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THEME VERSE
THEME OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT
Physically , light and darkness exist in opposition.
Light is an energy source that provides illumination; darkness is absence of light.
Results in disorientation, distortion, and confusion
Throughout the New Testament, the physical sense of light and darkness is used often to make spiritual comparisons.
Light - people or things are righteous, pure, godly, or good.
Associated with life
Darkness - Wickedness, impurity, immorality, and evil.
Associated with suffering, death, and decay.
Darkness
A negative image in human experience
It’s associated with death, imprisonment, and evil.
no existence by itself; it’s the absence of light
physical and spiritual reality
Physical darkness
Sin,
Close to 200 references!
(over 30 just in the book of Job)
60 verses about light and darkness contrasting each other
8 verses about sitting in darkness
Being brought out of darkness into light is a mjaor biblical image of redemption
Chaos
God’s first creative act is to produce light and separate it from darkness.
Order
God’s first creative act is to produce light and separate it from darkness.
What does it mean to walk in darkness?
What is darkness?
The Challenge
The darkness of eternal punishment
NIVBut the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
To remove our darkness, we need to let God in.
When we do that, when we walk in the light, we have fellowship with one another and we have Jesus who purifies us from all sin! That’s amazing!
Darkness
- Living a lie
- Not going in the right direction
- Separated from God
- Not knowing or understanding
- Becoming fools (symbol of sin)
- Foolishness
- Doesn’t know what makes them stumble
- They stumble
- gnashing and teeth!
- human mind illuminated by God’s revelation
- Prisonlike.
Dark
2 Corinthians - Satan masks as light
- Not fun! (eternal punishment)
Light
- guides us
- Understanding
- Forgiveness
- Peace
- Loving others
2 co
2 NIVFor although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images
Isaiah 50:12
Why would God create darkness?
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He created darkness to achieve his purposes!
Why did God create darkness?
He uses it to achieve his purposes.
Conclusion
Jesus uses a picture of the eye as the “lamp of the body”.
Physical blidness becomes a meaphor for the lost state
The ultimate power of darkness was a temporary victory of evil as Christ hung dying on the cross.
A victory that took the form of darkness for 3 hours that left people awestruck
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