Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

The Bible uses the opposites of light and darkness to illustrate many meanings.

Light portrays:

Life

Intelligence

Reasoning

Truth

Blessing of God

God’s glory and royal splendor

Darkness portrays:

Wickedness

Ignorance

Impurity

Immorality

Evil

Suffering, death, & decay

God’s divine wrath and judgment

Darkness

Christ, the Light of the World

Jesu

Why does Christ proclaim to be the Light of the world?

What is this darkness that covers the people?

Immoral, wicked, disobedient living:

Pro 2:

To be in darkness also means to be in unbelief.

Col 3:5-7

How is it that a man who doesn’t believe in Christ as His Saviour will live in darkness and be disobedient?

Col 3:

Because in him is no strength to resist evil nor even the desire to resist, whereas the man that believes in God has the desire to please Him and resist evil and also the grace to do so.

Therefore the one believes lives in the light while the one who doesn’t lives in darkness.

To be in darkness means to be void of understanding and knowledge of God.

Genesis 1

Before God created everything good that exists in the world, the earth was void and in darkness.

The word void means to be empty and in waste.

The world was like this until God intervened and decided to make His presence known.

Once God spoke the words, “Let there be light,” He made His face to shine upon this world, and the whole earth was lighted.

With God is light.

1 John 1:5

I believe that this account is not only a literal description of the earth’s beginning, but an illustration of the work of God in a sinful world.

Before one experiences the presence of God in his life, he sits in darkness and has no life in him while he remains void of the knowledge of the glory of God and of Jesus Christ whom He sent.

It is for this reason that Christ came to open the blind eyes, to bring out them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Isa

To be in darkness is to be under the power of darkness.

Acts 26:

It is the purpose of the god of this world to blind the eyes of people lest they should see the glorious light of the gospel of Christ.

To sit in darkness is the result of rejecting the wisdom that God offers in His word.

10

And so just as God commanded the light to shine out of darkness at the beginning of this world, so He is able to do so in our lives.

6

Lk 1

It’s in this light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ that we find eternal life.

The apostle John uses the language of to describe how Christ is to us Light and Life.

John 1:1-

How is Christ still the light of the world, when He is not in it physically today?

He is that enmity in our conscience that supplies us the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

But as well as that, Apostle John said that Christ is the Word, and that the Word was God.

Christ is a light to the world through the word of God.

Ps

Why will majority of the world not receive Christ that they might have life?

17-20

The wise man will gain life because he was willing to lose it in order that he might please God, but the fool will lose his life because he strives to save it, in the sense that he is not willing to lay down the pleasures of sin for a season.

He not only calls to come out of darkness into marvelous light, but He also calls us to “walk in the light.”

1 John 1:

Life is short and we are not to dawdle with time.

Col

Light in the Bible is depicted as