[SPEAKER_00]: Well, this now turned to the book of Jim.
[SPEAKER_00]: What you're going to be in of it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't chapter one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love, I read this part of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't chapter one.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now if you have a view, I understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: John chapter 1 verse says it, in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was in the beginning with God, all things were created through Him and without Him nothing was created that was created, in Him was life and the life was a light of Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: God bless and honor the ring of the word you made.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we'll be coming back to some little candle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dying so bright.
[SPEAKER_00]: For baby Jesus on this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll say that again, little candle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dying so bright.
[SPEAKER_00]: For baby Jesus on that.
[SPEAKER_00]: In 1980,
[SPEAKER_00]: Although she said it a little bit different.
[SPEAKER_00]: So can a little candle, but you know, she was too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember that very well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm four.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember standing there with.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pose.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what.
[SPEAKER_00]: 80.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not the greatest clothes, but what are you going to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can't play with parents.
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, I remember it was a church program.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just one year before the moment of truth that we met.
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't start told January of 1989.
[SPEAKER_00]: We actually had a first living room.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very well.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was a very, very dark world.
[SPEAKER_00]: and it's very dark world, very dark world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And one little light, sometimes when you'd practice your name, in a funny, you're in a neighborhood, one street, I'd sit off.
[SPEAKER_00]: So around there's one little house, a house
[SPEAKER_00]: One little light, the title today's sermon is one little light, one little light.
[SPEAKER_00]: We live in a dark world, very dark world.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to talk about that dark world today, you live in.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's not the first time it's been a dark world, it's been a dark world since the really the very beginning.
[SPEAKER_01]: You mean the very beginning when God said, let's be light?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: After that, when sin came in,
[SPEAKER_01]: After Adam and Eve, both said, and darkness came to the world, it's been a dark world.
[SPEAKER_01]: In 164 BC, that's a hundred before Christ came.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a dark world.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a dark world because the Greeks were an Greek and Syria.
[SPEAKER_00]: at an arm.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a Greek and Syrian army and they had a dark rain, dark rain.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, a dark shadow.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they had no freedom, no freedom at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, the temple had been overtaken by the Greek and Syrian army.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this was not the original, well, that had been built by Solomon, Abyssal.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is, now by the way, that first temple was planned and had been, the blueprint, you could call it, had been made by David, but David since Solomon had built it.
[SPEAKER_01]: God told David, you're not gonna build that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what he did, he planted all prepared, had everything ready for Solomon, Solomon built it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But either way, that temple had been part, but the people when they came back from Babylon, all that they rebuilt, they built that temple and they built it well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, either way, that temple now have it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what were they going to do?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the Greek and Syrian army had ruled over the temple, that second temple in Jerusalem, though the Macabees, that is, the Jewish followers and soldiers of Judas Macabees fought for three long years.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, usually when they talk about them taking over that temple again, they don't talk about how long it took.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just makes it sound like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: When it would come to the temple back, that's not what happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: Three long years.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm goodness, the way people are nowadays, they're so impatient.
[SPEAKER_01]: They won't wait three minutes for anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not trying to pick on young people.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, let's be honest about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ever since we spoiled, I say we, because really this whole generation, we're all like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, even you older folks, because you're used to it, too.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get used to having, being able to get online, against the like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're spoiled to it, aren't we?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, guess what?
[SPEAKER_01]: They weren't like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: They had to wait for three long years in order to get that temple back but boy they didn't give up.
[SPEAKER_01]: They did not give up.
[SPEAKER_01]: They could only, and listen what happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: After God gave them back that temple, and it was God to give back to them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because they said that about three years, about a thousand people, hey, I, about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: About a thousand people.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't know exactly, sure, but that's how it would count and about a thousand people.
[SPEAKER_01]: When they took that timber back and I talked about this a little while ago, they found a consecrated gargoyle.
[SPEAKER_01]: They could only find enough for one lamp.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they lit that lamp that one small gargoyle, consecrated oil was only enough for one day to glow.
