to Genesis chapter one. The book of Genesis chapter one. This will be our text. This is
the first of a two part message on Christ's and creation, the
first one this morning and the second and last one this evening.
Read with me the first five verses of Genesis chapter one. In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth,
and the earth was without form and void. And darkness was upon
the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the water. And God said, Let there be light. And there was light. And God
saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from
the darkness. And God called the light day,
and the darkness he called night, and the evening and the morning
were the first day. Now, we read back in John chapter
1, verses 4 and 5, where the apostle John says concerning
Jesus Christ, in Him was life, and the life was the light of
men. And the light shineth in darkness,
and the darkness comprehended it not. It is not my desire this morning
to argue creation versus evolution. However, this evening, we will
take a look at some of the implications of evolution in this evening's
message. But this morning, I just want to clearly, plainly declare
unto you glorious picture of Jesus Christ, the light of the
world, from these verses of Scripture. Now, look at verse 1 again with
me. The Word of God says, In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now, as I said,
it's not my desire to argue creation versus evolution. I feel like
saying with the Apostle Paul, let the pot sherds strive with
the pot sherds of the earth, but let God's people believe
God's Word. Just believe it. And that's what
I want to do this morning. Just believe it and expound upon
it. Enlightened people. Enlightened
people see the truth of God's creation as clear as the sunshine,
don't they? They see it like the psalmist
David who was a man after God's own heart. David said in Psalm
19, the heavens declare thy glory and the firmament clearly shows
his Turn there with me to Psalm 19. Turn over there with me. The great apostle Paul said in
Romans chapter 1, he said, The invisible things of God from
the creation of the world are clearly seen. So obvious. The invisible things of God are
clearly seen. being understood by the things
that are made, even the power, the creative power and Godhead
wisdom of God, so that all men are without excuse, but without
excuse even in looking at creation. Everything in the heavens and
upon the earth speaks of God. Everything. Day unto day, David
said here in Psalm 19, verse 1 and 2, the heavens, the creation,
the firmament, the heavens, the skies, the stars declare the
glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto
day uttereth speech. Every time the sun comes up,
it says, God is. Every day, every season, night
unto night, showeth knowledge. There's no speech, no language—Mexican,
French, German, Japanese, Chinese, whatever it may be. There's no
language where the voice or the knowledge of at least God's power
and His handiwork is not seen. Their speech, there's no language
or speech where the voice is not heard, the voice of creation.
Their line, their rule or direction is gone out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world. And in them, look
at it with me, verse four, in them, in the heavens, in the
firmament, God has set a tabernacle for the Son, which is as a bridegroom
coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to
run a race. And his going forth is from the
end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it. And there
is nothing hid from the heat or the warmth thereof." Now,
everything speaks. Every time the sun comes up,
every time the moon shines and the stars and celestial Things
reveal themselves. It says God is. God. The birds, everything. Donny Bell and I were sitting
on his porch the other morning and there was a bird on a limb
about ten feet from us. And he was impervious to us because
he had his little beak and his eyes pointed toward heaven. He
just wouldn't quit. I said, Donny, he's praising
God, buddy. He just wouldn't quit. Everything says, God is. God is. The dumb ox knows his
owner. Even the birds declare the glory
of God Almighty. And he speaks here of the sun,
the sun in the sky, declaring the glory of God. But is he speaking
merely of the S-U-N? Is he merely speaking of that
ball of fire, that ball of hydrogen that sits in the heavens? Is
it? If that's all you saw in reading
Psalm 19, you haven't seen the light, because he's speaking
of the S-O-N, the sun, the true light. You remember reading that
in John 1? It says that Christ is the true
light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Only
because the Lord Jesus Christ sits at the right hand of God
reigning and ruling over and staying the wrath and the hand
of God Almighty is this whole thing preserved. It's the only
reason that God doesn't snuff out this ball of dirt right now,
because the sun reigns over it, and He's got a people that He's
going to save. And when the last one is saved,
then God is going to remove that mercy from this planet. Now,
back in our text here, it says, "...in the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth." God here. This name in the original
is Elohim. Now, this is significant because
the name Elohim is a plural name. It means more than one. Do you
remember when Christ, hanging on the cross, said, Eli, Eli?
