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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