These people realized
Jesus was the Light of the world.
Jesus is the light of the world, and who doesn't see him, doesn't see the light.
This blind man, because
Jesus is the light of the world, both saw and perceived.
Not exact matches
enlightened thinking individuals live in darkness because the Lord
Jesus Christ
is the
light of the
world.
«Healing hands
of God have mercy on our unclean souls once again /
Jesus Christ
light of the
world, burning bright within our hearts forever / Freedom means love without condition without a beginning or an end / Here
's my heart, let it
be forever yours.»
This systemic usurpation
of Jesus complete headship and right to His people, by a worldwide cabal
of homo lupus
is the backbone
of the culture that hides the
light under the bushel and shrouds the city on the hill, so that the
world remains in darkness.
Each text will
be introduced in turn with a brief explanation
of how God
is portrayed in the passage, and this will
be followed with a brief explanation
of how to understand God's actions in
light of the Chaos Theory and in
light of God taking on the sin
of the whole
world, just as
Jesus did on the cross.
Maybe this Christmas season, we can reflect not so much on whether or not
Jesus was white and instead consider what it meant for him to
be called the «
light»
of the
world.
God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody
is beyond the scope
of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending
Jesus as the fulfillment
of the most violent
of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way
of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in
light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins
of the whole
world.
He
is the
Light of the world, and I won't stumble around in darkness, Jesus provides plenty of light in which to
Light of the
world, and I won't stumble around in darkness,
Jesus provides plenty
of light in which to
light in which to live.
The author quotes scripture and closes with the following statement: «Maybe this Christmas season, we can reflect not so much on whether or not
Jesus was white and instead consider what it meant for him to
be called the «
light»
of the
world.»
This
light is not the superficial colouring that a crude hedonism might discern; nor
is it the violent glare that annihilates objects and blinds the eyes; it
is the tranquil, mighty radiance born
of the synthesis, in
Jesus,
of all the elements
of the
world.
Prayer for the Week: Almighty God, whose Son our Savior
Jesus Christ
is the
light of the
world: Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and Sacraments, may shine with the radiance
of Christ's glory, that he may
be known, worshipped, and obeyed to the ends
of the earth; through
Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever.
You know all
of that, but you
're still able to hear these as true stories, as metaphorical narratives using ancient archetypal language to make, among other affirmations, that
Jesus is the
light coming into the darkness, to make the affirmation that the Herods
of this
world constantly seek to destroy that which
is born
of God.
Whether God
is going to end the
world as
Jesus said «Immediately after the tribulation
of those days shall the sun
be darkened and the moon shall not give it
's light...»
is left to
be seen.
The important questions
are, «
Is Jesus the
light of the
world?
«12 Then
Jesus again spoke to them, saying, «I
am the
Light of the
world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the
Light of life.»»
The New Testament tells us to focus on eyes on
Jesus (Heb 12:2); and to have that eternal perspective where we know that this
world is not our home and that all we do should
be done in the
light of eternity.
We forget that we
are the
light of the
world and
are suppose to set an example for other believers and for those we
are trying to teach about
Jesus.
In England we celebrate All Hallows and turn it into a festival
of light where all the Saints (we are all Saints, that believe and follow Jesus) come together to thank Jesus for bringing The Light into the world as He did with his Dad and The Holy spirit on then first
light where all the Saints (we
are all Saints, that believe and follow
Jesus) come together to thank
Jesus for bringing The
Light into the world as He did with his Dad and The Holy spirit on then first
Light into the
world as He did with his Dad and The Holy spirit on then first day.
Nevertheless, as if with tongue in cheek,
Jesus tells his followers that the «sons
of this
world are wiser in their own generation than the sons
of light» (Luke 16:8) and suggests that as they go out into a wolflike
world, they
be «wise as serpents and innocent as doves» (Matt.
Taking
Jesus in John as our benchmark: — «I
am the
light of the
world.
God creates the
world of Jesus, the
world conformed to his infinite love for his Son in the joy and
light of the Spirit; he thereby also wills his goodness in all his creatures infinitely, which
is to say he wills this
world for eternal union with him in love, and he wills that we should become partakers
of the divine nature.
«Let the little children come to me»
is Jesus» model
of theological pathos; «I
am the
light of the
world» His hermeneutic.
But put beside it the thought
of the writer
of the Fourth Gospel, that the
Light which came into the world with Jesus was the light which enlightens every
Light which came into the
world with
Jesus was the
light which enlightens every
light which enlightens every man.
Jesus was indeed the Man Who Belongs to the
World, but he was this because he made it possible to appreciate more profoundly the full scope of the revelation of God wherever it had appeared in the history of the world, in the light of which, in turn, his own meaning and message acquired more profound signific
World, but he
was this because he made it possible to appreciate more profoundly the full scope
of the revelation
of God wherever it had appeared in the history
of the
world, in the light of which, in turn, his own meaning and message acquired more profound signific
world, in the
light of which, in turn, his own meaning and message acquired more profound significance.
