If you turn again to the passage
we read from in Genesis in chapter 1, we read at the beginning of
this chapter these words, 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 waters. And God said,
Let there be light. and there was light and God saw
the light and 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 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. Oh how much of the gospel there
is in this opening chapter of Genesis. The opening chapter
in the Bible. And how much of the gospel there
is even in these opening few verses. What riches beyond compare. How the sovereignty of God shines
forth. God said, let there be light. And there was light. When God
speaks, he commands and things happen. God didn't ask. God didn't instruct others. He
spake. Let there be light. and there
was light. He is a sovereign God. He is
the creator and the sustainer of all things. And we see His
sovereignty, His speech, His rule throughout all this chapter. How we see His divine election,
His authority, His will, His speech, His power, His love,
His light. God said, let there be light. And there was light. Let there
be light. And there was light. He rules. There is authority
here. He speaks, He commands. Let there
be light. And there was light. The light
shone forth. It shone forth. And God divided
the light from the darkness. God saw the light, that it was
good. But all else was darkness. 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 waters when we look around the world
today we see much of the darkness the darkness there is outside
of the light of God The darkness there is outside of a knowledge
of God and Jesus Christ. The darkness there is in man
in his fallen nature. By nature we are born as those
who are brought forth in the dark and who love the dark. We love the darkness and the
ways and the things of the darkness. We love the evil. We hate the
light. We recall from the light, we
recall from the knowledge of God and the love of God. We don't want to know about God,
we don't want to know about his gospel, we don't want to know
about his son. We love our own ways, our own
glory, our own life, our own ends. We love the riches and
the pleasures of this world. We love the wisdom of this world,
the glory of this world, the status and the acclaim that this
world can bring us. We love all things here below
in the earth. But when one speaks unto us,
from the scriptures, when one speaks unto us of the living
God, when one speaks unto us of the light of the world, we
recoil, we turn aside, we see these things
as being against us. The light as it were comes into
our dark corner, into the dark corners of our life and we recoil
as an insect would scuttle away into the dark when a light is
shone into a dark place. We don't like what the light
does because it exposes us. It exposes us before God. It exposes what's within. It
exposes our heart. It exposes the sin within. It exposes what we are before
God. And we don't want to know what
we are. And we don't want to think that
He sees. And we don't like that we're
accountable unto our Maker. We would rather live and pretend
that there is no maker, there is no God, there is no light. We'd rather go on as though man
and this world and the natural realm is all that there is and
there is no God, there is no life after death, there is no
one to be accountable to. because if we accept the light
and accept that there is a God and accept that we are created
and accept that he sustains us and accept that one day we must
stand before him then we know that he will find us guilty because
we know that our deeds are evil we know that we are of the darkness
we know that he will find us wanting so we hate the light we love darkness and the two things are separated
God saw the light that it was good and God divided the light
from the darkness there's a division There are those who dwell in
the darkness and those who dwell in the light. And those who dwell
in the darkness don't like the light, they don't want the light,
they don't seek the light, they hate the light, they reject it. As testified by John in the opening
words of his Gospel. In the beginning was the Word
and the Word was with God and the Word was God. the same was
in the beginning with God all things were made by him and without
him was not anything made that was made in him was life and
the life was the light of men and the light shineth in darkness
and the darkness comprehended it not this world was brought forth
by the Word of God, the Speech of God, the Son of God. He is the Light and the Life
of man. He is the Light of God. And he,
through his gospel, shines in the darkness and the darkness
comprehends it not. It cannot see, it does not want
to see. It turns away. There was a man
sent from God whose name was John. The same came for a witness
to bear witness of the light that all men through him might
believe. He was not that light but was
sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light
