A Guiding Light
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· 146 viewsBirth into a fallen world, humanity lives in total darkness and requires a light that exposes the evil, death, and sin. Jesus comes to us to reveal the gospel light to all humanity, in who there are freedom and a path to a righteous life and, God will rescue us from evil when we choose to walk closely behind the light that leads us out of the darkness.
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Light is a necessity
Light is a necessity
a. Light gives us direction
1. Driving at night- warns us from road hazards
2. Walking in the dark- gives us sight to protect ourselves
b. Light gives life ()
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Genesis
Genesis
1. Provides food to the world
2. Enables us to function properly
3. God created it first so we could survive
Discovering the Light
Discovering the Light
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John
a. Making a Divine claim at Temple during Festive of Booth
1. Light and Messiah
2. Prologue () the light of creation
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
3. Light colliding with us (; )
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.
he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
b. God light can illuminate your path ()
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
1. warm, protect and keep you alive
Discerning Truth
Discerning Truth
So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.”
Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
John 8:
a. legal challenge of Jesus claim
1. ; - two or more witnesses to convict a person.
Distant Judgement
Distant Judgement
You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.
I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
a. Legal judgement upon others
1. Live in sin cannot see what is true ( )- judging according to the heart.
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
2. Come as a light the first interaction with creation ()
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
3. Father has handed authority to judge to the son ()
For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
Divine Relationship
Divine Relationship
They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
a. Cannot know God without Jesus- trinitarian relation
b. What is seen of the Son is the person of the Father
c. God is inviting us into divine relationship as our light
Death and Darkness
Death and Darkness
So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
So the Jews said, “Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”
He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
John 8:21-
a. Different locations
1. Jesus is from heaven - light of the world
2. Men are from below and are blinded by Satan's power and left dead in their sins.
b. The need of the light
1. Without the light we will remain in the dark ()
Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
2. Jesus can take our blinders off so we can forgiven and know the truth
Reintroducing the Light
Reintroducing the Light
So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.
I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”
They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.
So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.
I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”
They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.
So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
John 8:
a. God sent the light
1. God is true for sending the light
2. Jesus says only what God tells him - the gospel
b. Know the light through the cross
1. Jesus dies so we can die with him
2. Submit to the Father's will so you can please God
c. People believed in the light
1. Changes our direction - Live a new life conforming to Jesus
2. Learn the truth - Be joined to the light so you can expose evil
3. Experience light of life - Live as light to bring hope to others
Walk closely behind the light and you'll make it through the darkness.
Walk closely behind the light and you'll make it through the darkness.