Walking in the Light

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Walking in the Light | Randy Skeete

OpenTools AI summary: The sermon opens with Scripture about God’s protection and quickly moves into a strong spiritual contrast: light versus darkness. Randy Skeete builds his message from Genesis 1, showing that God created light, called it good, and separated it from darkness. From there, he connects the theme to 2 Corinthians 6, where he lays out five pairs of opposites—believers and unbelievers, righteousness and unrighteousness, light and darkness, Christ and Belial, and God’s temple and idols. His main point is that God always distinguishes between what is good and what is destructive.

From those contrasts, Skeete argues that righteousness is not just an abstract idea but is embodied in Christ and reflected in God’s law. He uses Romans, Psalms, Timothy, and Acts to show that the law is righteous, God’s judgment is righteous, and the crown given to the faithful is a crown of righteousness. In his view, sin is the exact opposite of righteousness and works to undo God’s creation, reverse life, and lead to death. That makes sin serious, not casual, and believers are called to reject it completely.

The sermon then becomes deeply practical and devotional. Skeete urges the audience to think honestly about any deliberate sin in their lives and to ask God for forgiveness and power to change. He reminds listeners that Christ’s sinless life is the believer’s qualification for heaven, and that Jesus must live in us for victory to be possible. The message closes with prayer, a call to repentance, and a final appeal to walk in the light, live in righteousness, and depend fully on Christ’s indwelling presence.

 

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1 John 1:6 - If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

*Walking in darkness is DESCRIPTIVE of children of the devil. Walking in the light is DESCRIPTIVE of children of God.

Only those who are saved/born again believers are in the light.

Acts 26:18 - to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

Ephesians 5:8 - for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light. Children of the devil walk in darkness, not in the light. Children of God walk in the light, not in darkness. IF confirms these positions in verses 6 and 7. It's one or the other.

In 1 John 2:9, we read - He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. In vs. 11 - But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

*Compare with 1 John 3:10 - In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, (compare with 1 John 1:6 - does not practice the truth) nor is he who does not love his brother.

*Notice that walks in darkness, hates his brother is DESCRIPTIVE of children of the devil.