[SPEAKER_01]: One day,
[SPEAKER_01]: They pray to over it and God made that oil flow and go on for eight whole days because as they waited for more concentrated oil to come,
[SPEAKER_01]: God kept it going until that oil came.
[SPEAKER_01]: But for eight whole days, the concentrated oil continued to burn.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is why we had the candle with eight lights on it, called the Hanukkah candle.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why we have Hanukkah, the way we do, Hanukkah, which by the way, Hanukkah, if you're hearing lots of times in the Hanukkah, I don't even try to do it right because
[SPEAKER_01]: Either way, Hanukkah, and do you know what Hanukkah means?
[SPEAKER_01]: Does anyone know what Hanukkah means?
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, we know that Hanukkah is defensible or light, but that's not the festival of lights is not what Hanukkah means.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is the festival of lights.
[SPEAKER_01]: No doubt about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Hanukkah has a meaning.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the meaning of it is dedication.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what Hanukkah means.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dedication.
[SPEAKER_01]: So anytime you hear the feast of dedication, that means Hanukkah.
[SPEAKER_01]: When we go to dedication, that's what it means.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a celebration of the re-dedication of the Temple Mount and Jerusalem.
[SPEAKER_01]: After the Jewish victory over the Greek and Syrian army, and it took three years, so it was 167 to 164 BC.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it took three long years.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so therefore, the victory was 164 BC, but it started three years before that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll think of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to now turn with me to go on again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go on chapter 10.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love John chapter 10.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love it for so many reasons.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna love this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go on chapter 10 verse 22 through 23.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go on chapter 10 verse 22.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it says this, it says, the feast of dedication, what is that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Hanaka, that's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: The feast of dedication was at Jerusalem and it was winter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Verse 23, Jesus walked in the temple, Solomon's porch.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna stop there, but people were waiting for him and the people wanted to ask him questions.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you end up happening around after that.
[SPEAKER_01]: They start talking to him and you know what, Jesus ended up saying to them at verse 25 through 30?
[SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha ha.
[SPEAKER_01]: I quote us so very often.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is where Jesus starts talking about salvation.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is where he starts talking about salvation that you cannot be taken from God's hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: You cannot be taken from Jesus' hands
[SPEAKER_01]: the Father and I are one that's John chapter 10 verse 30.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is a beautiful thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So now you know that in John chapter 10 verse 22 through 30 you can find where Hanukkah is found because it's right there in the Bible you can also find that Jesus says that he and his Father are one and you cannot read your salvation because
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now again, it is a dark world.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a dark world and it was a very dark world when you were skipping ahead or skipping ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: How many years?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we're skipping ahead
[SPEAKER_01]: about a hundred and six to be the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's give it a head and it was still a dark world.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got news just about every year you go to a dark world one where it was a very dark world when one little light came.
[SPEAKER_01]: Born into the dark world.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a dark world because herad ruled.
[SPEAKER_01]: Aaron ruled in Jerusalem with now he didn't rule himself.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did rule over the area, but it was Rome now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now Greece, it was Rome that now ruled.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was a dark world because Aaron ruled over Jerusalem.
[SPEAKER_01]: And everyone was awaiting the Messiah.
[SPEAKER_01]: The folks have been waiting the Messiah for a very long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were waiting the Messiah or as it is said, here in the New Testament, they were awaiting the Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were waiting for them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now turn with me to John.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, we're gonna stay in John throughout this segment.
[SPEAKER_00]: John chapter three.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think you've heard this part.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was, this wasn't really the part I was going to go to originally, but I'm going to go on chapter 3, 16, all the way to 21.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the reason I'm doing, and I've read this before, the reason why I'm doing it, is listen to where John 3-6 goes.
[SPEAKER_01]: We now actually starts a little bit for that, but I'm not going to go, go on 3-16, 3-21, over it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gone 3-16 is, well, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Christchurch got all the word fact.
[SPEAKER_01]: The very night that my sister voted that verse that I would follow to go to our that little, that was the night I first did, John 3-16 and that right.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's first night I did John 3-16.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I memorized it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just four years old and I had to forget it, of course.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so, gone 3-16.