It's just a form of Elohim. Ellie Ellie or that is the one
existent one singular right here. This is Elohim more than one. So what's that got to do with
anything? It's got something to do with everything. Talking
about the Trinity here, the triune God, and they're clearly seen
in the first three verses here of Genesis chapter one. Look
at verses verse one in the beginning God Ellie or Elohim. Verse two, and the earth was
without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep,
and the, capital S, spirits, holy spirit of God, moved. And
verse three, and God spoke the word of God. You see the triune
God here? God the Father, God the Holy
Spirit, and God the Son here? It's significant, and it's clearly
seen in these three verses. That is, by those who are enlightened
to see it. Right? Fairly simple. God the
Father, God the Word, and God the Holy Spirit. John said it.
John said it in 1 John. He said, There are three that
bear record in heaven. The Father, the Word, and the
Holy Ghost. And these three are one. Now, no one can explain this.
I'm not going to go on to try to explain it. But anyone who
doesn't believe it is not of God. Simply put, only a blind
fool refuses to believe that. But it's the second person of
this triune God that I want to deal with this morning. The second
person who's spoken of very clearly in verses 3 through 5. The Lord
Jesus Christ, who is the Word of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ
who is called the Light of the world. Okay? All right. Now, the reason I want to dwell
on the Lord Jesus Christ is because no man knoweth the Father save
the Son. The Son. And he to whom the Son
will what? Reveal him. Illuminates the understanding. Shed light upon the Father. and all men would still be in
darkness and ignorance and superstition had not the sun shone upon this
planet." Not the S-U-N, the S-O-N. Now listen very carefully here.
We would all be without understanding unless the sun, S-O-N, of God,
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, was clearly
seen in a face of a man. Now, verse 2 says, the earth
was without form and void. Now, some so-called biblical
scholars say that this means the world became. Are you with
me? The world became without form
and void. Some believe that the angels,
or more specifically now the devils, the angels which kept
not their first estate, some believe that that first estate
was on this planet, that they dwelled upon this planet for
a while. And when they fell and rebelled
against God Almighty, God wiped them out and made this earth
without form or void. be that as it may. Some people
believe that. But it was without form. It was darkness. It was void. Now that's sheer speculation.
But yet, this is a clear picture of the soul of man here. A very clear picture. A man who
was once alive to God. And as my pastor used to say,
God never created anything without form or void. So it perhaps became
without form. or void. Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune,
those weren't without form or void, but sin never touched those,
Sherry. They've always been as they are
now. And I personally don't believe that God is going to destroy
those planets, but this one. At any rate, the earth either
became or was without form or void, and this is a picture of
the soul of man. whom God created one time, in
the beginning, alive, in the image of God Almighty, able to
see God, able to hear God, able to commune with God. But he fell
into an abyss of sin, right? He fell into darkness, and Adam
did this willfully. He willfully rebelled against
God and plunged his soul and all of his posterity after him
into darkness of sin and sorrow. And so man became without form. Man became without—he lost the
image of God, the beautiful form or image of God Almighty. He lost the light of God's presence. God cut him off. cut him off. He lost the countenance of God
in his own face. But God, God the Father, purposed
and decreed the salvation of the species. Now this is the
only way that you can say God so loved the world or man. Sherry, he determined to preserve
the species of mankind, right? He didn't send his son down to
die for all mankind, else all mankind would be saved. But God
loved his creation. He loved this man, or mankind. Not all of them individually,
but he loved what he had made, and he was determined to save
it. Not all of it, but some of it. So he sent his son, S-O-E-N,
sent his son. God Almighty saved mankind. He saved a people, a chosen people,
the same way, the same way that he did this work in the beginning,
as it was at first, to the earth. Now look at it with me, verse
2. So the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon
the face of the deep. And look here. The Spirit of
God moved. The Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters. The Spirit of God. Verse 3. And
then God spoke. God said. The Spirit of God moved
upon the face of this formless and void planet of just vapors
and waters and so forth, a mass of Who knows what? And then God
spoke. The Spirit of God entered into
this ball of this whatever, this mass, and then God spoke and
gave distinct and strict and plain decrees and commandments
concerning this planet. And here's what he said, the
first thing he said. God spoke. God said, Let there
be light. Bright and glorious light. Now this is not sun, S-U-N. Look at verse sixteen. God made
that later. Look at verse sixteen. It says,
God made two great lights, plural. The greater light, the sun, to
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. But
he made a light to enlighten this planet, first and foremost.
