Life (5/6)

For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light… Ephesians 5:8

For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!
Ephesians 5:8 light children
Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.
Matthew 3:8 conversion repentance fruitfulness

So go ahead. Eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, for God approves of this!
Ecclesiastes 9:7 joy food heart
But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy.
For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”
1 Peter 1:15-16 holiness calling
For you, a thousand years are as a passing day,
as brief as a few night hours.
Psalm 90:4 God understanding
But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.
Acts 20:24 grace evangelism work
For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.
1 Peter 1:18-19 Savior Jesus blood
Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?
Romans 6:1-2 sin grace
If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it.
Mark 8:35 evangelism salvation
I live because of the living Father who sent me; in the same way, anyone who feeds on me will live because of me.
John 6:57 Father Jesus food
Even so, I have noticed one thing, at least, that is good. It is good for people to eat, drink, and enjoy their work under the sun during the short life God has given them, and to accept their lot in life.
Ecclesiastes 5:18 food work receiving
Let the wicked change their ways
and banish the very thought of doing wrong.
Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them.
Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.
Isaiah 55:7 righteousness conversion forgiveness
For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.
1 Peter 2:16 freedom evil serving
Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
2 Timothy 3:12 persecution Jesus
Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
Genesis 1:26 creation God
If you obey all the decrees and commands I am giving you today, all will be well with you and your children. I am giving you these instructions so you will enjoy a long life in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.
Deuteronomy 4:40 law obedience blessing
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.
I will praise my God to my last breath!
Psalm 104:33 singing worship
Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.”
Genesis 1:29 food fruitfulness
Look at the ravens. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for God feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than any birds!
Luke 12:24 food worrying valuable
Then the Lord God said, “Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!” So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.
Genesis 3:22-23 eternal life sin goodness
Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 8:3 suffering Word of God food
Instead, let us test and examine our ways.
Let us turn back to the Lord.
Lamentations 3:40 conversion repentance
Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.
Colossians 3:9-10 lying conversion transformation
But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.
John 3:21 light truth obedience
Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit.
Romans 8:5 body Spirit dependence