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♪ That he would send his only son to come and rescue us ♪ 00:00:58.460 |
♪ Your mercy floods our lives with kindness ♪ 00:01:40.840 |
♪ That he would send his only son to come and rescue us ♪ 00:02:40.420 |
♪ That he would send his only son to rescue us ♪ 00:02:54.380 |
♪ That he would send his only son to come and rescue us ♪ 00:03:08.400 |
♪ That he would send his only son to come and rescue us ♪ 00:04:23.440 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:04:28.440 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:05:04.440 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:05:09.440 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:05:27.140 |
♪ The mighty King of kings has disarmed you ♪ 00:05:45.560 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:05:50.560 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:06:06.060 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:06:47.320 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:07:03.160 |
♪ The mighty King of kings has disarmed you ♪ 00:07:21.700 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:07:26.700 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:07:42.120 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:08:09.580 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:08:50.620 |
♪ Hallelujah, Christ is risen from the grave ♪ 00:10:11.940 |
but there are some things that we want to inform. 00:10:26.340 |
next Sunday after the service at around 1.30, 00:10:28.900 |
we'll have an all-church meeting, whoever is available 00:10:40.420 |
Again, I know some of these birthdays are repeated, 00:10:52.940 |
He's not gonna understand, but happy birthday. 00:11:03.780 |
And then Andrew Kim, letters are your friends. 00:11:09.400 |
We have some people who are extra specially good last week. 00:11:12.660 |
We have Carol Cho, said you wanted a purple lollipop. 00:11:18.200 |
And then Cadence, you're gonna have to step up your game. 00:11:27.060 |
Oh, not your birthday, but Daniel did a great job 00:11:41.140 |
and participate in worship and help your parents out. 00:11:44.060 |
And so hopefully we'll have another great week. 00:11:46.620 |
Let me pray for us before we get into the offering time. 00:11:56.940 |
We pray, Father God, that even though this may not be 00:12:04.780 |
we ask, Lord, that you would help us to focus our attention 00:12:09.540 |
in our homes, with our families, or whether we are alone. 00:12:13.040 |
We pray, Father God, that your word and your spirit 00:12:15.700 |
would cause us to fellowship together as one. 00:12:17.900 |
Help us, Lord God, to worship you in spirit and in truth, 00:12:23.040 |
whether at this time we are tired or discouraged, 00:12:35.420 |
may it be an act of worship that we give you, 00:12:40.060 |
May it be multiplied for your use, especially now. 00:12:42.560 |
So we pray, Father God, that you would ordain this time 00:13:22.900 |
♪ Now firm the foundation, ye saints of the Lord ♪ 00:13:35.680 |
♪ Is laid for your faith in his excellent word ♪ 00:13:42.080 |
♪ What more can he say than to you he hath said ♪ 00:13:49.720 |
♪ To you who have fallen, you too Jesus have fallen ♪ 00:14:05.620 |
♪ For I am your God and will still give you aid ♪ 00:14:12.600 |
♪ I'll strengthen you, help you, call on you to stay ♪ 00:14:24.720 |
♪ Through the many blotters I call you to go ♪ 00:14:49.400 |
♪ For I will be with you through your troubles to bless ♪ 00:14:55.720 |
♪ And sanctify to you your deepest distress ♪ 00:15:09.380 |
♪ Through far retributed your highways shall I ♪ 00:15:20.500 |
♪ My grace of salvation shall be your supply ♪ 00:15:26.600 |
♪ The flames shall not hurt you, I only desire ♪ 00:15:34.240 |
♪ Your dross to consume and your gold to find ♪ 00:15:39.240 |
♪ The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose ♪ 00:15:47.280 |
♪ I will not, I will not desert to his foes ♪ 00:15:53.740 |
♪ The soul though our hands should endeavor to show ♪ 00:17:26.800 |
♪ I love thee because thou hast first loved me ♪ 00:17:42.220 |
♪ I love thee for wearing the thorns on thy brow ♪ 00:19:15.420 |