[SPEAKER_00]: For God's soul of the world, and He gave His all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who's over, believes in him should not perish?
[SPEAKER_01]: Have emplacid.
[SPEAKER_01]: For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him I'd be safe for Satan.
[SPEAKER_01]: He who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe was condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.
[SPEAKER_01]: For everyone who does evil hits the light, it does not come to the light.
[SPEAKER_01]: Less his deeds should be exposed.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he who does the truth comes to the light that it may be
[SPEAKER_01]: I've less than honor the reading of wonderful word.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can see that Jesus is the light.
[SPEAKER_01]: He came into this world to bring us out of darkness.
[SPEAKER_01]: And John 812, John 812, I'm, I'm, I'm telling you, these are powerful messages, John.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're gonna go front and logically through it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna go to John 8, they're John 9, the John 11, and John 12.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, Jesus spoke to them saying, I and the light of the world who ever follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life, John chapter 9.
[SPEAKER_01]: Verse 5, John chapter 9 verse 5 says, while I am in the world, I and the light of the
[SPEAKER_01]: gone chapter 11 first.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if anyone walks during the night, he stumbles because the light is not in him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then people walk into darkness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you've been one of them done it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I lived in the basement for many years in my life as a young boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I've told you, say, four of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I always knew where everything was at.
[SPEAKER_01]: I still live there now.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you know what's interesting is, you have things memorized, everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: People move it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Boom, you bust your toe, you trip everywhere, which folks lost people.
[SPEAKER_00]: They go walking a stumbling because they do not have the light of Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: They think they know the way, they don't know the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: If they think they can see, oh, I can do all of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I said, no, you can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Jesus, you will fall.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got news for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've already fallen.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're already on the ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're already in the grave.
[SPEAKER_00]: You just don't know what you're already dead.
[SPEAKER_00]: gone 12, 40's, gone chapter of Jesus says, now it doesn't say Jesus, this is Jesus speaking I'm right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gone 12, 46, I have come as a light into the world that whoever believes in me should not remain in darkness.
[SPEAKER_01]: Folks, if you remain in darkness,
[SPEAKER_01]: Imagine someone coming to you and giving you a can.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not, I don't need it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we're in complete dark.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was talking to a friend earlier today.
[SPEAKER_01]: He lives in the Iowa, maybe so high.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was Ohio, I'm sorry, I can go to Ohio.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're a power went out, middle of the night.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he would have to grab a flashlight and a flashlight fell down a busted.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he couldn't find his life for a while.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the power came on a few hours later, I felt bad for him.
[SPEAKER_01]: because he couldn't find his way is only like busted.
[SPEAKER_01]: How many people would do that?
[SPEAKER_01]: They think, I have the light, I have Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can't find their way because they don't know the light very well.
[SPEAKER_01]: You may own it, but if you don't have batteries in it, what good does it do you?
[SPEAKER_01]: What good does it do you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Today we are practicing the choir.
[SPEAKER_01]: I accidentally let the microphone on.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't mean to do it, but it happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we went to practice and I'm sitting just singing loud and I don't know if crowds are right.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I was singing loud and then the less.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll tell you one thing, it didn't really matter because the batteries were dead.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it comes time to say something and nothing's coming out.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the way our last slides are.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no light in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm saying this to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have due discretion in your heart, you have a light that should be shine and bright.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if you have not stayed in contact in a great, wonderful post-relationship, it's not that you don't have the light, but it's not gonna shine bright.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's covered up, it's concealed, not revealed, and it shouldn't be that way folks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pastor, you're saying that we can lose your salvation.
[SPEAKER_01]: You just read that it couldn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, that's not what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm saying that it's not going to be bright.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not going to be beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not going to be bold.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when you go to speak for the Lord to the world, you're not going to be able to hear you very well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you ever have a, I'm probably not back in the day when we had Walkman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't remember Walkmans.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, we still kind of have things like it's not the same.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember back then we had a walkman and I was always so proud when my mom and dad got me one for Christmas.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I remember I thought it was broken, it wasn't really broken, a couple of different things have happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: One thing I didn't know that had a reverse thing where you hit it and go play on the other side.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was thinking, calling it a piece of turn, I wanted a piece of junk, I was a piece of junk that hit the wrong thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Either way, another thing happened to it too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here I was thinking it was broken and one broken, the battery should run down.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't that it was broken, that's exactly right.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was more like a nightmare.
