Sentences with phrase «jesus was the light of the world»

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.

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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 firstlight 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 firstLight 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 everyLight which came into the world with Jesus was the light which enlightens everylight 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 significWorld, 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 significworld, 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.