Now, for thousands of years, for millions, perhaps, millions
of years. The universe as we know it was
in darkness, in darkness, until one day, or until day one, God
Almighty spoke and said, Let there be light. God decided one
day in our solar system, in our universe, to inhabit it or more
clearly to let it inhabit him. See, God is light. God doesn't
inhabit things. Things are in God, you see, but
somehow or another. Well, I'm not confusing you here.
He's confusing, all right, confusing me. But one day God said, I'm
going to encompass, I'm going to dwell in, I'm going to let
this universe dwell in me, in light. So God decided this. In the beginning, God, God's
the one that decided this, nobody else, nothing else. God purposed,
God decreed to create a universe. Then God sent his Spirit, said
to the Spirit, go down there into this formless and voidless
mass, he was later going to call Earth, and prepare the way, prepare
the way for me. And then God Almighty spoke all
things. into existence. And the first thing he said was,
Let there be light. Now, turn with me to Matthew
chapter one. Okay? Matthew chapter one. After man's fall, after the fall
of man, the world was in darkness for four thousand years. Four thousand years. The book
of Malachi, the Old Testament, 400 years, God was silent, and
the world was in darkness of ignorance and superstition and
religion for 4,000 years since the beginning of creation. And
the very last words in the book of Malachi are a curse, under
the curse of death and darkness. So man was in darkness, but God. Decreed salvation for son. Now look at verse 18. Now the
birth of Jesus Christ was on this wife. Who? The son. The son's about to come up on
the planet. The birth of Jesus Christ was
on this wife. When he, as his mother Mary,
was espoused or promised to Joseph for marriage. They weren't yet
married. Before they came together and consummated physically, conjugally,
this marriage act, before they came together, she was found
pregnant, impregnated with a child of the Holy Ghost. Of the Holy Ghost. Impossible. But with man it is. but not with God. You see, God
creates and upholds all things by the word of his power. And one day, here we are again,
1 A.D., one day, the first day, God sent his Spirit into the
dark womb of a woman, the dark waters of a woman's womb. He sent his Holy Spirit into
that woman's womb, just like he did this planet. And God said,
God spoke and said, Let there be a child, a child born of this
woman. Unto you a child is born. And it was so. A baby was formed. in the belly of this woman without
a man. Without a man. Now that's necessary. Why? Because man is sinful and
sin is in man. In order for God to accept a
man he's got to be without sin. So Jesus Christ came born of
a woman without the seed of man. Without the sinful seed of man.
but the holy seed of God in him. Therefore he could be holy and
he could represent a people. And it was so. So a baby was
formed in the belly of this woman, in the waters, if you will, in
the darkness of the womb. Then God said, He sent His Holy
Spirit down there to impregnate this woman, this virginal woman. Then God said to the being of
light beside him, Proverbs chapter 8 says, the
one that was by him, one brought up with him, daily his delight,
one set up from everlasting, from the beginning before the
earth was, God said to the glorious son, or one beside him, God said
to him, you must be given, you must go
and inhabit that body of that baby, you must go. A baby is born, but the son was
never created or born. The son was given, was given. And nine months later, when that
baby was about to come out of that dark womb, God spoke and
said, And the Son, and if you'll read
back in the last chapter of Malachi, it says in verse 2, unto you
that fear my name, fear God, shall the Son of Righteousness
arise with healing in his wings. Let there be light, and there
was light such as never had been seen before. Simeon saw it didn't
That old man whose eyes were being blinded by cataracts and
nearsightedness, he saw the light, didn't he? The Apostle Paul,
he saw the light, didn't he? Or more specifically, Henry,
the light shone on him, didn't it? The light shone on him. One old preacher I was listening
to recently said, the Apostle Paul didn't know who it But he
was riding on his big white horse, and all of a sudden this light
shone down from heaven and knocked him off his high horse. And he
didn't know who it was, but he knew whoever it was that knocked
him off that horse was Lord from here on out. He didn't make him
Lord. He was made to see that he was
Lord. The light shone on him. And that's
what Paul said from that day forward. And suddenly there shone
about me a light. He said, Didn't hear it. They heard something, they saw
something, but they didn't see it or hear it like I did. Why?
Because God said to him later on, you're a chosen vessel. I
separated you from your mother's womb and called you by my grace.
