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The Light Has Arrived
Explain the arrival of something good!
The birth of a child
The graduation from college
The wedding day
Its a good thing
But what if your closest family and friends ignored it
They did not care to come or even worst they made fun or ridiculed it
Illustration - make up good story - friends and family reject it , close friends just ridiculed it
John and Mary
marriage
wedding
children graduating from college
Jesus ministry will now be explained
In this text - we see that the light of Christ is brought to the world....
John moves smoothly into his next introductory theme: the light.
Looking back at those early days when the Lord Jesus first showed himself, the apostle John now recalls the ministry of John the baptist and marvels at the speed with which
Israel’s rejection of the announced messiah developed.
It will be one of his major concerns in this gospel to show belief and unbelief developing side by side.
His prologue gives us an initial glimpse of this[1]
The light is introduced and by in large is rejected....
The very thing they need is ignored or out right tejected....
John is sent to describe the light and to point men to Jesus
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer - wrote letters to his family while in prison for the insurrection during WWII.
One letter described the decision to join the resistance to the Nazi and Hitler. he described that even if they were successful his life would never be the same.
This one decision would define him.
He was executed just one month before the fall of the Nazi regime.
This one decision would define him.
Can you imagine one decision that would define your life.....
Has this every happened to you? Somebody is asking you for something.
You put it right in front of them, or give them the answer.
And yet they don’t see it.
Or, they still don’t hear it?
Somehow it doesn’t register.
It’s because they have a belief.
Either they believe you don’t have the answer or that you can’t have the answer or you can’t have the answer right here, right now.
Or they believe the answer needs to look like something else.
Schotomas are Mental Blind Spots
There’s a name for these mental blind spots.
It’s a schotoma.
And, we often build our own schotomas.
These blind spots can keep us from seeing things right in front of us.
Beliefs
Beliefs are powerful stuff, They limit what we can see or don’t see.
They filter our perceptions and they are always in motion.
That’s why sometimes suspending our disbelief can help us see new possibilities.
Via Unlimited Power:
“So again, what are beliefs?
They are preformed, pre-organized approaches to perception that filter our communication to ourselves in a consistent manner.”
I don't see the light because I dont believe it ever existed
Robbins shares an example of how you can’t find the salt because you believe you can’t find the salt.
Via Unlimited Power:
“Imagine the following situation.
Someone says to you, ‘Please get the the salt,’ and as you walk into the next room, you say, ‘But I don’t know where it is.’
After looking for a few minutes, you call out, ‘I can’t find the salt.’
Then that someone walks up, takes the salt right off the shelf in front of you, and says, ‘Look, dummy, it’s right her in front of you.
If it was a snake, it would have bitten you.’
When you said, ‘I can’t,’ you gave your brain a command not to see the salt.
In psychology, we call it schotoma.”
If You Don’t Believe It, You Won’t See It
They say “seeing is believing,” but in a lot of cases, it’s actually the believing that enables the seeing.
I am asking you this moment to open to your mind to the power of the Gospel.
I The Light Explained
The light is right in front of you
The Messenger (1:6)
The witness in verse 7, of course, is John the baptist, the messenger, the “man sent from God” (1:6).
John the baptist was both a priest and a Nazarite.
There are only three lifelong Nazarites mentioned in the Bible: Samuel, Samson, and John the baptist.
He was “sent from God.”
No one can be sent from God who has not first been with God. .
God sends people to us every … a coworker,a friend and/or parent .....
Illustration – sent from someone to tell a message.
Auburn University – deliver the messages to different departments … the message was not mine but I was the deliver …. i was sent to deliver
The Motive (1:7) - Witness does not argue the case he says what he has seen or knows.
John had a motive, a reason for his actions.
He “came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe” (1:7).
A witness is not the same as an attorney.
A lawyer argues his or her case, tries to prove a point, tries to influence people to make the desired decision.
A witness is called solely to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Witnesses are called to testify to what they know.
John the baptist knew that Jesus was the light and he testified to that fact.
3. The Method (1:8)
“He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light” (1:8).
A good illustration in nature is in the relation of the moon to the sun, in the light each sheds on the earth.
The moon is a dead world in space, a massive chunk of lifeless rock.
It has not a spark of fire, not a glimmer of light of its own.
The work of the moon is to be a giant reflector in the sky, to pick up the light of the sun and relay that light to the earth.
The moon is not the light.
It is poised in space to bear witness to the light.
Out there beyond the darkness of the world and of the night is the sun.
The sun is a vast orb of burning gas, a kind of nuclear furnace, blazing away, pouring out a continual stream of light.
The moon’s function is only temporary, for the day is coming.
The sun sheds its light directly on the earth, dispelling its darkness in a way the moon could not do.
Such was John the baptist.
He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light.
Bottom line he was there to explain the light and its meaning
He was fulfillment of prophecy of the the one crying in the Wilderness ....
He was to explain that all men might believe!
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