John chapter eight Jesus went unto the Mount of
Olives and early in the morning he came again into the temple
and all the people came unto him and he sat down and taught
them and the scribes and the pharisees brought unto him a
woman taken in adultery and when they had set her in the midst
they say unto him master This woman was taken in adultery in
the very act. I tell you what, calling him
master was a mockery. These Pharisees just making a
mockery. Master, teacher, this woman was
taken in adultery in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded
us that such should be stoned. But what sayest thou? This they
said, tempting him that they might have to accuse him But
Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground as
though he heard them not. So when they continued asking
him, he lifted up himself and said unto them, he that is without
sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again,
he stooped down and wrote on the ground. And they which heard
it being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one,
beginning at the eldest, even to the last. And Jesus was left
alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had
lifted up himself and saw none but the woman, he said unto her,
Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned
thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus
said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more. Then
spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the
world. And this is the text I want to use this morning. I am the
light of the world. He that follows me shall not
walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. The Pharisees
therefore said unto him, thou bearest record of thyself, thy
record is not true. Jesus answered and said unto
them, though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true,
for I know whence I came. and whither I go, but you cannot
tell whence I come and whither I go. You judge after the flesh,
I judge no man, and yet if I judge, my judgment is true, for I am
not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. It is also written
in your law that the testimony of two men is true. I am one
that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth
witness of me. Then said they unto him, where
is thy father? Jesus answered, you neither know me nor my father.
If he had known me, you should have known my father also. These
words spake Jesus in the treasury as he taught in the temple. And
no man laid hands on him, for his hour was not yet come. Now
look over in verse 26. He said, I have many things to
say and to judge of you, but he that sent me is true. I speak
to the world. Remember, he's the light of the
world. I speak to the world, those things which I have heard
of him. Our Father, speak to us again
this morning. Give us the truth. Give us the
truth in power. Teach us and instruct us, be
our teacher. Enable us to go home this afternoon
with our hearts set on things above and not on things of this
earth. Help us, Father, to put real value on the things that
are valuable. And that's our relationship to
You and Christ. Help us to cultivate that. Help
us to grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Help
us to grow in love to Thee. and to one another. Lord bless
this servant. In Jesus Christ's name I pray. Amen. John chapter 8. I am the light of the world. Powerful statement. No one, no
one has ever been able to say so much in such a short sentence. No one. God would give us an understanding
how powerful this statement would be to us. Now, I find it interesting how
we take the most important things for granted, don't we? The air
we breathe, did you think about that this morning? Did you think
about breathing when you got up this morning? The food we eat, the water we
drink. When you walked outside this
morning and you saw creation, God's beautiful creation, did
you think of the light by which you see it? You didn't. So you see, you walk
outside, you don't see the light. You see what light reveals. And
you and I are just, we just really pay no attention to light. But
we'll look at a tree and talk about how beautiful that tree
is. Well, without light, you can't see the tree. You can't
see one thing without light. How important are these things
that we take for granted day by day? God provides them day
by day and we just overlook them. But you know that all these things
represent the Lord Jesus Christ. The food we eat, I'm the bread
of life. Drink, the water we drink, I'm
the water of life. Any man thirst, let him come
and drink of me. Light, he said, I am the light. Without light, nothing lives.
I actually copied down something this morning
on the healing power of light, left it on my desk. But we'll
get to that later. But anyway, it's so important. Nothing lives without light.
