all right let's open our bibles
to the book of joe chapter twenty four joe chapter twenty four and tonight
we're going to be talking about darkness and light darkness and
light and as you recall joe is engaged in the third round of
the debate and the question that is to be
settled in this debate he's debating with three men three friends
of his men who are well-intended but as you've seen as you studied
the book of job and read it men who are really self-righteous
uh... men who are ignorant of the ways
the true ways of god men who think they know the right way
but who don't And the question to be considered in this debate
that Job is having with them is simply this. It's a question
that's often asked by people today, in every generation, actually. I think one of the most popular
books that came out of false religion a few years back was
dealing with this question, and that is this. Why do the wicked
prosper, and why do the righteous suffer? And of course, before
you begin to answer that question or to understand anything about
God's way of answering it, we have to be taught, it has to
be revealed to us the reality of who the wicked are and who
the righteous are. Because by nature we don't know
that. By nature we think that the righteous are the moral,
religious people who are dedicated and sincere, and we think the
wicked are those who are immoral and irreligious who don't go
to church at least somewhere you know people say to you often
say well you've got to go to church somewhere i had a lady
tell me that one time i said oh no you don't i said you've
got to go to church where the truth is preached that's what
you need does you know good to go to church where they don't
preach the truth but what is a what is a righteous person
according to God's standard of righteousness. Well, it's a sinner
saved by the grace of God. It's a believer. A person who's
been born, who's been redeemed by the blood of Christ and born
again by the Holy Spirit. One who trusts Christ for all
salvation. One who has been washed in the
blood of Christ from all their sins. One who's been clothed
in His righteousness. You see, they're righteous in
Him. and that's how they can claim righteousness without blushing
it's not based on what they do or don't do now the grace of
god in great measure determines what they do and don't do but
that's not what makes us righteous is it what makes us righteous
is the cross of christ the death of christ and so we stand in
him and sing from our hearts that our hope is built on nothing
less than jesus blood and righteousness And that's the righteous and
the wicked. Who are the wicked? Well, everybody else. An unbeliever. They may be religious. They may
be, in the eyes of the world, moral. But they're wicked. Over
there in Ephesians chapter 5 that Brother Bill read, he mentioned
the children of disobedience. And that word, that's Ephesians
5, 6, that word disobedience is literally unbelief. The children
of unbelief. so does that they may be good
they've made they may be trying to do their dead level best to
keep the law and yet if they do not believe in the lord jesus
christ and trust him for all of salvation all forgiveness
all righteousness in the side of god and i know this is tough
i know it's hard i know people do not want to hear but it's
true in the eyes of god they are the wicked there among the
wicked in his eyes. Now, Job's three friends, their
whole premise has been to say this, do you know Job? He's suffering, he's lost everything,
lost his home, he lost his land, lost his family, he's lost his
health. He who was the richest and the greatest of the men of
the east is now making his home on the ash heap, the dung heap
of the city of And so they're trying to figure out what's happened
here. Why has this happened to this
man Job? Now God said that Job was a righteous
man. God said Job was an upright man. God said Job was a man who feared
Him and eschewed evil. He was a believer. He was a sinner
saved by the grace of God based on the promise of the coming
Redeemer. So they're trying to figure out how, why Job got into
this mess. and their view of it is like
the natural man's view. Well, Job, there must be some
sin or sins or some great sin that has pervaded your life where
in you in the cloak of darkness have tried to hide it from us
and from God and therefore God is punishing you for that sin
and their reasoning goes like this now you know that God is
just and he always punishes the wicked the wicked never prosper
the wicked never have it easy in this life that's what they're
saying well we know that's not true that's a lie and the righteous
are always blessed and of course their whole way of talking is
is is like this job you're wicked we're right and if you'll just
do like we tell you to do you'll be blessed like we are well job
answering that and he continues this is a second part of his
answer here in chapter twenty four to this man named in life
as and he shows here that wicked man now this is what jobs going
to stay wicked man those of the worst characters the worst of
the worst sometimes prosper in this world and the righteous
suffer the most and of course the whole book of job is dealing
with that issue we've seen some we know the the the answer because
