KBM The Light To The World
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So, as most of you know, we have been studying through the great theme “Names Of Jesus” with the express desire to learn more about Jesus and hopefully draw closer to him through these studies. We have studied a great number of these names and I encourage those that have not studied the other names to go back and look at them. Today we are going to focus our study on another of the “I Am’s” of Jesus which is found in John 8:12-30. Let’s read John 8:12.
John 8:12 (ESV)
12 …I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
The reality is darkness has long been a symbol, God has used, to represent evil. God used darkness as a plague against Pharaoh in Exodus 10:21.
21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.”
God used darkness as a sign of his displeasure with the Jews at Jesus’ crucifixion.
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
Light, on the other hand, has long been used as a symbol of righteousness, hope, and comfort.
God used a pillar of fire, i.e., light for the Israelites during the night to lead them.
21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.
God uses light as a sign of his pleasure with his people in the scriptures.
28 For it is you who light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
It’s because of this symbolism that God uses light to demonstrate the his righteousness.
Knowing all this makes what Jesus says about being the “light to the world” make since. However, that said reality is that this light, Jesus, came into the world but the world loves their darkness more than the light.
19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
Why, because has Jesus continues to say in John 3.20…
20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
If we follow the “light that came into the world” as Jesus says, the great beauty of this is that you and I today, like those then, will find ourselves not walking in darkness but rather the light. And if that is the case we will have fellowship with not only God but all others doing the same while also receiving the continued blood of Christ.
6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice 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 his Son cleanses us from all sin.