As we'll 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 and to 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 man.

May you be strengthened in grace and integrity today as you re-envision toward your calling

to the Light.

Welcome to the First of teen podcast. Our verse 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, 11 through 14, Paul praise a powerful prayer in his letter to the church in Colossi,

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's 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 and 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 5-8 says, for at one time you were darkness,

but now you were 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 has afforded us an opportunity to no longer live as those of the

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