3Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people. 4Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes—these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God. 5You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world. 6Don’t be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the anger of God will fall on all who disobey him. 7Don’t participate in the things these people do. 8For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! 9For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true. 10Carefully determine what pleases the Lord. 11Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them. 12It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret. 13But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them, 14for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” (Ephesians 5:3-14 NLT)
Evil cannot exist in the light. It simply can’t. When you acknowledge your sin as a part of you – the truth about you – and you bring it out of the darkness and set it before a person whom you trust, and God Himself, then the grip that the sin has over you is broken. Satan will scream that doing this is wrong – that you will be humiliated, embarrassed, that the person to whom you are turning will think you are weak or worse, leave you; but those thoughts and feelings are lies from Hell thus you can pretty much rely on the fact that the exact opposite it true. There is liberation in the light – away from the lies and out of the sin. There is power in the freedom knowing that Satan has no dominion over you. May God empower you in your journey into the light of life.
Evil cannot exist in the light. It simply can’t. When you acknowledge your sin as a part of you – the truth about you – and you bring it out of the darkness and set it before a person whom you trust, and God Himself, then the grip that the sin has over you is broken. Satan will scream that doing this is wrong – that you will be humiliated, embarrassed, that the person to whom you are turning will think you are weak or worse, leave you; but those thoughts and feelings are lies from Hell thus you can pretty much rely on the fact that the exact opposite it true. There is liberation in the light – away from the lies and out of the sin. There is power in the freedom knowing that Satan has no dominion over you. May God empower you in your journey into the light of life.
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