we've read the first chapter but let's look at this the first
thing that job wonders in this chapter is this he wonders why
the wicked often sin openly and seem to get away with and basically
what he's telling these fellows it well if what you're saying
is true then why do the wicked sin openly not not under the
even under the cover of darkness sometimes now they do and he
mentions that later on but he said they seem to get away with
it look at verse one he says why seen times are not hidden
from the almighty nothing's hidden from god the times of this earth
are not hidden from god the wicked may say well i'm gonna wait till
midnight and then I'm gonna go rob this house, or I'm gonna
go commit this murder, or I'm gonna go sell these drugs, or
whatever they do. Do you think that's hidden from
God because it's midnight? It may be hidden from you and
me. There may be things going on in our community in the cloak
of darkness that we don't know about, we suspect things, we
read about them in the paper sometimes, but you think these
times are hidden from God? Nothing's hidden from God. Listen,
God is the God of time. So he says, why seeing times
are not hidden from the Almighty? Do they that know Him not see
His days? What he's saying here is this,
since God knows and He's going to judge everything, He knows
all. He knows what these men do, He
knows what I do. God knows my thoughts. He knows
my heart. God doesn't look on the outward
appearance, He looks on the heart. so he knows everything he knows
what the the wicked do then why are the godly now when he said
they that know him they that know god that's joe we know god
because he's revealed himself to us why are the godly they
that know god kept in the dark about these things why can't
we figure these things out now the first thing you need to understand
is they that know him they that know god You know Job, or it
was mentioned over in chapter 21, when Job spoke of the ungodly,
in verse 14, one of the things he said about the ungodly there
is this, therefore they say unto God, depart from us, for we desire
not the knowledge of thy ways. They don't want to know God.
And they openly blaspheme him. And there in Job 22, look at
verse 21 across the page there. This is Eliphaz talking. He even
says this, and I know he's applying it in a wrong way. He says, acquaint
now thyself with him, with God, and be at peace. You need to
get to know God. Well, that's true. You need to
get to know God. You need to know God. That's
what this is all about. Job said in Job 23, the next
chapter, Job 23 and verse 3, when he was struggling in his
pain and the darkness that he's in, he doesn't know why this
is happening to him. He didn't know why he lost his family,
lost his home, lost his health. And he says in verse 3 of chapter
23, Oh, that I knew where I might find him. Where can I find God?
I need an answer from God, but he seems to be hidden from me.
that I might come even to his seat, his seat of judgment, his
seat of mercy. You know, the fact that we know
God saving, we who are believers now, we who know Christ, the
fact that we know God savingly does not mean that we know everything
that God does in providence. His days. Look at it again. Seen
times are not hidden from the Almighty. Verse 1, Do they that
know Him not see His days? You know what His days are? That's
God's providence. God declares the end from the beginning. He knows what's going to happen
tomorrow because he's determined what will happen tomorrow. That's
what the scripture says. He works all things after the
counsel of his own will. Now, you don't know that. I don't
know that. We know God. Knowledge of God
is the key to salvation. Christ said that. Listen to John
17 and verse 3. He said, this is life eternal.
You want to know what life eternal is? He said, here it is. that
they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
thou hast sent." Do you know Christ? Well, if you don't know
Christ, you don't know God. He is God. He's God in human
flesh. He's the Word, the Word of God. He's the Word personified. He's
the Word incarnate. He's the Word revealed. And knowledge
of God is revelation. In other words, you can't go,
you can't get knowledge of God, a saving knowledge of God by
human education, human philosophy, human endeavors. It must be revealed. Matthew chapter 11 and verse
27. Listen to this. Christ said, 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 saved the son and
he to whomsoever the son will reveal him. That's it. If you're going to know God as
Father, you've got to know Him through Christ. He's got to be
revealed. And then knowledge of God comes through Christ.
2 Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 6. Listen to this. For God who
commanded the light. Now there's the light. You know
what light is? It's knowledge. Commanded the light to shine
out of darkness. Darkness is ignorance. Hath shined
in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ Look at Isaiah chapter 45 with
me Isaiah spoke of it in his generation Eternal life is to
know God as he is revealed through Christ God the Son incarnate
Isaiah 45 look at verse 20. I He says, assemble yourselves
and come, draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations.
And listen to what he says here now in verse 20. They have no
knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image and pray
unto a God that cannot save. Now I know he talks about setting
up a wooden image there. And that was a common practice
in that day. It's pretty common in this day too, really, if you
think about it. But the issue here is idolatry. You know what
idolatry really is? It's ignorance of God. And the
reason it is is because those who are ignorant of God always
concoct in their imagination another God. A God who is like
themselves, a God who cannot say. But look at verse 21. He
says, tell ye and bring them near, yea, let them take counsel
together. Who hath declared this from ancient
time? Who hath told it from that time?
Have not I the Lord? Now these things that he's about
to speak, he's about to reveal them in his word here, these
things are older than earth itself. These things are from before
the foundation of the world. And he says, there's no God beside
me, a just God and a savior. Here it is, a just God, a God
who is just, who must punish sin. We sang about it, holy,
holy, holy. And a God who is still Savior.
He said, there's none beside me. Look unto me and be ye saved
all the ends of the earth, for I'm God and there's none else.
Knowledge of God. Hosea the prophet spoke to his
generation. Hosea 4 and verse 6. He said,
my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou hast
rejected knowledge, I also reject thee." Jeremiah spoke of it in
his generation. Jeremiah 31 and verse 34, he
spoke of the coming of Christ and the establishment of the
new covenant. And he said, for they shall all know me, that
is talking about God, from the least of them unto the greatest.
John the Apostle wrote of it when he was teaching the assurance
and the security of salvation to those who truly knew God who
truly knew the Lord Jesus Christ in light in spite of those who
were falling away and rejecting Christ he said this in first
John 2 and verse 20 he says but you have an unction a power From
the holy an anointing from the holy one and you know all things
all things all things that are needed All things that god reveals
all things necessary for salvation now job knew the god of salvation
He knew that god. He knew christ He'd already said
he said I know my redeemer liveth And he'll stand in the latter
day upon the earth but when it came to these things a prop the
day-to-day living that we go through joe was surrounded in
darkness in these matters a problem and god's dealing with the righteous
and the wicked in this life and he's saying do they that know
him not see his days well we know god's in control we know
god's got it under underhand we know that this world is not
chaotic it's not chaos dot dot dot it's all going to according
to god's plan in it that's what the scripture says but we don't
know what is going to have what's going to happen day-to-day do
now what he does here he shows how the wicked oppressed the
poor and they prosper look at verse two he says some remove
the landmark that refers to a practice of room removing boundaries and
trying to steal land they finally take away flocks they feed their
uh... They drive away the ass of the
fatherless. They take the widow's ox for
a pledge. They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the
earth hide themselves together. That is, hide from them. Behold,
as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work,
rising betimes for prey. In other words, they get up in
the day for the express purpose of making prey of people. The
wilderness yielded food for them and for their children. This
is the wicked now he's describing. They reap everyone his corn in
the field and they gather the vintage of the wicked. They cause
the naked to lodge without clothing. They'll steal the clothes off
your backs. What do you mean? That they have
no covering in the cold. They are wet with the showers
of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge
of the poor. They cause him to go naked without clothing. They
take away the sheaf from the hungry, which make oil within
their walls and tread their wine presses and suffer. They allow
thirst. They allow them to go thirsty.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth
out, yet God layeth not folly to them." God doesn't punish
them. They seem to get away with all this. And then, beginning
in verse 13, he talks about how they use darkness as a cloak
for their sins. Look at verse 13. They are those
that rebel against the light. they know not the ways thereof
nor abide in the paths thereof the murderer rising with the
light killeth the poor and needy and in the night is as a thief
the eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight saying
no eye shall see me and disguises his face in the dark they dig
through houses which they had marked for themselves in the
daytime in other words they surveyed these places out in the day and
then they waited tonight to robbed them. They know not the light. That's why I entitled this message,
Darkness and Light. A lot of ways men don't know
the light. Verse 17, For the morning is to them even as the
shadow of death. If one know them, they are in
the terrors of the shadow of death. All of this under the
cloak of darkness. Now I'm going to come back to
that in just a moment, but look here. Next, Job, in the rest
of this chapter, he pretty much simply states this. Here's what
should happen to the wicked, and here's what eventually is
going to happen to them. This is what he's describing,
beginning here at verse 18. He says, He is swift as the waters,
their portion is cursed in the earth. He beholdeth not the way
of the vineyards, Drought and heat consume the snow water,
so doth the grave those which have sinned. This is what should
happen to them. They shouldn't be prospering,
he says. Now Job's speaking as a human, isn't he? That's the
way we'd want to have it, you see. The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on
him. He shall be no more remembered,
and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. He evil entreateth
the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow.
He draweth also the mighty with his power, he riseth up, and
no man is sure of life. In other words, he can't even
trust in his own life. Though it be given to him to
be in safety, whereon he resteth, yet his eyes are upon their ways.
They are exalted for a little while, but they're gone and brought
low. They're taken out of the way
as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
and if it be not so now now this doesn't happen now who will make
me a liar and make my speech nothing work he's saying to these
three friends if what i'm telling you is not true then you show
me where i've spoken falsely this is what should happen to
the wicked this is what will happen to the wicked we know
that we know god's way we know god's gonna punish sin And they
should be punished and remembered no more, Job says. God will eventually
take them away into condemnation and punishment. But we know that
but for the grace of God, where would we be? We'd be right with
them, wouldn't we? And so he challenges his friends.
Well, let me speak to you just briefly on the reality of darkness
and light. As I said, what is darkness?
It's ignorance. What is light? It's knowledge. Knowledge in God. Those who rebel
against the light, Job mentions it up there in verse 13. They
are those that rebel against the light. And Job described
the sins men do under the cover of darkness. Paul described them
over here in Ephesians chapter 5. When he's talking about in
his encouragement for believers to walk in the light. To walk
as children of light. Walk in the light of the glory
of God. Walk in the light of the gospel. Walk in the light
of truth. Walk in the light of day. Walk
in honesty. All those things are included
in that. He says in verse 3 in Ephesians 5, But fornication,
all uncleanness, covetousness, let it not be once named among
you as becometh saints. In other words, don't buy into
those things as if those are proper behavior for a saint.
A sinner saved by the grace of God. A sanctified one. Neither filthiness, nor foolish
talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient, but rather giving
of thanks." And that giving of thanks is not just saying, thank
you, Lord. It's living a life of thanksgiving, grace, gratitude,
and love. And then he tells them, you know
that those whose lifestyles are marked with unbelief and walking
in darkness, they will not inherit the kingdom of Christ. the kingdom
of God don't be deceived the wrath of God comes on the children
of disobedience unbelievers those who don't know Christ now he
says you were sometimes darkness but you're not darkness anymore
now you're light walk as children of the light you know Job's he
actually he speaks of two kinds of darkness there are several
words in the Old Testament that are translated darkness. I don't
have time tonight to go into all of them, but let me just
give you these two. Number one is a darkness that we all experience
in this life, believer and unbeliever. One old writer called it the
fog of life. You ever woke up and seen a fog
outside? You ever tried to drive a car
in the fog? You know where you're going,
but it hinders you getting there, doesn't it? And the fog of life
is what Job is in. Job himself. Job is in the dark
when it comes to the things that are happening to him. Look back
up at chapter 23 of Job and verse 17. One translation of this is
basically, he says, Because I was not cut off before the darkness,
neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. In other words,
what he's saying is I'm surrounded in darkness. What's he saying?
I don't know why I'm suffering like I am. I don't know why God
is putting me through these things. You've said that. I've said it.
