepted Christ as your Savior, takes work on your part.
Work never produces salvation, but salvation should always produce work. Sometimes we get that backwards. We think we need to work for our salvation, but it's exactly the opposite. Salvation should always produce work. It should produce work in our life. When we're older, we should look more like Christ does than when we were younger. We probably didn't look a lot like Christ then.
Tony Evans said, "Real faith works. It is not static. It is dynamic, producing action and fruit in the life of the believer."
So today, I would like us to learn four steps that we need to follow if we're going to walk in the light.
Step number one is that we need to be an imitator. Be an imitator.
Verse one, Ephesians 5: "Therefore be imitators of God as dear children." Paul encourages us to imitate God right after he warned us about bitterness and anger in the previous chapter. Let's look at chapter four, verse 31: "Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice."
Bitterness can cause us to do some pretty crazy things. There were two shopkeepers who were faced right across from each other. There was a road in between them, and they were kind of bitter toward one another. They were jealous. They didn't like the other person. And every time one shopkeeper would get a customer, they would just get prideful and think, "Oh, well, that shopkeeper across the street didn't get a customer like I did."
One day, an angel came to one of the shopkeepers in a dream and said, "I want to give you a blessing. But know this: whatever you ask for, the shopkeeper across the street will get double what you get. So if you ask for riches, the shopkeeper across the street is going to get double your riches. If you ask for health and long life, you'll get it, but the shopkeeper will get even more."
So the angel said, "What do you want me to give you?" The shopkeeper sat there and thought for a little bit. He said, "I know what I want. Do you think you can make me blind in one eye?" That's what bitterness does to us. When we're so bitter, we want to be even blinded so that the other person can be blinded in both eyes.
That's what bitterness does to us. We are God's dear children. When you have the best father in the world, you want to imitate him. When you imitate your heavenly Father, bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking have a hard time taking hold in your life.
I have a great dad. I remember looking up to him, wanting to be just like my dad when I was younger. And guess what? He's a preacher. So I guess I turned out to be like my dad, at least in a little bit of a way.
As believers, we need to start acting more like children of God and less like children in this world. Too often we come here and we put on a facade, and we go off and we act like the world for the rest of the week. Act like God's dear children.
To do this, we must walk in love. Walk in love. Ephesians 5:2: "And walk in love as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma."
If Paul had stopped at the beginning of this verse and said, "And walk in love," and not gone on to say, "as Christ has also loved us," I think it would have been a little bit easier to follow. As a matter of fact, the world even buys into this idea of easy love.
In 1967, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote a song called "All You Need Is Love," and it became one of the Beatles' number one hits. The song says, "There's nothing you can do that can't be done. Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. All you need is love. Love is all you need."
Folks, this is not the kind of love that Paul, the apostle, not Paul McCartney, is talking about here. You see, Satan has taken this idea of love and separated it from God, turning it into a superficial version of what true love really is.
The kind of love that the Beatles sing about and the world yearns for is love without sacrifice. The kind of love that Paul talks about is sacrificial love. He talks about how Christ made Himself a sacrifice that had a sweet-smelling aroma to God.
Christ-like love is sacrificial love. Paul is calling us to sacrifice for Christ. The sweet-smelling aroma that Paul refers to here is a direct link to Leviticus chapter one, verse nine: "And the priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord."
This sweet aroma was an indicator of the sacrifice that Christ made that pleased the Lord. And it's not saying here that the Lord was pleased with all the sin and all the suffering that comes along with sacrifice in our world. What He is saying is that this sacrifice satisfies the law of God.
This satisfaction is therefore a sweet-smelling aroma to God. To walk in light, we need to imitate the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ, not the easy come, easy go love of the world. Your salvation was purchased at a tremendous price. It's time we start acting like it.
We need to follow the sacrificial loving system that Christ gave to us on the cross. So the first thing we need to do to walk in the light is be an imitator of Christ.
The next step is that we must be pure. Be pure. After Paul tells us to imitate Christ, he gives us a couple of practical ways that we can do that.
Verse three: "But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you as is fitting for saints."
To walk in the light, we must have nothing to do with the darkness of the world around us. The first set of sins that Paul talks about here are what I call sins of the eye. I think it's easy to see how fornication is a sin of the eye through lust, but it's a little bit harder to see how covetousness is a sin of the eye. But I tell you, they're in the same exact category.