I set my love and affection upon you, and I chose to shine upon
you the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of a person. Who are you, Lord? I am Jesus
of Nazareth. God who is light. Scripture says,
God who dwells in light, which no man can approach unto, walked
this planet. So, it's too big for me. Look
at John chapter 1 again with me. Go back over John, the Gospel
of John chapter 1. Have you seen the light? Now,
I don't mean it like these fools today. I saw the light. You know that foolish. I don't
mean that at all. I mean, have you seen the glory
of God? Do you comprehend the Christ? He that believeth Jesus is the
Christ is born of God. That's saying a whole lot more
than just saying, yeah, he's the Son of God. That's saying
a whole lot more than that. Do you know why he came? Do you? Have you seen his glory? Have
you seen yourself in light of his glory? That's what the light
does. We're going to see that in a
minute. A few brief points. A few brief points. Look at John
chapter 1, verse 1. In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. You see that
capital W? Same as in the beginning. The
Word was in the beginning with God. All things were made by
Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
In Him was life, the beginning of all life, true life. And the
life was the light of men, and the light shined in darkness,
and the darkness comprehended it not. Do we comprehend the
light? Do we? A few brief points on
Christ the Light here. that we may examine ourselves.
What is light for? You ladies, in your bathroom over your vanity,
you want the brightest light you can to see all the imperfections,
because you've got to cover them up before somebody sees. Bright
lights reveal, illumine, examine yourself by, to see. What I want us to do is to use
this light to examine ourselves to see whether we're in the faith.
Examine yourself. If we're walking in the light,
okay? 1 John chapter 1 says this. You
don't have to turn, but 1 John chapter 1, verses 5 through 7,
he said this. Now, this is the message which
we have heard of him. And we're going to declare it
unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness. Now,
if we say then we have fellowship with God, we know God, we believe
God and walk in darkness, ignorance, don't know the gospel, don't
know who God is, don't know who we are, don't know who Christ
is, don't know how he came, don't know what the gospel is, then
we're lying. We lie if we sin willfully. Do not the truth if we walk in
the light. As he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ
his Son cleanses us from all sin. Now, I've got a few points
here. Christ the light. Christ is the
light or the revealer of God Almighty. He's the light of God
Almighty, the revealer. Light, as I said, light is what
illumines our eyes. We couldn't see a thing We couldn't
see a thing if we didn't turn the lights on, right? The only
reason we can see in the darkness of night is because there's some
light somewhere. But if you're in a pitch black room with no
windows, no doors or anything, you could not, you never could,
would be able to see. Came to earth to reveal God,
to reveal God. Now, His creative and powers
in creation can be clearly seen, all right? Heavens declare His glory. Somebody
had to have made that. That didn't just happen. Don't
be a fool, man. The fool has said, No, God. You
can look at your fingerprint. There's not one fingerprint alike
of all the billions, maybe trillions of people who've lived on the
planet, not one just happened? Oh, come on now. God, the heavens
declare the glory of God, the heavens see the invisible thing
from the creation of the world clearly seen, even His eternal
power and Godhead, okay? But we cannot understand who
God is. We can't understand the personality
of God, right? We can't understand God's ways
or that His thoughts. We cannot understand how we're
going to talk to this God, how we're going to get to this God.
What's God like? Right? Except the Son revealing. Somebody come from God and tell
us. Right? So the Word was made flesh
and dwelt among us. It's just like me. Little children
cannot comprehend adults. They cannot understand what adults
are thinking and do, why they do the things they're doing and
so forth, the personality of their parent. Unless a parent
or an adult gets down on their level, right, and condescends
or abases themselves to the point of a child and begins to talk
in that childlike language, okay? And the Lord God of heaven came
down to worm and took upon himself the form of a worm, not a man,
we're worms, lower than the beast, Stephen, and began to communicate
on our level, didn't he? And what did he do? Why did he
do that? To reveal God. We hadn't a care for God, we
hadn't a thought for God, we didn't care about God, as a matter
just rebelled against God, going on our merry way. So the Lord
Jesus Christ came down, the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among
us and told us of God. And here's what he said. He said
things like this to folks that heard it, to his sheep. He said to the Pharisees and
Sadducees one time, he said, He that is your God, that you
say is your God, that's my Father. That's my Father. But you haven't
known him, he said, but I've known him. I came down from him. I came down from him. They said,
no, we don't believe that. He said, no, you don't, because
you're not my sheep. I turned to my sheep. And he said to his
sheep, like one woman at the well, he said, now woman, he
said, now God's a spirit. He didn't try to explain himself
to those Pharisees and Sadducees. He said, who you say is your
God is my father. You don't know him, but I know
him, and I ain't going to talk to you about it. I'm going over
here to one of my chosen ones. She's going to hear my voice.
