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Scriptures that forged a come from the book of Genesis in the Book of John.

Both, the first chapter, both, the first five verses

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the Earth, the Earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep while a wind from God, swept over the face of the waters, then God said, let there be light and there was light.

And God saw the light was good and God separated the light from the darkness, God called the light day and the Darkness he called night, and there was evening, and there was morning the first day.

From John's gospel.

In the beginning was the word.

And the Word was with God.

And the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God, all things came into being through him.

And without him, not one thing came into being what is coming to being in him was life.

And the life was the light of all people.

The light shines in the Darkness.

And the Darkness did not overcome it.

This is the word of the Lord.

Thanks baby.

May the words of my mouth meditations of all our hearts be acceptable in your sight this day.

Oh Lord our Rock and Redeemer.

All men.

These passages of scripture.

Are essential pieces and I think probably Pastor chuckling.

I feel so inadequate to even, begin to unpack a little bit of these two great passages.

And yet I want us to try to put together some sort of meaning about how in this crazy world we're living in.

When we feel the shadow of Darkness closing in on us, almost daily.

How is it that we can be a light in the Darkness?

We're going to look at these two concepts, the difference between them is is small, but they go together and sort of a symbiotic type relationship.

There's this idea of light and then there's this concept of Life Light and Life to things that will go together.

You notice that John gospel begins very similar to the beginning story of our Bible.

That's not an accident.

John new Jewish ways very well.

And he purposely started in the beginning was the word we saw in the beginning.

On Genesis, it was something different.

It was it was the creation.

And here in John's gospel, we say not just the physical creation but John's gospel takes us out of the spectrum of Time and Eternity to our time space continuum.

To Eternity.

Got just about creating a world.

John is looking much broader looking at your God who is so great.

So powerful so much and yet.

So available to us as the word became flesh and dwelt Among Us in verse 14 of that chapter.

What are the key Concepts that John introduces?

Is this concept of of logos, logos is the the word and Greeks the word there in an English, just a l o, g o f.

It's that concept that he draws from mythology and Greek culture and the Greek language Donald talk a little bit about this in his study, but this whole essence of being is what logos mean in the Old Testament, where Moses asked God is named.

And God said I am, Abby exist, I am existence.

The word is quintessentially existence.

It is being it is beyond our frail and feeble Minds to even comprehend.

And yet, God gives us a glimpse into what this might be.

The word, the verbum.

Dei, the word of God is the light of all Nations.

It is the The Shining guide for us as I was talking to Evan about

You know, this is this concept of life, it is so amazing.

The light shines.

Even in the darkness, John Calvin are our founder of the Presbyterians, an amazing thing, pictures picture, John Calvin, Glen said this quote, In his day and age, no street lights, no outdoor lights yet.

Very low light to pollution and looking in the heavens and perhaps being inspired to write this.

Whenever you cast your eyes, there is no spot in the universe.

When you cannot discern, at least some Sparks of his glory and be overwhelmed by the boundless force of his brightness.

Looking at the sky we we can't see a whole lot with our life but this month if you're a science person, I'm not but it was shared with me and I was so amazed NASA's.

Webb satellite Space Telescope brought us this image just on the 17th of this month.

This first image that has ever been released from that space telescope.

And I don't understand it all cuz I'm not a scientist.

But what you're looking at are not just Stars.

They're not your stars.

Each of those are entire galaxies.

Entire galaxies.

It's just almost more than the mind can take in.

Our God is the one who spoke into being all that is and yet is no God who brings life to us in.

Jesus name.

Have to be in the dark road to see stars like that and dark sometimes.

Scary ever get scared at night.

I know when I have to be away Cecil he's pretty scared and she's got a big old Flashlight with like D batteries in it.

Somebody on ahead, if they come in.

Pull up your covered.

I don't know what that guy's house, that protects you, but yeah, we all pull up the covers going.

Well, in Africa, of course, we didn't, we were scared, sometimes we didn't go out at night, unless it was an emergency heat at night and you don't want to be eat so you can go out.

and if we are in the town or the city, there are

Animal white, things called Bandits and robbers.

Who are lurking at every beat you up and steal what you have.

There's a ancient fear of the dark.

We have always as human beings been afraid of the dark.

Fire came in the invention of a bat.

Change everything.

life is so important is so important and we can learn

types of the world.

Jesus says, I am the light of the world.

Why is something that brings order?

It brings order it establishes order.

The First Act of Creation.

Let there be light.

God spoke into the void into the chaos and established order.

When we don't have Christ in our life, when God's not a part of our existence, we are in a chaos.

We're not seeing clearly where we should go.

We need that order.

Second thing.

Light.

Does it reveals?

Light penetrates and it shows us things about ourselves and sometimes those things aren't very nice.

I was telling Pastor check before the service and I finally got my boat motor running.

And one of the things I didn't tell him was at about 10:30 at night.

I almost had it for the linkage.

Put back on the way I dropped a little part, And it went down in the bill.

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