Part 2 | The Light of the World

From John 8

📖  John 8:12 ESV Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

4 Absolute Claims of Jesus:

Jesus makes an absolute claim.

A. Light makes .
B. Light makes .
C. Light gives .
D. Light gives .

Jesus makes an absolute claim.

📖  John 7:37–39 ESV On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive…

Jesus makes an absolute claim.

📖  Isaiah 42:6 ESV “I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations.”

Jesus makes an absolutely claim.

📖  John 8:12 ESV I am THE light of THE world. 

📖  Genesis 1:2–3 ESV The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

📖  John 8:13 ESV So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.”

1.  Jesus my way to the . 

📖  John 8:14 ESV Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.”

📖  John 14:12 ESV “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.” 

📖  John 16:26–28 ESV “In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 28 I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

2. Jesus the emptiness of .

📖  John 8:15 ESV You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. 

3. Jesus brings me out of the of .

📖 John 8:21 ESV So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

📖 Ephesians 4:18 ESV They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

📖 2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

📖 John 3:19–20 ESV 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. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

📖 1 John 1:7 ESV 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.

📖 John 12:46 ESV I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

So who am I?

In Christ I’m someone God has out of and into the to know and share Him with the .

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