Ephesians 5:8-14

I. Live as the light.
-John 8:12
a. Produce the fruit of light.
-goodness = agathosune; Moral excellence, that which is good in nature and in its effectiveness
-Rom. 15:14, II Thess. 1:11
-righteousness = dikaiosune = justice, what is right, uprightness
-truth = aletheia = truth, reality
b. Discern what pleases the Lord.
-trying to learn = dokimazo = test, examine, discern, approve, prove.
-I John 4:1, Rom. 12:2

II. Understand the incompatibility of light and darkness.
-II Cor. 6:14
a. Do not participate in the darkness.
-participate = sugkoinoneo = fellowship with, fellowship in, participate in
b. Expose the works of darkness.
-expose = elegcho = to bring to light, reveal hidden things, convince, correct, reprove

NAS- "everything that becomes visible is light"
NIV- "for it is light that makes everything visible"
-II Cor. 4:6

III. Wake up.
-Is. 26:19; 60:1-2