Monday, August 19, 2024

PT-5 "The Nature of God" (1 John 1:5)

 

EVENING SERMON FOR 8/19/2024 10:39 PM

 

My Worship Time                                                                  Focus:  PT-5 “The Nature of God”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                           Reference:  1 John 1:5

 

            Message of the verse:  5 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.”

 

            What I have decided to do as I look at this verse is to quote from a sermon that John MacArthur gave in this section in 2002.  The important thing that I am trying to talk about is that God is Light.  I know that in the past that I looked at this subject, perhaps when I was studying the Gospel of John and remember that this is a very important truth for us to understand and that is why I chose to quote from this sermon mentioned above.  It will take us a  number of days to look at it as I do not want to put so much on these SD’s that will take a long time to read and may discourage people from reading it.  Let’s begin today to look at the first part of this sermon.

 

“God demonstrates that He is life by manifesting Himself in light. He gives that life to man physically in creation. He gives it spiritually through the new creation and the new birth. The eternal life possessed by God and by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Holy Spirit, the eternal life is the source of all life, all things that live both physically and spiritually, both temporally and eternally. Everything that lives takes its life from the source, who is God.

“Speaking of Christ again, Colossians 1:16, “By Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things have been created by Him and for Him. He’s before all things, and in Him all things hold together.” The Lord who created is the source of all life. The life of God is given to all that lives. That’s true temporally and it’s also true spiritually.

“Our eternal life comes from God through His Son by the gospel. That becomes, then, the discussion starting in verse 5 of John 1. “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness didn’t comprehend it. There came a man sent from God, his name was John” - John the Baptist. “He came for a witness that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light” - obviously, John the Baptist wasn’t the Creator, he’s not the source of life. He was not the light, “but he came that he might bear witness of the light,” that he might point to, verse 9, the true light which coming into the world enlightens every man.

“And that is a very simple statement. Everybody who lives, lives because he’s received life from the Creator. The Creator is the source of all life; physical life and spiritual life; temporal life and eternal life. So at the beginning of the chapter, we hear that He is the source of all created life, now we find that He is the source of spiritual life because John is pointing to Him as the One who is the true light. Then in verses 10 to 13, that eternal life becomes the theme.

“He was in the world, the world was made through Him, and the world didn’t know Him. He came to His own, those who were His own did not receive Him; but as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God. He gave them spiritual life. They were born spiritually. If they believed in His name, they were born, verse 13, they received life, not human life, not by blood or the will of the flesh or the will of man, but from God. Light is life, and God is the source of all life, whether it’s physical and temporal or whether it’s spiritual and eternal. When we talk about God is light, we’re talking about God as the source of all life.

“Now, if you look over to the second chapter of John and into the third chapter, come to the end of chapter 2, starting in verse 23 you could - you’ll read this on your own, I won’t go through it. Down to verse 21 of chapter 3, through this section, John emphasizes that all people are in need of this life. And this very wonderful story here is the story about a man named Nicodemus. And Jesus said to the man, “What you need is life.” Verse 3. “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again” - you need to be born; you need to enter into eternal life. If you’re not, you’ll never see the Kingdom of God.

8/19/2024 10:50 PM

 

 

 

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