which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was
in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew
him not. He came unto his own and his
own received him not. For as many as received Him,
to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them
that believe on His name, which were born not of blood, nor of
the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld
His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth. The Light of God, the Word of
God, the Son of God, Jesus Christ, came into the world. The same
world which was made by Him. The same world He brought forth
in the beginning when as God He spake. the creation came forth
and that world in which he was knew him not he came unto his
own the Jews he was born in Bethlehem a babe in the city of David a
Jew He grew up amongst the Jews. He came unto His own. Those who
should have looked for Him, those who, like Anna, should have been
waiting and watching and looking for the coming of Christ, the
coming of Messiah, those who should have been watching and
those who should have received Him at His coming, He came unto
His own and His own received Him not. Because they, despite
all their religion, despite all the knowledge they had, despite
all the favour they had received from God, despite the scriptures
they had in their very hand, they like others were of the
darkness and the light shineth in darkness and the darkness
comprehended it not. What of you? Are you of the darkness? Are you
like the Jews? Do you have much religion? Do
you have the scriptures? Have you read them? Have you
heard them preached? Have you gone to meetings? Have
you worshipped? Have you pretended to worship? Have you prayed? Have you tried
to live before God? And yet when the light of the
Son of God comes unto you in truth and in power You receive
it not. You receive him not. Does the
light shine in the darkness of your heart? Does it shine around
you? Does it shine unto you? And you
turn and you hate and you cannot see, you cannot comprehend, you
cannot understand. You can receive knowledge in
the head. You can speak of the scriptures
and speak of a God and speak of a Jesus and speak of living
before God and speak of a way of righteousness you can speak
of many things you know many things in your head but when
the knowledge of the true and living God when the knowledge
of the true son of God the light comes you cannot comprehend When
the authority and the rule and the sovereignty of this God and
this Saviour comes your way, you reject. When the truth of
His electing grace comes unto you, you say, no, it cannot be. When the reality that you can
do nothing to save yourself is made known unto you, what is
your response? when the reality in God's light
comes that you are a wretched sinner deserving of his wrath
a child of wrath a child of darkness a child of the devil by nature
when the reality comes that you are dead in trespasses and sins
in the darkness and despite all the appearance of your religion
despite everything that you might do and work and strive at to
make yourself presentable unto God when the reality that that
is all darkness comes unto you what is your reaction? when the
reality and the truth that God must speak for there to be light
that God must speak in your heart and in your soul if ever you
are to live when the reality comes that God must speak unto
you and say live or else you remain dead when that truth comes
what is your reaction? do you remain in the darkness?
Do you, like the Jews of old, receive not the coming of Messiah? Do you say, away with this man?
We will not have this man to reign over us. Do you turn away? Do you seek to put out that light? Do you, as it were, take your
hands to the candle to quench it and say, that's not the God
I know. That's not the Jesus I know.
That's not the salvation I know. My Jesus asks me and I say yes
I will follow. My Jesus presents unto me the
choice. I will follow at my decision. I will follow because I have
decided. I will be saved because I have
gone this way. God is pleased with me because
of what I have done. When you fight against the reality
that you have done nothing good and can do nothing good and have
never by nature chosen to follow the Son of God have never by
nature received his truth or his gospel when you are faced
with that reality that you are dead and you have not sought
the Lord and you have not done good what is your response? We love the darkness. Whether there be light or darkness,
it's not in our hands, not in our decision, and not in our
will. It is up to God to say, let there
be light. And there is light. It is up
to God. He is sovereign. And he did say,
let there be light. And there was light. the great
wonder the great glory the great joy is that in the midst of the
darkness God did say let there be light and there was light
God didn't leave the darkness to itself at the beginning of
time in creation he didn't leave the darkness and the void as