You know, life and light always go together. Our Lord speaks
of them together. If you go over to the first chapter,
he speaks of them together. And they all represent the Lord
Jesus Christ. And what we have here in verse
12 is another one of the great I Am that Christ claims to be. And in saying this, you know
what he's saying? You know what he's doing? He's
laying claim to deity. I am the light. He's not saying
I give light, though he does. I am the light. I am the very
source of light. Amen. Listen here in 1 John 1
5. This then is the message which
we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light so
when Christ said I am the light he's laying claim to deity God
is light and in him is no darkness at all we know this about our
Lord he knew no sin that's what the scripture tells us he knew
no sin he who was made to be sin knew no sin he knew no sin
because he's God he's God And only as God can he claim to be
light. You know, it's written over in
Psalm 104 verse 2 that he covers himself in light. God is said
to be the light unto which no man can approach. He's a light to which no man
can approach. You remember when Paul was struck
down on the road to Damascus. It tells us over in Acts 26,
and I know it tells us over in that verse, but even a little
sooner, but that the light that he was surrounded with was brighter
than the noonday sun. What light could be brighter
than the sun? Well, the S-O-N light. That's
brighter than the S-U-N light. He's brighter. He is light. He's
light. I wonder if God, I can handle
this like I get asked to be handled. When God created the heavens
and the earth, what was the first thing he commanded? Now listen,
he said, let there be light in Genesis 1, 3, before God created
the sun and the moon, before he created them. The greater
light to rule the day, the sun, and the lesser light to rule
the night, the moon, which reflects the sunlight. Before God created
them, in the very first beginning, before anything was created,
He said, let there be light. This is uncreated light. This is the Lord Jesus Christ.
God has never, never created anything in darkness. Now, I
don't know what happened when it says darkness was upon the
face of the deep on this earth when the Spirit of God moved
over the face of the waters and it was darkness upon the face
of the deep. It became that way. I don't know. I'm not going to get into that
right now, but it became that way. And then when God began
to create, the first thing he said, let there be light. And
this light is uncreated light, the Lord Jesus Christ, the uncreated
light, that's who he is, he's the uncreated light. That's who
our Lord is. And when God saves, now listen,
when God saves a sinner, you know what the first thing he
does? He commands light. Listen to 2 Corinthians 4.6. For God who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness, back there in Genesis chapter 1 verse
3. God who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light,
and this is what light is, to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face. of Jesus Christ. God commands
that light to shine into our heart. And you know what that
light gives? It gives the knowledge of God's
glory in the person of Jesus Christ. That's what it gives. Christ is that light. Now he
says here, then spake Jesus again unto them saying, I am the light
of the world. Remember, he's teaching here
in the treasury in the temple. He's teaching this. And we know
the background to this is they brought this adulterous woman,
these Pharisees, who claimed to have light. They claimed to
be the teachers. You know, teachers are supposed
to be light. They're not supposed to be darkness. They're supposed
to enlighten us. Well, they claim to be light. They claim to know the law of
Moses. They lay claims to all this.
And yet they didn't know the light standing in front of them. And the Lord is pointing out
here, at the same time He's pointing out that He is the light, they
are darkness. Now I'm going to tell you something.
It's a sad, sad day when your teacher is darkness. That's a
sad day. When the one you're listening
to, and the light that's in the one you're listening to, is nothing
but darkness. Guess where you're going to end
up at in darkness? Thick darkness. Like it says
over there in Exodus, when darkness fell over the land of Egypt,
it was darkness that could be felt. I can't imagine that kind
of darkness. I've never experienced darkness
where it was so dark and thick. The only thing they ever came
close to at one time was I was in a cave in Ashland there in
Carter County. They had caves there. We'd take
a cave tour. They'd turn that light out. Now, I'm telling you,
that was dark. That's darkness. Not even a glimmer
of light. When God created Adam, he created
him in light. But throughout his fall, he plunged
the world in darkness. We think we're in a very educated
age, don't we? Well, I guess if you compare
us to other ages, we may be. In technology, we are. But you
know, man is still in just as much darkness as ever. This world,
I'm telling you the truth, this world, and I, boy, if you could
just get young people to hear, this world is a world of darkness. The way this world operates,
the way it thinks, its principles are principles of darkness. There's no light in it, except
you who believe. You're the light of the world.
You're the only light that's in the world. You know, I think
whenever the Lord said, you're the light of the world, you know
what I think of? I think of a starry night. I think of a starry night
and the stars are sprinkled across the sky. And I think of God's
children sprinkled across this world. They're like the stars
sprinkled across the sky, reflecting what? Sunlight. For the most
part, sunlight. Now, first of all, Christ is
the light in the widest sense of the word. He said, I am the
light of the word. Now first, in the widest sense
of the word, he is the light. In John 1.4, turn over to chapter
1 of John 1.4, the Gospel of John here. in him was life and the life
was the light of men you see how life and light goes together
he's the life and the life was the light of men it is only through
Jesus Christ that life and light are given to all all his creatures
all men and women they go together He is the one who lightens every
man that comes into the world. Every person, every human being
that comes into the world, Christ gives them their natural life.
