Let's turn in our Bibles to 2
Corinthians chapter 4. And if you want to mark this
chapter, this is where we'll be the second hour. Today we're
going to look, or in the first hour, we're going to look at
verse 6. Let's read this together. It says, God who commanded the
light to shine out of darkness. hath shined in our hearts to
give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ. Now the Spirit of God takes us
here back to the first creation. Back to the first creation of
the heavens and the earth because in that creation God is showing
by way of type how He makes His new creation. His new creation
is His people that God saves. And He used that first creation
of the heavens and the earth to show how He makes this new
creation, His people. He told us in Isaiah 65 verse
17, He said, Behold, I create a new heavens and a new earth.
This heavens and this earth we see now is not going to be here
forever. In fact, this is not why it was
created. God said, Behold, I create a
new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembered
nor come into mind. He said, I create Jerusalem a
rejoicing and her people a joy. The new Jerusalem that God creates
is a people. You know, a city is not the buildings
or the streets or the businesses. A city is the people. And with
God, His new Jerusalem is His people that He's made all brand
new. Now this current creation is
held in store right now because God is creating His people anew. He finds us dead, dark sinners
and He doesn't use anything about us to make this creation. He
creates us new. And when He's finished the work,
this world, this heaven and this earth shall be dissolved. And
there will be the new heaven and the new earth. He said through
Peter, the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved. And the elements
shall melt with the fervent heat. But nevertheless, we, according
to His promise, look for a new heavens and a new earth wherein
dwelleth righteousness. This whole new creation is the
work of God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, through
the Holy Spirit so that everybody that is made new are righteous
and everybody that will be in this new creation shall be righteousness
by God. Our Lord gave the Apostle John
a view of this creation. Go over to Revelation 21. John
saw this new creation. Look what he saw. Revelation
21. And we'll begin in verse 1. It says, ìAnd I saw a new
heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth
were passed away.î This is after He made all His people new. And
that first earth, this first earth and heaven is gone now.
He said, ìI saw a new heaven and a new earth, the first heaven
and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea.î
What does the seas do? They divide. There will be no
more division in this new heaven and this new earth. He said,
And I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. That's what Christ's church is
described as, in Ephesians, as the church who's been prepared
by Christ, adorned by Christ for her husband, Christ. He's
going to present her to Himself, Scripture says. And this is all
His people He's talking about. Look, and I heard a great voice
out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people,
and God Himself shall be with them and be their God. And God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be
no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there
be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. There's
no more sin. All those things are the result
of sin. There's no more sin. There's only righteousness now.
So none of those things will be in this new creation. He says,
And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things
new. And so in our text, the Spirit
of God takes us back to that first creation of the heavens
and the earth to show us how that God makes His people a new
creation. It was in that first creation
that God said, let there be light. Now I pray God will be pleased
to work this work and make somebody new here today. Now first of
all, what do we need? We need light. There's going
to be life. We're going to have to have light.
He said in verse 6, For God who commanded the light to shine
out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light. Now let's go back to Genesis
1-1. The first creation began by God. And that's how this new
creation begins, by God. Look here, Genesis 1-1, In the
beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. God was the creator
of the first creation. And God's the creator of the
new creation. Now that creation was created
out of nothing. And like I said, God's not using
something in us to make His new creation. He's making it all
brand new. He's doing it all. And look,
that earth, the earth didn't bring forth light of itself.
The heavens didn't bring forth light of itself. Verse 2 says,
the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the
face of the deep. God's people don't bring forth
light of ourselves, brethren. You see, when Adam sinned in
the garden, we fell in Adam, and we became unrighteous. We became without form and void.
And when we're born of Adam's corrupt seed, in the deep, in
our very nature, we're conceived in sin. That's all our nature
is. So that darkness is upon the
face of the deep. In our nature, we're all darkness. It was by the three persons of
the Godhead that light shined. It was by the three persons of
the Godhead that the light shined and it's by the three persons
of the Godhead that the light shines in His people. Look here,
Genesis 1, 2. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters. There's God the Holy Spirit.