So he sat down on a well, and he began to talk to this woman
in her language. Now, she said, I know, but when
he has come, he'll show us all. You say that in the mountains
is a place to worship. We say down here at the valley,
but he said, the woman. He said, God is a spirit. And
he began to describe God. He didn't have to do that, did
he? But he did, tenderly and graciously and kindly. He said,
God is a spirit. You don't know what you're worshiping.
I've said that before. I've said that in such a callous
way. You don't know what you worship. That's not the way he
dealt with that woman. He dealt with her in tenderness.
He said, woman, God is a spirit. You don't know who you worship.
Neither have the Jews before you. They don't know who they
worship. They say this, that place is a place to worship.
You don't worship that place. God is a spirit. And they that
worship God must worship him in spirit, from the inside, from
the heart. For the Father is a spirit, and
the Father seeketh such to worship him. Not an hour would form or
show or ceremonies and so forth. You can't draw near to God with
your lips when your heart is far. God is a spirit. You must
worship him from the heart. God is a spirit. And he said
to Nicodemus, I have hopes for old Nicodemus. The man kept coming
back to him. I don't know, but at any rate,
the Lord talked to Nicodemus a little bit, and he said, now
you must be born again from above. It's not of the will of the flesh,
nor the will of the man, or blood, or heritage, or ceremonies, or
works, or doing. You've got to be born from above.
spiritual rebirth, and you can't get born again, you have to be
born again. Born from above. Then Nicodemus
said, I don't understand this. I don't understand this, and
Christ went on to say, now, he that seeth the sun, you know,
as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that they
that look unto him should never perish, but be healed. He said, even so must the Son
of Man be lifted up. And I am the Son of Man. The
Son of Man must be lifted up, that all that see the Son, and
worship the Son, and whosoever believeth in the Son, should
have everlasting life." He must see the Son because he's expressed
the image of the Father. Philip, have I been so long time
with you and you've not known me? If you've seen me, you've
seen God. He talked to us. He described
God. I and the Father are one. So
Christ came to reveal the Father, reveal God to men. Not all men. He wouldn't talk
to everybody. But he described God to some
blessed individuals. And that's what he said about
them. He said, blessed are your eyes. They see. Why? He showed
them. He revealed himself to them.
Blessed are your ears. They hear. Why do they hear?
He opened them. The Spirit of the living God
came and prepared the opening pricking. Then, secondly, Christ
is the light of the heart and the conscience. The light of
the heart and the conscience. Turn with me to John chapter
three. John chapter three. Christ said, If I had not come.
Listen to this. Christ said, If I had not come,
if the sun hadn't shone. If I had not come and spoken
unto them," he was talking to his disciples then, Nancy, he
said, and if I hadn't come and spoken unto these Pharisees and
Sadducees and so forth, they hadn't had sin. They thought
they were without sin, and they did. But he says, now they have
no covering. They have no cloak. I've exposed
these fellows, right? And Joe, he exposes us, too,
doesn't he? He exposes us. That's men and
women then and now. Think that if you live a good
life outwardly, you know, I don't know much about the Bible, but
I know this, if you keep the Ten Commandments. And that's their
description of salvation, isn't it? Live a good, moral, upright
law according to the letter of the law, then you'll be okay,
right? No. The Scripture says he came to
what? Do what to the law? Huh? Fulfill it, yes, but I'm
looking for another word. He came to magnify it, like a
glass, a magnifying glass. Show it. Illuminate it. Illuminate
the law, the spirit of the law. The law is spiritual. The Word
of God, as the Scripture says, reveals the thoughts and intents
of the heart. It exposes evil thoughts and
desires and our motives and so forth, which must be perfect
before God Almighty. And Christ said this is condemnation,
that light has come into the world and exposed men's sins. But men love darkness rather
than light. Why? Because they love sin. Look here at verse twenty. John
chapter 3. He said, Everyone that doeth
evil hateth the light. What goes on on Saturday night,
Friday night? Why do people wait till the cover
of darkness to do all the evil that they do, huh? Crime and
all of this multiplies a thousandfold when the sun goes down, right? Why? Now, I remind you, the sun
didn't go down. We just have our backs turned
to it. Son always exposes. Son always gives light. He's
that true light which lighteth every man or exposes every man
that comes into the world. They're all without excuse. Men
under the cover of darkness, they can't be seen. Right? Their evil deeds can't be seen.
