WITHOUT OBEDIENCE THERE IS NO CHRISTIANITY
Exodus 23:20 - 21 NCV I am sending an angel ahead of you, who will protect you as you travel. He will lead you to the place I have prepared. Pay attention to the angel and obey him. Do not turn against him; he will not forgive such turning against him because my power is in him.
GOD ALWAYS CHOSE HIS PEOPLE TO CHANGE THEM TO BECOME LIKE CHRIST
Romans 8:29 God knew them before he made the world, and he chose them to be like his Son so that Jesus would be the firstborn of many brothers and sisters.
DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS ABIDE NOT IN THE DARK BUT ABIDE IN THE LIGHT
John 12:46 I have come as light into the world so that whoever believes in me would not stay in darkness
A) This world is dark as midnight; Jesus has come that we may have light and may no longer sit in the gloom which covers all the rest of mankind.
1) Whosoever is a very wide term: it means you and me. If we trust in Jesus we shall no more sit in the dark shadow of death but shall enter into the warm light of a day which shall never end. Why do we not come out into the light at once?
A cloud may sometimes hover over us, but we shall not abide in darkness if we believe in Jesus. He has come to give us broad daylight. Shall He come in vain. If we have faith we have the privilege of sunlight: let us enjoy it. From the night of natural depravity, of ignorance, of doubt, of despair, of sin, of dread, Jesus has come to set us free and all believers shall know that He no more comes in vain than the sun rises and fails to scatter his heat and light. Shake off thy depression, dear brother. Abide not in the dark, but abide in the light. In Jesus is thy hope, thy joy, thy heaven, Look to Him, to Him only, and thou shalt rejoice as the birds rejoice at sunrise and as the angels rejoice before the throne.