John 1:4-14 - Jesus, the Light

Major Ideas

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sinned, as we are cut off from the perfect loving life that Jesus lived.

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But why does the world try to snuff out the Light of Jesus? B/c the world loves the darkness and hates the Right

John 3:19 NASB95

19 “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

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This how the world reels in its rebelliom against God. As we perform our deed of darkness in the dark we don’t want God to look at us.

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Mesus warned us to beware lest The light in we ally be darkness.

Those who call good evill and evil “good” think of themselves as enlightened but then are filled with darkness.

We cannot live in rebellion against the Light and be enlightened.

But how can we tell if the Light in us is really Light? We look to Jesus and His Word.

..John 12..

..Pslam 119..

By looking to the fight that is in Jesus and His Word, we verify that the fight im us is actually Light. we also continue to іна darliness when we continually look to the fight of Jesus and His Word

By examming our beliefs and bxs. in the Light of Jesus and His Word the Parkness that remains isus continues to be dispelled.

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