As we continue our week on living in and pursuing the light,

today we'll explore how we as God's people are called out of darkness into the light.

Our new inheritance as God's saints is to step out of hiding and walk in full, vulnerable honesty

before God and man. May you be strengthened in grace and integrity today as you're re-envisioned

toward your calling to the light. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Ephesians 5 verse 8 Scripture says For at one time you were darkness But now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

In Colossians 1, verses 11 through 14,

Paul prays a powerful prayer in his letter to the church in Colossae.

And I believe it's God's heart for you and me today.

Scripture says,

May you be strengthened with all power according to his glorious might,

for all endurance and patience with joy,

giving thanks to the Father,

who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved

son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

You and I have been redeemed from living bound to darkness and have been given a new name,

saints in light. We've been delivered from the dark things of this world that previously defined us and ushered into

a new kingdom filled with the light of God. Ephesians 58 says, for at one time you were darkness,

but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

As children of light, we must learn to walk in our new inheritance.

We must learn what it is to be disciples marked by the characteristics of our Father's kingdom.

The powerful sacrifice of Jesus

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