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Scripture
Modern day candle vs. the lamp
We cannot confuse our modern day candle or candlestick with the lamp.
Their shape was similar to a shell or saucer with a lip.
Lamps of stone, metal, and shells were used, although the majority were of pottery.
Candles were not known in biblical times
Today’s candle is made out of wax with the wick inside of the wax.
In ancient times, the wick came out of a small hole for the lamp, and the lamp itself was filled with olive oil to provide light.
Darkness transitions when light shines in.
When you were a sinner, you lived in darkness.
Your eyes may have seen light, but your thoughts were not light.
You ways were not light.
Your conduct was not light.
Your entire way of life was dark.
When you commited your life to God, you accepted His light into your life.
The darkness that once ruled your life had to give way to God’s light.
God’s word
The word of God is the lamp that provides light.
The psalmist states that God’s word is the lamp that provides light for their path.
The path would be dark, but when the lamp is burning, it provides light that replaces the darkness.
Darkness transitions when light shines in.
When you were a sinner, you lived in darkness.
Your eyes may have seen light, but your thoughts were not light.
You ways were not light.
Your conduct was not light.
Your entire way of life was dark.
When you commited your life to God, you accepted His lamp, which is God’s word that provides light into your life.
The darkness that once ruled your life had to give way to God’s light.
God’s light
God’s light searches the deepest area of our life.
Even the hidden things.
Read Scripture: Christian Standard Bible translation.
The light of God looks deep within our hidden areas.
Just as a lamp shows up what is in the darkness, so God reveals what is in man’s spirit and searches out his inmost being
God sees and knows everything about us.
God knows everything about us, no matter how hard we try to hide our sin or shamefulness from Him.
Read Scripture again: ESV
Read Scripture again: ESV
We cannot hide from our wrong doing either.
We cannot hide from our wrong doing either.
The representation of the “spirit of man”
The “spirit” represents the conscience of man which searches every secret place.
The same Scripture let us know that God’s lamp is the human spirit.
It’s basically our own guilty conscious.
When we are wrong, we know it.
When we are wrong, we know it.
God’s word reveals our wrong to ourselves.
The “spirit” part of man is our self-conscious.
God
Read Scripture: Romans 2:14-15
This Scripture even proves that we know when we messed up.
The “spirit” represents the conscience of man which searches every secret place.
Inherited inclination because of God.
Because we are made in God’s image and have God’s breath within us, we have an inherited inclination of our actions.
Rather we judge ourselves or not, God will judge the secret things.
We should always be willing to let the lamp of God light our pathway.
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Point 1: God’s Word Is Our Compass
ESV:
Read Scripture: Message:
Feet are for walking
The word “feet” indicates to walking and movement.
The psalmist depended on God’s word to be a lamp for his feet.
We should ask for God to be our lamp and our light for our feet and path.
God’s word is providential.
God takes care of the needs of His creation.
He is rich in blessings and pours out His oil and wine on the faithful that follow His instructions.
God’s Word Provides Instructions
David’s prayer for instructions and guidance.
thy ways and thy paths refer to the conduct, the way of life that Yahweh requires
God’s paths lead to salvation.
David prayed to be
David desired to know God’s ways.
David knew that the paths of God were truth and they would lead to salvation.
thy ways and thy paths refer to the conduct, the way of life that Yahweh requires of those who worship him
thy ways and thy paths refer to the conduct, the way of life that Yahweh requires
God’s word provides instructions that will be light unto our path.
Parents should provide instructions.
Many of us are parents or caretakers of children.
We have the privilege of taking care and overseeing the development of our future generation.
At times, we as parents and caretakers have to provide instructions.
Sometimes children need a little guidance on their path.
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Correction keeps you on the right path of life.
That teaching should be given from God’s Law, for the parents’ commands, like the Word of God, should be like a lamp and a light, giving guidance to one’s conduct (Ps.
119:105).
Discipline (cf.
Prov.
1:2, 7), though painful (cf.
Heb.
12:11a), helps keep a person on the right path, leading him in the way of life.
teaching should be given from God’s Law, for the parents’ commands, like the Word of God, should be like a lamp and a light, giving guidance to one’s conduct (Ps.
119:105).
Discipline (cf.
Prov.
1:2, 7), though painful (cf.
Heb.
12:11a), helps keep a person on the right path, leading him in the way of life.
Correction should be given in love.
Not one of us like that way correction felt or feels, but it is necessary when applicable.
Correction should happen in the Body of Christ.
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