Walk Honestly as in the Day
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 1/1/2019 AM (New Year's Day) |
Text: | Romans 13:13,14 |
Psalters: | 127, 22, 211, 274 |
- We walk.
- “Walk” is to make one's way, to progress; to make due use of opportunities; to regulate one's life; to conduct one's self.
- Having been graciously justified in Jesus, God continues to work, renewing us, so we are enabled to strive after sanctification of life.
- The constant presence of our old man requires that we constantly be admonished what not to do.
- “Not in rioting and drunkenness.”
- “Not in chambering and wantonness.”
- “Not in strife and envying.” (Note that these evils are of the same lifestyle as the worst sexual activity and drunkenness.)
- Therefore, let us “make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.”
- After many “don’ts” Paul shows that the way to overcome evil is by means of good: “let us put on…”
- “Honestly” is decently, becomingly, properly, appropriate to the fact that we are of the day.
- It would be dishonest for one who professes to be of the day to walk as in the night.
- Honesty means that we live our lives as those who belong to the day.
- An honest walk in the day is to “put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.”
- It means that those who have been justified by grace through faith alone are to continue to put it into practice (Gal. 3:27).
- It means that we follow His steps and imitate the example He left (Eph. 5:1,2; I Peter 2:21).
- It means that we live out of Him, drawing all our sustenance from Him, partaking of Him, absorbing the truth about Him.
- Experiencing God’s transforming grace we are able to speak as He spoke, think as He thought, will as He willed
- It means that we rely on Him, always conscious of our weakness and need for His strength to fight sin and Satan.
- “Honestly” is decently, becomingly, properly, appropriate to the fact that we are of the day.