The Sermon Walking In The Light by David McGee
Jun 09, 2013
Walking In The Light (32:00)
Referenced Scriptures: 1 John 1:1-7; Philippians 4:8-9; Revelation 21:1-8
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1 John 1:1-7
1) That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
2) (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
3) that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
4) And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
5) This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6) If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don‘t tell the truth.
7) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
Philippians 4:8-9
8) Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
9) The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Revelation 21:1-8
1) I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
2) I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
3) I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God‘s tent is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
4) He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.
5) He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true."
6) He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
7) He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
8) But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
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Were reading from first John chapter one and I know we started this last week but I wanted to continue on with those verses and the time of the message today is walking in the light now. Last week we spoke about how that John begins to present this message, John talks about it and I I mentioned that here I am, I'm I'm I know Steve very well and I am welcome, appear and I'm trying to tell Walt about Steve again Don tell them what you know you got to know Steve Jesus got over here sits in church until Walter there is some explaining to Walt what Steve is like John in the gospel is saying are John and we the disciples he's telling us about Jesus McCain and John SIS. I I saw him. I verified what he taught. I verified what he did. I handled it. I saw it. I listen to them. And he's telling us so that we can have the same communion with Christ as John Witt and also we find in in first John is reading my open windows on hot, you're hot. I see a few these bands gone thumbnail overview when does the so this is this what we read in first John chapter one verse, beginning in verse one and this was our message last week, so I'm not going to spend a lot of time on from the very first day we were there, Inc. John is saying this. We were there we meaning the disciples and himself, taking it all in. We heard it with our own ears. We saw it with our own eyes verified it with our own hands, so John is telling us a outline what I'm about to tell you I saw I heard and I verified it. Now the word of life appeared right before our eyes Jesus came to live is aware as the son of God, and resurrected from the dead thing the word of life appeared right before our eyes. We saw it happen and now were telling you in most sorrow, the most solid work problems, meaning and simplest language policy possible on telling you what we witnessed was incredible. The infinite life of God himself took shape before us, God, Jesus became as a pain was the son of God, and that whole thing unveiled its and he unveiled before us. Verse three we thought we heard it, and now were telling you, John is friends with Jesus and now he's telling us this one happen so that you needing us can experience along with him and the others. This experience of communion with the father and son Jesus Christ our motive for writing is simply this. We want you to enjoy this to your joy will be will double our joy. We want you to experience the same July that we had that I had been knowing Christ as my friend and my Savior. I want you to experience the same joy and I'm writing this to you then verse five which is our message today, five, six and seven. This in essence is the message we heard from Christ and are passing on to you. God is light, your life is not a trace of darkness in him. If we claim that we experience a shared life with him and continue to stumble around in the dark or obviously lying through RT were not living what we claim. But if we walk in the light of God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another as a sacrifice blood of as God 's son purges all our sin, so verse five is the message I heard from Christ and now I am giving to you. So it's been discontinued presentation of the gospel tells us that John and NL and I I I really liked John's writing I I like to read John because he's this is a various and very sensitive person like the apostle Paul. He is one of these very intelligent in-your-face. No dinner. This is how it is, and John is more of the is the beloved disciple is more easy-going. These his warrantless is the revelation. This is the truth. This is what we heard. This is what we saw this one I want counseling, presenting the message of Jesus Christ was so that we can pick it up so that we can, we can bring this into our own life and he wants us to experience the very same thing that he did know he wants to experience the very same thing that we did you ever go to overtime, going to the cow. The restaurant. Tina shows on the ice cream place the cow that the best ice cream around an end, then you know when you have that you have your own favorite place on no, I like the frogs with the frogs, suite fraud violates leapfrogs because I like the yogurt I like Okinawa, but what are we doing were wanting people to experience the same thing we did were wanting to someone we didn't waste and why you know I like it with all the little squirrel then you know I like