He gives that to them. He's the spiritual life of a
believer, and he's the natural life, he gives natural life to
all his creatures. And this word here, light, speaks
of a relation which Christ sustains to all men. Every rational man, every rational
man and woman is morally enlightened. Now I tell you this, through
much sin, through much ignoring of the light, and all you have
to do is go over to Romans chapter 1 and read Romans chapter 1,
where they ignored the light that they were given. And God
turned them over to a reprobate mind. Every man and woman who's been
given light, you know, the law's written on the conscience. The
law's written on the heart. Everybody knows it's right and
wrong. You can go to the darkest place on this earth and they
know it's wrong to murder. They know that's wrong. How do
they know that? Christ has given them that light.
That law's written on their heart. They know. You and I are born
with a conscience, a moral conscience that knows there are things that
are right, things that are wrong. and the Lord's given that to
us. But now listen, it tells us in the scriptures,
and it's speaking of listening to false teachers and going after
them, but this applies also, that through much ignoring of
the light, through much sin, we see this in Romans 1, we can
sear our own conscience as with a hot iron, you can't feel it
no more. You can sin with a high hand. You can't feel it no more.
You have, one time Vicki had a nosebleed. She just wouldn't
stop. It's just all time bleeding.
She went to the doctor and they, they call that cataracts. Cataracts. They cataract. That's what we
do with much sin. We cataract our conscience. We
sear it as with a hot iron. And you can't, and that's why,
that's why now, and then the day we're living in, the moral
perversion we have, the nation, I think the nation has seared
its own conscience, so to speak. This light, Christ is, he is
the light in the widest sense of the word, and that he's the
one who gives light and life to all his creatures. We all
have some understanding, moral reasoning, we have that. But
then, listen here, He says he's the light of the world. What's
he talking about here? Well, he's a source of that saving
light knowledge. That saving knowledge. This is
more than just giving light. He is the saving knowledge. He is that light of the Jew and Gentile. When
he says he's the light of the world, You see, the Jews had
some light, they had some light and type and picture, but now
those pictures and those types were not the light. They were
like a flashlight, or a candlelight compared to Jesus Christ. They
were like a candlelight. But when He came, He blew that
light out. He blew out the light, the types,
and the pictures, and now here the sun shines. Here it is. He's
the light. He's the light of revelation.
He's the source of all true knowledge, all true saving knowledge. He's
the source of it. It comes through Him. He's the light. I'll tell you
this, Jesus Christ is the light of this book. This book is a closed book until
the Lord gives you light. It's a closed book. It's a dark.
It's a dark, dark, dark book until you see Christ, the light.
Then guess what happens? It's like, well, that's clear. I can read that now. The light's
on. Christ is the light of the world,
not the Jews only. He gave them some light, but
now he's the light of the world. He cast his light out over the
world. Look over in Isaiah 42. In Isaiah 42, look in verse 6. I the Lord have called thee in
righteousness, speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ, and will hold
thine hand and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant
of the people and for a light of the Gentiles. Do you know
how much darkness the Gentile world was in until the gospel
went throughout the world? My soul. Look over in Revelation chapter
one. He is the light of this book. He's the knowledge. He's the
revelation. He's the one who reveals the truth. He said, I'm
the way, the truth. He reveals himself, but now listen,
what's that first verse say? The revelation of Jesus Christ,
which God gave to him to show unto his servants things which
must shortly come to pass. And he sent and signified it
by his angel and his servant John. But this is a revelation.
This whole book is a revelation of Jesus Christ. If you miss
Jesus Christ, this book is meaningless to you. I mean, you've missed
it. It's like, you've missed it.
It's like those Pharisees, when they brought this woman, you
know, the Lord's looking at them saying, you've missed it. You've
been reading about me all along and you missed it. Nicodemus,
you must be born again. Well, how can that happen? How
can a man be born when he's old? Nicodemus, that's because you're
in darkness. You're in darkness. There's no understanding of this
book until we see Christ. Until he, we see the light. He's
the light. And then listen, he's a, he's
a, he's a source of all saving knowledge. He's a true light
of God. He's a true light of God. Before
Christ came into the world, The world thought God was many things.