♪ Mansions of glory in heaven's seat of night ♪ 00:19:20.420 |
♪ How ever I adore thee in heaven so bright ♪ 00:19:30.840 |
♪ I'll sing with the glittering crown on my right ♪ 00:20:19.720 |
♪ Worthy of all the praise we can ever bring ♪ 00:20:27.060 |
♪ Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe ♪ 00:20:56.220 |
♪ Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe ♪ 00:21:31.980 |
♪ And lead me in your love to those around me ♪ 00:21:52.980 |
♪ Worthy of all the praise we can ever bring ♪ 00:22:01.100 |
♪ Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe ♪ 00:22:28.720 |
♪ Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe ♪ 00:23:02.720 |
♪ And lead me in your love to those around me ♪ 00:23:30.720 |
♪ And lead me in your love to those around me ♪ 00:25:21.880 |
♪ And lead me in your love to those around me ♪ 00:26:32.720 |
The text that we're gonna be looking at this morning 00:26:36.880 |
We're gonna be going through parts of chapter seven 00:26:41.480 |
So I encourage you to keep your Bibles open to those texts. 00:26:45.920 |
from chapter eight, verse 12, before we get started. 00:27:01.640 |
Heavenly Father, we pray that you would ordain these words. 00:27:07.480 |
May it go forth and not return until it has accomplished 00:27:13.880 |
We ask Lord God that you give us soft hearts, 00:27:24.960 |
And I desire to continue to seek you, Father God, 00:27:34.880 |
All right, so now it's already been five weeks 00:27:41.840 |
and we're hoping that at the end of maybe a week or two 00:27:47.780 |
and that social distancing and all that stuff 00:28:03.960 |
that we're looking to go back to our normal life. 00:28:09.840 |
I think it's a good opportunity for us to reflect 00:28:17.660 |
that if it does open back up, what will we do? 00:28:20.440 |
Maybe hang out with our friends, go to a restaurant, 00:28:23.860 |
maybe get back to certain things that we enjoy doing 00:28:35.200 |
that Jesus was trying to address with these I Am statements. 00:28:55.100 |
because it is the I Am statement that connects him 00:28:58.060 |
to the I Am God of Yahweh of the Old Testament. 00:29:18.180 |
that connects this to the I Am statement of God 00:29:21.300 |
when he introduces himself to Moses and he says I Am. 00:29:24.860 |
So the Jews clearly understood when Jesus was saying this 00:29:32.940 |
But what's different about the I Am statements 00:29:35.780 |
in the New Testament is that Jesus was actually teaching 00:29:42.780 |
So every one of these I Am statements is trying to correct 00:29:50.100 |
Much of it was a misunderstanding of who the Messiah was. 00:29:56.100 |
They were expecting Jesus or the Messiah to come 00:29:58.820 |
and he was going to feed them, take care of them, 00:30:02.340 |
and each one of these I Am statements are stated 00:30:07.960 |
He didn't have a curriculum of seven I Am statements 00:30:11.220 |
and decided that this is something that he needs to teach 00:30:14.020 |
the seminary students so they can have this knowledge. 00:30:19.140 |
in a specific context that they had a misunderstanding 00:30:23.180 |
or expectation of what they thought the Messiah 00:30:26.340 |
was going to be and Jesus was correcting them, 00:30:31.380 |
is that he is the bread of life, that he is the light, 00:30:38.020 |
we've gone through two I Am statements already. 00:30:50.400 |
Last week we talked about in the resurrection, 00:30:53.020 |
Jesus says I Am the resurrection and the life. 00:30:55.580 |
He says that in the context of raising Lazarus 00:31:09.180 |
So today's statement, I mean we've already gone through two, 00:31:19.540 |
It is also within a specific historical context. 00:31:23.620 |
He wasn't just saying this out of the blue into the air. 00:31:44.700 |
The beginning of their calendar starts with the Passover 00:31:47.780 |
and then the seventh and the last of the festivals 00:31:52.580 |
Some of your translations may have Feast of Tabernacles 00:31:56.980 |
They consider this probably the biggest of their ceremonies. 00:32:08.760 |
because it was connected to two specific things 00:32:12.900 |
One, it was the celebration at the end of the harvest. 00:32:16.860 |