These two sins, fornication and covetousness, are at the heart the same. Now, there are other sins that can be listed here as well, but Paul only lists these two in this verse. These two sins, fornication and covetousness, are the same because they involve uncontrolled appetite.
Fornication begins when we don't control our appetite for lust, and covetousness begins when we don't control our appetite for want. They're one and the same. Both sins revolve around two competing forces in our life: abundance and lack.
Think about it. If I said you could have everything you need today, but you cannot have this stool, what are you guys all thinking about right now? The stool, right? You can have everything you want, but you can't have the stool. Our mind immediately goes to that stool.
Let me illustrate for you how this works in the Bible. Genesis chapter two, verse nine: So Adam and Eve had everything they wanted. Every kind of food that they wanted was there. Every source of abundance was right there just at their fingertips, except for one thing: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And notice where it was located: right in the middle of the garden. I think that's very important to understand where that tree was placed. God placed it in the middle of the garden. So what that means is Adam and Eve had to walk past all of that abundance to get to their lack, to the thing that they could not have.
And that's a perfect picture for the sin that we find in our life. We have to walk past the abundance of God's grace every time we sin to grab that one thing that we lack that we think is going to be so good. And it always turns out to be so bad.
You see, Satan comes along with temptation. Genesis 3:6: "So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and she ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate."
You see, in the midst of abundance, Eve was tempted to take the one thing that she lacked, and she looked at it and came to the conclusion that it was good.
Let's read the next verse, verse seven: "Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings."
You see what's going on here? Adam and Eve both have shame. After partaking of this fruit, this is a perfect explanation of what happens every time we are tempted and give in to our sin.
Satan comes along and he says, "Look at that thing that you can't have. Look at your lack in your life. That thing looks so good. It'll be so delicious. It'll be so wonderful if you just partake of that one thing." And then you take it, and you feel shame. And Satan says, "You're a horrible person. How could you have taken that thing? You're a horrible Christian. Look what you've done."
That's exactly what happens every time we sin. But fortunately, God had a plan for them.
Verse 21 of chapter three of Genesis: "Also for Adam and his wife, the Lord God made tunics of skin and clothed them." You see what's going on here? God sacrificed animals and used their skin to cover Adam and Eve's shame.
But you see, this covering of shame would not last. It couldn't last, which is why there's foreshadowing here in Genesis 3:21 for a time when Jesus Christ would come. He would sacrifice Himself and use Himself not to cover our shame, but to take away our shame once and for all.
That's what Jesus did for us on the cross. He took it away from us so that we didn't have to live in shame anymore. We have forgiveness of our sins through Jesus Christ. He defeated Satan once and for all. And we can now throw off the oppressive shame that comes along with our sin.
Christ is victorious. Let not fornication and covetousness be named among you, the saints of God. Be pure. Stay away from the sins of the eyes and stay away from the sins of the tongue.
Verse four: "Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks."
I want to sum up what Paul is saying here with four words: Watch what you say. Watch what you say. I know all of us from time to time slip and we say something we wish we hadn't. Paul is saying, work on what you say. Don't be caught up in foolish talking, coarse jesting.
Luke 6:45 says, "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks."
Warren Wiersbe said, "Two indications of a person's character are what makes him laugh and what makes him weep."
Let me ask you today, what makes you laugh? Do you enjoy laughing at coarse jokes, crude humor? What makes you cry? Do you weep at the things you do? Do you weep at the things that make God weep, a dying world without Christ?
What makes you laugh? What makes you weep? You'll know a man's heart that way. Do you come into this room today putting on a facade saying, "I'm better than this guy sitting next to me," and then you go tomorrow to your work and joke around with the guys or the gals with coarse joking, with crude jokes, not uplifting people?
I want to challenge you today: if you change your heart, your tongue will change as well because out of the heart comes what we say.
Have you ever heard someone say this: that it doesn't matter if we curse because words are arbitrary? As long as I'm not offending someone, then it's okay to say whatever I want. You ever heard this argument? I've heard this argument before.
Paul right here talks against this very argument. Watch what he says. Watch what you say. As a matter of fact, I want to challenge you this week. When you're out at the restaurant, maybe this afternoon if you go to lunch, or if you're at the grocery store, if you're out somewhere where there's someone working, I want you to intentionally stop them and say a word of encouragement to them.
Say something like, "I've noticed you've been working very hard here, and I appreciate that about you." And then let them say whatever they're going to say and find joy in that encounter. Because you will. They're going to get a smile on their face because they're not used to hearing compliments. They're used to hearing people complain.
