“Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them; for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.” (Ephesians 5:6-13 NASB1995)
“These things” include immorality, any impurity, greed, filthy language, coarse jesting, covetousness, idolatry, and the like (see also Romans 1:18-32; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Colossians 3:5-11; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8). And if we are those who practice such things as these, habitually and deliberately, we will have no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. For because of these things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience who continue in sin.
For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).
Therefore, we are not to be partakers with those who walk (in conduct, in practice) in deliberate sin and in disobedience to our Lord. And this includes people who profess faith in Jesus Christ, too. For the faith which saves us from our sins, and which promises us eternal life with God, is of God, and according to his will, and empowered and persuaded of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die with Christ to sin and to walk with him in obedience to his commands.
So, we are no longer to participate in the works of darkness and in sinful practices and in walks of disobedience to our Lord’s commandments. For if our faith in Jesus is genuine biblical faith, which is of God, and not of human flesh, then our lives of walking in sin and in disobedience to God should now be a thing of the past. And now we should be walking (in conduct, in practice) in the light of God’s truth, goodness, and righteousness. And we should be seeking the Lord to know what is pleasing to him and to do it.
Not only are we not to walk (in conduct) in sin and in disobedience to our Lord in living in ways contrary to his will and purpose for our lives, but we are to be those who are exposing the fruitless deeds of darkness. We should be those who are calling out the lies which so many people are believing as truth. For so many people are being deceived into exchanging the truth of the gospel for a lie. And they are being convinced that God does not require of them obedience and death to sin for salvation and eternal life with God.
For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:23-31; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
Seek the Lord
Based off Isaiah 55
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley
“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,
And your soul will delight in richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and you will live.
I have made an eternal covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”
Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him.
Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.
Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons him.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,”
declares the Lord, our God.
“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.
It will not return to Me unfulfilled.
My word will accomplish all that I desire,
And achieve the goal I intend.
You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.
The mountains will burst into song… before you,
And all of the trees clap their hands.”
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Don’t Be Partakers With Them
An Original Work / September 17, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
www.kingjamesbibleonline.org
Are you just repeating something you heard and don't know better, or are you being dishonest?