So you can kind of think of it as their Thanksgiving. 00:32:21.420 |
But after the harvest, they would collect all the fruits 00:32:23.540 |
and all the bounty that they had from the harvest 00:32:25.760 |
and they would take that and then all throughout the week, 00:32:52.340 |
and how God led them through the desert for 40 years. 00:32:55.760 |
So if you remember, the Passover was to celebrate 00:32:59.900 |
how God protected them over the angel of death 00:33:03.660 |
and led them out of Israel or led them out of Egypt. 00:33:08.860 |
of how God led them in the desert for 40 years 00:33:12.620 |
So they would live in tents for those eight days, 00:33:20.940 |
again, they would have a ceremony to remember 00:33:26.400 |
So Jesus is saying, I am the light of the world 00:33:30.340 |
in the context of them celebrating the Feast of Booths. 00:33:50.640 |
And so the priest would climb this up and light this 00:33:58.380 |
And the purpose of this lighting was to remember 00:34:12.580 |
But at night, there would be this fire, right? 00:34:16.360 |
And the fire would lead them in the darkness in the desert. 00:34:20.180 |
And so wherever the fire moved, they would move. 00:34:21.980 |
So they would light this torch to remind the nation of Israel 00:34:29.840 |
would remind them that the Messiah was going to come 00:34:37.500 |
So it was at that ceremony, looking at that lamp, 00:34:47.980 |
But you'll be interested if you read the rest of chapter eight. 00:34:58.460 |
and it starts out with them wanting to make Jesus king. 00:35:07.400 |
In the middle of the chapter, chapter eight, verse 31, 00:35:13.280 |
And so he's talking to Jews who have believed him 00:35:16.860 |
in the context of him saying, I am the light. 00:35:19.120 |
He says, "If you abide in me, you shall know the truth 00:35:24.320 |
And then he has this encounter with these Jews 00:35:36.320 |
And then chapter 666, because of what he says, 00:35:41.960 |
Chapter eight, Jesus says he's the light of the world. 00:35:46.160 |
at the end of the chapter, they want to kill him. 00:35:49.080 |
So Jesus is correcting something about their belief 00:35:55.440 |
So whatever it is that you were thinking was normal 00:36:02.280 |
So Jesus says that he has come to bring true light. 00:36:07.840 |
is to look at three aspects of what this light represents. 00:36:11.440 |
What did Jesus mean and how did they understand it? 00:36:15.480 |
So the way I phrase it so that it could be easier 00:36:20.540 |
what does the darkness represent in light of the light? 00:36:41.320 |
it is stated that the reason why the Israelites 00:36:46.000 |
were straying from God is because they did not know him. 00:36:48.560 |
Isaiah 5:13, therefore my people go into exile 00:36:54.180 |
Hosea 4, 6, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. 00:37:12.420 |
Whatever it was that they thought that they saw was wrong. 00:37:24.580 |
To cause us to see, to shed light on what is truth. 00:37:31.260 |
"There was a true light which was coming into the world, 00:37:42.280 |
he's telling them that everything that I'm telling you 00:37:48.220 |
Which many of them would have been offended by, 00:38:05.280 |
and he was basically telling them that they're blind. 00:38:09.020 |
So if you look at the encounter that Jesus has with them, 00:38:15.420 |
So it wasn't just a, I am the light of the world. 00:38:26.460 |
"For God who said, let light shine out of darkness, 00:38:33.340 |
"to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God 00:38:38.180 |
The primary thing that they were ignorant about 00:38:43.540 |
And he says, Jesus says, the reason why he came 00:38:48.700 |
The Bible tells us that people who do not follow Christ, 00:39:01.880 |
so they do not see the glory of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:39:14.820 |
And so because we saw the glory of the gospel of Jesus Christ, 00:39:25.020 |
I have come to turn on the light so that you may see. 00:39:42.900 |
where they would sleep outside of their home, 00:39:45.180 |
remembering how God led them through the desert. 00:39:47.740 |
What Jesus has described in John chapter 114, 00:39:51.860 |
