Names of Christ - The Light of Life

 John 8:12 

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I Am The Light of The World. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have The Light of Life.” 

1 John 1:5-7

And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.  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 cleanses us from all sin.

John 12:46

I have come into the world as a Light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.

The Prophecy in Isaiah speaks of God's only begotten Son being The Light: from Isaiah 49, we read this in verse 6: 

He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a Light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.” Which Paul quotes in Acts 13:47. 

    And when we believe that Jesus Christ is God's only begotten Son, that He died on the cross for us and that His blood washes our sins away, that He overcame death, hell and the grave giving us new life in Him, then have we seen The Light of Life. He shines in our hearts and begins to radiate in our thoughts, in the words we speak and in our actions. We cannot become God's holy people if we do not believe in God's Holy Son first. 

    2 Corinthians 4:6 

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 the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."

    God cannot give us His Holy Spirit until we give Him our hearts and lives for His Son Christ Jesus to live in, that we might live in Christ. 
Ephesians 5:8, 9

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in The Lord. Walk as children of Light, for the fruit of The Light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Colossians 1:13, 14

 He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 

    We are called out of darkness into His Marvelous Light according to Peter: 

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His Marvelous Light. 

    God is calling us even yet to come out of the darkness of this world into The Light of His glorious grace in Christ Jesus. As long as we have breath in our bodies, we have the opportunity to make an informed decision to believe or not believe that Jesus Christ Is Lord. Are you willing to turn your back on darkness which leads to condemnation and judgment of God or will you face The Light of God's Marvelous Light - Jesus Christ - and walk this path of holiness which God has set before you? 

    I made my choice over 30 years ago. I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord. I believe that Jesus Christ is God's only begotten Son. I believe that Jesus Christ overcame death, hell and the grave and walked out of the tomb into the garden to give us new life in Him. I believe. Are you ready to believe? What, if anything, is holding you back?

I HAVE DECIDED TO FOLLOW JESUS 

HERE I AM TO WORSHIP 

Morning Star/Day Star/Phosphoros

 

PHOSPHOROS

(pronounced foce'-for-os)

MORNING STAR/LIGHT-BRINGER

2 Peter 1:19

We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a Lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and The Morning Star rises in your hearts. 

    As this world in which we live gets darker, The Light of Christ within the steadfast believer must shine ever brighter. But in order to do that we must first not only have The Light of Christ within us, but The Spirit of God as well. 

    In the parable of The Ten Virgins who waited for the arrival of the bridegroom, only half of them were ready when he arrived. This may well be the state of the church when Christ arrives for His bride. Many will await His arrival, perhaps even call out, "Come, Lord Jesus, Come!" and still not be prepared when He is sent by The Father to come and get us. 

    Now is the time to increase the oil in our lamps. Now is the hour to be filled with God's Holy Spirit, that we may not only be ready then, but ready now. Before we draw our last breath in this life, there is much work yet to be done. Only God knows when our times are up, so ever alert we must remain. And in His fields we must work.

    At last count the whole Holy Bible had been translated into 736 languages. The New Testament has been translated into 1,658 and portions of The Bible into 1,264 languages. Until the whole world hears, until the last person who has heard the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ has heard it and believed it, we must continue to share the gospel with everyone we meet. 

    Have you received Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is God's only begotten Son? that He died on the cross in your place, taking the punishment meant for you? that He conquered death, hell and the grave and walked out of the grave? Do you believe that God loves you so very much that He sent His only begotten Son to do this so that you and I would not perish in our sins? 

    Today is your day of salvation. Today is the day The Morning Star can arise in your hearts and begin to remove all the darkness from within it: every sin-stain, every blemish, every dark thought and action that has separated you from God. Today is your day of repentance, your day of forgiveness, your day of becoming a child of God. 

    John 3:14-18

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must The Son of Man be lifted up: That whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. 

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believes on Him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in The Name of The only begotten Son of God.

IF WE'VE EVER NEEDED YOU -Casting Crowns

HERE I AM TO WORSHIP - Hillsong

 

PSALM 119:105

Thy Word is a Lamp unto my feet, and a Light unto my path. 

    John 1:1-4

In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God. The Same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was Life; and the Life was The Light of men.  

