Peter Roselle: Once Darkness, Now Light in the Lord! Aim Higher (Ephesians 5:8)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2023-01-28

Peter Roselle: Once Darkness, Now Light in the Lord! Aim Higher (Ephesians 5:8)
Peter speaks at King of Kings Worship Center on Sunday, January 15, 2023. Ephesians 5:6-11 “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. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.”

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Isaiah 42:16
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground…I will not forsake them.

1 Timothy 1 
12-14 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man, but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2 
10 "For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” 

The Greek word for "handiwork" is "poiema." In classical Greek literature, the word "poiema" was often used to refer to a poem or work of literature.

Colossians 3 (Voice)
16 Let the word of the Anointed One richly inhabit your lives. With all wisdom teach, counsel, and instruct one another. Sing the psalms, compose hymns and songs inspired by the Spirit, and keep on singing—sing to God from hearts full and spilling over with thankfulness.

Commentary : “Paul doesn’t want us to just “believe the right things.” The gift of salvation demands that we put into practice the character of our King. We must strip off certain attitudes of our old selves. But it is not enough to strip off the old; we must put on the new. That new creation has many qualities of Jesus: compassion, joy, gentleness, and humility; forgiving each other, and above all, loving each other.”

Ephesians 4:18-19 “be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.”

Ephesians 2 
10 For we are the product of His hand, heaven’s poetry etched on lives… 

Isaiah 43 (Voice)
7 Bring the ones who are called by My name; the ones I made, shaped and created for My profound glory.”

Romans 8:18 I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

The word "poiētēs" was often used to refer to a poet or author, because they were seen as creators who brought new works of literature into being.

Ephesians 4:1 Live a life that is worthy of the calling He has graciously extended to you.

Genesis 12
1 Abram, get up and go! Leave your country. Leave your relatives and your father’s home, and travel to the land I will show you. Don’t worry—I will guide you there.

Matthew 6 
6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Hebrews 11 
8 By faith Abraham heard God’s call to travel to a place he would one day receive as an inheritance; 
and he obeyed, not knowing where God’s call would take him. 
9-10 By faith he journeyed to the land of the promise as a foreigner; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, his fellow heirs to the promise because Abraham looked ahead to a city with foundations, a city laid out and built by God.

Genesis 15
1 …the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.
5 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
6 And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.

Galatians 1 
6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel…
15 …it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace…

Galatians 2 
16 …a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ.