1. Walk in the Light Shining our light on Social Media
REALIZING WHERE WE ARE WALKING
The world has always been a sinful shameless place where evil is elevated and godliness is rejected
Today we live in a culture where, now, via mass media, sinful behavior can be photographed, digitized, and published openly
The difference with traditional media and social networking is social interactivity. In essence it is a “real” relationship via the virtual world
#relatable

2. Shining our light on Social Media
As of September 2014:
71% of online adults use Facebook
23% of online adults use Twitter
26% use Instagram
28% use Pinterest
28% use LinkedIn
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YouTube 1 Billion videos watched per day and 20 hours of video uploaded every minute
Facebook 600k new members per day, and 700 million photos, 4 million videos per month
Twitter 18 million new users per year & 4 million tweets sent daily
900,000 blog posts every day
Flickr 73 million visitors per month who upload 700 million photos
Mobile social network subscribers reached million by the end of 2008, rising 132 million annually

3. Shining our light on Social Media
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4. Ephesians 5:1-2
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
imitate - literally mimic
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5. Walk in the Light Ephesians 5:1-16 “walk in love”
“walk as children of light”
Paul uses four commands in our text to guide the Christian in his efforts to “mimic” God
vs. 2 - Walk in love - agape a love that seeks good in and for others
vs. 8 - Walk as children of light - having been born of the light (Jn 8:12, 12:36,46) the child of God takes on the character of the light (Matt 5:14-16)
vs Reprove the works of darkness - more than mere abstinence “to convict, refute, confute (overwhelm in argument)
vs Walk circumspectly - in a careful and deliberate manner, taking care how we represent the name we wear in a world hostile to God
“reprove the darkness”
“walk circumspectly”

6. Walk in the Light Ephesians 5:1-16 an outward focus goodness
Ephesians 5 has an interesting focus, while it certainly deals with the lives and actions of Christians there is an “outward” focus
How do our choices and actions reflect on our God and effect the lost around us?
Col 4:5-6 offers commentary on Eph 5: We must be wise in our interactions with the unredeemed
Walking as children of light, i.e. modifying our conduct according to the character of the Gospel bears tangible fruit
righteousness
truth

7. Walk in the Light positive moral quality characterized especially by
goodness-
positive moral quality characterized especially by
interest in the welfare of others (BDAG)

8. Goodness demonstrated through modesty
Ephesians 5:3
an expression of humility
an issue of the heart
MODEST – “Respectable; honorable” (Arndt and Gingrich, 445).”Well-arranged; seemly” (Thayer, 356). “Orderly; well arranged; decent” (Vine, III: 79). “The well- ordering is not of dress and demeanor only, but the inner life’s uttering indeed, and expressing itself in the outward conversation” (Trench’s Syn. 346)
SHAMEFASTNESS – “A sense of shame or honor, modesty, bashfulness, reverence, regard for others, respect” - “A sense of shame…prominently objective in its reference, having regard for others, a sense of shame…modesty rooted in character” (Vine, IV:17; Thayer, 14
SOBRIETY – “Soundness of mind... ‘sound judgment’ practically expresses the meaning; ‘it is that habitual inner self- government, with its constant rein on all the passions and desires which would hinder the temptation to these from arising....” (Vines, Vol. IV, pp ). “Soundness of mind, i.e.(lit,) sanity or (fig.) self- control” (Strong’s, # 4997)
GODLINESS – “Denotes the fear or reverence of God…” (Vines, Vol. II, p. 162). “Devoutness, i.e. piety” (Strong’s, # 2317). Darby: “profession of the fear of God”, NIV: “profess to worship God”
an element of character

9. Walk in the Light “integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness,
righteousness-
“integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness,
correctness of thinking feeling, and acting (Strong’s)

10. Righteousness demonstrated through language
Ephesians 5:4
appropriate profane
“no unwholesome word”
“there must be no…”

11. Walk in the Light
truth -
what is true in any matter under consideration (Strong's)

12. Truth demonstrated through integrity
Ephesians 5:6,11
“an unimpaired condition”
nothing out of sync
the absence of hypocrisy

13. #relatable

14. add point about fan pages and good articles with bad pictures
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15. Ephesians 5:9-10
9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
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16. TITUS 2:11-15
“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.”