and the kids like those were missing to Dubliner sprinkles. Yeah I you videos sprinkled not you need to go get the fascia Distasio, no less stuff, the pistachio ice cream unit that the Meadows. This guy made around zero downright then my plan suite Broadmeadows and wherever ice cream places, but the young so we have different people have different things that they like and what we do we tell other people about why so they can experience something similar to us. We enjoyed while John is doing this very same thing without us even telling you and I in his writings that Jesus Christ I want you to experience the same relationship with Jesus that I experience and whenever we think back and we look at crisis. It's hard for us to imagine that God became man. I was here is our trust. Imagine that God became man, and that he was able to do all of these things they might remember I made you think about last weeks message. I have thought about that one part of the message that you know it, God in Christ was here and Jesus did. Numerous miracles, but it's almost like if you imagine Jesus being alike with the Midas touch. Note that this don't develop palm tree over there promptly and held like a rare way Yahoo. Space if you think everything into existence, but he wasn't here to prove he could create he was here to give us his word that that the word would give us life, and he did the miracles to verify into two was aware to substantiate that he was God, but it was his word that brings us life& John is telling us the word. The word became flesh and dwelt among us, the word. As we read the words we read the Scriptures and brings life to lots Jesus, the name of Jesus brings peace and salvation and forgiveness so that the word of God brings life to Austin. John is saying, I want the thoughts of Christ. I want the motives of Christ. I want the word of Christ. His message to the world to the church to be shared by you and to be heard by you to be experienced by you so that you can have this friendship with Jesus, just like I did. That's quite. That's quite an undertaking. I'm going to have the same relationship with Jesus that John had while he lived two thousand years ago. How can I have a book, Christ is with us by his Spirit. Everywhere we go, so the message of Jesus Christ, the John writes to us is reversed by God is light. God is light. Light represents all that is good. All that is pure. All that is true. All this holy. All that is reliable, so when we think that Jesus being the life he represents light that which is pure, holy interests sounds a lot like Philippians four verse eight and nine. Paul writes this, he says, summing up of summing it all up, friends, I'd say you do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious the best and not the worse the beautiful, not the ugly things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that and God, who makes everything work together will work you into his most excellent Carmen means all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose. What does the like do the light of God shining on our lives and our lives causes us to see what is just what is PR. The light helps us to see the lovely the good report. The virtue things were praising and that we are to occupy our minds and our thinking with these things that are God, and the light of Christ helps us see these things the life eliminates the things around us. It eliminates the thinking of our lives. Think the light of Christ shines on the qualities and the light of Christ shines on these qualities, and we have Christ in us and were able to see these things were able to seek good where people don't seem to remove ultimate like a black wording of the era where people not save a guide in life. God enables us to see it. Why, because God is light. God is perfectly holy, he is true and that he alone can guide us out of the darkness out of the darkness that shades covers are thinking. God wants us to see his work in us and he wants to see his work in others, think on these things. Now when the lights go on back in the dark. Never, ever been the spelunking caving there been in a cave only been in caves satellites off what happens your nose, black is no anything. You know the K and yet he ever notice the animals. Some of all animals that live in the in the caves that they don't have eyes were good eyes and darkness, so you shine the light on them and their oblivious to some of them. They haven't got to the place where they may still have very expanded horizon like this, else they run away while light exposes whatever exists when the light of Christ shines. You and I are able to see both good and evil, black and white brings that out, people who live in darkness don't see a difference between good and evil, then we talk about our our society. We talk about no hobbit people look at life and their e-mail me. They look at values that we would have the we have as Christians, and they would say while those values. They'll really matter. They are really not that important looking at them from darkness. They both look the same, so that when we have different values than we have different ways of looking at things with different ways of acting. We have different ways of talking with different ways all expectations and believing it's because there is a light in our life. Jesus Christ shines upon all of our lives and now on on all that we say and do, and that which is good. We see it, that which is wrong, which is going to hurt time destroy. We recognize the people who live in darkness. People who don't have the light of Christ. Their life, their morals, their values. They don't see any different. We can do that if you please will you do this a lot exposes good and bad in the dark and good and evil. They look the same. Now the ten Commandments as I read over these the woman the Bible. He undertaken MSR have no other gods before you know, we believe that God is the creator heat. Jesus Christ, God became flesh about a minus. Jesus Christ is it now there are people who do not believe in Christ as the light of the world. So what are they safe while Jesus is one of many ways to God, because from the darkness. Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, it all looked the same. Why because they are good teachers may present some type of moral of morality in the world so they're all the same, but from the life Jesus says that you know here's the way the truth and the life. No man comes to God, not by heaven, and that he is the only one on any of these features. There was whose whose life was foretold for fifteen hundred years. Those prophecies about his life in Hollywood, where he would be born. How it would be born his life that he would live his death that he would have, and his resurrection that would come were all for tall before he came anything only one arise in the day so from that perspective is not just one of many ways he is the one have no other gods before you know I don't well an easy one in the darkness peoples among whom all the same whether you worship God. Her go to church on Sunday or don't go to church. You don't do this now that what you worship me. We can we can ballot the idol of the television or we can about the Idol love of money or we can worship the idol of whatever we can have many different items. Does not take God 's name in vain. While there, all words, darkness, says it's all words is funny, you don't say while Confucius. Curse you know you don't know when we say the name and they say the name of Jesus Christ, and people use it in a very derogatory manner. Why why what that may be so important to use in a derogatory means don't taking God 's name in vain is applying something that is holy to that which is not wholly enough want one. One person would you talk about Hal and a very holy setting and I would say there is no such place as a holy Hill. Now, I always remind them anywhere. Get your how he would personally settle the grid such a person would you know that person I know him through younger name of Jesus, they would use it, and they would yell, curse, and I think I like I have get ready to laugh so. But in all, they were talk about sacred things appliance on unholy things. It is like a never seen him so anyhow, do not think that they moving from high dark perspective on the world. The light is not shining. It doesn't mean anything on your father and mother, not murder, do not commit adultery. Don't steal feet stealing this that generate unique about these scans and things that people are getting and stealing accounting kind I like to have a somewhat the same spelling as you take from somebody coming years earlier said this before that Steve has a brand-new Chevy brand-new you know he has an answer in his garage and he allows me to go see it and so I say why, you now I not only want to Corvette. I will not be happy until I have his best coveting wanting to have someone like his. That's like coveting thing though, so scams scams are coming they call you up and they get your Social Security number. They get these things from you and then they don't take what you have. They come at what you've got. And they're going to take it in from the Darkside was a matter I'm bloody hell I wanted you got it. I wanted. I would take it. So there is no light can see the light of Jesus Christ enables us to see things differently enables us to see that there is a right and wrong in the light of Christ, his laws, the laws of God are to protect us and to provide for us, the Commandments are to protect us usually four of these commandments deal with our relationship with God. Six of them deal with our relationship with people and they protect us. They protect the know and how we approach life. They protect us and how do we deal with life and so God looking out for our interests gives us laws gives us these things I will let us know. Don't go there because in the long term, this is going to hurt you. This is not good for you, until God puts these things in place so that we could protect ourselves and protect others. God 's light. There is not a trace of darkness in him there is not a trace of darkness. And God is impossible for God to think evil about you or what about my sins. God is our sin. My sin separates we put the barrier up. But God doesn't see my saying he sees my knees he, God extends his forgiveness and his love to be, but my sin puts the Bears up and say no, I don't want that God isn't thinking evil of me. My sin hinders his love from getting to me. So if I confess my sin. He forget his mother removes the barrier saw that there was nothing standing between God and I both like forgiveness is so important so that forgiveness can come into my life and my name can be written in his book of life in which I will live forever, so, God wants us to live in a relationship with him. Now God does not remember our sins, God doesn't remember I said when we confess our sins, he forgives us forgiveness is if the mirror. This illustration I like I got my all my notes written up. Okay, so that's our sin. Okay, those are sent. Well when we forgive our sins, he doesn't erase Mark Oliver is a clean sheet wages, something that God can't do. We can remember what our sins are he won't. So when God looks at our life. So if we feel guilty all something we do believe that God, the forgiveness of that's not God, making us feel guilty at the because the relationship we have with God is in the light of Villiers and God does not have one trace of darkness in him amen. Thank you so gone as planned sin for us, God has set an expectation for