it was He said, let there be light. And there was light. In the beginning of John, in
the fullness of time, when the promises were to be fulfilled,
the promises given to the Jews of old, that Messiah would come,
that a saviour would come to redeem them, to set them free,
to deliver them from their sins. When the fullness of time was
come and the world by nature was still in darkness, God sent
his son and the light shone forth in the darkness. God said, let
there be light. And the light of God, Jesus Christ,
came into the darkness of this world and was brought forth as
a child. He was born that the light might
shine in the darkness. and that those whom God had chosen
by grace to look and to wait for that light and to receive
that light and to be illuminated by that light those whom God
had chosen came to the light and when the sun said unto them
follow me they followed not because of their natural will but because
God by his grace changed their will and said you are mine and
when you hear you will receive and you will follow. God said
let there be light. and there was light and if he
says unto you or to me in the gospel to our souls which are
dark by nature if he comes in the gospel to us and says let
there be light there will be light and everything about the
gospel and everything about Jesus Christ and everything about God
and everlasting life and heaven and earth and good and evil and
the beginning and the end everything that was once a mystery to us
will now become reality will now become clear everything will
be lit up we will see that which once we could not see once we
were blind and even though the light should shine we were blind
it was all darkness but when God says to us within let there
be light the eyes opened the light shined forth within and
we see we see and God sees And when
he sees the light he sees that it is good. 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. Have you come to the end of the
first day? Has God brought forth a day in
your life? Has He brought you to life by
His Gospel? Has He shone light into your
heart? Or are you yet in the darkness,
in the void, in the deep? For all your knowledge, for all
your religion, for all your will, for all your strength, for all
that you would seek, and claim as being to your glory, to your
credit, are you yet in the darkness? Let there be light. Light. What is this light? Men have that which they consider
to be light. Men think of light as knowledge
and wisdom of this world. Men will speak of illumination
of various intellectual matters they have come to learn this
and come to understand this and never have we lived in a day
when there is more knowledge recorded and written down in
books that men can go to and read and understand you can think
of any science you can think of any literature you can think
of any subject you can go and read about it it is freely available
and there is much wisdom and knowledge that you can accumulate
But none of it will lead you unto God. It will give you a
sense and an understanding of your surroundings, of the workings
of the human body, of the workings of this world and its weather
systems. It will give you knowledge, so-called, but it will never
lead you unto God. The knowledge and the wisdom
of this world glorifies man. It will pump up your pride. It
will make you proud of what you know and proud of what you've
done and proud of what you could do. But it will never lead you
unto God. There is much knowledge and wisdom
in religion. Much that will tell you many
things and many doctrines. You can read many books expounding
this religion or that religion. Many books expounding the Bible. Many books which will give you
an understanding of how the Bible was written, how it was recorded,
who wrote what and when, what the different doctrines are.
Many books which will contrast the different systems of salvation
and teach you about Arminianism and Calvinism. and the Reformation
and teach you about all sorts of doctrines and truths and you
can learn it all and comprehend it in the head and still not
know God. There is much that men call light
which is yet darkness. The light is Christ. The light is Christ. and unless
you know Christ you are yet in the darkness God said let there
be light and there was light and he will say of the souls
of his people let there be light within the soul of this one and
if he says there will be light let there be Christ there was
Christ. Except you know Christ, except
you see Christ, except you hear Christ, except you have Christ,
you are in the darkness. You can know all about Christ,
you can know every doctrine regarding Christ but unless you know him
and as a reality unless that doctrine is preached unto you
by God the Holy Spirit and comes unto you in power then it will
remain as words in the head but when the Spirit of God moves
upon the face of the waters of your soul and speaks let there
be light. Then he who was once hid from
you, he who was just words unto you, knowledge unto you, becomes
a reality. Then the darkness is overwhelmed
by light, incomprehensible. He is the light of God, the light
of God. Recently I've been preaching
through the Psalms and this week we would have come to Psalm 27
where I felt led to preach on this chapter in Genesis without
reference to the Psalms but out of interest I turned to Psalm
27 to see what it would have been about and the opening words
of Psalm 27 of David are The Lord is my light and my salvation
Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my
life. Of whom shall I be afraid? The
Lord is my light. So I could hardly have picked,
chosen, been led to a passage more relevant to Psalm 27. The
Lord is my light. He is the light. He is the light
of whom Moses speaks in this record in Genesis, he is the
light of whom John speaks in the opening words of his gospel,
and he is the light of whom David speaks in that psalm and in the
other psalms. The Lord is the light, Christ
is the light. and if you have the light you
are of the day and you are separated from the night and you are separated
from the darkness and you know what it is to be in the light
and to be in the day and to live forevermore you know what it
is to dwell with the sun and feel the warmth of the sun and
the love of the sun and the glory of the sun of the son of God
let there be light and there was light and God saw the light
that it was good oh in these verses can you see the pleasure
that the father had when his son entered this world as the
light shining in the darkness and that babe was born of Mary
and the father God looked upon that son brought forth and said
it is good he is good behold my son behold the light Behold
the Lamb of God. God saw the light that it was
good and God divided the light from the darkness. There is a
division. There are two realms in this
world. Two realms in life. Day and night, darkness and light, good and
evil, the children of God and the children of the devil. You
are either with Christ, in Christ. And Christ is in you. And you
dwell in the light. The light inaccessible. God dwelleth in light inaccessible. Inaccessible because there's
nothing that you can do by nature to enter into this light. The darkness is separated from
the light. It cannot be mixed. It cannot
get in. They're separate realms. You
can't get into the light. Not by your will or not by your
strength. They're separated. But if God
says, let there be light, then you who once dwelt in darkness
will be transformed into the kingdom of his dear son. You
will be transformed. You'll be taken out of darkness
into light. And you'll never be able to return
to the darkness. They're two different realms
because God divided the light from the darkness. Now there
are those who will forever remain in the darkness because they
will never hear those words, let there be light. And there are those who born
in darkness in the natural state. yet chosen eternally in the Son
of God from before the foundation of the earth will hear the words
of God in the Gospel and will be brought to the light and having
been brought they will never return. They're separated. God divided the light from the
darkness. He did this in creation at the
beginning. 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. He did this
in creation. He did this with the coming of
his son. when the light came into the
darkness and when his son came with his gospel and when those
who heard followed and believed and were of the light and those
who rejected perished in the dark he did this in creation,
he did this with his son he did this with two types, two peoples
in this world the children of God and the children of the devil
And he did this in his son, through his son, upon the cross, when
he separated the light from the darkness. God divided the light
from the darkness at creation. But there's no place really where
the division is not more singular than at the cross. that was the
hour that was the point in time in history when the division
of the light from the darkness was brought forth and set forevermore
when Christ who is the light was taken to the cross when he
came unto his own the Jews and they said away with this man
crucify him crucify him he who was the light of this world was
taken and he was nailed to a cross and he was lifted up in the midday
sun and God looked upon his son and God said this son my son
shall be the sacrifice of my people and the sun as both priest
and sacrifice offered and was offered in the place of his people
and he bore the sins of all his people throughout all time and
he was made sin in their stead and God took he who is light
and made him to be darkness he took the sin of those who dwelt
in the darkness and laid that dark evil upon his son that he
should bear that sin in their place and the light of the sun
was taken away and for three hours there was darkness over
all the earth as a figure of what Christ was and what he was
doing. He who was the light was made
sin. He bore the sins of his people.
He took the darkness and he took it away in judgment. The Father
looked upon His Son and poured out His wrath upon Him. He poured
out the fires of His wrath. He poured out an eternity of
wrath for the sins of all His people. That eternal judgment
which outside of Christ they should and must suffer, He poured
that out upon His Son in the span of three hours. And in the
darkness of those hours, He who was light bore the judgment,
the burning wrath of God against that sin until at the very end
he could cry out when the last sin had been paid for, when all
the price was paid, when judgment was complete, he could cry out
after his agony was complete. It is finished. and he hung his head and he gave
up the ghost and the light of the sun returned and the light
shone forth once more because the darkness of that people was
taken away and God separated the light from the darkness and
in his son he took a people from all people A people chosen in
Christ from before the foundation of the earth. A people elect
of God. He took a people, a countless
multitude in His Son. In His Son He took a people who
were wed to His Son upon the cross, who were united with Him. who were one with him as he suffered
he took that people through the hours of that cross through the
agony through the judgment that they in christ might be led forth
the other side of death and might come forth with him from the
grave victorious having conquered with him having had their sins
conquered by the savior having been delivered of their sins
that they might come forth with him out of darkness into light
that they might rise forth from the grave with him in the light
and that they might live and reign forevermore with their
Saviour in the light let there be light and God divided the
light from the darkness never more so than at the cross where
he brought forth the victory now this fact of the cross, of
the grave and of the resurrection is then portrayed for us two-fold
in the creation account. We've read here of what happened
on the first day that on the first day there was darkness
that God spake let there be light and divided the darkness from
the day. Moses goes on to tell us what
happened on the second day and then the third day. and then
he commences to tell us what happened on the 4th day, the
5th day and the 6th day and there's a repetition in theme of what happened on
each day. On the first day God divided
the light from the darkness. Now in terms of creation he simply
speaks of light and darkness. There's no mention of the sun
or the moon here. or of the natural realm or of
those natural elements that give us light and darkness there is
simply light and darkness but on the fourth day we read in
verse 14 and God said let there be lights in the firmament of
the heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be
for signs and for seasons and for days and years and let them
be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon
the earth and it was so and God made two great lights, the greater
light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night.
He made the stars also and God set them in the firmament of
the heaven to give light upon the earth and to rule over the
day and over the night. and to divide the light from
the darkness and God saw that it was good and the evening and
the morning were the fourth day so on the fourth day he returns
very much to the same theme of light and darkness as set forth
on the first day we have as it were a repetition but here we
go into the light and the darkness and those lights the sun and
the moon and the stars which God created to separate the night
from the day and the darkness from the light On the second
day, God speaks, Moses speaks of God's creation of the division
of the waters above and the waters beneath, of the heavens from
the deep. On the fifth day, he speaks of
the creation of the life in the depths of the waters below and
of the fowls who fly in the heavens. And then on the third day, Moses
speaks of the creation of those living things of the life that
comes forth upon the earth. And then on the sixth day, he
speaks of the living creatures that God created upon the earth
and the creation of man upon the earth. So we have a twice
repetition of a threefold pattern of on one day the light being
separated from the darkness then on the second day or the fifth
day of heavens being as it were separated from the depths of
the waters beneath and of the creation of the creatures within
those realms and then on the third day and on the sixth day
we see life being brought forth. And this is a reflection of the
cross. At the cross God separated the
light from the darkness. In the hours of Christ's death
He took those who were of the light and He judged their sins
in He who is light. Hence the darkness of the sun.
And He took that sin away, He took that darkness away so that
when all the sin was judged the Saviour might on the third day
rise forth in glory. without sin and his people might
rise forth in him without sin and what happened on that day
divided this world in two those who were delivered those who
had their sins washed away those who had their sins blotted out
those who were of the light who were separated from those who
were of the darkness that's what happened on the first day on
the cross which Moses repeats when he speaks
of the lights in the heavens... and the lights in the dark...
in the light of the sun in the day... and the light of the moon
in the night. He speaks of the night and the
day... on the fourth day. On the second day... of creation
we see this separation of heaven and earth of that which is above
from that which is in the deeps that which is in the depths God
said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and
let it divide the waters from the waters And God made the firmament
and divided the waters which were under the firmament from
the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. And
God called the firmament heaven. And the evening and the morning
were the second day. This separation of light and
darkness is a separation of those who will remain in the depths
from those who will be led up into the glories of heaven above.
On the second day, after Christ was crucified, he was laid in
the depths of the earth, that on the third day he might rise
forth and take his people up with everlasting life to live
and reign with him in glory above. On the third day we read, And
God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together
unto one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And
God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of
the waters called he seas, and God saw that it was good. And
God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed
is in itself upon the earth, and it was so. And the earth
brought forth grass, the herb-yielding tree after his kind, and the
tree-yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after his kind.
And God saw that it was good, and the evening and the morning
were the third day. On the third day he brought forth
life upon this earth which he had created. The first day he
separated the light from the darkness, then he separates the
heavens from the depths, then he brings forth life. On the
day of resurrection, on the third day Christ rose from the dead
and on that day he and his people came forth from the depths, from
the grave and were released and led forth with life everlasting. Life came forth on the third
day. The pattern of which Moses repeats. Verse 14, God said, let there
be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day
from the night. Verse 19, and the evening and
the morning was the fourth day. Verse 20, God said, Let the waters
bring forth abundantly and the moving creature that have life,
and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of
the heaven. And God created great whales
and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought
forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after
his kind. And God saw that it was good,
and God blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply and fill
the waters in the sea and let fowl multiply in the earth and
the evening and the morning were the fifth day he created the
creatures in the depths below and he created the creatures
in the heavens above as a picture of what he was to bring forth
eternally on the day of resurrection when Christ led forth his bride
out of the depths of the earth and led her forth to then rise
up with him into glory above. Verse 24 and God said let the
earth bring forth the living creature after his kind cattle
and creeping fig and beast of the earth after his kind and
it was so and god made the beast of the earth after his kind and
cattle after their kind and everything that creepeth upon the earth
after his kind and god saw that it was good And God said, let
us make man in our image and our likeness and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the
air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created
man in his own image. In the image of God created he
him. Male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God
said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the
earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing
that moveth and standeth upon the earth. Now this wonderful
creation of man on the sixth day is a picture not just of
the creation of Adam and then of Eve who aren't mentioned by
name until the next chapter this is a picture of the man the last
Adam, the second man, the man, the man Christ Jesus and his
bride created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him, male and female created he them. They brought forth male
and female on the third day as a result of the separation of
light and darkness on the first day, because of the cross God
brought forth. his son from the grave in newness
of everlasting life and he brought forth his bride, his people,
his church with him forever to reign with him. And God said, Behold, I have
given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of
all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of
a tree yielding seed. To you it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air,
and to everything that creepeth upon the earth wherein there
is life, I have given every green herb for meat, and it was so.
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was
very good. and the evening and the morning
were the sixth day. Now there is no mention in this
chapter of the serpent. There is no mention of the command
of God regarding the two trees and the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil. There is no mention of the fall of man or
the rebellion of man against his God. Chapter one concerns
The six days, the two-fold account of creation, in figure, pointing
us to the cross, the grave, the resurrection, twice over. In the second account, showing
forth the man and his bride, the church. Here is the gospel. Hear the light of God ring forth,
shine forth throughout every verse of the chapter, showing
us God's ultimate purpose, that He will look at this world of
nothing and say in its midst, through His gospel, through His
Son, by His Spirit, let there be light. and when he speaks
such unto you and to I there is life and we as the bride are
brought forth from the grave with Christ with the man to live
and to reign with him forevermore all life on the earth is brought
forth on the sixth day first the creatures but then the man
then the woman Christ and His Bride. How the light shines forth
in this. How we see the power of His resurrection. How we see the glory that God
brought forth as a result of the death of His Son for His
people. Here is God's ultimate creation. No mention of the fall. None
of the sin of man mentioned. That's implied by the darkness. But here is the culmination of
the gospel. Imperfection in the creation
of man in God's image. Male and female. Perfect. And God saw everything that he
had made and behold it was very good. He looked upon his son
at the cross. He looked at what his son did
in suffering and bleeding for his people. He looked at the
bride that his son perfected and sanctified, who was brought
forth out of his side, who was brought forth from the grave
with him. He looked at the bride that his
son brought forth in victory from the battlefield, riding
upon that victorious horse with the conquering hero. As the son
brought his bride into heaven's courts, the Lord God the Heavenly
Father looked upon his son and his bride and he saw that bride
in perfection without spot and without blemish and God said
of all it is very good very good God saw the light that it was
good And God divided the light from the darkness. Have you heard
this light? Have you seen this light? Do
you know this light? Have you been separated from
the darkness? Has God said unto you and to
your soul, let there be light? And there was light. Let there
be light. Amen.