    John 8:12

Then spoke Jesus again to them, saying, "I Am The Light of the world: he that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but will have The Light of Life." 

    Have you seen The Light? Are you a sinner saved by grace, or do you still walk in the darkness of your own ways, your own self-centeredness? To walk in The Light is to live out our daily lives in the full assurance and knowledge that we belong to Jesus Christ, Who purchased us with His blood on the cross and gave us new life in Him when He walked out of the grave. 

    The Word of God is Jesus Christ. There is no other word that can reveal the will of God to us but Jesus Christ. There is no other name that can save our souls from eternal damnation but Jesus Christ.

     To have The Light of Life--Jesus Christ--as one's personal Savior is to recognize sin for what it is: disobedience to God's Word, God's laws, God's precepts, God's Way and God's will. This is the first part of a repentant heart. 

    To have The Light of Life is to acknowledge with humble hearts our wrongdoings and confess them aloud to God, whether we are at the altar in our churches, sitting in our cars, kneeling at our bedsides: wherever we are when The Spirit tugs at our heartstrings revealing The Light of The Word to us, that's when and where we pray to The God who loves us and sent His Son Jesus Christ to die for us.

    To have The Light of Life is to stop committing the sinful things and do the obedient things which God has prepared for us to do as our way of life. When He says to do a certain act or think a certain way and we don't, then that is sin. When He says not to do a certain thing or not say or think ungodly words or thoughts, then that, too, is sin. 

    To have The Light of Life is to forgive anyone who has wronged us and to go to anyone we have wronged and forgive them. For without forgiveness to each other and one another, we cannot be forgiven by God. 

    To have The Light of Life is know godly sorrow for our sins. It is seeking out God in His Word personally, if we are able to attain any part of The Bible for ourselves. It is to hear God's Word being preached, taking into our hearts and applying it to our lives through the power of God's Holy Spirit, Whom we all desperately need within us, leading us through God's Holy Word and growing us in God's kingdom.

    To have The Light of Life is to walk in newness of life. For our souls have been redeemed by God's grace: we are new creations, we have been born again: we are made new. And because we are new, we need to learn how to walk God's paths in God's Light: seeing clearly and understanding with clarity of thought; developing a heart that follows The Word of God with love and joy. 

    To have The Light of Life is to be a Philippians 4:8 thinker. It is learning to live Philippians 4:12, as well as many other verses which will guide us into living a changed heart and mind lifestyle. 

    No more do we have to walk in the darkness of this world. No more must we live like the rest of this old world lives. We have The Light of The World living in us through the power of God's Holy Spirit. And now we are the light of the world, because we bring The Light of Life to all who will hear us, when we speak the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ. 

JESUS IS THE LIGHT - Carman

LIGHTS SHINE BRIGHT - TobyMac 

    

Great Is Your Mercy

 

PSALM 86:13

Great is Your Mercy toward me: You have delivered my soul from the lowest hell. 

Psalm 56:13

For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in The Light of Life.

John 8:12

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am The Light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have The Light of Life.”

    As long as I remain in The Light of God's Love, I can see clearly enough to know that God is with me and will not abandon me to my own follies. His grace, after all, is "sufficient for me".     The Lord is, as David writes in Psalm 27:1, "My Light and My Salvation, and My Strength of Life." The Lord is with me and I am content.

    

    See how David writes that The Lord God has delivered him from 'the lowest hell'? The very bottom of hell, where no light pierces. All is darkness, despair and hopelessness. His soul was in a very dark place. But God reached down when David reached up and lifted him out of the worst of the worst. Why? Because God loved David and David loved God.

    He faith in His God remained strong despite all the troubles and pitfalls David found himself in. This great faith can be ours, too. We just need to reach up to God, with our praises and prayers, and He will lift us up out of the dark places we find ourselves in from time to time.

    It's lonely in those dark places. A person would begin to believe they are all alone; that no one loves them or even thinks about them. No one reaches out to rescue them from the darkness and discouragement. It appears to the lost or lonely soul that they are the only ones to experience such thoughts. Not so, for even the faithful believer has to battle the thoughts that threaten their souls.

    Let us open our hearts and our mouths, lift our hands and begin to praise God right here, wherever you are, with every breath that is within us. Give God the glory. Give God adoration. Give God you. And you will find yourselves walking in His Light.