Title: Jesus Who Came as True Light
Contents
Title: Jesus Who Came as True Light
Bible: John 1:9-12
2009. Christmas
Merry Christmas! I sincerely hope that God's overflowing grace and blessings will be filled with you as you celebrate this Christmas in a merry Christmas.
Let's raise our hands high together and give glory to God who sent Jesus.
And let us share this joy together.---Merry Christmas------
1. Jesus, the true light that drove out the darkness
Once upon a time, a wise man was teaching his disciples. I did the last exam question.
He gave me a thousand won and told me to buy something that could fill the room. Many of the disciples bought everything they could buy with 1,000 won. A person who buys paper. Someone who buys rocks...
But a disciple bought a candle and a small match.
Several people filled the room with what they had bought, but it was never completely filled. However, the friend who had brought a candle lit a match and the light filled the room.
The world is now full of darkness. It is morally dark. It is also educationally dark. Conscience is also dark. It is also politically dark. It is especially spiritually dark.
When did darkness come to rule the human world? Since Adam sinned against God. For that reason, it is no exaggeration to say that we have been living in darkness since our ancestors. A life living in darkness is a life of sinning under the control of Satan, the ruler of darkness.
“The Bible says, There is none righteous, not even one. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” is saying
So, is there any way out of this darkness? There is. What is? The light must come. The light must come. Who is the true light? There is none in this world.
Neither Confucius nor Mencius nor Shakyamuni. Neither the king of Jinshi nor the talented gag resonator can do it. Not even King Sejong the Great, who invented Hangeul to eradicate the illiterate. No president ever. Then who is the true light? They could sometimes be moonlight. They could also be little starlight. But it wasn't really light.
The true light is only Jesus Christ.
“There was the true light, a light that came into the world and gave light to every man...
That's right. Only Jesus is the true light. John the Baptist testifies of this. Christmas is the day when the true light has come.
Therefore, if we are to live in the light, we must receive Jesus Christ. Come before Christ and abide in His light
2. True light gives life.
Many animals and plants all get life and live because of light. Without the light of the sky, all animals and plants die, let alone us. You can't get life with moonlight. You can't get life even with starlight. Only sunlight is possible.
Only Jesus, who is the true light like the sun, gives us true life.
Verse 4 “In him was life, and the life was the light of men.”
Jesus continues to speak in the Gospel of John.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life…”
“I am the bread of life.” “If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever.”
This Christmas, Jesus, the Bread of Life, was born on this earth to give us life.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Eternal life means eternal spiritual life. The life of the body is like a flower of wild grass, and it lives for 70-80 years and then dies. That's why it's called super life. However, the spiritual life that Jesus gave does not die forever. That is why it is called eternal life.
May you receive this eternal life through this Christmas.
3. There is warm love in the true light.
It's a cold, cold world. It's only getting colder. The warmth of the beautiful love of parents and children is getting colder. These are the thoughts of young teenagers who want to live in Gangnam after killing their mother and getting insurance money. It has been a long time since the couple's ethics and love have disappeared. In the first half of last year, the divorce rate was 116,997, with an average of 370 couples getting divorced per day, the highest among OECD member countries. It is said that a friend eats a friend and threatens to be friendly with a neighbor. This means that there is no warm love in the dark world.
Jesus came to give the warmth of love to this world.
I've seen dandelions sprouting sprouts under a sunny stone wall. Even the small seeds of dandelions bloom when exposed to the warm sunlight.
God is love. Jesus is also love. Christmas is the day he came to this world with a lot of that love.
Forgive the student who killed his son.
First-year students from a high school in Seoul were fighting with each other, and a student was seriously injured and hospitalized. His parents went to the school to protest, and met with his parents to ask for compensation, but they were all rejected.
From then on, this mother's heart began to fill with anger. ...............
...............
At that time, while praying at church, the image of the cross of Jesus came to mind. Suddenly my heart pounded. And how painful was God the Father's heart? Crazy at the thought of this, he went to the student. He had come out of the academy after class.
love is always...