us. And in verse six, and services. If we claim that we experience a shared life with him and continue to sell around in the dark. What this is. There were, there was and there was false teachers who were in the church at that time and they were claiming that they have fellowship with God, that you could, that the body again. The body was absolutely worthless and so therefore provide to die. So therefore, you had to purge the body again. That meant you would be in fasting and beating Zen you know anything to discredit or or hurt the body or the other way was that nothing was to be withheld from the body. So, whenever physical luster gratification should be there. It's all okay because the body to die anyhow, while John is telling you people who run around and believe that our stumbling around in the darkness, and were not living what we claim we claim to be a Christian John's writing to them and you want fellowship with God, but you can have fellowship whenever you think of your body in the way that you do. That's why thing about those stumbling around in the darkness, but he says in verse seven if we walk in the light gone himself being the light. We also experience a shared life with one another. A shared life. We have a shared life with God and never shared life with other believers were part of the family of God were a part of God 's family is our responsibility to care for the body of Christ to pray for one another to help one another to be to be there to help them. So we are one body, one of spirits with one calling we have one hope it's all there in Christ, and we have a shared life. No negative thoughts because the light of Christ exposes what is true. What is lovely. What is pure. It doesn't mean that we are on Pollyanna doesn't mean that we don't see your gullible we don't see any bad things in the light of Christ helps us to see both good and evil, they were able to see it were able to understand it and were able to; there because of the strength to Christ gives us the light of Christ in essence of God allow sunlight to shine in our lives, and then we become the light of Christ for others is why sometimes people the Lycos because you we don't have the same values that they do darkness doesn't like light sensitive people live in the darkness they don't like the light around them because it helps them see things as being good and evil and darkness doesn't like light those who live, but God wants a light to shine in us. God wants us to recognize the light of Christ and how pure you know, from our perspective for you, me and our relationship with God, the light of Christ shines upon our lives. If there is sin in our life. I wanted to invest in out-of-the-way but God wants to bring about that which is pure than that which is lovely that which is a good report that which is virtuous and praiseworthy. God is our biggest fan. Gosselin who is our biggest encourager. He wants us to be filled with his Spirit tree overflowing with his spirited creativity. His love is guided and it is seeing the possibilities seeing the possibilities what we can become, and that in Revelation twenty one place with this I talked about the ten Commandments are dumped on the first eight of chapter twenty one assist, but for the rest the feckless. I'd look that one up. Then, in the message Bible has it as feckless and faithless feckless means ineffective and irresponsible, but for the ineffective and irresponsible and faithless degenerates murderers sex peddlers, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars for them. It's the late fire and brimstone. The second, so there is when the light shines will there is a future when the light shines for those who are in darkness. Those who are here responsible with the gift of life. The list of active verse one. To those who have accepted Christ. I saw heaven and earth new created. Gone are the first heaven gone the first third God is to see everything that we now it's all gone. I saw holy Jerusalem new created this send the splendid out of heaven as ready for God as a bride for her husband heard a voice thunder from the throne, love, love, God is moving in the neighborhood, making his home with men and women bear his home. He's their God. You wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good tears gone crying God pain gone all the first order of things are gone. The enthroned continued look, I'm making everything new right. It all down its word, dependable and accurate John who wrote what we just talked about in first John. John's Gospel, first, second, third John in the book of Revelation. All written by the same guy the same guy, met the same Jesus and writes to us about him and writes to us about what's coming in heaven for us. The creation of a new heaven and a new earth, everything is made new. We are new creations in Christ Jesus. The light shines in our life to bring about a new list of life newness of thought. Think of the things which are lovely, which are pure, which are a good report card for me to see those things. Let the light of Christ help us see those things in our own life and the lives of those around us. We do not allow the negativity of life to destroy us. We see it, we don't pretend it doesn't exist. We see it, but we don't go there. Then he said it's happen. I'm the a to Z on the awful omega. I'm the beginning. I'm the conclusion from water of life. Well I give freely Thursday called rumors inherit all this that size. I'll be God, then they'll be sons and daughters to me. We will be his children for eternity. John says a David talking to me talking to you this, Jesus that I'm talking about but me tell you about him that you can have the same friendship with him as I have, and he is the one who keeps you that protects you watches over you and it is this