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FOR YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS - see the Ephesians 2:11 notes; 1
Corinthians 6:11 note. The meaning here is, that they were themselves
formerly sunk in the same ignorance, and practiced the same
abomi...
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3. THE WALK IN HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
Chapter S 4:17-5:21
_ 1. Not as the Gentiles walk (Ephesians 4:17)_
2. The putting off and putting on (Ephesians 4:20)
3. Followers of God (Ephesians 5
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THE WAY OF LIGHT AND THE WAY OF DARKNESS. There are other sins which
among God's people, should be literally unmentionable fornication,
uncleanness, coveting, filthiness, foolish speech, improper jest...
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You must become imitators of God, as well loved children imitate their
father. You must live in love, as Christ loved you, and gave himself
to God as a sacrifice and an offering, a sacrifice which was...
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THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
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SOMETIMES. once.
DARKNESS. The darkness of blindness. Compare Ephesians 4:18.
LIGHT. Not _in_ the light, but having received the Light, _are_ light.
App-130.
LORD. App-98.
CHILDREN. App-108....
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_sometimes_ Better, in modern English, ONCE, FORMERLY. SEE ON
Ephesians 2:13 above. He refers to the whole period of their
unconverted life.
_darkness_ Not merely "in the dark". So had the night of sp...
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ἮΤΕ ΓΆΡ ΠΟΤΕ ΣΚΌΤΟΣ. St Paul has come back now to the
broad contrast between the New and the Old with which he started in
Ephesians 4:17. Just as he contrasted their present with their former
position...
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17–5:14. THE GREAT CONTRAST
Ephesians 4:25 to Ephesians 5:14. THE CONTRAST IN DETAIL...
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ΉΤΕ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть,
ΠΟΤΕ (G4218) прежде,
ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΕΊΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΈΩ
(G4043) ходить, вести образ жизни....
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DISCOURSE: 2116
A CONSISTENT WALK ENJOINED
Ephesians 5:8. _Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in
the Lord: walk as children of light_.
MANY imagine, that when they have believed in Chri...
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YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS,— St. Paul, to express the great darkness
in which the Gentiles were, calls them _darkness_ itself. The kingdom
of Satan over the Gentile world was _a kingdom of darkness._...
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_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:3-20)
3.
Walk as children of light. Ephesians 5:3-14.
a.
Things the children of light do not do. Ephesians 5:3-8 a.
(1)
Do no
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(5:8) Note in this verse that it does not say that you once walked in
darkness. Rather, it says that "you once were darkness". This is not
referring to a behavior, but a quality of being. What we once...
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For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord:
walk as children of light:
SOMETIMES - `once.' Ye ought to have no fellowship with sin, which is
darkness, for your state as darkn...
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No Participation with Unbelievers
2 The sacrifice of Christ has many aspects. The opening Chapter s of
Leviticus deal with these in detail. The sin and trespass offering
seem to be entirely for m...
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THE OLD DARKNESS AND NEW LIGHT. RULES FOR THE MARRIED
1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of
beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the
self-sacrif...
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CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR
EPHESIANS
_LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_
CHAPTER 5
5:1-14 ~ LOVE
5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE
V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
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(3_b_) Ephesians 5:3 warn, with even greater fulness and emphasis,
against the sins of impurity and lust, as incompatible with membership
of the kingdom of heaven, as works of darkness, impossible to...
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YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS, BUT NOW ARE YE LIGHT IN THE LORD. — This
expression is unique, and far more emphatic than the more common
phrases of “being,” or “walking,” “in darkness” and “in
light.” (S...
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CHAPTER 23
THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT
Ephesians 5:7
The contrast between the Christian and heathen way of life is now,
finally, to be set forth under St. Paul's familiar figure of the light
and the d...
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CHAPTER 22
DOCTRINE AND ETHICS
Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1
The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands
further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
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A paragraph ruled by the general idea of the imitation of God in the
forgiving love which has been appealed to in the preceding verse. In
the light of that Divine example Paul charges his readers to f...
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ἦτε γάρ ποτε σκότος : _for ye were once darkness_. A
consideration in support of the previous exhortation, _viz._, the
consideration that with them the condition in which such sins could be
indulged w...
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WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT
Ephesians 5:1
It is indeed a high calling to imitate God and to walk in love after
the measure of Christ; but it will be impossible unless we open our
innermost heart to the...
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All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement
of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of
God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
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Walking As Children of Light
The Ephesian brethren had been involved in the wicked ways of darkness
before they obeyed the truth. In Christ, they were light because sin
had been put away. So, Paul adm...
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For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] (c) light in the
Lord: walk as children of light:
(c) The faithful are called light, both because they have the true
light in them which enlightens th...
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By _darkness is here meant the state of infidelity into which they had
been plunged so far as to adore stones as God, and committed without
remorse the above-mentioned grievous sins. But delivered by...
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(1) В¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; (2) And
walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for
us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savo...
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In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its
fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need
on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
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I. INTRODUCTION
A. As we return to the book of Ephesians, we continue our study on
Christian behavior.
