WALK PROPERLY
"LET US WALK PROPERLY, AS IN THE DAY, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy."
Romans 13:13 (NKJV)
Believers are enjoined to walk properly as someone walking in the day. Someone walking in the daylight could see clearly, there is no reason for stumbling or tripping.
A believer who is walking in the day should not do in revelry and drunkenness, or lewdness and lust, and not in strife and envy (Romans 13:13).
Things mentioned here could only be done by a believer who is walking in the flesh which typified walking in the darkness or engaging in the works of darkness (Romans 13:12). When you are living in sin as a professed believer, you are engaging in the works of darkness. But the admonition is that believers should cast off the works of darkness and walk or put on the armour of light (Romans 13:12). READ: 1 John 1:5-7
You cannot claim that you are of God when you are still living in sin, It means you are still at the camp of the adversary, the devil; still walking in darkness. To walk properly is to walk in line with God's Word, practicing or living the principles found in the Bible.
Note:
I. A believer's walk should not be in revelry and drunkenness (Romans 13:13). Some professed believers still consume or drink alcoholic beverages. They revel and always want to be where people gather for wild partying—boozing, revelling or carousing, engaging in carefree fun.
II. A believer's walk should not be in lewdness and lust (Romans 13:13). Some so-called believers are into lewdness or profaneness, lustfulness and pornography, arousing their bodies for immorality. However, the Bible says the believers who dealt with or crucified the flesh with its passions and desires are of Christ (Galatians 5:24). In other words, If a believer is genuinely of God, he or she would deal with the passions and desires of the flesh. Most of the struggles of the believers who are not steadfast in their faith emanated from the condoning of the flesh—gratifying of the flesh. When the flesh is not disciplined or curtailed.
You cannot be partying and carousing without stimulating or arousing the flesh to commit sin—immorality, drunkenness, and a number of other vices.
One of primary and major responsibilities of a believer is to deal with or mortify or silence or crucify or deaden or put to death the passions and desires of the flesh—dealing with your body:
5 SO KILL (deaden, deprive of power) THE EVIL DESIRE LURKING IN YOUR MEMBERS [those animalistic impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin, that is, sensual, self-centered instincts]: SEXUAL VICE, IMPURITY, SENSUAL APPETITES, UNHOLY DESIRES, AND ALL GREED AND COVETOUSNESS, FOR THAT IS IDOLATRY (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God). 6 IT IS ON ACCOUNT OF THESE [very sins] THAT THE [holy] ANGER OF GOD IS EVER COMING UPON THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE (those who are obstinately opposed to the divine will)" (Colossians 3:5,6 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition).
III. A believer's walk should also not be in strife and envy (Romans 13:13). Some, though claimed to be born-again, are unable to live at peace with others: "IF IT IS POSSIBLE, AS MUCH AS DEPENDS ON YOU, LIVE PEACEABLY WITH ALL MEN" (Romans 12:18).
A believer who could not tolerate others or who finds it difficult to live at peace with others would eventually find it difficult to have and maintain a good and working relationship and fellowship or communion with God—such would not see God: "PURSUE PEACE WITH ALL PEOPLE, AND HOLINESS, WITHOUT WHICH NO ONE WILL SEE THE LORD" (Hebrews 12:14 NKJV).
In other words, how you treat or relate with others shows whether you have a good relationship and fellowship with God or not. You cannot claim you love God when you are hostile to others:
20 IF SOMEONE SAYS, “I LOVE GOD,” AND HATES HIS BROTHER, HE IS A LIAR; FOR HE WHO DOES NOT LOVE HIS BROTHER WHOM HE HAS SEEN, HOW CAN HE LOVE GOD WHOM HE HAS NOT SEEN? 21 AND THIS COMMANDMENT WE HAVE FROM HIM: THAT HE WHO LOVES GOD MUST LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO" (1 John 4:20,21 NKJV).
You will not fail in Jesus' name.
Peace.
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