The Gentile world thought God was many things. Even the Jews
who had light started making idols. They fell into idolatry. They made a golden calf not long
after they left Egypt. They offered their children unto
the God of Molech. But how many gods have the Gentile
world worshipped? We were watching a movie last
night and they were worshiping, we was watching a Viking movie
and they were worshiping Ogden, I think it was. But they had
all these gods and all these worships and they're burning
things in the fire and offering up sacrifices to, human sacrifices
to their gods. It wasn't until Jesus Christ
came that the world, our ancestors, begin to understand that there's
one God and God is spirit. And that was a new revelation.
God is spirit. And those who worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth. The gospel has gone throughout
the world and we've learned. How did you learn this? How many
gods are there to you? One. How did you learn that?
I'll tell you how you learned it, through the light. through
the light and Christ is that light through which you learn
God is one. That's what you learn. We've learned there's one God
and this one God is Spirit and this one God created heaven and
earth and this one God is our Savior. Listen in Matthew 11
27 all things are delivered unto me of my father and no man knoweth
the son but the father and neither knoweth any man the father save
the son and he to whomsoever the son will reveal it. That's
how you learn who the father is. The light revealed it to
you. The light revealed. Now listen
here in John 17 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou
gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, thou gavest
them me, they've kept thy word. But I have manifested, I have
made known, I have revealed to them your name, your person,
your character. I've revealed it to them. There's
no knowing God apart from Jesus Christ. The prophets gave us
God in part. They gave us God in part. But
when Jesus Christ came, he gave us God in his fullness. In him
dwelt the fullness of the Godhead body. Anything we know of God
or desire to know of God, if we learn it and we learn it right,
we will learn it in Jesus Christ. No place else, no other way.
And then, listen, He's the light. He's the light that reveals God,
but He's also the light that reveals sin, us. Not until we have this light,
until Lord gives us light, and that's giving us himself, do
we see sin in its proper light. Sin is far more than mistakes.
It's far more than mistakes. Sin is far more than a moral
blemish. Sin is an evil nature. It wasn't until God saved us
and gave us light, knowledge, understanding, that we understand
that we hate God by nature, and that this whole human race hates
God by nature. I don't care what country a person
is from, a person who does not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
hates the God of this Bible. That's the truth. There was a
time I didn't know that. I had a man get upset with me,
and I've told you this before, but he was upset with me because
I was telling him, this is years ago, I was working for him. And
I was telling him, just because a person's religious doesn't
mean they're saved, and it made him mad. Because he felt that
anybody that was religious and serious was saved. And I said,
no they're not. He walked off. He walked off, he got so mad
at me. Apart from Christ, every man,
every woman is at enmity with God. I don't care how sincere
they are in their beliefs and religion, I don't care what it
is. Apart from Christ, we naturally hate God, the God of this Bible. Paul did not know the exceeding
sinfulness of sin until God commanded the light of the gospel to shine
into his heart and it did. Paul did not say, he would have
choked and went to hell before he would have said, oh wretched
man that I am. He didn't say that until God saved him. He
didn't understand the exceeding sinfulness of sin and he didn't
understand how exceeding sinful he was until God saved him. and revealed the light. He gave
him light, gave him understanding. It's what he did. And then it's through this light
that we understand our need of the light, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that's something we don't understand our need of it. Until he gives us an understanding,
until he enlightens us. We don't understand our need
of righteousness. We think that we're pretty good.
I mean, you can go to prison and they're all pretty good. They say. But we don't understand that
we need a righteousness and we don't have one, don't we? We
don't have righteousness. There ain't a righteous person
in this room by nature. There's not. There's self-righteousness,
but that's no righteousness at all. That's just another form
of sin. We need Christ to be our Savior. We need His blood
for our atonement, His obedience for our rebellion, His righteousness
in place of our self-righteousness. We need Him. Where'd you get
that understanding from? How is it one day that you realize
that you need a Savior? I'll tell you how you realize
it. God gave you life. God commanded the life the same
way He commanded in Genesis. Let there be light. God commanded,
let there be light in your heart. And you saw all this. All of
a sudden, all of a sudden you see. Let me give you a few things
about light, and I'm gonna close. Some of it I left laying on my
desk in there. First of all, there's healing
power in light. There's healing power in light.