1. The Apostle Paul has just given the Ephesian Christians, (and us) a
"list" of ungodly behavi...
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8._For ye were once darkness. _The precepts which immediately follow
derive greater weight from the motives with which they are mingled.
Having spoken of unbelievers, and warned the Ephesians not to b...
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Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this
picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace
and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
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FOR YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS,.... Not only dark, but darkness
itself; exceeding blind, dark, and ignorant, respecting spiritual
things; so the Gentiles were wont to be called by the Jews, הושך,
"dar...
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For ye were sometimes darkness, but now _are ye_ light in the Lord:
walk as children of light:
Ver. 8. _For ye were sometimes darkness_] Which hath in it (as Mr
Dugard well noteth): 1. Error. 2. Terr...
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_For ye were sometimes_ That is, _once; darkness_ In a state of total
blindness and ignorance, without any light of instruction without, or
divine grace within, and therefore had some excuse for livin...
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DARKNESS; living in ignorance and sin.
LIGHT IN THE LORD; enlightened and renewed by virtue of your union
with the Lord Jesus.
AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT; those who belong to the kingdom of light, of
whic...
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FOR YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS, BUT NOW ARE YE LIGHT IN THE LORD; WALK
AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT,...
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The children of light avoid the works of darkness:...
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WALK IN LOVE
(vs.1-7)
Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of
chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us
as His dear children is our example. The...
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CHAPTER 5
We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________
of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________.
We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
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“FOR YE WERE ONCE DARKNESS, BUT ARE NOW LIGHT IN THE LORD: WALK AS
CHILDREN OF LIGHT”
“For”: God has already given us one very important and
motivational reason why we should abstain from such things,...
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3-14 Filthy lusts must be rooted out. These sins must be dreaded and
detested. Here are not only cautions against gross acts of sin, but
against what some may make light of. But these things are so f...
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FOR YE WERE SOMETIMES DARKNESS; the same as in darkness, ROMANS 2:19 1
THESSALONIANS 5:4; viz. the darkness of sin, ignorance, unbelief. The
abstract being put for the concrete, shows the greatness of...
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I
This is the eternal adjustment of the vision, which is able to see the
eternal light, since like loves like; and that which is holy, loves
that from which...
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Ephesians 5:8 For G1063 were G2258 (G5713) once G4218 darkness G4655
but G1161 now G3568 light G5457 in...
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‘For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as
children of light. For the fruit of light is in all goodness and
righteousness and truth.'
Having dealt with the dark side Paul now...
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_2. Precepts based upon the Self-sacrificing Love of Christ._
The connection of thought with chap. Ephesians 4:32 is very close;
God's forgiving love is directly presented as a motive (‘therefore')
fo...
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Ephesians 5:8. FOR. TO become partakers with those who indulge in
these sins would be a relapse.
YE WERE ONCE; ‘were' is emphatic; it is _past_
DARKNESS; ‘not merely living or abiding in it (comp....
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III. GENERAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES.
This part of the Epistle is difficult to analyze. The ethical precepts
are not arranged in any discoverable logical order. For convenience a
division into two sections i...
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BUT NOW LIGHT
(νυν δε φως). Jesus called his disciples the light of the
world (Matthew 5:14)....
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Ephesians 5:2 , EPHESIANS 5:8
I. "Walk in love." Here we have a command founded upon a reason: "Walk
in love, as Christ hath loved us." Yes, of all forces love is the most
powerful as a force to act u...
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Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_
Or, imitators of God,-
Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_
Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate
their father; thi...
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CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare
as filled with the Spirit.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul.
CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
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Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children
are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and
fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
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USED TO BE. "When you were heathens, you used to live in darkness,
even though you knew secrets and mysteries. But now you have become
the Lord's people and are in the light of _truth_! This places an...
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_For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord:
walk as children of light._
THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT AND THEIR OBLIGATIONS
I. The degradation from which believers have been raised. A...
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EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:8 WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT. See 1
John 1:5. See also Isaiah 9:2;...
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EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:1 New Life in Love. Paul gives general
instructions for holy living. Purity of life comes from avoiding evil
deeds and relationships and adopting holy practices....
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Ephesians 5:3. LET IT NOT BE ONCE NAMED.—After the things themselves
are dead let their names never be heard.
Ephesians 5:4. NOR JESTING.—“Chastened insolence,” as
Ar...
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EXPOSITION
EPHESIANS 5:1
BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words
are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had
urged the example of God in one very mo...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1);
Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse
of...
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1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:8; 1 John 2:9; 1 Peter 2:9;...
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Ye were. Emphatic, and according with become of ver. 7. Ye were
darkness, but now are ye light. Do not become darkness again.
Darkness [σ κ ο τ ο ς]. See on John 1:5.
Light [φ ω ς] Light itself; not...
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FOLLOWERS OF GOD
Ephesians 5:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to
the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push
aside....
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Ye were once darkness — Total blindness and ignorance. Walk as
children of light — Suitably to your present knowledge....
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Here the Ephesians are put in mind of the darkness and blindness of
their heathen state, before the light of the gospel came among them;
they were not only dark, very much in the dark, but darkness it...