Ephesians 5:1-7 It's one thing to live as Christ wants us to but we have to shine the Light. Make a difference! God is not about a bunch of laws and regulations.   God is about us being His people. You can not earn your righteous.   God wants us build you up not pull us down. What pulls the church down: - greed - sexual immorality - impurity - any thought that does not build the body is unhealthy and sinful; - indecency - covetness - any conversation that does not matter to God we should not be talking about; - Col 3:8 - give thanks to God - when you speak properly you speak into our lives; - when we speak what God wants we build; when we speak negative we destroy; - the abuse of the tongue is opposed to holiness; - God wants us to live holiness and to shine! Our response should be heartfelt and wanting to love God. Acts 15 ( v 19-21) This is to help us be the people of God .

Ephesians 5:1-2 Christ - among us, in us, be traced in ourselves and speak to us.  He doesn't just want to speak to us but see himself in us.  Godly love and Godly holiness. My life is the life I live for Christ; in Christ and through Christ. Wrought - heating, hammer, water, shape; hammered out.  God wants to hammer us out.  It's not just good enough to know God.  Don’t live in temptation house but in God's house/community. We study God; learn his ways; copy him just like in a family.  St Augustine: God could love man so much and man love God so little. https://www.christianhistoryinstitute.org/study/module/augustine/ You can't plead ignorance  (darkness);  light (truth) - stay and journey in the light.   We can't just walk as Christ?  No we should shine as well.  It's important that we shine (turn the light on)  when light shines; it falls on other.  Shine on others, who shine on others and others  (reflected light).  We are to shine God's light n

"So I’m telling you this, and I insist on it in the Lord: you shouldn’t live your life like the Gentiles anymore. They base their lives on pointless thinking, and they are in the dark in their reasoning. They are disconnected from God’s life because of their ignorance and their closed hearts. They are people who lack all sense of right and wrong, and who have turned themselves over to doing whatever feels good and to practicing every sort of corruption along with greed. But you didn’t learn that sort of thing from Christ. Since you really listened to him and you were taught how the truth is in Jesus, change the former way of life that was part of the person you once were, corrupted by deceitful desires. Instead, renew the thinking in your mind by the Spirit and clothe yourself with the new person created according to God’s image in justice and true holiness. Therefore, after you have gotten rid of lying, Each of you must tell the truth to your neighbor because we are parts of each