One of the things that I had copied this morning, if I can
remember a little bit of it, was that, this is back years
ago, but they had learned, people who had broken legs, had fractures,
that they healed seven, it was many times faster when they were
exposed to light than the ones who were over in the dark rooms.
So they started moving everyone from the dark rooms to the lighter
rooms because they healed faster. There's healing power in life.
I mean, you just Google it, and you can see how much healing
power there is just in the light of the sun. There's spiritual healing power
in Christ. It's not until he shines in our
heart that we realize how spiritually sick we are. We don't realize
that, but boy, when he shines, when he shines in our heart,
that's when the healing power begins. That's when it begins. You know, it says, where shall
a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed to God's word.
That's not just his written word. That's the living word who is
the light. When you take the living word
and you can't separate it from the written word. When you take
that and you look into the word of God and you read it, It has
a healing power about it. A cleansing power about it. And I'll tell you something else
about it. Light dispels darkness. You can come into this room.
It can be dark as can be. Come over here at night time.
When all the lights are out, you can't see the pews. You shut
the door, you can't even see the pews. You start walking,
you're going to slam right into one. But if you flip that light
on, you know it's funny, I don't
see the light, but I see what the light reveals. It reveals
these pews, and I can walk down this aisle. Light dispels darkness. And when the Lord comes and He
takes over a man, when He gives light to a man, a woman, He dispels
the darkness of ignorance that's in us. Ignorance of God and self
and sin, he dispels that darkness. The scripture says you are light
in the Lord. You are light in the Lord. In
Christ we have spiritual light, we have spiritual understanding,
we have spiritual wisdom. Listen to what he says in John
12, 46. I am come a light into the world that whosoever believes
on me should not abide in darkness. I don't live in darkness. Some
of you, you don't live in darkness no more. You can watch the news
on television and you watch it in light, don't you? I watch
it in light. I know who's controlling all
this. I know. And it's not a bunch of men either.
In Christ and by Jesus Christ, we see the glory, the grace,
and the invisible realities of redemption. We see them. Then also this, light reveals
what darkness hides. God, sin, Christ. Look over in Ephesians chapter
5. You see, life's revealing. In Ephesians chapter 5, let me
find the verse here. in chapter 5 verse 13, but all
things that are reproved, and that means over my margins is
discovered, but all things that are discovered are made manifest,
how? By the light. Light reveals what's
in darkness. Whatsoever doth make manifest
is light. And the Lord makes manifest God,
seeing himself he's light he's light and then light is surrounding
light is you're surrounded in light you can't feel it right
now today you can't feel the light but it's you're surrounded
in it here's what's interesting our lord said i am the light
remember he said i am the bread and he said i'm the water You
man drink of me? You know what those three elements
are? It's the three things that was given to the children of
Israel when they were in the Exodus. They were given manna
from heaven. They had the cloudy pillar by
day and the fire by night. That fire was in that cloud and
it guided them. And this reference here, when
our Lord said, I'm the light of the world, The lie of Gentiles
as well as Jews, but he's making reference here back to the, back
when they were in the wilderness. They understand what he's saying.
The Pharisees didn't like it, but light surrounds us like the
cloud and the pillar of fire that followed Israel in the wilderness. They were surrounded by it. It
covered them, protected them. Light contributes to our safety.
We can see where we're going. It's only in Christ that we see
where we're going, don't we? I see where I'm going. By His
grace, by His grace, I'm going to glory. That's where I'm going. That's where you're going, if
you believe me. And then light comes from above.
It doesn't spring up out of the ground. Light doesn't spring
up out of the ground. It comes from above. God made
that son as an example, as a type of Jesus Christ. Can you imagine? There's only, how many sons?