spirit, which is the light of life that eliminates all the good in us and in the world around us, so we spent May the light of Christ shine upon our hearts in our lives. May the light of Christ shine upon our pathway may the light of Christ take away our blindness of what we can't see the light of Christ illuminate the truth about ourselves and about others. May the light of Christ, so that which is good that which is lovely that which is your that which is of a good report. May the light of Christ help us to see his beauty that is in me, that is, in others, may the light of Christ extols what I need to say and do in light of my relationship with him and then God bless you. Amen. Though I've takeWere reading from first John chapter one and I know we started this last week but I wanted to continue on with those verses and the time of the message today is walking in the light now. Last week we spoke about how that John begins to present this message, John talks about it and I I mentioned that here I am, I'm I'm I know Steve very well and I am welcome, appear and I'm trying to tell Walt about Steve again Don tell them what you know you got to know Steve Jesus got over here sits in church until Walter there is some explaining to Walt what Steve is like John in the gospel is saying are John and we the disciples he's telling us about Jesus McCain and John SIS. I I saw him. I verified what he taught. I verified what he did. I handled it. I saw it. I listen to them. And he's telling us so that we can have the same communion with Christ as John Witt and also we find in in first John is reading my open windows on hot, you're hot. I see a few these bands gone thumbnail overview when does the so this is this what we read in first John chapter one verse, beginning in verse one and this was our message last week, so I'm not going to spend a lot of time on from the very first day we were there, Inc. John is saying this. We were there we meaning the disciples and himself, taking it all in. We heard it with our own ears. We saw it with our own eyes verified it with our own hands, so John is telling us a outline what I'm about to tell you I saw I heard and I verified it. Now the word of life appeared right before our eyes Jesus came to live is aware as the son of God, and resurrected from the dead thing the word of life appeared right before our eyes. We saw it happen and now were telling you in most sorrow, the most solid work problems, meaning and simplest language policy possible on telling you what we witnessed was incredible. The infinite life of God himself took shape before us, God, Jesus became as a pain was the son of God, and that whole thing unveiled its and he unveiled before us. Verse three we thought we heard it, and now were telling you, John is friends with Jesus and now he's telling us this one happen so that you needing us can experience along with him and the others. This experience of communion with the father and son Jesus Christ our motive for writing is simply this. We want you to enjoy this to your joy will be will double our joy. We want you to experience the same July that we had that I had been knowing Christ as my friend and my Savior. I want you to experience the same joy and I'm writing this to you then verse five which is our message today, five, six and seven. This in essence is the message we heard from Christ and are passing on to you. God is light, your life is not a trace of darkness in him. If we claim that we experience a shared life with him and continue to stumble around in the dark or obviously lying through RT were not living what we claim. But if we walk in the light of God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another as a sacrifice blood of as God 's son purges all our sin, so verse five is the message I heard from Christ and now I am giving to you. So it's been discontinued presentation of the gospel tells us that John and NL and I I I really liked John's writing I I like to read John because he's this is a various and very sensitive person like the apostle Paul. He is one of these very intelligent in-your-face. No dinner. This is how it is, and John is more of the is the beloved disciple is more easy-going. These his warrantless is the revelation. This is the truth. This is what we heard. This is what we saw this one I want counseling, presenting the message of Jesus Christ was so that we can pick it up so that we can, we can bring this into our own life and he wants us to experience the very same thing that he did know he wants to experience the very same thing that we did you ever go to overtime, going to the cow. The restaurant. Tina shows on the ice cream place the cow that the best ice cream around an end, then you know when you have that you have your own favorite place on no, I like the frogs with the frogs, suite fraud violates leapfrogs because I like the yogurt I like Okinawa, but what are we doing were wanting people to experience the same thing we did were wanting to someone we didn't waste and why you know I like it with all the little squirrel then you know I like and the kids like those were missing to Dubliner sprinkles. Yeah I you videos sprinkled not you need to go get the fascia Distasio, no less stuff, the pistachio ice cream unit that the Meadows. This guy made around zero downright then my plan suite Broadmeadows and wherever ice cream places, but the young so we have different people have different things that they like and what we do we tell other people about why so they can experience something similar to us. We enjoyed while John is doing this very same thing without us even telling you and I in his writings that Jesus Christ I want you to experience the same relationship with Jesus that I experience and whenever we think back and we look at