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JESUS IS THE LIGHT!
Because of God's tender mercy, the morning light from heaven is about to break upon us,
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to guide us to the path of peace."
INTRODUCTION
Merry Christmas Southpointe!!!
Christmas is a greatest time of the year!!
I want to talk to you this morning about the greatest time in the history of the world.
The time that the light came into this world.
To be able to get a clear understanding of this we must go back to the very beginning.
To the book of the beginnings which is the book of Genesis.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Here in our English writing we have 10 words, but in the original Hebrew, there are just seven words in the opening verse of .
And those words are make up of 28 letters, which is 7 multiplied by 4.
Seven is the number of perfection and four is the number for creation.
So God’s Word is showing us that the primary creation was perfect when it left the Maker’s hands.
What we understand is that The Word of God that we study and use is for our dispensation in other words it is for us today.
I believe that the Word of God point to the fact that when God created the world it was perfect.
So the question must be asked what happen between , when the world was perfect and then
The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters.
And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Understand that from 3 time span is around 6000 years.
But the earth is older than 6000 years.
Scientists have calculated that Earth is 4.54 billion years old, with an error range of 50 million years.
In the beginning God, this is the foundation truth of all real theology.
In the beginning God created:
We are a small fraction of the time and space that the earth has seen.
I believe that the Bible point all this out and that during this age which is now which is man’s dispensation.
Something happen in between and that destroy the earth.
Two words will bring some clarity to all this: Creating and making.
Created-
There is a big different between creating and making:
To create is to call into existence something out of nothing.
To make is to form or fashion something out of materials already existing.
I need the spotlight on the cross and I need a cross (Ricky is making)
For an example: a carpenter can make a cross out of wood, but he is quite unable to create the wood itself.
If you notice again that In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.
These a few things that God created whales,
But we see in
For in six days the LORD made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything in them;
I believe that the early history of this earth corresponds with the spiritual history of the believers in Christ.
Just as the earth was in darkness so was mankind.
The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters.
And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
And God saw that the light was good.
Then He separated the light from the darkness.
In these verses, we first see the activity of the Holy Spirit and then we see the spoken Word.
The Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Here is where hope begins!! God did not abandon the primitive earth that had become a ruin.
His purposed to resurrect it, restore it and the first thing we read of in bringing about his desired end was— the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
There was Divine activity!!
There was a movement on the part of the Holy Spirit.
And this was necessity!
If there was to be restoration and a new creation, Divine power must intervene, The Spirit of God must move.
Understand this morning, the same held truth in the Spiritual realm.
The fallen man had no hope.
Adam rebelled against his maker.
Fallen man in himself is as helpless as was the fallen earth.
This must be accomplished by God!!
Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
First, we had the activity of the Holy Spirit and now the spoken Word.
At least, 10 times in Genesis, we will read “God said”.
And the first thing God said was “let there be light!”
Turn the light on bright
When the light comes in that was produced by the Word.
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
This marks the initial step of God’s work in the soul.
For God, who said, "Let there be light in the darkness," has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.
At the end of the Old Testament the closing book of Malachi there was 400 years of silent from God, no word, no prophets, no message.
It was know as the dark ages.
Then we find John the Baptist who was the forerunner for the Messiah.
But the light had not yet appeared.
First, it was John the Baptist who was the forerunner for the Messiah.
Then comes Christmas morning, the light appear.
L She gave birth to her first child, a son.
She wrapped Him snugly in strips of cloth and laid Him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.
She gave birth to her first child, a son.
She wrapped Him snugly in strips of cloth and laid Him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.
That night there were shepherds staying in the fields nearby, guarding their flocks of sheep.
Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them, and the radiance of the Lord's glory surrounded them.
They were terrified,
but the angel reassured them.
"Don't be afraid!" he said.
"I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people.
The Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David!
And you will recognize Him by this sign: You will find a baby wrapped snugly in strips of cloth, lying in a manger."
Just as the shining of the light in , God spoke and said let there be light now we see God speak again He sent the light into the World.
Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them, and the radiance of the Lord's glory surrounded them.
and God divided the light from the darkness.
The radiance of the Lord’s glory.
The light of the world.
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
On that Christmas morning, Jesus the Son of God, the Light of the world was born into a dark world to show mankind the way to eternal life.
There is a big promise here from Jesus to all that will follow Him.
The promise is clear to me: walk in the light not in the darkness of this world and you will have life with Christ.
In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God, and the Word was God.
But at night there is danger of stumbling because they have no light."
He existed in the beginning with God.
God created everything through Him, and nothing was created except through Him.
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