There's one great big son that lights this world, as far as,
that lights this world. There's one great big son. And
it gives light all over the world. This is so enlightening. This is so enlightening. That
sun comes up in the morning, and I've seen this. And here, I want you to know
something. In verse one of chapter eight,
Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives, and early in the morning,
early in the morning, when the sun's coming up, when the sun's
coming up, he says, I'm the light of the world. Now, they say this
is the Feast of the Tabernacles that was going on here, and they
would light two big, like, candelabras at nighttime and they would cast
a light over the city during this celebration. Light comes from above. It comes
from above and it shines throughout this world. And the gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ is the light from above and he has sent
it throughout this world. There's people saved all over
this world whom God has saved. The light believers have does
not come from this world. It doesn't come from education.
It doesn't come from philosophers. It comes down from the father
of light. And then, as I said, there's
only one source of light, and that's the sun. And we have only
one source of light, spiritual light, and that's the S-O-N,
sun. And then it's a blessing, but
it's only a blessing to those who can see. Light's not a blessing to a blind
man. He's in the dark, whether it
be day or night. But it's a sure blessing to us
who have eyes to see and ears to hear. Our body and our senses
are working. And then what would the Old Testament
be apart from Christ? What would the types in the picture
be? It'd be meaningless to us. But boy, does he shed a lot of
light on them. It's through Him we understand the Old Testament,
the priesthood, the sacrifices, it's through Him. And by His light, we see the
future. Listen to this scripture, 2 Timothy
1.10. But is now made manifest by the appearing, this light
and immortality, is now made manifest by the appearing of
our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and has brought
life and immortality to light through the gospel. Now we know
something about immortality. And we know something about life. And it's more than just this
physical life. Everybody's afraid of dying.
If you have the life of God in you, you're not gonna die. And
those of you whom God saved, you know it. You know it. And he that follows me, and I'm
gonna close. He that follows me shall not walk in darkness,
but shall have the light of life. You don't walk in darkness. Israel
followed that pillar of cloud, and they didn't mistake any of
the other clouds for that one either. God made it very evident
that cloud was it. And that fire that they had by
night, That guided them all the way through the wilderness. What's
guiding you through the wilderness? What is your guide right now
through this dark world? It's Jesus Christ. It's the Lord
Jesus Christ. Christ himself is the light.
Not tradition, not ceremonies, but our Lord Jesus Christ. He
that believes on Christ and receives Christ and follows Christ, he
says, does not walk in the darkness of sin and ignorance and tradition.
He doesn't walk that way. He walks in the light. As he
is in the light. But the opposite is true also.
Those who do not follow Christ, they walk in darkness. They're
just walking in deep, deep darkness. Our Lord said this in Matthew
6.23, but if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full
of darkness. Now listen, if therefore the
light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness? If
your light and my light is darkness, how great is that darkness? But
if Christ is that light, oh, how great is that light? Do you
know who's gonna be the light? You know, in the new heaven and
new earth, You know what it says? There's not going to be a sun.
There's not going to be a sun in the sky. There's not going
to be a sun. He's going to create a new earth, but he's not going
to create a new sun in the solar system. You know why? It says
in Revelation 21, 23, the Lamb is the light thereof. He's the
light. That brightness, that shining
light is Jesus Christ himself. He is our guiding light. I'm gonna read something I wrote
here in Proverbs 4.18. But the path of the just is as
the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect
day. God gives you more light, more light in Christ and more
light until one day you're in that perfect day where he is
the light, where the lamb is the light. Follow Jesus Christ
and you will not walk in darkness. But follow the world, follow
your own bent and will, and you will live and you will die in
darkness. And I mean thick darkness. You
know, listen to this. Is this the one? I think so. Matthew 22, 13. Then said the
king to the servants, bind him hand and foot, Take him away
and cast him into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing
of teeth. That is a darkness that no one
has ever physically seen before. Outer darkness. Away from God. Away from God. You know I have
no doubt and I don't know how to explain this. But those who perish are said
to be cast into the bottomless pit. I read that here not too
long ago and I thought, the fall never stops. The fall never stops. Cast into a bottomless pit. You're
cast into a fall that never, never ends. Has no bottom to
it. And it's outer darkness. It's thick darkness. For Christ
said, he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall
have the light of life. Let's follow him. Let's follow
him who is light. All right.