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You (Church) are the Light of the World
Introduction:
Astrophysicists tell us the reason why space is dark.
Why does our sun not light up space?
The answer is relatively uncomplicated: light needs something to reflect off.
Sunlight from our sun and other stars float through space, but without anything to reflect off, there is only darkness.
This phenomenon is how we get moonlight.
The moon is merely a rock in space, and it does not make any light of its own.
Yet, it reflects the sun’s light in the evening, offering a bit more light to guide us in the night.
When John the Baptist pointed to Christ, he said something similar; his role was pointing to the light.
In some ways, this is also an apt analogy for those who follow Jesus.
We are not the source of the light, but hopefully, we point to the light of Christ with our words and actions.
But there is one glaring difference between moonlight and Christians.
Christians don’t merely reflect light; they are the light through the power of the Holy Spirit.
When the Spirit is at work within us, we become a dwelling place for God’s own Spirit.
For this reason, Paul says in 1 Corinthians,
Last Week we looked at the beatitudes and pointed out the reality that Jesus was foreshadowing something that had been entirely impossible for humanity to do prior, and that was to be genuinely renewed and forgiven of sin.
Before Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, a Jew could have their sins temporarily covered with the blood of the sacrifice but never forgiven and washed clean.
Nor could sin or death have been truly defeated.
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