That's who's going to move upon His people. God the Holy Spirit
moves upon us. And verse 3 says, And God said,
Let there be light. God the Father speaks. You know
what we're preaching? We're preaching His Word. And
God the Father speaks His Word. And He gives the command. The
Scripture says, The entrance of thy words giveth light, and
giveth understanding to the simple. the entrance of His words. And
then verse 3, and there was light. That light that shined in the
darkness in that first creation was Christ. It was the Son of
God, pre-incarnate Lord Jesus that shined in that first creation.
So you have all three persons in the Godhead involved with
bringing forth light. God the Holy Spirit, God the
Father, and God the Son, the light. Now notice that word light
there is singular. God said, let there be light
and there was light, singular. That was on the first day. That
light was not made. That light simply shined. When
God said, let there be light, the light shined. Then on the fourth day, on the
fourth day, God made the sun and the moon and the stars and
all other lights, plural. Look down at verse 14. God said,
let there be lights, plural, in the firmament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs and
for seasons and for days and for years. Verse 19 says, in
the evening and the morning were the fourth day. So that light
that shined the first day, that wasn't the sun and the moon and
the stars. Who was that light? That light was Christ. Go to
John 1. Go to John 1. That was God. That was the beginning, the light
that was in the beginning with God, the Word that was in the
beginning with God and was God. And that light shined in the
darkness. Look here, John 1 and verse 1. In the beginning was
the Word. This is before that beginning
we read about in Genesis. This is when the heavens and
the earth hadn't begun yet. This is when there was just God.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made by Him. Now there's the beginning
we just read about in Genesis. And without Him was not anything
made that was made. In Him was life, and the life
was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness. That's the light that shined
back there in darkness in the beginning, in that first creation.
That light was Christ. Just as He was the light that
shined in darkness all through the Old Covenant, He's the light
that shines in darkness in our hearts. But when He shined throughout
the Old Covenant, or when He just shines here, what you see
is light around us. And this light comes from Christ.
We have light. Everything gets its light from
Christ. And when He shines, that's when we'll behold light in our
heart. As long as it's just this light,
it shines in the darkness, we don't behold Him. He has to shine
in our heart. Look here. It says, there was
a man sent from God whose name was John. This is how God's going
to make the light shine, through the preaching of the gospel.
That's what Paul is declaring in our text. We're going to see
that later. But there was a man sent from God whose name was
John, and the same came for a witness to bear witness of the light.
that all men through Him might believe that He is all His people. And He was not that light, but
was sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light,
which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was
in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew
Him not. Do you know that everybody sitting
here, the life we have, just natural physical life, is only
sustained because of Christ the light. And yet, unless He shines
in the heart, we don't know Him. We don't know Him. We won't acknowledge
Him. Look here, He said He was in the world, the world was made
by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, His
own received Him not. How are we going to be made to
receive Him and acknowledge and bow to the light? But as many
as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of
God, even to them that believe on His name, which were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will
of man, but of God. That's how they were created.
That's how they were born. The Lord declared He's the light.
Look at John 8. John 8 verse 12. He said He's
the light of His people wherever they are in this world. John
8 verse 12. He says, Then spake Jesus unto
them, saying, I am the light of the world. He that followeth
Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John 9, verse 4. He says there,
I must work the works of Him that sent me. The night cometh
when no man can work. As long as I'm in the world,
I am the light of the world. Look at John 12, 35. He says
in John 12, 35, Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while
is the light with you. Walk while you have the light,
lest darkness come upon you. For he that walketh in darkness
knoweth not where there he goeth. While you have light, believe
in the light, that you may be the children of light. I am coming
to the world that whosoever believeth on me shall not abide in darkness.
Sinner, believe on Christ now while there is time to believe
on Christ. The day is coming when there will be nothing but
darkness. It will be too late then. Believe now. And in Christ
the light is the light of that new heavens and the new earth.
If you want to go back there to Revelation 21, I can just
read this to you, but he says in Revelation 21-23, the city
had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it. For
the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light
thereof. The Lamb, Christ, is the light
of the glory of God. So now back in our text, in 2
Corinthians 4, 6. Every believer that's created
anew, born of God, you know what we do? We give God the glory.
