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Enlightened
Ephesians 1 v 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
The Christian life, as fellowship with God (walking in the Light) tested by righteousness, love and belief.--The basis of the whole section is the announcement: "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all" (1 Jn 1:5). What God is at once determines the condition of fellowship with Him; and this, therefore, is set forth: first, negatively (1 Jn 1:6): "if we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness"; then, positively (1 Jn 1:7): "if we walk in the light, as he is in the light." What, then, is it to walk in the light, and what to walk in darkness?
(Walking in the Light tested by righteousness): First, in confession of sin (1 Jn 1:8 through 2:2), then in actual obedience (1 Jn 2:3-6). The first fact upon which the light of God impinges in human life is sin; and the first test of walking in the light is the recognition and confession of this fact. Such confession is the first step into fellowship with God, because it brings us under the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus, His Son (1 Jn 1:7), and makes His intercession available for us (1 Jn 2:1). But the light not only reveals sin; its greater function is to reveal duty; and to walk in the light is to keep God's commandments (1 Jn 2:3), His word (1 Jn 2:5), and to walk even as Christ walked (1 Jn 2:6).
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Proverbs 24-20
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.