crisis. It's hard for us to imagine that God became man. I was here is our trust. Imagine that God became man, and that he was able to do all of these things they might remember I made you think about last weeks message. I have thought about that one part of the message that you know it, God in Christ was here and Jesus did. Numerous miracles, but it's almost like if you imagine Jesus being alike with the Midas touch. Note that this don't develop palm tree over there promptly and held like a rare way Yahoo. Space if you think everything into existence, but he wasn't here to prove he could create he was here to give us his word that that the word would give us life, and he did the miracles to verify into two was aware to substantiate that he was God, but it was his word that brings us life& John is telling us the word. The word became flesh and dwelt among us, the word. As we read the words we read the Scriptures and brings life to lots Jesus, the name of Jesus brings peace and salvation and forgiveness so that the word of God brings life to Austin. John is saying, I want the thoughts of Christ. I want the motives of Christ. I want the word of Christ. His message to the world to the church to be shared by you and to be heard by you to be experienced by you so that you can have this friendship with Jesus, just like I did. That's quite. That's quite an undertaking. I'm going to have the same relationship with Jesus that John had while he lived two thousand years ago. How can I have a book, Christ is with us by his Spirit. Everywhere we go, so the message of Jesus Christ, the John writes to us is reversed by God is light. God is light. Light represents all that is good. All that is pure. All that is true. All this holy. All that is reliable, so when we think that Jesus being the life he represents light that which is pure, holy interests sounds a lot like Philippians four verse eight and nine. Paul writes this, he says, summing up of summing it all up, friends, I'd say you do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious the best and not the worse the beautiful, not the ugly things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that and God, who makes everything work together will work you into his most excellent Carmen means all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose. What does the like do the light of God shining on our lives and our lives causes us to see what is just what is PR. The light helps us to see the lovely the good report. The virtue things were praising and that we are to occupy our minds and our thinking with these things that are God, and the light of Christ helps us see these things the life eliminates the things around us. It eliminates the thinking of our lives. Think the light of Christ shines on the qualities and the light of Christ shines on these qualities, and we have Christ in us and were able to see these things were able to seek good where people don't seem to remove ultimate like a black wording of the era where people not save a guide in life. God enables us to see it. Why, because God is light. God is perfectly holy, he is true and that he alone can guide us out of the darkness out of the darkness that shades covers are thinking. God wants us to see his work in us and he wants to see his work in others, think on these things. Now when the lights go on back in the dark. Never, ever been the spelunking caving there been in a cave only been in caves satellites off what happens your nose, black is no anything. You know the K and yet he ever notice the animals. Some of all animals that live in the in the caves that they don't have eyes were good eyes and darkness, so you shine the light on them and their oblivious to some of them. They haven't got to the place where they may still have very expanded horizon like this, else they run away while light exposes whatever exists when the light of Christ shines. You and I are able to see both good and evil, black and white brings that out, people who live in darkness don't see a difference between good and evil, then we talk about our our society. We talk about no hobbit people look at life and their e-mail me. They look at values that we would have the we have as Christians, and they would say while those values. They'll really matter. They are really not that important looking at them from darkness. They both look the same, so that when we have different values than we have different ways of looking at things with different ways of acting. We have different ways of talking with different ways all expectations and believing it's because there is a light in our life. Jesus Christ shines upon all of our lives and now on on all that we say and do, and that which is good. We see it, that which is wrong, which is going to hurt time destroy. We recognize the people who live in darkness. People who don't have the light of Christ. Their life, their morals, their values. They don't see any different. We can do that if you please will you do this a lot exposes good and bad in the dark and good and evil. They look the same. Now the ten Commandments as I read over these the woman the Bible. He undertaken MSR have no other gods before you know, we believe that God is the creator heat. Jesus Christ, God became flesh about a minus. Jesus Christ is it now there are people who do not believe in Christ as the light of the world. So what are they safe while Jesus is one of many ways to God, because from the darkness. Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, it all looked the same. Why because they are good teachers may present some type of moral of morality in the world so they're all the same, but from the life Jesus says that you know here's the way the truth and the life. No man comes to God, not by heaven, and that he is the only one on any of these features. There was whose whose life was foretold for fifteen hundred years. Those prophecies about his life in Hollywood, where he would be born. How it would be born his life that he would live his death that he would have, and his resurrection that would come were all for tall before he came anything only one arise in the day so from that perspective is not just one of many ways he is the one have no other gods before you know I don't well an easy one in the darkness peoples among whom all the same whether you worship God. Her go to church on Sunday or don't go to church. You don't do this now that what you worship me. We can we can ballot the idol of the television or we can about the Idol love of money or we can worship the idol of whatever we can have many different items. Does not take God 's name in vain. While there, all words, darkness, says it's all words is funny, you don't say while Confucius. Curse you know you don't know when we say the name and they say the name of Jesus Christ, and people use it in a very derogatory manner. Why why what that may be so important to use in a derogatory means don't taking God 's name in vain is applying something that is holy to that which is not wholly enough want one. One person would you talk about Hal and a very holy setting and I would say there is no such place as a holy Hill. Now, I always remind them anywhere. Get your how he would personally settle the grid such a person would you know that person I know him through younger name of Jesus, they would use it, and they would yell, curse, and I think I like I have get ready to laugh so. But in all, they were talk about sacred things appliance on unholy things. It is like a never seen him so anyhow, do not think that they moving from high dark perspective on the world. The light is not shining. It doesn't mean anything on your father and mother, not murder, do not commit adultery. Don't steal feet stealing this that generate unique about these scans and things that people are getting and stealing accounting kind I like to have a somewhat the same spelling as you take from somebody coming years earlier said this before that Steve has a brand-new Chevy brand-new you know he has an answer in his garage and he allows me to go see it and so I say why, you now I not only want to Corvette. I will not be happy until I have his best coveting wanting to have someone like his. That's like coveting thing though, so scams scams are coming they call you up and they get your Social Security number. They get these things from you and then they don't take what you have. They come at what you've got. And they're going to take it in from the Darkside was a matter I'm bloody hell I wanted you got it. I wanted. I would take it. So there is no light can see the light of Jesus Christ enables us to see things differently enables us to see that there is a right and wrong in the light of Christ, his laws, the laws of God are to protect us and to provide for us, the Commandments are to protect us usually four of these commandments deal with our relationship with God. Six of them deal with our relationship with people and they protect us. They protect the know and how we approach life. They protect us and how do we deal with life and so God looking out for our interests gives us laws gives us these things I will let us know. Don't go there because in the long term, this is going to hurt you. This is not good for you, until God puts these things in place so that we could protect ourselves and protect others. God 's light. There is not a trace of darkness in him there is not a trace of darkness. And God is impossible for God to think evil about you or what about my sins. God is our sin. My sin separates we put the barrier up. But God doesn't see my saying he sees my knees he, God extends his forgiveness and his love to be, but my sin puts the Bears up and say no, I don't want that God isn't thinking evil of me. My sin hinders his love from getting to me. So if I confess my sin. He forget his mother removes the barrier saw that there was nothing standing between God and I both like forgiveness is so important so that forgiveness can come into my life and my name can be written in his book of life in which I will live forever, so, God wants us to live in a relationship with him. Now God does not remember our sins, God doesn't remember I said when we confess our sins, he forgives us forgiveness is if the mirror. This illustration I like I got my all my notes written up. Okay, so that's our sin. Okay, those are sent. Well when we forgive our sins, he doesn't erase Mark Oliver is a clean sheet wages, something that God can't do. We can remember what our sins are he won't. So when God looks at our life. So if we feel guilty all something we do believe that God, the forgiveness of that's not God, making us feel guilty at the because the relationship we have with God is in the light of Villiers and God does not have one trace of darkness in him amen. Thank you so gone as planned sin for us, God has set an expectation for us. And in verse six, and services. If we claim that we experience a shared life with him and continue to sell around in the dark. What this is. There were, there was and there was false teachers who were in the church at that time and they were claiming that they have fellowship with God, that you could, that the body again. The body was absolutely worthless and so therefore provide to die. So therefore, you had to purge the body again. That meant you would be in fasting and beating Zen you know anything to discredit or or hurt the body or the other way was that nothing was to be withheld from the body. So, whenever physical luster gratification should be there. It's all okay because the body to