453 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 - Part 1 - Book 38 - The Light of Christ in Your Life

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 38 The Light of Christ in Your Life As we’ve come up through Paul’s epistles we’ve pretty much taken the Scripture verse by verse, as Paul is writing to you and I, Gentile believers, in this Age of Grace. Ephesians 5:6 "Let no man deceive you with vain words:..." Ephesians 5:6 "Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these things (this mass of deception) cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience." I think I mentioned in our last lesson that most of the unbelieving world scoffs at the idea that God will one day yet pour out His wrath and judgment upon Christ-rejecting-mankind. Ephesians 5:7 Let just use the example, "If someone teaches you that you must do works for salvation, then that’s contrary to what Paul teaches the believer. Now verse 8. Ephesians 5:8 "For ye were sometimes (or at one time in) darkness but now are ye light in the Lord: (consequently since we have come out of darkness,) walk as children of light:" Well it’s the same way spiritually, when people are walking in a spiritual darkness, they are in utter confusion, they just don’t know up from down. We can walk with surety that we’re in the light and the light, as we’ll see in John 3 in a few minutes, is Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:9 "(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all (things) goodness and righteousness and truth;)" Now who in the world can find fault with those three words? Who in the world could find fault with truth? Now verse 10. Remember as we walk in the light, and as we are the epitome of goodness, righteousness, and truth, at the same time what are we doing? Ephesians 5:10 We’re not proving what is acceptable unto society, or friends and relatives, but unto God. Now verse 11. Ephesians 5:11 "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." We’ve used these Scriptures when we teach the coming of the anti-Christ, and so forth. II Thessalonians 2:6 There is this power that is holding back, that the anti-Christ) might be revealed in his time." God isn’t going to let that happen so He uses the believers to reprove these works of darkness that are coming in as a flood. Now verse 7. "For the mystery of iniquity doeth already work:..." II Thessalonians 2:7 I’ve always felt that God here is referring to the work of the Holy Spirit, working through the believer. II Thessalonians 2:8 Now coming back to chapter 5 of Ephesians, and verse 11. Ephesians 5:11 "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Now verse 12. Ephesians 5:12 Ephesians 5:13 "But all things that are reproved (all of these things that the Bible declares are anti- God) are made manifest (are shown to be what it really is) by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light." Now when I come to that word "manifest" I always make the comparison of the little light under your microscope. Now look what Jesus said in verse 19. John 3:19 "And this is the condemnation, (this is why the human race is already condemned) that light is come into the world, (and even with the Light on the planet, walking there on the dusty roads of Israel) and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." Like I’ve already said, there’s nothing more miserable than trying walk in pitch darkness. When you turn that rock over on a real bright sunny Oklahoma day, those little creatures scurry for their little tunnels to get away from that light. Just as soon as the Light of the Word of God hits them, they scatter like a covey of quail, because they don’t want the Light, they love their darkness. I’ve visited with enough people from coast to coast that I’ve never yet talked to anybody that said divorce was a pleasant experience. John 3:19b-20 "...and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. That’s why they hate the Light. If they step into that Light then they suddenly see themselves as God sees them, and they don’t like that. Now verse 21. John 3:21 "But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest,..." The ones that do come to the light are willing to let their deeds be seen, because the Light is now dealing with them. John 3:21 Now of course the deeds that promoted from God Himself would be the good deeds as a result of our stepping into the Light! And a little further in John the Lord tells us, "I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!" Ephesians 5:13 "But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light." So the whole secret for our Christian experience is that we rest on the knowledge that comes for the Light. And the Light of the world is Christ! #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible