BRIGHTEST
LIGHT
BREAD
16 “The
people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land
of the shadow of death a light has dawned.”
Matthew 4:16 (NIV)
3 Through
him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life
was the light of men. 5 The
light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
John 1:3-5 (NIV)
9 The
true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
John 1:9 (NIV)
1 The Lord is my light and my salvation-- whom
shall I fear?
Psalms 27:1 (NIV)
9 But
you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging
to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness
into his wonderful light.
1 Peter 2:9 (NIV)
5 This
is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him
there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in
the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light,
as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of
Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
1 John 1:5-7 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Immortal,
invisible, God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most
blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious, Thy great
name we praise. Unresting, unhasting and
silent as light, Nor wanting, nor wasting, Thou rulest in might; Thy justice
like mountains high soaring above Thy clouds, which are fountains of goodness
and love.” Walter C. Smith
“To follow the
Savior is to participate in salvation; to follow the light is to perceive the
light.” Irenaeus
“I keep trying to
find a life, on my own apart from You. I
am the king of excuses, I’ve got one for every selfish thing I do. What’s going on inside of me? I despise my own behavior. This only serves to confirm my suspicions
that I’m still a man in need of a savior...O Lord be my Light and my
Salvation. The disease of the self runs
through my blood, like cancer fatal to the soul. Every attempt on my behalf has failed, to
keep the sickness under control…Lord be my Light and be my salvation.” Charlie
Peacock
“When a person sees the excellence of the gospel, he senses the beauty and loveliness of the divine scheme of salvation. His mind is convinced that it is of God, and he believes it with all his heart. The light of the gospel is the glory of Christ, his holiness and beauty. Clearly, it is this divine light, shining into our hearts, that enables us to see the beauty of the gospel and have a saving belief in Christ. This supernatural light shows us the superlative beauty and loveliness of Jesus, and convinces us of His sufficiency as our Saviour. Only such a glorious, majestic Saviour can be our Mediator, standing between guilty, hell-deserving sinners such as ourselves, and an infinitely holy God. This supernatural light gives us a sense of Christ that convinces us in a way nothing else ever could.” Jonathan Edwards
“The most brilliant way to live is to always look for the light.” Ann Voskamp
“In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the differences between things; and it is Christ who gives us light.” Augustus W. Hare
“In Christ’s first sermon at Nazareth He said that one of the reasons He had come to earth was to preach ‘recovery of sight to the blind’ (Luke 4:18)…The Spirit of God helps us see our sin and our helplessness and shows us God’s redeeming grace in Christ. The Spirit reveals the truth of Jesus’ declaration: ‘I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life’ (John 8:12)…In the midst of a world living in spiritual darkness, walk as a child of the light!” Billy Graham
HEART SAVOR
·
I am
blind to my sin without the light of Christ.
·
Without
Him, I walk in darkness – with Him I walk in the Light of life.
·
I am
to walk as a child of the Light.
