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35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. - John 12:35-36.

You are the light, we are the light Jesus said. What is the light? It is him that is in you, and how does that light so shine? We, the born again have in these earthen vessels a treasure and that treasure is the light. Christ in you is the light and believers shed the light in the world. Everything they do should be toward being light in a dark world. On the outside the world can look ok at times. It seems to rock along ok but underneath all of the world's exterior is a place so dark it can be unimaginable to the human mind. That is where we set our light.

Religions of the world are at a peak, every group has some kind of agenda for propagating their cause. The search for freedom can become a religion and lead away from the true freedom that is only found in Christ Life knowledge. Whatever your cause is it can be a distraction away from the deepest understanding in God which is Christ in you. Why is that so powerful to humanity? Because everything anyone is looking for is found in Christ. The peace, joy, hope, happiness, love, light, and the knowing. No longer in darkness but delivered to be light, salt, and back in the world to disperse the darkness. What did Paul say "my little children whom I travail with until Christ be formed in you." We are a message, you bring forth the word as we are. As you grow your responsibility will be to bring forth the word in you, the understanding that it is in you. Christ the word lives by the word.

The word of God is so powerful it transforms lives into liver's of the word, life givers to a lost and sick world. I'm all for freedom of speech, without it we could not preach the word, but that freedom is found in living the word, being a light by the word. You will never find what you are looking for by pushing your cause. It will be the opposite of what you are looking for, instead of freedom in mind you will be bound by a cause and freedom will elude you all the days of your life. Everyone is right today, no one can say huh may be I need to search the scriptures or sit and listen more. We kind of look down on some movements of God through the years because we don't understand them.

I'm thinking about a certain denomination for example. Back in the day you had to be able to preach two hours to become one of their ministers. What that did was to keep their ministers in the word of God. They had to have something to say, and they had to qualify by preaching two hours. So what the world needs is the word of life, they don't need my agenda and my ways they need the word of life coming out of the church because that is where the word of life is "in the church." In the people, it is not in a building, buildings hold people but the word of life is in the people. We are the light and it lights the path of the lost to come to the word of life. Praise God.
 

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addressing the OP.
good topic. putting it simply, Jesus is the Light of the world, and we shine because of him in us.
what is Light and Darkness here? metaphorically spealikg LIGHT is KNOWLEDGE, and DARKNESS is IGNORANCE, or a lack of knowledge. and what's the breaking point that separate the Two? UNDERSTANDING, or WISDOM. Christ is the WISDOM, that made all things. he is KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING, meaning he is the CREATOR and Author of all things.

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Religions of the world are at a peak, every group has some kind of agenda for propagating their cause. The search for freedom can become a religion and lead away from the true freedom that is only found in Christ Life knowledge. .


well one can make a religion out of anything one does religiously. and human history on what was worshiped is petty much anything they can think of.

thing is today the worship is self, and how righteous self is, in the judgement of what is good and evil for one's self. and that my friend is what is corrupting what is today's organized Christianity. a lot like in Ezekiel's day:

Eze_14:3  Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

you can't get away with worshiping inanimate objects to the masses, in the "free world", but worshiping one's own love faith and hopes and demanding entitlements to the fulfillment of them like gods, is what's going on. they are so in love with themselves and their wants and dreams they can't see the truth if it slap them in the face, because the truth is offensive to them and contrary to what they know ought to be in their own judgement. hence being their own gods they trust what they think and what they believe because they know what they think, and their hearts drive them to it. mankind by default without God intervention in the affairs of man is the days of Noah:

Gen 6:5  And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 

this is the way of human nature, and the only time they would give it a thought toward the Lord is to seek justification to deny the Lord God and His Ways.

its the Lord's intervention that keeps mankind from reaching man's final destiny as a world.
 
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well one can make a religion out of anything one does religiously. and human history on what was worshiped is petty much anything they can think of.

thing is today the worship is self, and how righteous self is, in the judgement of what is good and evil for one's self. and that my friend is what is corrupting what is today's organized Christianity. a lot like in Ezekiel's day:

Eze_14:3  Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

you can't get away with worshiping inanimate objects to the masses, in the "free world", but worshiping one's own love faith and hopes and demanding entitlements to the fulfillment of them like gods, is what's going on. they are so in love with themselves and their wants and dreams they can't see the truth if it slap them in the face, because the truth is offensive to them and contrary to what they know ought to be in their own judgement. hence being their own gods they trust what they think and what they believe because they know what they think, and their hearts drive them to it. mankind by default without God intervention in the affairs of man is the days of Noah:

Gen 6:5  And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 

this is the way of human nature, and the only time they would give it a thought toward the Lord is to seek justification to deny the Lord God and His Ways.

its the Lord's intervention that keeps mankind from reaching man's final destiny as a world.