the word became flesh, and he says dwelt among us. 00:39:56.120 |
The word for dwelt here literally means to pitch a tent. 00:40:00.760 |
Jesus Christ came and he pitched a tent among us. 00:40:05.980 |
And so one of the primary aspects of this festival 00:40:27.460 |
glory as of the only begotten from the Father, 00:40:33.740 |
So first and foremost, what he means by him being the light, 00:40:42.140 |
so that we may open our eyes and to see the glory. 00:40:50.380 |
and we could not by ourselves reach that glory, 00:41:28.320 |
The distinction between a Christian and non-Christian 00:41:37.460 |
Philip says to Jesus, "Lord, show us the Father, 00:41:42.720 |
Jesus said to him, "Have I been so long with you, 00:41:45.060 |
"and yet you have not come to know me, Philip? 00:42:03.900 |
and the exact representation of his nature, God's nature, 00:42:07.340 |
and upholds all things by the word of his power. 00:42:16.100 |
when Paul was introducing God and Christ to the Athenians, 00:42:24.660 |
He said, "He made from one man every nation of mankind 00:42:41.060 |
and God has done all these things in creation 00:42:46.540 |
to look at these things and say, "Who is this? 00:42:51.860 |
if perhaps they might grow for him and find him. 00:43:29.980 |
and some of you guys may be able to relate to that, 00:43:44.940 |
and you're trying to figure out what everything looks like, 00:43:47.700 |
so you're touching the dining room table for the first time, 00:43:51.680 |
but imagine if you had no reference for what they were, 00:43:55.100 |
and you were only seeing things through your touch, 00:43:59.860 |
because your eyes are meant to work with light. 00:44:09.660 |
you were blind, and you were looking through life 00:44:16.380 |
then all of a sudden, you are gifted with sight. 00:44:20.660 |
Light gets turned on, and everything that you were touching, 00:44:24.180 |
that you kind of had a sense for, but you didn't fully see, 00:44:29.620 |
Well, every Christian, whether it happened gradually, 00:44:35.080 |
whether it happened all of a sudden, like it did for me, 00:44:47.980 |
why am I the way I am, why are my parents the way they are, 00:44:54.780 |
And all of these questions, all of a sudden, made sense. 00:45:04.180 |
See, that's what the Bible says, what Christ does. 00:45:13.300 |
all of a sudden, we see things through his light. 00:45:17.700 |
That's what it says in Psalm 36, verse seven. 00:45:24.140 |
Until our eyes are opened by the author of light, 00:45:39.300 |
It's almost like you have eyes, but you're not using it, 00:45:48.460 |
it means he came to open our eyes, open our eyes. 00:46:12.300 |
is a good opportunity for us to take a step back 00:46:14.480 |
and ask ourselves, what is normal as a Christian? 00:46:33.840 |
And that's the first meaning, what Jesus meant. 00:46:57.360 |
The ignorance wasn't simply because they weren't taught. 00:47:11.640 |
"they did not honor him as God or give thanks, 00:47:13.960 |
"but they became futile in their speculations, 00:47:20.820 |
"and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God 00:47:29.240 |
Do you notice how he says, they profess to be wise, 00:47:47.580 |
You know, from years of doing ministry and counseling 00:47:52.360 |
and teaching the Bible and talking to people, 00:48:00.440 |
and then there's certain events that happen in their life, 00:48:12.400 |
and it doesn't happen to every single person, 00:48:14.080 |
but it happens enough where it's predictable. 00:48:19.680 |
when an individual begins to embrace their sin 00:48:31.740 |
and at one point talking about giving their life 00:48:48.740 |
It wasn't because people didn't answer their questions. 00:49:07.520 |
He says, "I am the light of the world," right? 00:49:11.100 |
It's like, "Well, what authority do you have?" 00:49:23.960 |
and some of them get offended, and they leave, 00:49:26.640 |
but in verse 31, it says, "Some of them believed." 00:49:30.200 |
So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed him. 00:49:44.120 |
Now, you wouldn't think there was anything controversial, 00:49:52.260 |
If you heard, "Jesus is the light of the world, 00:49:56.240 |