[SPEAKER_01]: But either way, here's what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your batteries run down as a Christian.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're a light, I'm talking to my friends right now, and not be very well-guised dimmer and dimmer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even more so, you can't light.
[SPEAKER_01]: It starts to go dim.
[SPEAKER_01]: We must be careful.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a candlelight service.
[SPEAKER_01]: How about some?
[SPEAKER_01]: A point is, you need to allow the light to be bright in the darkness.
[SPEAKER_00]: The world needs to, world needs to, world needs to.
[SPEAKER_00]: Reliving a dark world.
[SPEAKER_01]: There were disciples, were disciples of Father Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: When I was just talking about the apostles, not just the apostles, many, many, many disciples, when the disciples were in the dark world, they were one.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when they would come together, and many of those little lights were fall, and they would falter, and they would burn out, it was seen.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when the lights were coming together, it wasn't one non-line anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a great roaring fire, because you would see lights everywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: Think about when Gideon, when Gideon and his army, what is it?
[SPEAKER_01]: What is he like to big army when you had thousands of people coming against them?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: They were all in the dark, Gideon stood up and each one, all three hundred of them stood up and all of them had a lamp.
[SPEAKER_01]: And each one, remember, they threw down their little lamps, they held out their torches, can you imagine being at the dark and not knowing what's going on?
[SPEAKER_01]: You're sleeping too, it's your eyes are bouncing around and you look up and you see those torches going all around and I mean, whoa, folks, let your torches be seen.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a battle time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eighteen's battle.
[SPEAKER_00]: at your, at yours, at that like E. Kind of breath.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good John chapter 12 verse 30.
[SPEAKER_00]: John chapter 12 verse 30.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's ascended them.
[SPEAKER_00]: We said now, get a little while, get a little while
[SPEAKER_00]: Walk while you have less darkness, fatigue.
[SPEAKER_00]: He who walks in darkness does not know where he was, how many Christians walk in the dark.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they're ashamed of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, right out, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's now turn to Ephesians after five.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to call for it in your ear.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians chapter five verse eight through.
[SPEAKER_01]: For you, for formally, excuse me, for you were formally darkness, but now you are light in the Lord, say that one more time.
[SPEAKER_00]: all is speaking to the people of Ephesus who are lost, not as tough as you, for once lost too.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what he says again.
[SPEAKER_01]: For you are formally darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, proving what is pleasing to the Lord,
[SPEAKER_01]: and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.
[SPEAKER_01]: Instead, expose them, where it is shameful, even to speak of those things, which are done by them in secret, but all things are exposed when they are revealed by the light.
[SPEAKER_01]: For everything that becomes visible is light.
[SPEAKER_01]: Therefore, he says, awake you, who, deep,
[SPEAKER_00]: And Christ will give you, I.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the light, but it has light me singing in you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we're talking about that aside.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about these followers of Christ in the year 328.
[SPEAKER_01]: 328.
[SPEAKER_00]: This means anodomity revolvered 320 years after he or less.
[SPEAKER_00]: That mean he had been as a way for over three.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, not quite three yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were Christianity had been outlawed by the Roman Empire for a while.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was talking to someone about this year, so they said, I didn't know Christianity had ever been out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's hope we get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Christianity has been out all for quite some time in Rome.
[SPEAKER_01]: The people have been put the thousands Christians have put the dead, the head of it, hung, fed the lions, burned, abbed, how have been done, ground, whatever you want to call it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been done.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when this happened, a council got together, different Christians, a council got together.
[SPEAKER_01]: And amongst the council, there was a man, the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the same, he was the same, he was the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you heard him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He ain't Nicholas was one of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: That, he fought.
[SPEAKER_00]: He fought, did you know what time he's put in jail because he fought for Christians?
[SPEAKER_00]: Christianity was outlawed, would he?