But Christ says, He that doeth the truth. Look at this. Verse 21. He that doeth truth. How do you do truth? Huh? Will you believe Him who said,
I am the truth? This is the work of God. This
is what you do that you might have eternal life. Believe on
the truth, the Christ. Cometh to work. Lord! What did David say in Psalm 139?
Search me! He didn't come and say how to
hide his sins under cover of darkness. He came to Christ. Search me
and try me, O Lord. Find out if there's any wicked
way in me, and get rid of it. Cover it by your blood. Conform
me, make me. He that doeth truth cometh to
the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are
wrought in God." Now, did any of you theologians catch that
right there? He that doeth truth cometh to the light. that His
deeds might be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Did you catch that? Not by works
of righteousness, which we have done. We don't come to Christ
and say, I did this and I did that. We come to the light and
see what He has done, that His deeds might be made manifest
to us, that they are wrought by God. cometh to the light. And just
like back in our text, it says that when God created the light,
verse four, God called, God saw the light, that it was good.
Joe, you remember when the rich young ruler came to Christ? He
said, good master, what must I do? Christ said, what do you
call me good for? There's nothing good but God. Well, he's a good
man. You've heard that said of different
people. He's a good man. Oh no, wait a minute, why are
you calling him good? There's nothing good but God. He says,
when God saw the light, he said it was good. When God saw his
son, he couldn't help himself from heaven. He says, my son,
he's good. And the only way he's going to
see you and me good, Terry, is being the good son, right? Accepted
in the beloved. That his deeds might be made
manifest, that they are wrought in God. And my deeds are wrought,
accepted in the Beloved." Right? In the light. I come to the light.
And He calls us good. God saw the light, back in the
text, and I'll quit, I'm finished. God saw the light, that it was
good. And God divided the light from
the darkness. Verse four, God divided the light
from the darkness. Do you remember when Paul said,
how can light have fellowship with darkness? Huh? Can the sons
of God have fellowship with Baal? Huh? No, no. He said, I've separated
you. I've sanctified you. I've called
you out from among them. Be ye separate. No communion
with darkness. The works of the flesh. And it says, God called the light
day. Day. And the darkness he called
night. John said this, if any man walk
in the day, he stumbleth not. Christ said this, if any man
walk in the day, he stumbleth not. If any man or woman walk
in Christ by faith, he'll never fall. Never fall. Christ said,
I give unto them eternal life and they'll never perish. In
the day, we walk by faith in Christ, therefore now no condemnation. Because, he said, if any man
walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light
of the world. But if any man walk in the night,
he stumbleth, because there's no light. If any man sins, say
he hath no sin. He lieth, and the truth, the
light, is not in him. He hadn't exposed him. He hadn't
seen who God is. He hadn't exposed himself to
see who he is before God. And you know, this is a funny,
not funny, bad choice of word. This is the paradoxical thing
about the life of a believer. You keep coming every Sunday,
even though I keep calling you worms. Right? You're no good. Paul, you're
no good, worthless. wicked, vile, iniquitous, wretched,
low-down, no-good woman. You coming back next Sunday?
Why? You come to the Lord. You say,
that's right, and I ain't seen a half of it. Cleanse me from
presumptuous sins, secret sins. You haven't said the half of
it. You haven't really exposed, I haven't really exposed you
have about me, nor me. You keep coming. To whom? Coming. You keep coming to the light.
You don't hide from it. You don't shirk from the Word
of God. You say, search me, try me, find me out. And boy, you're
thankful for that light, the light of the glory of God, the
knowledge of the glory of God, the salvation of God, the gospel
of God, as seen in the face, the person, the work of the Lord
Jesus Christ. In him was life, and the life
was the light of the world. In Colossians 3, you want to
read sometime something that said, By him all things were
created, and for him all things were created. For him, for Jonathan's
sake, for Christ's sake, who is the light, the light. OK,
Joe, come up and lead us in singing number thirty seven. Turning
your hymnals to number thirty seven. How great our heart. Just sing a couple of verses. Number thirty seven. How great
thou art.