"that he's the light that they've been waiting for, 00:50:07.380 |
You would think Jews who were able to believe that, 00:50:26.460 |
They didn't get upset by Jesus saying, "I am the light." 00:50:29.320 |
They got upset because he said, "You will be set free," 00:50:40.100 |
have another encounter with Christ in verse 31 and on. 00:50:45.960 |
"we don't need to be set free, Abraham is our father, 00:50:50.620 |
because Jesus just told them that you need to be set free. 00:50:57.140 |
and then Jesus ultimately calls them out in verse 44, 00:51:06.600 |
I mean, that's a long way to go from verse 31 00:51:19.500 |
"Therefore they picked up stones to throw at him, 00:51:22.000 |
"but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple." 00:51:28.420 |
was okay with the statement, "I am the light of the world," 00:51:31.580 |
but when he pointed out that you need to be set free, 00:51:38.780 |
and those same people wanted to stone him and kill him. 00:51:42.700 |
You see, people who have embraced the darkness, 00:51:49.300 |
embraced their sin, doesn't want the light to be turned on. 00:51:52.780 |
You know, just like imagine if you're three in the morning, 00:52:11.180 |
you would thank them because you need that light, 00:52:15.580 |
That's exactly how it's described, John chapter three, 00:52:18.820 |
"This is the judgment that the light has come into the world 00:52:21.740 |
"and men love darkness rather than the light, 00:52:37.340 |
"But he who practices the truth comes to light 00:52:45.140 |
That's why an individual who embraces his sin, 00:52:59.020 |
They want to be where it is dim, and darker the better. 00:53:03.160 |
The scripture makes it absolutely crystal clear 00:53:21.380 |
"But if we walk in light, as he himself is in the light, 00:53:41.200 |
But not only that, he came to flip the switch on, 00:53:45.040 |
to turn the light onto darkness because of men's sin. 00:53:48.520 |
Remember, the whole purpose of Old Testament history 00:53:56.600 |
Because until they recognize the filthiness of the sin 00:54:04.100 |
Jesus didn't come primarily to feed the hungry. 00:54:08.000 |
Jesus didn't primarily come to change our economy 00:54:12.820 |
or get rid of crime, or make the country more prosperous. 00:54:31.980 |
And sometimes, pestilence may serve that purpose. 00:54:42.020 |
Causes us to see things that we would not have seen. 00:54:45.940 |
God turns the light on so that we can see clearly. 00:54:53.440 |
we will never be able to recognize Christ as the light. 00:55:29.980 |
And that's why, when he says he is the light of the world, 00:55:43.240 |
who only repents at the beginning of conversion. 00:55:57.780 |
You don't recognize the filth only in the beginning. 00:56:00.380 |
He continues to, that's what sanctification is, 00:56:11.920 |
we didn't know how filthy the television was, 00:56:13.880 |
we didn't recognize how filthy our hands were, 00:56:23.800 |
So for a Christian, for a Christian who has seen 00:56:55.140 |
This is a world that is waiting for judgment. 00:56:59.960 |
by the blood of Christ, and we are only waiting. 00:57:02.720 |
We are only waiting as the creation is groaning 00:57:11.880 |
For somebody who claims to have seen the light, 00:57:18.040 |
and never really recognizes the filth that is around us, 00:57:23.040 |
is inconsistent with what the Bible tells us. 00:57:35.800 |
and after opening their eyes, at least in practice, 00:57:45.520 |
John is not saying, hey, you should work harder. 00:58:02.640 |
and those who walk with him will also be in the light. 00:58:06.100 |
Third and final thing that darkness represents. 00:58:14.840 |
As I mentioned, the light for the Feast of Tabernacles, 00:58:21.080 |
or Feast of Booths, was a constant reminder to them. 00:58:27.480 |
At night, the pillar of fire would go before them. 00:58:34.800 |
But when it started to move, they would take up and move, 00:58:39.240 |
In fact, they didn't even know where they were going, 00:58:44.800 |
because of their sin, God would make them wander. 00:58:48.280 |
So it wasn't like, we're headed to the promised land, 00:58:50.640 |
so if you make this direct line, we're gonna get there. 00:58:52.360 |