We don't glory it ourselves. This is what Paul's doing. He
says, For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
has shined in our hearts to give the light. Pope Peter said, You're
a chosen generation, a royal priesthood. a peculiar people,
a holy nation. Why? That you should show forth
the praises of Him that has called you out of darkness into His
marvelous light. See, we praise Him. Thou will
light my candle, the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. And the scripture says, and in
that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book. For the
first time you will hear the gospel. And you'll see, the eyes
of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
When are we going to see Christ and believe the Word? Men think
that they can go to this Word, they can study the doctrine,
they can learn some doctrine, and then by that they discern
true doctrine from false doctrine and thus they believe on Christ.
You read the article I put in the Bulletin, the Pharisees thought
that. Christ said, you got it all backwards. He said, do the
will of God, believe on me, and then you'll know the doctrine.
See, God's got to shine a light and make you know Christ, and
then you'll bow to Christ, you'll take His yoke upon you, you'll
be ready to learn of Him through this gospel, and then He'll teach
you everything, and you'll know it's so. That's how we understand. You know, when we start seeing
things and really understanding things, it's not by our studying
and our knowledge that we did that. God shined the light to
make you see and understand. So that's first the light. God
gives the light. Now, second thing we need is
knowledge. We need to know God. When He
shines the light, what He's doing by shining the light is to make
you know God, make you have a knowledge of God. Look at verse 6. For
God, now take out the Let's go to the next thing. For God has shined in our hearts
to give the light of the knowledge, the knowledge of the glory of
God. And where are we going to see
Him? In the face of Christ Jesus, the Lord. Remember He said God
is the glory of that new city and the Lamb is the light thereof.
The Lamb is the light of His glory. The Lamb is where you
are going to see His glory. It's in Christ the light we're
given the light of knowledge. This is what it is when Christ
has made wisdom unto us. God of God in Christ who of God
has made wisdom unto us. This is how God does it. We learn
everything looking to Christ. Everything we learn from the
very first hour to the very last hour we learn from Christ, looking
to Christ, beholding Christ. Everything, everything we learn
in Christ. And now what Scripture says,
Ephesians 5.13 says, All things that are reproved are made manifest
by the light. For whatsoever doth make manifest
is light. Wherefore He saith, Awake thou
that sleepest and arise from the dead. That's what God says
when He shines the light in your heart that we just saw. Awake
thou that sleepest and arise from the dead. And now here's
where the knowledge comes. And Christ shall give thee light.
Christ is going to give you knowledge now. And in Christ we see the
very glory of God. We see what Moses saw when God
put him in the cleft of the rock. Let's go over there, Exodus 34.
This is what's being taught. This is what Moses saw. God,
where did God put him? He put him in the cleft of the
rock. That is the picture of being put in Christ, the rock.
And when we put in Christ, He was made to behold God's back
parts. Christ came down and was crucified.
And we're made to behold God by looking at Christ. And what
do we hold? Behold, the glory of God. We're
given the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ
Jesus. And here's what Moses had asked
to see, God's glory. That's what he asked for, I want
to see your glory. So here's what God did, Exodus
34, verse 5. He put him in a rock, He covered
him with His hands, safe and secure. It says, And the Lord
descended in the cloud, and He stood with him there, and He
proclaimed the name of the Lord. That's who Christ is. He's the
name of the Lord. We behold the name of the Lord
when we behold Christ. And the Lord passed by before
him and proclaimed, here's the first thing, the Lord, Jehovah. We behold God's glory as being
the Almighty God, Jehovah. We behold God Almighty, Jehovah,
when? When He gives us eyes to behold
Christ the Lord. When we behold Christ the Lord,
we behold the Lord. He said, Christ said, He that
seeth me, seeth him that sent me. So, and then look at this. And then He proclaimed the Lord
God. You know, I showed you not too
long ago when God gives these two names together. Remember
what He's doing? He's making a promise. He's making
a covenant. He's showing His covenant word is sure because
He can swear by no greater. He swears by Himself, the Lord
God. Everywhere He makes a promise,
He says, I, the Lord God, swear unto you. So this is where we
behold God's covenant. We behold the glory of God in
making His covenant unto us, His covenant glory when we behold
Christ. Listen to Isaiah 42, 6. The Lord
is speaking of Christ. He said, I the Lord have called
thee in righteousness and will hold thy hand and will keep thee
and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of
the Gentiles. When are we going to understand
that new covenant theology is not just a system of doctrine,
that the covenant of God is a person when we're made to behold Christ?