Things that we go through. That's the fog of life. What's
the answer to that fog of life, to that darkness? Well, the answer
basically is this. Walk by faith and not by sight.
that's how jobe can say with assurance he says this he said
i don't know why god's put me through this but i know this
i know my redeemer lives i know christ i know how god's safe
centers i may be sick today i may have some dreaded disease and
i may come and tell me that i've only got two or three months
to live i don't know but i know that i don't know why i don't
know when i don't know what tomorrow but i know this I know how God
saves sinners. I know He saves sinners by His
grace through the Lord Jesus Christ. I know my Redeemer lives
and He'll stand in the latter day on this earth. I know that
my sins are forgiven upon what basis? Huh? The blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ alone. I know that. I know, I know that
I have a righteousness in heaven that'll stand the test of God's
judgment. When God commands all men everywhere
to repent because he has appointed a day in the which he will judge
the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained
and that he hath given assurance unto all men that he hath raised
him from the dead. I know that when Christ died,
he died for me. He was buried for me, He arose
again for me. I know that I'm justified before
God. I know that I see His glory.
The glory of both a just God and a Savior. And I know, you
remember what Job said over there in chapter 23? Look at verse
10, he says, but God knoweth the way that I take, and when
He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. I know that no
matter what I go through in this life, whether it be pain or pleasure,
Whether it be poverty or riches, sickness or health, I know because
of God's promise and God's power and God's grace in Christ, I'm
going to come out on the other end good. I'm going to come forth
as gold because of his grace. That's the fog of life, you see.
I don't know what tomorrow holds. but there's some things I do
know. The second word for darkness has to do with what Job's talking
about here in verses 13 through 17. The cloak of darkness. Which is in reality an opportunity
for sin. An opportunity for sin. That's
how men by nature look at darkness. It's an opportunity to get out
and fulfill their lust. Man by nature recognizes the
kind of darkness that cloaks the evil of men. But let me tell
you something. There is a darkness which is
an opportunity for sin that man by nature does not recognize. One which only the light of the
glory of God can expose. And I want to show you that.
Turn to John chapter 3. Look at John chapter 3. Most of you tonight, when you
go home, you'll probably lock your doors
before you go to bed. Why is that? And let me tell
you something. If you didn't know this already,
I'll tell you to you now. I'll just give you some information. It's not only people that go
to church and claim to be Christian that lock their doors at night.
Y'all knew that, didn't you? You know why? Because you know,
you know there are people out there who would do anything they
can to break into your home and steal what you've got and harm
your family and your persons. We've got an alarm system here
at the church. I don't know who'd want to break into a church,
but they do. They want this equipment. We've got an alarm system at
the parson. You see, all that. because man
by nature recognizes the things that evil people do in the dark
in that kind of darkness but there is a darkness which is
an opportunity for sin that none of us by nature recognize until
God reveals it to us look at it here John 3 look at verse
18 Christ says he that believeth
on him is not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned
already Now, what is the evidence of condemnation? What is the
evidence of justification, the opposite? Well, the evidence
of justification is believing on Christ, resting in Him, trusting
Him by the grace of God. The evidence of condemnation
is not believing in Christ, no matter who you are. and he says
he said because he had not believed in the name of the only begotten
son of god verse nineteen a look at this and this is the condemnation
that light is come into the world now what is that light that's
come into the world where you read john one to john thirty
tomahawk christ christ is that line talking about his word his
gospel the gospel of how god save sinners by grace You who
have been working hard to save yourselves, as the old country
song said, working hard to get to heaven, I'm here to tell you
that all your works are evil deeds in the sight of God. That's
the light. Now what do you think of that?
How do you respond to that? Well it says here, light is coming
to the world and men loved darkness rather than light because their
deeds were evil. The deeds there refers to their
efforts to work their way into God's favor. Their efforts to
earn salvation. Their efforts to keep the law,
to be religious, to do anything aimed at recommending themselves
unto God. The gospel light exposes those
deeds as being evil because they deny the glory of God in Christ. God's way of salvation is not
by my works. It's not by your work. It's by
his work. It's by Christ. It's the obedience
unto death of Christ. The condition for salvation is
nothing we do, it's all that he did on Calvary in his obedience
unto death. He is my righteousness, he is
my wisdom, my redemption, my sanctification. He's my all and
in all. Whom have I in heaven but thee,
the psalmist said. It's all of Christ, that's what
he means by that. And if it's all of Christ, He
will not allow you to bring anything of yourself into the mix as to
attaining or maintaining salvation. It's a narrow way. And look at
verse 20. For everyone that doeth evil
hateth the lie. Think about the Pharisees. They
were doing their best to earn their way into God's favor. And
Christ came along and said, you're hypocrites. You're bringing forth
evil deeds and they hated the light neither cometh to the light
lest his deeds should be reproved discovered Uncovered but then
he says but he that doeth truth now, what is it to do truth?