God said, no, you're gonna wander for 40 years. 00:58:56.960 |
they were absolutely dependent upon this light. 00:59:35.960 |
We're talking about a large group of community 00:59:37.960 |
with small children and grandparents walking around. 00:59:40.240 |
So if any army wanted to come and attack them, 00:59:46.860 |
So it wasn't like there were food lying around everywhere. 00:59:52.540 |
they didn't have enough food, they didn't have enough water. 01:00:08.520 |
So for 40 years, they were doing basic training. 01:00:13.440 |
all they had to do was look at that fire and say, 01:00:20.880 |
And so that fire not only represented the presence of God, 01:00:30.160 |
as long as they went where God told them to go, 01:00:37.400 |
he wasn't simply saying, "I'm gonna open your eyes 01:00:42.760 |
He wasn't just saying that your sins are revealed, 01:01:19.720 |
'Cause my strength does not depend upon chariots or horses, 01:01:27.040 |
He said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. 01:01:46.840 |
today, if we wanna identify somebody who follows Christ, 01:01:52.880 |
Or maybe more specific, evangelical Christians. 01:02:07.400 |
The early church, you know what the first description 01:02:14.240 |
The word Christian was actually given to Christians 01:02:23.720 |
"those people who are following, they're little Christ." 01:02:28.800 |
to describe themselves is mentioned in Acts chapter 9 too. 01:02:35.480 |
That's how they refer to themselves to the other Christians. 01:03:02.160 |
who say they're Christians, but all they are are admirers. 01:03:25.040 |
See, early Christians knew exactly what Jesus meant 01:03:29.360 |
"He who follows me," he said, "will not walk in darkness." 01:03:38.920 |
not only to repent of our sins, but then to follow. 01:03:53.120 |
Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. 01:04:02.040 |
The purpose of why we go to proclaim the gospel 01:04:04.720 |
is so that non-Christians can open their eyes 01:04:06.660 |
and see the glory of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 01:04:15.720 |
They are buried with Christ in their old life, 01:04:29.880 |
He says, "I am the light that they may follow." 01:04:39.560 |
That's the first thing he told his disciples when he said, 01:04:54.240 |
John 12, 26, "If anyone serves me, he must follow me. 01:04:59.240 |
"And where I am, there my servant will be also. 01:05:02.460 |
"If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him." 01:06:03.080 |
the opposite of this word to follow is to lead. 01:06:09.360 |
Obviously, you can't be following if you're leading. 01:06:15.140 |
Many people have already determined what they wanted, 01:06:19.280 |
and all they're seeing with Christ is help me. 01:06:35.640 |
They're leading and asking Jesus to help them. 01:06:47.980 |
He said the opposite of follow is to come late, 01:06:53.720 |
If you're following somebody, and if you come late, 01:07:07.720 |
If you tell a child, hey, I want to take your trash out, 01:07:15.400 |
when I'm ready, when I'm done with my homework, 01:07:18.600 |
when I'm no longer tired, that's not delayed obedience. 01:07:23.600 |
That's disobedience, and that's what he says. 01:07:26.720 |
Again, this is the antonym of this word follow 01:07:39.920 |
or to leave behind, or to forsake, or to abandon. 01:07:43.640 |
All of these words, according to the Greek dictionary, 01:07:57.920 |
Much of disobedience looks like not yet, maybe later. 01:08:12.440 |
but the word for follow, when Jesus told his disciples 01:08:28.860 |
No, when he said follow me, they left everything 01:08:37.520 |
in light of who Christ is, once the light gets turned on, 01:08:43.420 |
whatever we were seeing, we were seeing from the blind spot. 01:09:10.660 |
Maybe we've been cooking lunch or dinner in the bathroom. 01:09:16.800 |
It's because we were trying to figure out in the dark, 01:09:40.940 |
I will show you where you're supposed to sleep. 01:09:43.900 |
I will show you where I intended for you to cook. 01:09:48.020 |
I will show you where the car is supposed to be. 01:10:01.700 |
he tells us that we also must be that light to the world. 01:10:16.180 |
nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, 01:10:22.900 |
Let your light shine before men in such a way 01:10:33.060 |
and we live no different than the rest of the world, 01:10:35.220 |
we value the same thing that they valued in the darkness, 01:10:45.380 |
is to live as people that the light of Christ 01:10:49.220 |
It's been turned on, and we see things clearly now 01:10:55.340 |
because we've seen the glory of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 01:11:21.080 |
but if your life doesn't fit the gospel that you preach, 01:11:43.120 |
because what you say and what you do doesn't fit. 01:11:47.660 |
So that's why he says, not only to admire him, 01:11:54.160 |
not only to say, oh man, I feel so bad for my sins, 01:11:58.400 |
but to follow that we may also be that light. 01:12:08.160 |
is challenging the Israelites normal, normal. 01:12:18.340 |
what they were hoping for, what they were looking to. 01:12:32.800 |
Where the pagans were praying to their gods and their idols, 01:12:43.500 |
The only difference for the Israelites at this time 01:12:46.240 |
was the avenue in which they were gonna achieve 01:13:04.740 |
He said the food that you desire, I am that food. 01:13:08.920 |
The light, the Messiah that you're waiting for, 01:13:33.160 |
You know, if you look at, again, in conclusion, 01:13:38.280 |
the very first thing that God created was the light. 01:13:45.000 |
He says all he did, he said let there be light. 01:13:57.860 |
Simply by his word, just like he told Lazarus 01:14:02.280 |
to give him life, to put breath back into him, 01:14:08.240 |
and by his words, with the authority that he has, 01:14:13.280 |
God created all the light we saw instantaneously 01:14:18.520 |
with the word of his mouth, let there be light. 01:14:22.240 |
But the light that he has come to recreate life in us 01:14:49.820 |
punctured on his side with a spear, crucified. 01:14:58.760 |
and then he took our shame and atoned for our sins. 01:15:07.360 |
even though we look at the vastness of the creation, 01:15:29.520 |
"he who follows me will not walk in darkness, 01:15:39.860 |
however long it lasts, whether it's a week or two weeks 01:15:42.740 |
or several months, is a great opportunity for us 01:15:53.580 |
Did I actually see the glory of the gospel of Jesus Christ? 01:16:16.100 |
and I know this is a hymn that we all know very well, 01:16:19.420 |
but again, I want us to sing very purposefully, 01:16:25.320 |
because it relates to the passage that we looked at. 01:16:28.180 |
It says, "Be thou my vision, O Lord, my heart." 01:16:46.300 |
Let all other things in light of his light disappear. 01:16:56.900 |
May the thought of Christ take the center stage 01:17:26.700 |
that we would not waste the time that you have given us, 01:17:34.340 |
whether we are just at home counting the days 01:17:42.340 |
as Christ shook up the world with these I Am statements 01:17:47.560 |
Help us, Lord God, to not go back to religiosity, 01:18:02.260 |
and what we are eagerly waiting to go back to 01:22:47.040 |
Heavenly Father, we pray for all our brothers and sisters 01:22:53.060 |
as we are in our homes, again, with young parents, 01:22:59.820 |
and give them patience, give them extra amount of energy 01:23:04.060 |
to be able to see the value of what you've given, 01:23:10.020 |
We pray, Father God, that your grace would be upon them. 01:23:18.740 |
but at the same time, to be a great light, Lord God, 01:23:25.380 |
maybe there's more to life than what they were accustomed to 01:23:36.260 |
especially that you would guard and protect them, 01:23:39.020 |
that as many of them may be anxious, Lord God, 01:23:43.460 |
I pray that their faith may grow even stronger 01:24:02.580 |
to truly shine Christ's light on all of this. 01:24:14.980 |
waiting, Father, to go back to what we were used to. 01:24:17.700 |
Help us to use this opportunity to magnify your gospel, 01:24:22.320 |
to bring the loss that they may also see you. 01:24:37.780 |
that all the fluff, Lord God, that we've been used to, 01:24:40.060 |
that all of these things, Lord God, will be pruned, 01:24:54.700 |
to thinking, to pursuing, and to gaze upon Christ,