[SPEAKER_00]: thought for this take of you fought for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now he wasn't the only one in many others, but I thought I would let you know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought you find that interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's now turn back to John chapter one.
[SPEAKER_00]: John chapter one.
[SPEAKER_00]: That goes hard and except for one thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's now go to first night.
[SPEAKER_00]: John chapter one.
[SPEAKER_00]: the true light which enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was in the world and the world was created through.
[SPEAKER_01]: The world did not know him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He came to his own and his own people did not receive him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yet to all who received him, he gave the power to become
[SPEAKER_01]: door of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we've now talked about a dark.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about dark world, 164 BC, when the Greek swirled.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about a dark world, when that one little light Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about a dark world when the disciples, the followers of Christ were in there, but we're now going to talk about a bright light.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, light.
[SPEAKER_00]: That bright light is you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: That you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or is it you?
[SPEAKER_00]: That bright light.
[SPEAKER_01]: That bright light, Christ through you, has been placed into this dark world, into the dark world you live in.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yes, you're to be the bright light of Jesus Christ was a shine through in your life, in your work place, in your family, in your friends, in your,
[SPEAKER_01]: The people you see every day, the people in your neighborhood, the people you see in the store, the people that you're going to see in the traffic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, before you give any sort of ideas that you're not a Christian, make sure you let the light be seen in you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because yes, people are going to say horrible many things to you on Facebook today.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to say horrible many things to you all sorts of places on the internet.
[SPEAKER_01]: They may say all sorts of horrible many things to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: When they, uh, uh, I don't want to go into all sorts of things that they may say to you, but you know what you just say back to them, uh, blush.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, we're not blessing what they said, but we're wanting them to see that there is a light shining bright in you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what we want to miss.
[SPEAKER_01]: Earlier on, we read John chapter one, first one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to read John chapter one, first five then.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is that first?
[SPEAKER_01]: going on one, five, the light shines in darkness, but the darkness has not overcome.
[SPEAKER_01]: I realized that sometimes we let the darkness overcome us, we let that darkness overcome us, but remember when it's talking about the darkness on overcoming the light, that's not us, but it's Christ who is in us, very Christ is that light.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't let the darkness overcome the light that is within you.
[SPEAKER_01]: because that light that is within you is Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe sometimes unintentionally I believe, most likely, unintentionally, we get arrogant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my light still shines bright.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am still shining bright.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, folks, you're not the one that's supposed to be shining bright.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's supposed to be Jesus Christ shining bright through you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you're fine that you are not shining bright, you ought to be, maybe you need to be quiet and let Christ speak up, let Christ shine out, let Christ bring people in, bringing people in
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, if you're not bringing them in because it's you doing it not Jesus, so I just read you John one five, here's another first John, first John one, I've got to get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: John one five, first John one and stay in that because I'm going to read verse six, seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to this.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: This, excuse me, this then is the message which we have heard from Him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my Jesus, and declare to you, God is light.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in Him is no darkness at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Isn't that beautiful?
[SPEAKER_01]: And let's say what it says of verse six, if we say that we have fellowship with Him, yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Verse 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.
[SPEAKER_01]: I folks, I'm not talking about the fact that you may bump your toe, and I'm talking about tripping.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not talking about the fact that once in a great while, you might mess up, but folks, if you mess up, pick your, we'll say a flashlight, pick your flashlight back up again, make sure it's turn back on and get the walk in again with that light shine and bright.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you feel like you're a battery to fall on out, or you need to change, put it back in again, make sure your light is shine and bright, because graders use the me for some
[SPEAKER_01]: And if he who are the world who tries to make sure that light isn't shining bright, it's he who's of the world of brings temptation to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's he who's of the world tries to knock the batteries out.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's he who's of the world who tries to make sure that you get dirt all over the front of your light.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that right?
[SPEAKER_01]: If you got a candle, it's he who's of the world comes by goes, well, let's say, it out, I'm been a lead, it's shine, right, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't do a bushel.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm gonna let it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I. Mook 1130.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mook 1130.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that?
