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  (SERMON CLIP) FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD EXCLUDES WALKING IN DARKNESS
  by Paris Reidhead
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes that fellowship with God excludes
walking in darkness, highlighting the contrast between walking in the
light as children of God and walking in darkness as those alienated from
God. It explores the transformation that occurs when one is born into
the family of God, learning to put off the old ways and embrace the new
life in Christ.

Topics: "Fellowship with God", "Transformation in Christ"
Scripture References: Ephesians 4:17, Ephesians 5:8, 1 John 1:6, Romans 13:12, John 8:12, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 119:105, Proverbs 4:18, Colossians 1:13

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This sermon emphasizes that fellowship with God excludes walking in
darkness, highlighting the contrast between walking in the light as
children of God and walking in darkness as those alienated from God. It
explores the transformation that occurs when one is born into the family
of God, learning to put off the old ways and embrace the new life in
Christ.

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Fellowship with God excludes walking in darkness. We can't claim to have
fellowship with God and continue to walk in darkness. Carefully read
Ephesians chapter 4 verses 17 to 32 so that you get a clear explicit
picture of what it is to walk.

Walk not as other Gentiles walk in the darkness of the mind and of the
spirit. What is it? Vanity of the mind, empty-headed, the understanding
darkened, alienated from the life of God, full of ignorance, blind of
heart, choosing uncleanness over righteousness and cleanness. That's the
way those who are in darkness walk.

We've not so learned Christ, said Paul in that letter. If we're His,
we've learned to walk in the light, to put off the old man, to be
renewed in mind, and to put on the new man. No.

Fellowship with God excludes, totally excludes, walking in darkness. Now
I go back and tell you that that person who has been born into the
family of God has had certain things happen. Now we've seen how he's to
walk, but why is it to be expected that he can walk that way? Last June
I had the privilege of being here and speaking to you on so great
salvation, at which time those of you were here remember we gave you
some, a chart with some 50 numbers on it.

The first of those were number one, when God wants to bring one out of
darkness into light, out of death into life, the first thing he does is
to put somebody up next to the sinner who's a sample of God's grace, to
live Christ before the sinner, to intercede for and to witness to him.
And the first phase of the divine operation is to awaken the sinner to
his plight, to his danger, to his being dead in his sins. The second
thing the Spirit of God does through the Word is to convict the sinner
of his crimes, of turning to his own way, for sin is the committal of
the will to the principle and the practice of pleasing oneself as the
end and reason for their being.

And on the basis of having discovered the nature of the crime, the
Spirit of God then moves upon the heart of the sinner through all these
agencies of grace to bring him to repentance. And to repent is to change
one's mind, one's intention, one's purpose, one's rule of living, one's
principle of government from pleasing himself to pleasing God. And the
scripture so explains...

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/a8FYv0m6chQ.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/paris-reidhead/sermon-clip-fellowship-with-god-excludes-walking-in-darkness/
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