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Good morning.

Again, Pastor.

Matt is on vacation.

And so, I make the stroke every time I'm preaching, but you're stuck with me today.

So I apologize for that.

But

It's actually really no reason for me to preach a sermon anymore because of the communication that Mike gave.

So, you know, thank you Mike for evening meditation.

That's, that's the scriptures that we're studying today is John 11 through 18.

And so do the reason why I wanted to study the scriptures with you this morning is you know, we had Easter week last week and it's wonderful.

We're celebrating Jesus and I just, you know, I absolutely love it and it's amazing.

It's great and she's is worth celebrating obviously.

And I just wanted to take another week just to look a little bit more at Jesus say, okay, let's let's take a little bit for the little get a little bit more of who Jesus is.

And so we're looking at Jesus and he'll notice of the sermon this morning is titled light in the darkness in What I thought I was reading through John 1.

That statement really jumped out to me looking at Jesus as the light in the darkness.

It's just it's so amazing.

Jesus is so amazing.

And I just love celebrating Jesus and love looking at who he is and studying him and and just understanding a bit more of who he is.

And so I'm excited to go through this sermon with you this morning and just starting a bit more about him.

And I'm just learning more about who he is in and what he's done for us cuz it's pretty amazing.

I'll let you know that little hint.

It's pretty, pretty fascinating and amazing.

So the way we're going to go about this this morning is we're just going to look at our need for a light in the darkness and then who that light in the darkness is and then what that means for us, moving forward and self where to start off with the first point here at the darkness, is everything that is anti-god.

Darkness is everything that is anti-god.

A little spoiler alert in an in the future of the sermon.

There's actually a verse that says that God is light.

God is light.

And if that's a true fact of God is like, then guess what?

Darkness is everything that is anti-god.

Darkness is everything.

That is not God.

If God is light.

No problem tells us this wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men.

For men, whose words are perverse who have left the straight path to walk in dark ways, who Delight in doing wrong and rejoice.

In the perverseness of evil.

Whose pals are crooked in Hardy, vyas in their ways.

Are these these powers of Darkness, right?

This is a string from God is a string from who got is a strain from God's path, weakness evil perverseness being devious.

These all these things are anti-god are straying from the path of God, who is light.

And so therefore darkness is everything that is anti-god.

That was interesting about that is our next couple of weeks here.

The battle against darkness is a constant struggle for us.

The battle against darkness is a constant constant struggle for us.

You really struggle against the darkness and like I said, in the confession reconciliation section of the service and I hate just looking at that humanity and saying, well, we're bad.

We're not good.

You know, where were were disgusting?

We we all those things right?

I don't like doing that, but it is important to acknowledge.

Hey, struggle against the darkness.

We struggle to follow God, we started to follow God's path for our live.

We struggle against the darkness and it's a constant constant struggle.

We're going through that struggle every single day.

And so therefore we cannot overcome the darkness on our own.

We just can't.

We can't overcome the darkness on our own and with that comes from, it is John 3:19 says this.

This is the verdict light has come into the world but people loved Darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil people.

Loved Darkness.

While we are, we are constantly struggling against the darkness of the world, right?

We were kind of attracted to Darkness in some ways.

We struggle with that every single day and because of that, we cannot overcome the darkness on our own because we love the darkness.

You might be saying I don't love the darkness, right?

I'd say I don't love the darkness either.

I love God, I do.

But in reality, I know that there are sitting struggles that I have.

I struggled to, I'm not perfect, right?

If I were to say, I love the light and that is all I ever live for than I would be perfect and that would be a false claim if I said that from up here on stage.

Somebody at least, I hope somebody would come and drag me off and said Jack, that's not true.

That's not true.

You are not perfect.

We struggle against the darkness every single day.

And so therefore we need something else.

We need someone else.

Right, we need someone else.

There is a need for a light, in the darkness.

There is a need for light in the darkness in that first person.

That, that first point here.

Jesus is the light in the Darkness.

Jesus is a light in the Darkness.

We celebrated Jesus the entire week last week.

What he did and I'm coming to Earth.

It is triumphal entry right on Palm Sunday, Good Friday service, right?

Is his death for us on the cross and then ultimately Easter Sunday saying he's raised from the dead and celebrating that fact and just being overjoyed and saying we love Jesus and what he did for us and just celebrating that entire entire week and celebrating Jesus, for who he is and what he did for us.

And that is completely completely earned and it's not really my place to say that Jesus earned that, right.

It's just Jesus is Jesus it.

If we get to celebrate that we got to do that for an entire week and it's amazing.

Because Jesus is the light in the darkness.

That is what exactly what we were celebrating last week for the entire week saying hey, Jesus is the light in the darkness.

Now getting into John 1 John 1 4 and 5 says this in him was life.

And that life was the light of all mankind, the light shines in the darkness and the Darkness has not overcome it.

John is an artist with his words.

I just when I read through these these verses I'm just amazed by the beauty of what is contained right?

Last week.

I heard a little bit about kind of explaining this idea of this word life and how it's not just you know, we're all in this room living but there's this idea of eternal life that comes with it.

And eternal life is found in Jesus Christ.

Eternal life is found in Jesus Christ.

So in Jesus was eternal life and not eternal life.

That is found in, Jesus is the light of all mankind.

I just asking in this room today.

Just passing the state of Oregon Us in this country, but all over the world that eternal life found in Jesus Christ is the light of all mankind.

Now if John had left it there, without the next verse I'd be like, that's, that's an amazing amazing purse.