The seventh and last chapter, «The
World After
Jesus,» eloquently points to ancient and modern individuals and groups who have
been faithful to the Spirit
of Jesus, including those who have seen better by the gospel
light than some who
are privileged to carry it.
But recently, as I have sought to view God in
light of what
Jesus tells us about Him, I have begun to see that the dream not only reflects what
Jesus did for all people on the cross, but also reflects what God has always
been doing for the sins
of the whole
world.
But the universality
of Jesus, they have urged, does not establish itself in the
world through the obliteration
of whatever elements
of light and truth have already
been granted to the nations
of the
world.
So the more I develop the fruit
of the Spirit in my life, I
'm conformed and transformed into the image
of Jesus, I reflect His
light and His love in that
world, I think God continues to enlarge our field.
Christianity
is about taking what
is in the
world (the kingdom
of darkness) and redeeming it through
Jesus Christ, bringing it into the kingdom
of light.
So what
is the biblical image» in reality»,
Jesus The Son
of Man,
Jesus the Son
of God,
Jesus the lamb
of God,
Jesus the gate,
Jesus the shepherd,
Jesus the
light of the
world,
Jesus the resurrection and the life,
Jesus the vine,
Jesus the king
of Israel,
Jesus the humble foot washer,
Jesus the bridegroom,
Jesus the Word.
They
are learning what it means to follow
Jesus into the
world, to experience true community with other believers, to read Scripture in a new
light, and to serve others out
of love rather than compulsion.
But wherever we stand, Easter
is the season where all Christians should join in remembering how
Jesus Christ, the
light of the
world, won a victory over the forces
of darkness by his resurrection from the dead.
In the first place, so far as its theological aspect
is concerned, we can see that those who respond in faith to
Jesus Christ
are impelled to read the whole
of human existence, indeed the whole
of their experience
of the created
world, in the
light of that which has taken place in that important moment.
Our role as Christians, as the people
of the cross within that
world,
is precisely what
Jesus said it
was: to
be salt, to
be yeast, to
be light!
A common motif for a relevant theology needs to
be centered upon action and reflection arising out
of a commitment to
Jesus Christ as Lord and the desire both to understand and to act with God in the
light of a corrupt and changing
world.
And
Jesus said
of Himself that He
is the
light of the
world.
This defense
of the accuracy
of the Fourth Gospel in reporting the words
of Jesus is undertaken, in spite
of what must appear to the disinterested student insuperable obstacles, because to these lovers
of the Gospel the alternative seems to
be surrendering the authenticity
of some
of the most precious and manifestly true
of Christ's reported words: «I
am the bread
of life... I
am the
light of the
world... I
am the good shepherd... If you continue in my words... you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free... He that drinketh
of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh
of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst... I
am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he
were dead, yet shall he live... I
am the way, the truth and the life; no one cometh to the Father but by me»... and many more.
Jesus says in John 8:12 «I
am the
light of the
world.
This
is the principle operative in the reaction
of many Christians to the Fourth Gospel's reports
of Jesus» sayings: «I
am the bread from heaven», «I
am the good shepherd», «I
am the
light of the
world».
More important, no person in any literature
is like the New Testament figure
of Jesus: as real as Socrates, «yet also numinous,
lit from a
light from beyond the
world, a god.»
Revisiting the claim at the beginning
of John's Gospel that «the
light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it» (1:5, emphasis mine) leads me to assert that the event
of Easter Sunday
was God's response to the intent
of the
world to extinguish the
light that
was Jesus.
We need to surrender our lust for power and recognition and return to the radical teachings
of Jesus, it
's not easy task, but it must happen if the church
is ever going to
be the true
light of the
world Jesus envisioned.
Jesus said, «I
am the
light of the
world...» Scripture speaks on the idea
of revelation... God making Himself known to mankind.
Expanding on Arendt's observations Shriver notes how
Jesus began his ministry proclaiming the Rule
of God, calling Twelve to
be with him and sending them forth to
be like the
light of the
world, the salt
of the earth, and to join him in calling whole towns to repentance.
A saved soul
is one who at one time sat in darkness, but to whom the
Light of the
World,
Jesus, has made Himself known.
It
's just a small incarnational moment, hardly worth noticing for most
of the
world, but for me, this
was a metaphor moment
of life in the Kingdom, life in the glorious truth
of worship in spirit and truth,
Jesus - shaped leadership as servanthood, and so our family
's lighting of another candle within community, with their affirmation and prayers and participation, pushed back just a bit more
of the darkness, and then we scattered back out again.
But to think that a nordic god (
Jesus is often portrayed with
light brown hair and blue eyes) will come out
of the clouds to end the
world is an example
of collective narcissism.
John's portrayal
of Jesus in this short section
of his Gospel as the
Light of the
world, and from which Hunt got his theme,
is more than adequate.