The Gift Of Perfect Light

The Gift Of Perfect Light

Preacher Huijun - 5 November 2015

Anxiety-Free In Christ

Anxiety is one major state that distract saints from following God. Do you worry easily? We cannot worry and seek God soberly at the same time. When we worry, not only the devil is attacking us like a roaring lion in an attempt to destroy our trust in God, our overpowering desires also prevent us from trusting God that He loves us supremely and knows what we need best. Unconsciously, our body, mind and spirit enter into a "labouring on our own" state. Jesus said, "do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own". We often hear people say "Do not worry, be happy". What then is the surety we can rest on for not being worrisome; and what is the assurance that we can be happy? When Jesus gives us the word "Do not worry about tomorrow", He means to tell us that the Father God loves you so profoundly deep that He is willing to give up His one and only Son to die for our sins, so that we can be clothed in His righteousness, as long as we believe in Him. The Father our God who clothes even the flowers and grass of the field, how much more will he clothe you today, who are being called and justified by Him? That is the surety we can rest on today for not being worrisome - He cares for you, more profoundly and more unimaginably and so goodly than we think. How then can we be sure that we can be happy? We can be happy today as long as we know what is God's will for us today - "Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness (not your focus and your goodness that you fight on your own)" and be faithful today in the roles, time, tasks which God has entrusted to you, today. We can plan for tomorrow, but we plan knowing God is with us tomorrow, and He's the one who is responsible of the outcomes come what may.

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The Gift Of Perfect Light


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.

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