The Gift Of Perfect Light

30 Dec The Gift Of Perfect Light

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Pastor Vincent - 21 May 2015

Believing And Forsaking

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What gives you the ongoing stamina in this Christian race? Everyone wants to feel useful, be recognised and thrive in the world. When Christians do not follow the current of the world, we often feel the pressure of being “different”, or unfitting, so much so that it brews doubt in us about the practicality and worthiness of this Christian race we’re running in. Paradoxically, the world often seems so beautiful, believable and enjoyable before God destroys it. But through the stories between Abraham and Lot, God has a message for His people - don’t be afraid to jeopardize your worldly joy when you choose to set apart for God, because when you hold onto the promise of God by faith alone, your God who chose and gave you the promise will also sanctify and glorify you. We often find ourselves a partial Lot who lives by sight, but desiring to be Abraham who lives by faith. This is because we do not believe that God’s promise is more real and more beautiful than what we’re holding on, or our conditions just inhibit us to believe that God will truly make us the heir of the world, just as He told Abraham. Abraham wanted a son, but God gave him The Son. When he parted ways with Lot who was then the only hope he had, God revealed to him and strengthened him with His promise again when he had no hope in his earthly conditions, God was all he had. When we are encouraged by God’s promise alone, the faith we have will also lead us to infinite possibilities of God’s work in our life. Let’s receive a covenanted reason and direction in this Christian race today, God delights in us witnessing the trueness of His promise 🙂 — “I do believe, help me overcome my unbelief!” - Mark 9:24

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Christmas is in fact about light in darkness. People are lost in a fallen world covered by the darkness of sin, sufferings and dissatisfaction. So Jesus came as the perfect Light to drive out darkness, and bring warmth to the soul. Light is what we need to help us see our way and find the Answer we are searching for.

Christmas: Light in Darkness

1. The world is darkened.

Darkness:
1. Evil / Sin.
2. Ignorance.
<Isa 8> 20 Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. 21 Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. 22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
Darkness blinds our eyes.

2. God shines His light into our darkness.

<Mt 4:16; Isa 9:2> the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.
<John 8:12> When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Gospel: Not what we humans can do, but what God has done!
JESUS: Light of the world; light of life.
1) What does LIGHT do?
1. Enables us to see:

2 Cor 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.
See just how sinful we are
See how much we need Jesus
See the glory of God
See how dignified we are, created in God’s image
See devil lurking in the dark
See the blessed way to go

1. Warms.

Comforts.
Reignites our cold hearts towards God.

1. Gives life.

Makes us born again.

2) Yet, strange reaction to light:
- Strong light pains our eyes.
- Thus, some people want to get away from Jesus.
- Like to indulge sins.
- Don’t like our ego hurt.
- Don’t like to lose freedom.
- But the blessed will appreciate light.
3) Darkness will never overcome light.
- <John 1:5> The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
4) Light from God comes to draw us, rather than turn us away.
- <John 3:17> For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

3. God’s invitation during Christmas.

<Mt 1:22> All this took place to fulfil what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
To be with us and have a personal relationship with us.
Accept Jesus as our Redeemer.
Welcome Jesus as the King of our lives.
To walk in the light as children of God.
- <Ep 4:11> “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness…”
- <1 John 1> 5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out 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, purifies us from all sin.
To witness about the Light.
- <Mt 5:16>In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

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Preacher Hui Jun

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Huijun serves as Secretary of The Blessed RUN Ministries. She is also the Preacher at The Life Church and Missions (Singapore). She graduated from Singapore Bible College and currently lives in Singapore with her husband, Chengji.