That's when. He's made to be the covenant
in your heart. You behold Him as the mediator
of a better covenant. Established upon better promises.
Why is it a better covenant on better promises? because 2 Corinthians
1.20 says all the promises of God, every covenant promise God
has made to His people is in Christ, yes, and in Christ, amen,
unto the glory of God by us. When we behold that every word
God has ever spoken is true and all His covenant promises are
sure is when we behold Christ, the covenant. That's when the
covenant is made in our heart is when you behold Christ, the
covenant. And then beholding Christ, we behold the glory of
God's abundant goodness to His people for the sake of Christ.
And just a couple of things here to talk some about His goodness.
Look here. He said merciful. Merciful. From eternity, God looked to
Christ only. And because He looked to Christ
only, you know what He did? He withheld from us what we deserved. That's what mercy is. He was
merciful to us. He withheld from us what we deserved. The wrath and the condemnation
that we earned, He withheld it from us. Why? Because He looked
to Christ. When am I going to know that?
When I behold the glory of God's mercy in Christ. And then we
behold His graciousness. When we behold Christ, we behold
the grace of God. He's called the grace of God
in Scripture. Capital G. Christ did. When we behold Christ,
we behold that God not only has withheld from us what we deserved
to have poured out on us, He's given us what we didn't deserve.
Grace. All spiritual blessings in Christ
according as He chose us in Him. Grace. Grace. That's when you
behold Christ, is when you behold that. And we see in Christ that
He's longsuffering to us. When you behold Christ, you'll
realize that it's for the sake of Christ. You see Him. You see Him holy and righteous
and good and perfect. You see Him to be the one God's
been declaring all along. And then you'll know, I've been
rejecting Him all along. I rejected Him in the garden
in Adam. And yet, now you know it was for His sake, Christ's
sake, that God was long-suffering and didn't destroy us when we
sinned in Adam. And you realize now, all this
time I've been denying Christ and calling my mama and my daddy
crazy for believing on Him, now I realize God's been long-suffering
to me this whole time for Christ's sake. Because He looked to Christ,
my mediator, my redeemer, my surety. And then you behold all
this abundant goodness and truth that God's shown to you in Christ. In Christ we behold the glory
of God and how abundantly He's been good in everything He's
ever done to us and been truthful in everything He's ever spoken
to us and done for us. In God there's no lie, there's
no darkness, it's only truth. The only one who is absolutely,
thoroughly true and good. And you behold that, look into
Christ. He abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence, in
all goodness. In who? In Christ. And then look
at this, Exodus 35, 7, in Christ we behold the glory of God's
righteousness. I'm sorry, I want you to stay
there in Exodus 35. I'm just going down this list
of things He showed Moses. Mercy and truth and longsuffering
and goodness. His name of the Lord, His name
of the Lord God. And then in verse 7, we see His
righteousness in Christ. He keeps mercy for thousands,
all those He chose, elected unto salvation. He keeps mercy for
them. He forgives their iniquity. Iniquity is swerving in all kind
of crooked ways instead of being straight as the law is. That's
iniquity. Curvy and crooked in all things. He forgives our iniquity and
transgression. That means apostasy. That means
it's not just that we've broken a law, we've sinned against God. And He forgives our sin. That's
what we are in all that we do. He said He forgives it and that
we'll by no means clear the guilty. You see, when you behold Christ
for the first time, you're made to behold. And it dawns on you
in your heart. Right here standing before me,
I see Him now with the eye of faith. This is the Lamb of God. This is the Lamb who was spotless
and perfect so that He could bear my sin. This is the Lamb
who bore the stripes that I deserved when God made Him sin for me.
This is the Lamb who was made to curse for me. This is the
Lamb who justified me. by His death. Dying the death.
