But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. (Ephesians 5:13-14)
The Ephesian Church had been quickened and made alive. but as seen by the letter to this church in Revelation 2:1-7 they had at that time left their first love, Christ.
Paul in his epistle to them gives them (and the church to the end of time) warning as to how they should guard against going back to the practices they had been brought to repent of.
In the two verses of the text we are to:-
1/ Take heed to the light that reproves 2/ Take heed to our own condition - Sleepiness and among the dead 3/ Have regard to the promise. "Christ shall give thee light"
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Pastor Rowland Wheatley was called to the Gospel Ministry in Melbourne, Australia in 1993. He returned to his native England and has been Pastor of The Strict Baptist Chapel, St David’s Bridge Cranbrook, England since 1998.
He and his wife Hilary are blessed with two children,...