Tag: children of light
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Dressed for Daylight – 1 Thessalonians 5:7–8
1 Thessalonians 5:7–8 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. Paul keeps using the same contrast—night and day. Night…
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Children of the Day – 1 Thessalonians 5:3–6
1 Thessalonians 5:3–6 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the…
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Walk in the Light – Ephesians 5:7–10
Paul now makes the separation unmistakable. There are two realms. And you no longer belong to the old one. Ephesians 5:7–10 Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all…