Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2)
Message Eleven
The Children of God Walking in Love and Light
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Eph. 5:2 And walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor.
8 For you were once darkness but are now light in the Lord; walk as children of light.
Word of Appetizer
Now as children of God, we should walk in love and light, what does it mean to walk in love and light?
Our daily walk as children of God should be constituted with both the loving substance of God and the shining element of God; this should be the inner source of our walk. To walk in love is to walk in intimacy with God. We, the children of God, should be love because God is love; since we become God in life and in nature, we also should become love. We are not only children of light—we are light itself; we are light because we are one with God in the Lord. If we walk as children of light, we will bear the fruit described in Ephesians 5:9.
Spiritual Burden
As the children of God, we are God-men, born of God, possessing the life and nature of God, and belonging to the species of God; now as children of God, we should walk in love and light, with love as the inner substance of God and with light as the expressed element of God.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
God’s good pleasure is to be one with man and to make man the same as He is in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.
As the children of God, we are God-men, born of God, possessing the life and nature of God, and belonging to the species of God.
We need to know and experience God as love and light.
The Experience of Life
The greatest wonder in the universe is that human beings could be begotten of God and that sinners could be made children of God. Through such an amazing divine birth we have received the divine life, the eternal life, as the divine seed sown into our being.
We need to know and experience God as love and light; when the divine love appears to us, it becomes grace, and when the divine light shines upon us, it becomes truth.
When we are in the light, we are outside the realm of right and wrong. If we walk as children of light, we will bear the fruit described in Ephesians 5:9.
Practice and Application
As children of God, we should walk in love and light. To walk in love is to walk in intimacy with God. In our daily walk we should always care for our Father’s feeling, for we live intimately in His tender love.
“You were once darkness but are now light in the Lord; walk as children of light”. The fruit of the light must be good in nature, righteous in procedure, and real in expression, that God may be expressed as the reality of our daily walk.