And when you compliment them, I promise you, number one, they're going to just be overjoyed with it. Number two, they'll probably remember who you are. So the next time you come in, you can give them another compliment.
You see, what you say and how you say it is a good indicator of how close to Christ you are. The closer to Christ that you become, the less you will fall into sins of the tongue, and the more you will encourage others.
I want to touch on one thing here that I think we need to address today. It's found in Exodus 20:7. It's the fourth commandment: "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain."
We've all probably heard this verse thousands of times throughout our life, and yet some of us still have trouble with this. I want to just say one thing today: typing O-M-G is taking the Lord's name in vain.
Some of us don't think about what that actually means. But let's think about that. It's not just what we say. It's what we type. And I want to dig a little bit deeper into this as well. The verse doesn't just mean the actual name of God. It means it has to do with all that His name implies.
You see, none of us were able to name ourselves when we were babies. Our parents did that for us. Some of us did that for our kids. Some of us like our name. Some of us don't like our name. Some of us have even changed our name. But God's the only person who ever named Himself because God has supreme power and authority to do that.
When we take His name, we are bearing it or carrying it in our lives. If you have publicly declared that you are a follower of Christ, you must act in a way that is worthy of taking His name. That's what it means to not take the Lord's name in vain.
When you're a Christian, you've taken on His name. Don't take it in vain. Don't act like a person in the world who lives for their own desires and pleasures. Don't take the Lord's name in vain.
The word "Christian" means "follower of Christ." How then can we call ourselves a follower of Christ and blaspheme His name with how we act? We cannot. Things do not go together.
So stay away from the sins of the eyes. Stay away from the sins of the tongue. And next, stay away from the sins of idolatry.
Verse five: "For this you know that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man who is an idolater has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God."
You see, Paul is making a connection here from our sin to idolatry. When we sin, we are making our own desires, our own wants, our own passions an idol in our lives. Idolatry comes from impatience.
When we accepted Christ, we entered God's kingdom, but we are still waiting for the full revelation of His kingdom to come. In the meantime, we wait here on this earth and see a dim reflection of His kingdom.
Idolatry happens when we give ourselves what we think is God's kingdom here on earth because we aren't willing to wait for it in heaven. This happened to the Israelites when Moses was on Mount Sinai, and they made an idol out of gold, a calf. And they worshiped that because they weren't willing to wait. They had impatience.
Augustine said, "Idolatry is worshiping anything that ought to be used or using anything that ought to be worshiped." Idolatry happens when we worship our tools and use our God.
Let me say that again: Idolatry happens when we worship our tools and use our God. And I can illustrate that.
This morning, I'm about to step on some toes, so be careful. Raise your hand if you own a cell phone. Probably all of us, if not most of us, if not all of us.
Let me ask you a question. Think back about the previous week that we just went through. Think about how much time you spent on your phone and then compare that to how much time you spent with the Lord. Often, it's easy to see what the idols are in our life based on how much time we spend on them.
And I'm going to ask you a question: How much time do we spend with Him? Now, I'm not saying phones are evil. I'm not saying you shouldn't have cell phones. I'm just saying we should watch our lives and watch what becomes an idol in our life.
And I'm not saying that just because you have a cell phone that it is an idol in your life. I don't know. That's between you and the Lord. But I want to encourage you to evaluate that so that we are not having idols in our life.
I want to be clear about this verse where Paul talks about all these sins. He says that you cannot have idols in your life, and he says that you can't have an inheritance in the kingdom of God. Paul is talking about the habitual practice of sin.
You see, no one is sinless, but Christians should sin less than those in the world. That's what Paul's talking about. If you're a believer, no sin can cause you to fall out of God's grace. But every Christian should strive to have an obedient life in Christ.
So to walk in the light, we must first be an imitator. Then we must be pure. Then we must be wise.
Be wise.
Verses six through seven: "Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore, do not be partakers with them."
So right off the heels of Paul encouraging us to be pure, he brings up the sons of disobedience. Now you might be wondering, what is he talking about here?
Let's look at what he said back in Ephesians 2:1: "And you, He made alive who were dead in trespasses and sin." That's us. "In which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience."
So the sons of disobedience are the people who walk according to the world. These are people just like you and me, with one exception: they have chosen to suppress the truth of God.
Romans 1:18: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness."
