Title: Light Your Body
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Hallelujah!
Have you been at peace for a week? Did you live in the grace of the Lord? I hope that some of you will experience God's grace more through today's worship service. Also, if you have spent a weak week in your life of faith, I hope that you will have the grace to be restored anew through worship.
In the dark night, there is a light that guides the fishing boats returning home from catching fish on the beach. That's the lighthouse. The lighthouse illuminates far away according to the brightness of his fire. The brightness of the light varies according to the strength of the power. So to keep the light bright, the lighthouse keeper always checks the light on the lighthouse. If the lights of the lighthouse are dim, the fishing boats looking from afar cannot see properly, so the way back to the port cannot be found properly.
In addition, there are many cases of night games in sports events. If this light is also not bright, the game cannot be played in the dark, and in the dim light, you cannot work with all your heart. In this way, the activity of light plays a big role in the dark.
Also, even if there is light, if the light is not bright, it will be dim and you will not be able to work well, and you will not feel the value of light.
What kind of religion did we call Christianity? It was your religion of love. Also, not the religion of love, but the religion of light. The reason Jesus came to this earth was to love us, and for that love He died on the cross. It was to save us. The love of God, the love of Jesus This is God's blessing to us.
Not pretty, but Jesus came to this earth to illuminate the world that was dark with the sins of this earth. When God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning, in a world full of chaos, emptiness, and darkness, God made bright light through Jesus Christ to brighten those who were dark by sin through Jesus Christ. And he allowed those who received the light to make this world brighter.
Therefore, people of our faith have a duty to make this world brighter with the light the Lord has given us.
When Jesus speaks to his disciples, he speaks directly, but he tells many things through parables. You can also see parables in this Gospel of Luke, where Jesus gives counsel and instruction about the disciples' faith and practices that are different from their beliefs.
Today's Bible also speaks of the lamp of the body through parables about the disciples who received the words of Jesus. It is emphasized that we must fully receive the word the Lord has spoken and live in that moment. Just as when the light of a lamp shines on us in the midst of darkness, everyone is illuminated by that light so that we can know what is coming, where we are going, and where we are going and what we are doing. Rather, it is a word that exhorts and instructs the disciples to live a life of bright light.
Today, through this Word, we have the responsibility to illuminate the surroundings by shining a beautiful bright light with the light we have received from the world through the Word that is shone on us, and remember to live the life of God's blessing with that light. I hope it will be a precious time of grace that you can live with.
1. The lamp of the body must be turned on and placed on a high place (verse 33).
2. If you light the lamp of your body, you are not in darkness (verse 34).
3. If you turn on the lamp of your body, your whole body will be bright (verse 36).
Dear saints!
We are the ones who have received the light of Jesus. The light of Jesus will now shine through us again. I hope you all light the lamp of the word the Lord has given you. Your life will be brightened and your surroundings will be brightened through you. This is the mission given to the children of God.
I pray in the name of the Lord that I earnestly pray that the lamp of the word of my body is under the word or on the lampstand and emits a brighter light so that you and your life will be filled with the light of the gospel.