It's to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ It's to rest in him for
all salvation cometh to the light they're children of light like
Job I know my Redeemer lives that his deeds may be made manifest
that they are wrought in God look over at John 15 and you know that theme of Christ
the light goes all the way through the book of John John 8 12 he
said I'm the light of the world when it comes to salvation he's
the only light And any other light is just the
deception of Satan. You know, 2 Corinthians 11 talks
about how Satan and his ministers disguise himself as an angel
of light when they preach their false gospels in the name of
Christ, in the name of religion. But look at John 15, look at
verse 18. He says in John 15, 18, he says,
If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated
you. If you were of the world, the
world would love his own. But because you're not of the
world, but I've chosen you out of the world, therefore the world
hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, the servant
is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they
will also persecute you. If they have kept my saying,
they will keep yours. Talking about preaching the gospel
there, isn't he? He says, but all these things
will they do unto you for my namesake because they know not
him that sent me. They don't know God. now look
at verse 22 if I had not come and spoken unto them they had
not had sin they wouldn't know the reality of sin if I hadn't
said what I said to them but now they have no cloak for their
sin nothing to cover well what had he spoken he spoke salvation
through himself salvation by the grace of God not by the works
of man for by grace are you saved through faith that not of yourself
that that issue it is the gift of God not of works lest any
man should boast and you know he said that they'll hate the
light so much over in John 16 there verse 2 it says they shall
put you out of the synagogues they'll throw you out of their
church services they don't want to hear what you have to say
they want to go to a church service where people brag on men applaud
the works and the efforts and the accomplishments of men not
where they preach Christ and lift him up you see that's the
dark they want the darkness of their false security in their
works they don't want to hear of Christ the light of his people
they don't want to see the glory of god in the face of jesus christ
the light of the knowledge of the glory of god they don't want
to see the gospel life that leaves them with no hope of salvation
no security or assurance of salvation but in christ and him crucified
and risen again now let me conclude with an example turn to philippians
three this is the one always go to because it's such a glaring
example of light and darkness Philippians chapter three and
we could you know as well as I do you who have studied the
scriptures you know we could go to so many scriptures that
talk about the light his word is our light the psalmist said
thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path we could
talk about how we've been delivered from the kingdom of darkness
and and uh... translated into his marvelous
light all of those all of those scriptures that we could go to
but let me let me go to this one here Philippians 3 Paul writes in verse 3 he says
for we are the circumcision now that's circumcision of the heart
that's the new birth that's just a way of stating the new birth
we've been born again which worship God in spirit from the heart
not in outward show Not with visual aids, but from the heart. And we rejoice in Christ Jesus. That word rejoice means to have
confidence in. It means to boast in, to glory
in. We glory in Christ Jesus. That's
the light. And have no confidence in the
flesh. We don't have any confidence
in the flesh because we're children of light. And he says in verse
4, he says, though I might also have confidence in the flesh.
If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust
in the flesh, I more." Now what Paul's going to describe is his
life in darkness before he became a believer. These are the things
he had confidence in. These are the things that he
believed made him a saved person, a righteous person. Listen, circumcise
the eighth day. Of the stock of Israel, of the
tribe of benjamin in hebrew of hebrews is touching the law of
pharisee concerning zeal persecuting the church touching the righteousness
which is in the law blameless now those who have caught went
when solid parsis had confidence in those things he walked in
darkness it was an opportunity for him to see and he didn't
see it is saying that that's exactly what it was but now here's
the lot look at verse seven But what things were gained to me,
those I counted loss for Christ. There's the light. Yea, doubtless,
I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge.
What is light? It's not the knowledge of Christ
Jesus, my Lord, for whom I've suffered the loss of all things
and do count them but done that I may win Christ and be found
in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that
which is through the faith of christ the righteousness which
is of god that's the light that's the that's the light that exposes
all the darkness that we walk in by nature