I should have died. You behold, this is how, this
is who He is. He's the Lamb of God. And you
behold that this one stands before me. I've been led into the holiest
of holies now, where Christ sits at God's right hand. There's
Aaron, my high priest. And beholding Him, I behold not
only He's the Lamb of God, I behold He is the mercy seat. He's the
reason God can be merciful. and propitious to me and forgive
my sin. I look and I behold His blood
spilled out of the Lamb on the mercy seat over the broken law
for me. And that's when I behold this
is God's righteousness. This one right here is the righteousness
of God. He is the one in whom God can
be just and uphold His law and honor His law and justify me
from all my sins at the same time. because He bore my punishment. And He is the righteousness of
God. And He is the One. He is the Just One and the Justifier. You behold this look into Christ.
And look at this next thing there in verse 7. And then for the
first time, you know, you go around all these days and you
rebel and men are saying, you know, why would God let bad things
happen to good people? Well, then you realize when you
behold all this, you realize there are no good people, including
me. And whatever God does to them is just. And for the first
time, you delight in God's justice. He says, visiting the iniquity
of the fathers upon the children, upon the children's children
to the third, fourth generation. Sinner, let me tell you something. If I could frighten you, I would
frighten you right now. Because right now, you that don't
know God, you're going to stand before the infinite majesty of
God. Scripture says He's so glorious
and His light is so bright that no man can stand before Him and
live. No man can see Him and live.
Scripture says He's a consuming fire. And I'm telling you this right
now, without Christ, you're going to meet Him and you're going
to be falling into the hands of an angry God. And He's going
to pour out justice on you because you don't have Christ, the mediator.
And when He pours that justice out, when He's done with it,
you think the world is bad now and there's darkness now? Then
you're going to find out what darkness is because He's going
to throw you into outer darkness, where Christ is not restraining
any man from doing anything. and they can do to you what they
want to do to you. Didn't you find out what it was to have
Christ the light at least upholding everything by His power and restraining
men? Outer darkness where there is
no light. But now look at this. John 12,
46 says this. He said, I am come a light unto
the world that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
And I'm telling you, sinner, believe on Him now because if
you believe on Christ, you will not abide in darkness. You'll
have the light of life now and forever. Now look here in Exodus
34 now. Look here with me at this. And Moses made haste and bowed
his head toward the earth and he worshipped. This is what we're
sure to do when God makes you behold the glory of God in the
face of Christ. He made haste. He didn't linger around. He bowed
his head toward the earth and he worshipped God. And for the
first time he prayed, he said, ìIf now I found grace in thy
sight, O LordÖî You see how humble? He didnít take that for granted.
He didnít presume. He said, ìIf I found grace in
your sight, Lord, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among
us, for itís a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our
sin, and take us for thine inheritance.î When you behold the glory of
God, this is what the sure effect will be. You will right now bow
and worship God, and for the first time you'll pray. For the
first time you'll pray. Why do I know that? Because Scripture
says the riches of His goodness and forbearance and longsuffering,
the whole goodness of God we're seeing here, the goodness of
God we see in the face of Christ Jesus, all His glory, leads us
to repentance. When you behold Him, you can't
go on looking to yourself and your sin and your rebellion and
your self-righteousness and your self-holding. You can't go on
that way anymore. You turn and bow. And you worship
Him. And when you pray to Him, you
pray for the first time. When the Lord made Paul see Christ
for the first time, the Lord said, He prayeth. And that's
what you pray. Here's our prayer. I pray Thee,
go among us, for it's a stiff-necked people. When God's made you to
know that He has taken up His presence in your heart and He's
abiding with you, from then on, your prayer is, Lord, please
don't take Your presence from us. Because I'm living in the
midst of a stiff-necked people. I need You to keep me. I need
You to go with me and keep me. And then you pray this, pardon
our iniquity and sin. When you behold Christ, not only
do you behold that you live in the midst of a stiff-necked people,
you behold you're the chief. and you need forgiveness, and
you need pardon, and you'll start asking God for it. You quit arguing,
well, I don't think election is fair. And you quit arguing,
well, I don't think it's fair that all our righteousness is
worked out by Christ. When He makes you see Christ
and how holy and good He is, then you'll see how sinful you
are, and you won't argue about any of that stuff anymore. Now
you start saying, Lord, just forgive me my sin. Pardon me,
Lord. And he says, and you pray, ìTake
me for thine inheritance.î And for the sake of Christ, he does
all of this. He goes with us. He said, ìIíll
never leave you and Iíll never forsake you.î He forgives us
of all our sin. He said, ìIíve cast it behind
my back and Iíll remember it no more as far as the east is
from the west. Iíve thrown it into the depth
of the sea. And nobody can bring it up again and condemn you before
me. Who is he that condemns? Itís God that justifies.î And
he makes you to know, not only do I take you for my inheritance,
in me you've also obtained an inheritance. Because you've been
predestinated according to my purpose and I'm he who works
all things after the counsel of my own will. And I've done
it that you should be to my praise, that you should glorify me because
I'm the one who first trusted Christ to come and save you.