Yes it is true, but the world is fixed in their ways by nature. You cannot expect them to live any other way. The new nature will allow for new creation change
 
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Yes it is true, but the world is fixed in their ways by nature. You cannot expect them to live any other way. The new nature will allow for new creation change
correct, 100% for the NATURAL man receive not the things of God because it's foolishness to him.
1 Corinthians 2:11 "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God."
1 Corinthians 2:12 "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God."
1 Corinthians 2:13 "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
1 Corinthians 2:14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."
1 Corinthians 2:15 "But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man."
1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ."

you're on point Soul man.

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We are the light and it lights the path of the lost to come to the word of life. Praise God.

You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.

Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house.

Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.


Peace be with you!
 
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Yes it is true, but the world is fixed in their ways by nature. You cannot expect them to live any other way. The new nature will allow for new creation change

that's presumed, thing is, many believe human nature is virtuous in the sense of righteousness and what is good. hence they are good in their own eyes.
 
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that's presumed, thing is, many believe human nature is virtuous in the sense of righteousness and what is good. hence they are good in their own eyes.

True, they may need to read the book a little more but doesn't change facts. Beliefs are all different what doesn't change is the word of God. People put alot of stock in what they believe and it means very little to the father, a 1001 denominations exsist doesn't matter, only the word. In whom you believe will go alot further than what you believe.
 

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True, they may need to read the book a little more but doesn't change facts. Beliefs are all different what doesn't change is the word of God. People put alot of stock in what they believe and it means very little to the father, a 1001 denominations exsist doesn't matter, only the word. In whom you believe will go alot further than what you believe.

yes in the Kingdom of God its about what God thinks and says, not what anyone else thinks and says. most seek for the agreeable to them but who seeks what is agreeable to the Lord God.
 

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yes in the Kingdom of God its about what God thinks and says, not what anyone else thinks and says. most seek for the agreeable to them but who seeks what is agreeable to the Lord God.

Don't get me wrong, what a person believes will have an impact on lifestyle. I think we feel like maybe God will side with me if I really get this believing thing down. But what happens is God never changes so you really have to come to not take yourself to seriously. But this message is all about living life as a Christ-person, a Christian. A Christ-ain is someone with Christ in them, that is the Christ we need to know because you cannot live anything you don't know. The mind will continue in what it knows all the day's of our life. Training the mind is a deep truth in God that has to be revealed to the mind. When I try to get it all right so I feel better about myself you lose the life that is in you. That is a trait of the old man syndrome mind that hasn't been renewed. It is the old mind trying to live a new life, some can make it work for a while but that is not the plan of God. The simple version of reason and purpose for creation is; before the foundations of the world God decided he wanted more son's by the one son in them. We are son's by Christ in us, not what we do or believe! So simple, the hungry heart of a believer brings them to that knowledge, nudged along by the Holyspirit.
 

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Don't get me wrong, what a person believes will have an impact on lifestyle. I think we feel like maybe God will side with me if I really get this believing thing down. But what happens is God never changes so you really have to come to not take yourself to seriously. But this message is all about living life as a Christ-person, a Christian. A Christ-ain is someone with Christ in them, that is the Christ we need to know because you cannot live anything you don't know. The mind will continue in what it knows all the day's of our life. Training the mind is a deep truth in God that has to be revealed to the mind. When I try to get it all right so I feel better about myself you lose the life that is in you. That is a trait of the old man syndrome mind that hasn't been renewed. It is the old mind trying to live a new life, some can make it work for a while but that is not the plan of God. The simple version of reason and purpose for creation is; before the foundations of the world God decided he wanted more son's by the one son in them. We are son's by Christ in us, not what we do or believe! So simple, the hungry heart of a believer brings them to that knowledge, nudged along by the Holyspirit.

again that is presumed in this conversation, move on to the next level.