Illuminate - That was Then, This is Now

Joe Stewart

Sunday, May 12, 2024

Be a Light

Sunday Morning

Illuminate

God wants to use our stories to reach others for Jesus. We should be willing to do anything short of sin to reach people who don't know Jesus Christ. Jesus shed light in the dark places, so we can share light in the dark places.

Locations & Times

First Baptist Church Seminole Tx

202 SW Ave B, Seminole, TX 79360, USA

Sunday 5:00 AM

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Illuminate Your Life and Become a Shining Beacon of Christ

Illuminate Your Life and Become a Shining Beacon of Christ

Read Plan

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Ephesians 5:8-13 NIV

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)and find out what pleases the Lord.Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.

That was then. This is now.

My identity drives my activity.

We are the race of grace.

Identity is received instead of achieved. It's not based on your worth, but on the new birth.

Ephesians 4:20-23 NIV

That, however, is not the way of life you learnedwhen you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desiresto be made new in the attitude of your minds

That was Then. This is now.

Light up.

Wake up. Rise up.

Wise up.

Fill up.

I. light up and live as children of light

Acts 26:17-18 NIV

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to themto open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Jesus shed light in the dark places so we can share light in the dark places.

Jesus is more than a guru - He is truth and speaks truth w/authority in your life.

Turn up the right voices to avoid the wrong places.

The voice you turn up tunes you in.

The voice you mute amplifies the voices you allow to speak in your life.

Voices create choices.

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Identity theft

I am marked by identity.

I am made for ministry.

I make the most of opportunity.

I matter for eternity.

Ephesians 5:15-16 NIV

Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wisemaking the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

Ephesians 5:9 NIV

(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)

ii. wake up sleepyhead - rise up from the dead

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These are words to believers that are saying just because you are alive doesn’t mean you are living.

You can go through life without much life going through you.

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Ephesians 5:11-13 NIV

Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.

iii. wise up and buy back - fill up for impact

Ephesians 5:15-20 NIV

Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wisemaking the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spiritspeaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lordalways giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 4:1 NIV

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.

Ephesians 5:2 NIV

and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:8 NIV

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light

Ephesians 5:15 NIV

Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise

We cannot procrastinate and illuminate.

Ephesians 1:13-14 NIV

And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spiritwho is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 5:18 NIV

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit

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Romans 12:11 ESV

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.