Lauren Daigle - Light Of The World (Lyric Video)

Planetshakers | Light of the World

Fake Christians walk in darkness

1 John 1:5-10
This is the message we have heard from Him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we have say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

If we have fellowship with God, it's because we are united with Him in light and therefore cannot walk in darkness.

God is the light. He sent Jesus as the light of the world. Whoever follows Jesus will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life.
Life is given in connection to Jesus and it enables us to see and become.

John 12:36 says that while you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.
When we believe in Jesus, we are enabled to SEE light, and to SHINE with the true light of God.

John 1:14 - and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

• The Pharisees failed to see this light;
• Those who crucified Jesus failed to see this light.

When you see the light, life has come into you.

When you see the light, the glory, you become like it.

1 John 2:8-11

The darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Love is the expression of the light. We become like the light when we believe in the light. The Light (God) is love. We become like the Light by loving others.

In Him was Life

In Him was Life

• Ultimate reality is alive. Original reality, absolute reality is a living person. 
• Life gave rise to matter. Physical matter did not give rise to life.
• The life John has in view mainly is new life, spiritual life, saving life, the gift of eternal life, the opposite of spiritual death now and final condemnation later.
• John 5:24 - truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
• God gave us eternal life and this life in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son does not have life. 

The Life was the Light of Men

• New life brings light.
• People aren't dead because they can't walk or talk or think or feel or even see with physical eyes. They are dead because "seeing they do not see" (Matthew 13:13). They don't see:
• Jesus as supremely valuable;
• His sacrifice as precious;
• His fellowship as the greatest treasure;
• Jesus said in John 8:12, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
• When you receive Jesus, you receive life. And when you receive life, you receive light.

The Darkness Did Not Grasp the Light

• The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not understood it.
• He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him.
• But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His Name, He gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

The New Birth

• John 3:3 - Truly truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God.
• Everything hangs on being born again. Without this, we are dead and blind.
• God sends Jesus into the world as the light of life to lay down his life for us; and then cause people to be born again so that they can see him and receive him.
• Receiving light happens simultaneously with the opening of eyes.
• These three events - new birth, new sight, new faith - are all talking about the same thing from different sides.
• When Jesus commands us to believe on him for eternal life, we don't wait for a separate experience called the new birth before we believe, and we don't rush ahead to believe as though we could it without the new birth. Instead, we look steadfastly at Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who laid down His life for us.

After Watching Porn - 001

We too often allow unattainable ideas to dictate what we allow ourselves to say.

God can and does act in that moment of regret.

It is often in the moment after the act that Satan spins his most eloquent web: menacing thinking patterns, bargaining with a distant and disapproving God.... It is in this moment that Satan does his finest work. It is in this moment that we need God to do His finest saving.

1. Know your enemy. Godly grief produces repentance that leads to salvation without regret; but worldly grief produces death (2 Cor.7:10). Recognize that you have a powerful personal agent who is singularly focused on your destruction. Do not forget that Satan is at work. If you do, it is easier to believe hidden, subversive, subtle, destructive lies. Evil gains power when it is forgotten. Don't forget: After you indulge, you are still mid-battle with a tenacious, evil person bent on stealing your life, and he has not yet gotten it.
2. Fight self-hatred. Porn is the twisted manipulation of innocence for the raw crave of erotic appetite. To have a grieved conscience is a good thing... [but] wallowing in self-deprecation and feeling like paying penance to God for sin is a sad and ironclad torture. It is false, and it is a wicked oppression. Not surprisingly, suicide rates are high among porn users. 
• No wonder David uses such deeply physical metaphors when he pleads with God for grace over sexual sin: 
• Blot out my transgressions;
• Wash me;
• Cleanse me;
• Purge me;
• Blot out my iniquities;
• Create in me a clean heart
• Scream that, with David. Replace the groan of human self-hatred with an unbroken war cry of divine love.
• If you are tempted to wallow, don't let your (good) intuitive hatred of sin lead you to hate yourself. 
• Be patient with yourself, because God is patient. He is fighting for your life. He has not forgotten you. He has not left you. Keep fighting with him. Keep gasping for the air of divine life - the Life-Giving Spirit.
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