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The Good News that Jesus brought us is not to be kept to ourselves, but to be shared with others.
The Sea of Gallilee is a beautiful fresh water lake that is fed from rain runoff from the mountains of Gallilee and the Golan Heights.
It is 695 feet below sea level and is five miles wide and thirteen miles long.
The lake is only 150 feet deep at the deepest point and is really a lake more than a sea.
However, it is the main water source for all of Israel.
It is filled by the Jordan River, which has it’s beginnings on Mt.
Hermon, an often snow capped peak at the north end of the land of Israel.
The Jordan then flows out of the Sea of Gallilee, down to Dead Sea.
The Dead Sea is much larger than it’s northern counterpart.
It is forty eight miles long and eleven miles wide and reaches a depth of over 1000 feet.
It is the lowest place on the face of the earth at 1300 feet below sea level.
The Dead Sea is dead because it is so salty.
Twenty five percent of the water’s contents are salts.
The water is clean and beautiful looking, yet it is bitter and nauseuous to the taste.
The salts in the Dead Sea are worth billions of dollars and are as valuable as any oil field.
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Both lakes have the same source, but only the Sea of Galilee has an outlet.
The Dead Sea is so salty because it has no outlet.
The reason the Sea of Gallilee is so sweet, is that it has both an inflow and an outflow.
It both receives and gives.
The Dead Sea, however, only receives and never gives.
It is full of riches but there is no life in it.
2. In other words, it passes on what it has received...the Dead Sea does not!
What are you this morning?
The Sea of Galilee, receiving and giving or the Dead Sea receiving and stagnant.
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That is the challenge of this passage, the message that Jesus has brought is not to be kept to ourselves but it is to be passed on to others.
C. Slide#8 (21) Explain lamp/oil/wick. 1.
Its purpose is to illuminate the whole room.
D. (22) He who has been enlightened must in turn enlighten others.
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The message of His Kingdom/His Coming should be shared as widely as possible.
E. Slide#9a (24) Hear it & use it 1.
Only as the disciples share the light they have received will they be able to receive more light from their Lord.
a) Maybe this is the reason for the ignorance of the church.
b) Sounds like Jesus is saying, “I’m not giving you anymore till you share what I just shared with you to others,...no matter how many studies you go to.”
c) You weren't made to be reservoirs but conduits!
[Conduits for Christ] (1) Share what you have so far!
F. Slide#9b (25) Use it or lose it
PARTICULARS
Light is not VIABLE if it is not VISIBLE.
MATTHEW 5:14-15
Our Lord dramatizes the function of light by giving two examples—a city perched on a hill and a light set in a home.
First, believers are to function like a city set on a hill.
Jesus says,
There is no way to obscure a city on the crest of a hill.
Cities on hills cannot be hidden.
Believers are like this.
They are visible.
There is no such thing as an invisible believer.
As Dr. Lloyd-Jones said, “If we find in ourselves a tendency to put the light under a bushel, we must begin to examine ourselves and make sure that it really is ‘light.’
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That is good, gracious advice!
Do we hide our light?
And if so, are we really light?
Christians are visible, and this visibility makes them like the beckoning lights of a city on a hill.
Inside there is light and what goes with it—warmth and safety.
In addition to being like a hilltop city, Christians are like an ancient household lamp.
Jesus goes on to say,
MATHEW 5:15
“Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl.
Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house” (v.
15).
The point is unmistakable: The principal function of a household lamp, and of a believer, is to provide illumination to all around.
This simple metaphor tells us so much.
Light reveals things as they really are.
All of us have at some time walked into an unfamiliar room and have felt our way to the lamp and turned the light on, discovering a room far different from what we imagined.
Light also promotes life.
Even broken bones mend faster if we can soak up some sunlight.
Light is persistent.
It constantly assaults the surface of the earth and will penetrate the slightest crack.
The darkest place is not safe from it if the tiniest opening appears.
How beautiful this all is! God has made us visible like a city on a hill.
God has enabled us to illumine life like a lamp in a dark room.
God has placed us where he wants us to shine to best advantage.
Our presence is meant to reveal life, sin, and goodness as they are—to provide a light that draws others to it like a summer lamp.
How beautiful it is when this happens.
Some time ago a young man spent a week with my family.
He had lived across the street from us a number of years earlier.
He had been just a boy then but was a strapping 6’4” when he came to stay with us, visiting one of my sons.
During that time he committed his life to Christ because of the light he had seen over the years.
How wonderful it is when we see this occur.
It DISPELS DARKNESS.
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
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Men don’t know that they are living in darkness until they are exposed to the light.
They don’t call it darkness but their need for enlightenment.
This has been man’s quest for centuries.
As stated in previous sermons; enlightenment does not come through outward corrections such as education or environment.
Men don’t know that they are living in darkness until they are exposed to the light.
They don’t call it darkness but their need for enlightenment.
This has been man’s quest for centuries.
As stated in previous sermons; enlightenment does not come through outward corrections such as education or environment.
Listen to Paul’s words in ; They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
We live in a world of darkness filled with because 2/3’s of our world, and this conservative estimate, have yet to come to the Light.
Men perpetuate darkness because they have dark hearts.
Man has head knowledge of what plaques him.
However, he lacks sufficient power to change.
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