[SPEAKER_00]: The eye is the lamp of the body.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, your eye is good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your whole body is full of light.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of dust.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, eye on the good.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew five.
[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew five, 14, 13, 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they're all, Matthew five, 14 and 13, 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are the light of the world, a city that is set on a hill and not be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Either do men like a candle, put it under a basket, basket, but on a candle.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it gives light all or in the house.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's your light, so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father who is in heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey man, I thought Jesus, I could let people see.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just what people mean with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It kind of dips.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's what he said was, don't let your good works be the reason.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, don't let people see your good works be the reason you do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let people see your good works, in other words, that people say, heavy, dry, slip, that light.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shire!
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll, one of my favorite things we, my father was really good about making a dish in a bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes we make a tradition at everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I remember one of our favorite family traditions.
[SPEAKER_01]: For what I mean, I'm sure there's so many of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you sometimes just crowd around, it's neat.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we'd crowd around, we looked at this about every neighborhood.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's nothing quite like that we, the bananas, here's the banana.
[SPEAKER_00]: Probably for some of the old books.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we would, we would go out and, then we'd drive.
[SPEAKER_00]: drive out there and we can look at the eyes of the council.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lights, right, it seemed like the whole city just blowing once upon a time, maybe it was just the house
[SPEAKER_00]: I would be a harder now, but for those of you who have up, don't name it, try to cheat.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll take all our effort.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't cheat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait people.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the light that is Jesus, I'm brighter than ever, brighter than ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: They can Corinthians forcibly, this is the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: They can Corinthians forcibly, by the way, there were so many scriptures I had to cut out about, I don't know, I don't know, I had to do it, I had no joy trying to do better about.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, it's for God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness as shown in our hearts, who give the light of the knowledge, of the glory of God in a face of Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: a woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: They can create these four, six.
[SPEAKER_01]: For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: We need to show Christ to everyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the one more time I asked how bright
[SPEAKER_00]: I bet some days is brighter than it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's the mood you're in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's because, bounded by darkness, some days you feel.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's first of all, you have the light, deep, self-heat.
[SPEAKER_01]: He never abandoned you, the lights always with you, but you know what else, you have brothers and sisters in Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Elijah, he was super awesome, but at the same time, he was a human.
[SPEAKER_01]: You didn't know that, did you?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, he was a human.
[SPEAKER_01]: One thing Elijah did.
[SPEAKER_01]: cracks me up, because he sounds just like a knee, like, they're all gone and I'm here all by myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have what we done that sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to want you to serve it now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you're not.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's tons of us out here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe someone slides a little dim, but you know what you do.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to find out this.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of us are out here.
[SPEAKER_01]: The ones who
[SPEAKER_01]: I did that for a little brighter and before too long and we're all in the dark for too long the candle I start brighter brighter brighter for too long this dark dark room gets right we have all the lights out it gets bright shining with candles and we start seeing it but it gets brighter and louder and louder with the candle why because that light is
[SPEAKER_00]: that name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tomorrow when you see the person, the like them, you know I'm talking about don't you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Tomorrow when you see that person on her room, but hey, I know quite a few.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do every of mine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pray for one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pray for use.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pray that your light will shine bright if they don't have a light.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, they're like, Sean, we're praying that they don't have it like they're like burnt out at one pray that they're like this, they're up for the pray that they will pray that there's person is burnt out for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it says, I'm 18, for you will cause my lamp to shine.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord, my God, will enlighten my dark.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's pose a.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here, precious Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knew the very long of the, for 6,000 years,
[SPEAKER_00]: You knew Lord God that this world will be so great.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Lord, because of that, 2000 year, where you came, died on the crossroad.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I pray, Lord God, that your light can be seen in one of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: For those who are not able to be here today, Lord God, but that are watching a home, I pray, Lord God, they feel your presence.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray, Lord God, that your light can be seen in them by their loved ones or the people that perhaps, doesn't love them.
[SPEAKER_01]: but that they can feel your love.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray Lord God that your life can be brighter today, that brighter tomorrow than to.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray Lord God, you Lord, will shine brighter than the sun, I pray all this in your holy prayer.