Light of the World
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Introduction:Light of the world( )
Introduction:Light of the world( )
This chapter shows Christ in conflict with the Jewish leaders and presents a series of important contrasts.
This chapter shows Christ in conflict with the Jewish leaders and presents a series of important contrasts.
The scribes and Pharisees brought this woman to Jesus in the court of the women, in the treasury section of the temple (v. 20). Their motive was to test Him (v. 6) and force Him into a dilemma.
The scribes and Pharisees brought this woman to Jesus in the court of the women, in the treasury section of the temple (v. 20). Their motive was to test Him (v. 6) and force Him into a dilemma.
If He set the woman free, He violated Moses’ law (; ); if He had her stoned, He could not claim to be One who forgives sins. Arthur Pink suggests that Christ wrote on the ground with His finger twice to remind them of the two tablets of the Law, written with the finger of God (; ; ).
The Jews sinned, and Moses broke the first stone tablets on the ground; but God forgave their sin, provided blood sacrifices, and gave them another set of tablets. Christ died for the sins of this woman and was able to forgive her.
18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
My three main points
My three main points
I.Jesus the Light of the world
I.Jesus the Light of the world
II. Heaven and Earth
II. Heaven and Earth
III. Freedom and Slavery
III. Freedom and Slavery
The scribes and Pharisees brought this woman to Jesus in the court of the women, in the treasury section of the temple (v. 20). Their motive was to test Him (v. 6) and force Him into a dilemma.
If He set the woman free, He violated Moses’ law (; ); if He had her stoned, He could not claim to be One who forgives sins. Arthur Pink suggests that Christ wrote on the ground with His finger twice to remind them of the two tablets of the Law, written with the finger of God (; ; ).
The Jews sinned, and Moses broke the first stone tablets on the ground; but God forgave their sin, provided blood sacrifices, and gave them another set of tablets. Christ died for the sins of this woman and was able to forgive her.
18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
I. Jesus the light of the world
I. Jesus the light of the world
10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
The Lexham English Bible Chapter 8
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
The great I AM statement in v. 12 follows this incident. As the Light of the world, Christ claimed to be God, for God is light (). Darkness speaks of death, ignorance, and sin; light speaks of life, knowledge, and holiness.
The light reproves sin (). The lost sinner lives in darkness (; ; ) and will spend eternity in darkness () if he rejects Christ. The Jews, instead of submitting to Christ, argued with Him in the temple!
30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
II. Heaven and Earth
II. Heaven and Earth
The Lexham English Bible Chapter 8
Jesus Predicts His Death
21 So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come!” 22 Then the Jews began to say,* “Perhaps he will kill himself, because he is saying, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ ” 23 And he said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world. 24 Thus I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
II. Heaven and Earth (8:21–30)
There are two births: from above, being born again by God’s Spirit, and from this world, being born of the flesh.
And there are two ways to die: the sinner dies in his sins, but the believer dies in the Lord (). Faith in Jesus Christ makes the difference.
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
Jesus told the Jews that He came from heaven;
the Father sent Him (v. 26)
, taught Him (v. 28), and remained with Him (v. 29).
The Father forsook His Son only when Christ was made sin for us on the cross. In v. 28, Christ spoke of being “lifted up,” which means, of course, crucifixion. He had mentioned this to Nicodemus in , and He would mention it again in .
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32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
, and He would mention it again in 12:32–34.
III. Freedom and Slavery
III. Freedom and Slavery
The Lexham English Bible Chapter 8
The Truth Will Set You Free
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
III. Freedom and Slavery (8:31–40)
III. Freedom and Slavery (8:31–40)
The Jews who believed (v. 30) were admonished to prove their faith by their faithfulness.
Faith in Christ makes one a child of God, but abiding in the Word and knowing the truth (and living it) makes one a true disciple of the kingdom.
Christ is speaking about spiritual, not physical or political, bondage and liberty.
The lost sinner is in bondage to lusts and sins (), to Satan, and to the world (). By receiving the truth in Christ, slaves are set free!
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Jesus’ opponents, of course, appealed to their human advantages: “We are Abraham’s children!”
They said the same thing to John the Baptist (). Jesus made a distinction between Abraham’s fleshly seed (v. 37) and Abraham’s spiritual children (v. 39).
Paul makes the same distinction in , , and 9:6, as well as in .
8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
People reject Jesus because they confuse the physical and the spiritual.
Jesus spoke to Nicodemus about a spiritual birth, but he asked about a physical birth ().
Christ offered the woman at the well eternal life (living water), but she talked about literal physical water (). Salvation is a spiritual experience, and human birth has nothing to do with it.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?