And that's what he does. Now let me end with this. Go
back to our text. Now Moses saw only the back parts
of the living God. That's all he saw. But upon that
Mount of Transfiguration, do you remember what happened there?
Moses saw Christ face to face on the Mount of Transfiguration.
Transformed in all His glory, he saw Him face to face. Right
now, brethren, we see the glory of God, the glory of the invisible
God through faith in the person of that man, the God-man who
walked this earth in our flesh and is now gone to glory. We
see God in Him because that's how God manifests Himself. But
we see through a glass darkly. We know in part. But there's
coming a day when we're going to see Him in glory as He is. And when we see Him there, He
said when we see Him now, with open face we behold as in a mirror,
seeing through a glass darkly, we behold Christ and we are changed
into the same image right now. He gives you a new nature when
He makes you behold Him. So that you bow and worship Him
and pray unto Him and follow Him now. Now if that image, that
view of Him through a glass darkly does that in our hearts now,
imagine what it will be to see Him face to face. God said, then
we'll know as we are known. That won't be knowing Him in
part. We'll know Him as fully as He knows us right now. And
when we see Him, we'll be just like Him. Just like Him. Now, that'll make you want to
keep following Him on it. That'll make you want to persevere
in faith, won't it? So while we're here walking through this
dark earth, this is what he says to us. He says, you were sometimes
darkness. You once were darkness. He says,
but now are you light in the Lord. So walk as children of
light. Do you know how foolish it would
be And this is the foolishness of it, really. When men act like
they've been called by God and they've seen His glory, and yet
they don't care to come here to the Gospel to preach. They
don't have any interest in picking up the Bible. They don't have
any interest in following Christ and uniting with His people.
They might be fooling God, fooling us, but they're not fooling God.
And they're not fooling us. Because you know how foolish
it would be to be given this knowledge of Christ and not want
more of it? Everybody He gives it to, we
want to grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ. We want
more of this knowledge. And so you know what we do? We
use this means right here, this preaching of this Gospel that
God is pleased to use. And we assemble together and
we hear His Word preached and we keep doing it over and over
and over. And we go home and we read His Word. Because you
know why? He has made us take His yoke
upon us and submit to learning of Him. And this is how He's
pleased to teach us. And so we keep diligently seeking
to grow more and more in this knowledge that we first got when
He first called us and showed us Christ. Wouldn't it be foolish
if I spent all my time engaging in other things and neglected
this knowledge? So that's what He's saying to
you now. Now you're light. Now walk as children of light.
The scripture says, ìIn thy light shall we see light.î And when
Heís called you, Heís going to use the light of His Gospel,
Heís going to use the light of His Word, and Heís going to be
the light thatís teaching you. And as we walk in His light,
Heís going to give us more light. Thatís what He promised. Thatís
what He promised. So letís do that. Letís do that. You that havenít believed on
Him, I pray He shine now and make you see Him and make you
believe on Him. Keep coming back. Keep asking for more light. He'll
give it. He'll give it. Let's stand together. Father, we thank You for this
precious, precious light. We thank You that You've shined
in our hearts and that You've given us an understanding, making
us to know You and all Your glory by beholding Christ Jesus, Your
Son. Lord, keep us ever looking to
Him, keep us ever hearing Him, keep us ever submitted to Him.
Make us ever walk in His light, seeking to grow in His light
from that light. Lord, we can't pray for more. We want your presence with us.
We want you to forgive us our sin. We want you to keep us in
the midst of this dark world. We want you to show us more and
more and more and more of your light. We ask this in Christ's
light. Amen. Alright, we'll take a short
break and we'll come back for the service.