Notice something very important in Paul's writing in verse seven. He says, "Therefore, do not be partakers with them." He doesn't say, "Don't associate with them." He doesn't say, "Make sure you live your life away from all the unbelievers." No, that's not what Paul is saying.
As a matter of fact, the opposite is true. We should all have friends who are unbelievers. Why? You can tell them about Jesus. What a better way to tell unbelievers about Jesus than by having friends who are unbelievers.
But Paul says here, he says, "Do not be partakers with them." What he's saying is when you have friends who don't believe in the Lord, witness to them, talk to them, but don't be partakers in their sinful lifestyle. That's what Paul is getting at.
We need to be wise when we associate with those who are in the world. Romans 12:2 says, "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."
We need to be transformed by the Word of God.
Be in the world, but not of the world is the old Christian cliché, but how true it is. Be in the world, but not of the world. Do not let the empty words of those in the world deceive you.
So along the road to walking in the light, we must first be an imitator. Then we must be pure. Then we must be wise. And then finally, we must be in the light.
Ephesians 5:8-10: "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth, finding out what is acceptable to the Lord."
Light has a quality that sets it apart from everything else. It always overcomes darkness. Light always overcomes darkness.
I want to tell you a story. When I was a teenager, my dad and I liked to go scuba diving, and we had this little inflatable boat that had an engine on it. We would go out in the ocean and we'd go scuba diving.
This one time we went scuba diving, and it was at night. It was a night dive. So you prepare yourself with underwater flashlights so you can see. And the beauty of night diving is that the fish are sleeping. You can literally go right up to a fish and touch it because it's sleeping. It doesn't know you're there.
So you bring these lights to go see all these fish in their sleeping state. Well, this one particular night, it was a cloudy night. There were no stars, no moon could be seen. And we couldn't get the anchor to hold on the bottom of the ocean.
So my dad said, "Okay, Michael, we're going to just get off the boat. We're going to go down to the anchor, and we're going to anchor it somewhere in a rock." So we went down, we had our lights on. We're watching this anchor line. We got down to 90 feet.
Now, 90 feet is pretty deep. You typically don't dive that deep because you can't stay under for very long at that depth. But one thing my dad and I noticed, we were at 90 feet, and you couldn't see the bottom. You couldn't see the top. All you could see was this white line dangling straight up and down.
So I had this brilliant idea to see how dark it was. So I turned off my flashlight. My dad turned off his flashlight. I've never in my life been in a darker place than right there. So I immediately turned my light back on, and right in front of me, I could see that anchor line still there.
My dad said, "Hey, we need to go up." So because of that light, I was able to see that line to safety that was attached to that boat on the surface. And we swam up that line and got in the safety of our boat.
Without that light, I would have never known where that anchor line was. You see, the light of Jesus—Jesus is our lifeline. He is our light.
John 1:4 says, "In Him, meaning Jesus, was life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."
Will you be imitators of God and walk in the light of Jesus Christ today? Will you accept His calling on your life to accept His light into your life so that you will shine with the radiance of Christ everywhere you go?
Will you walk in the light today? If you're a Christian, what that means is living a life that's pure, living a life that reflects the light of Jesus Christ. If you're here today and you've never accepted Christ, what it means is that you need to accept Christ as your Savior so that you can walk in the light of Jesus Christ here to come.
If you have questions about that, please. We have a room in the back to the right called the Lighthouse Classroom. We'll have people in there that are more than happy to talk to you about this light of Jesus Christ.
I'm going to leave you with a verse and a chorus from one of Fanny Crosby's hymns this morning. It's called "The Light of the World is Jesus."
"The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin. The light of the world is Jesus. Like sunshine at noonday, His glory shone in. The light of the world is Jesus. Come to the light, 'tis shining for thee. Sweetly the light has dawned upon me. Once I was blind, but now I see. The light of the world is Jesus."
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for the light that is Jesus Christ. Father, I pray for the hearts and the minds of those here today, especially those who don't know you personally, Lord, that they would come to know you as their Savior this morning.
That they would, too, walk in the light of Jesus today. Father, as we go away from here, as believers in this room go to their various homes and places of work this week, I pray that we would walk in the light, modeling what it looks like to walk in Jesus Christ.
Father, that's our prayer. May we dive into your Word again this week. Read Scripture at least four times again this week, and come back a better model of what Christ looks like. We pray all these things in Jesus' name.
on Oct 13, 2024