die anyhow, while John is telling you people who run around and believe that our stumbling around in the darkness, and were not living what we claim we claim to be a Christian John's writing to them and you want fellowship with God, but you can have fellowship whenever you think of your body in the way that you do. That's why thing about those stumbling around in the darkness, but he says in verse seven if we walk in the light gone himself being the light. We also experience a shared life with one another. A shared life. We have a shared life with God and never shared life with other believers were part of the family of God were a part of God 's family is our responsibility to care for the body of Christ to pray for one another to help one another to be to be there to help them. So we are one body, one of spirits with one calling we have one hope it's all there in Christ, and we have a shared life. No negative thoughts because the light of Christ exposes what is true. What is lovely. What is pure. It doesn't mean that we are on Pollyanna doesn't mean that we don't see your gullible we don't see any bad things in the light of Christ helps us to see both good and evil, they were able to see it were able to understand it and were able to; there because of the strength to Christ gives us the light of Christ in essence of God allow sunlight to shine in our lives, and then we become the light of Christ for others is why sometimes people the Lycos because you we don't have the same values that they do darkness doesn't like light sensitive people live in the darkness they don't like the light around them because it helps them see things as being good and evil and darkness doesn't like light those who live, but God wants a light to shine in us. God wants us to recognize the light of Christ and how pure you know, from our perspective for you, me and our relationship with God, the light of Christ shines upon our lives. If there is sin in our life. I wanted to invest in out-of-the-way but God wants to bring about that which is pure than that which is lovely that which is a good report that which is virtuous and praiseworthy. God is our biggest fan. Gosselin who is our biggest encourager. He wants us to be filled with his Spirit tree overflowing with his spirited creativity. His love is guided and it is seeing the possibilities seeing the possibilities what we can become, and that in Revelation twenty one place with this I talked about the ten Commandments are dumped on the first eight of chapter twenty one assist, but for the rest the feckless. I'd look that one up. Then, in the message Bible has it as feckless and faithless feckless means ineffective and irresponsible, but for the ineffective and irresponsible and faithless degenerates murderers sex peddlers, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars for them. It's the late fire and brimstone. The second, so there is when the light shines will there is a future when the light shines for those who are in darkness. Those who are here responsible with the gift of life. The list of active verse one. To those who have accepted Christ. I saw heaven and earth new created. Gone are the first heaven gone the first third God is to see everything that we now it's all gone. I saw holy Jerusalem new created this send the splendid out of heaven as ready for God as a bride for her husband heard a voice thunder from the throne, love, love, God is moving in the neighborhood, making his home with men and women bear his home. He's their God. You wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good tears gone crying God pain gone all the first order of things are gone. The enthroned continued look, I'm making everything new right. It all down its word, dependable and accurate John who wrote what we just talked about in first John. John's Gospel, first, second, third John in the book of Revelation. All written by the same guy the same guy, met the same Jesus and writes to us about him and writes to us about what's coming in heaven for us. The creation of a new heaven and a new earth, everything is made new. We are new creations in Christ Jesus. The light shines in our life to bring about a new list of life newness of thought. Think of the things which are lovely, which are pure, which are a good report card for me to see those things. Let the light of Christ help us see those things in our own life and the lives of those around us. We do not allow the negativity of life to destroy us. We see it, we don't pretend it doesn't exist. We see it, but we don't go there. Then he said it's happen. I'm the a to Z on the awful omega. I'm the beginning. I'm the conclusion from water of life. Well I give freely Thursday called rumors inherit all this that size. I'll be God, then they'll be sons and daughters to me. We will be his children for eternity. John says a David talking to me talking to you this, Jesus that I'm talking about but me tell you about him that you can have the same friendship with him as I have, and he is the one who keeps you that protects you watches over you and it is this spirit, which is the light of life that eliminates all the good in us and in the world around us, so we spent May the light of Christ shine upon our hearts in our lives. May the light of Christ shine upon our pathway may the light of Christ take away our blindness of what we can't see the light of Christ illuminate the truth about ourselves and about others. May the light of Christ, so that which is good that which is lovely that which is your that which is of a good report. May the light of Christ help us to see his beauty that is in me, that is, in others, may the light of Christ extols what I need to say and do in light of my relationship with him and then God bless you. Amen. Though I've take