Walking in the Light
Walking in the Light
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this program is brought to you in part by the partners and Friends of prow Dollar Ministries coming up next on changing your world you are getting better and you are growing and your state is catching up with your stance every day of your life because of the Holy Spirit he’s taking desires away from you that you used to have you are on a journey and you are being successful because of the holy spirit amen but you’re never going to walk in darkness again you’re in the light how can you ever walk in the darkness when you’re in
the light you’re never going to walk in darkness again that old man You’ll Never Walk with that again that’s gone that’s gone you’re not perfect and that’s the thing I say to people who want to be judgmental of other people saying I want to like okay how was you how was your last week download and stay connected with the changing your world podcast with crlo dollar keep the word of God at the Forefront of your mind with these powerful and uplifting messages with each message that you download and
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to the book of uh St John chapter 1 St John chapter 1 and uh when you get to St John chapter 1 let’s look at verse 6-9 I um I dropped a bom on y’all last week when I told you you’re not the light of the world and I I felt like what I need to do is kind of back up a little bit and teach you into this so that uh you won’t get in trouble with your mama talking about don’t tell me I ain’t the light of the world I know I’m the light of the world you might not be the light of the world uh so that we can we can see this
but I found a statement and I I wanted to really start off with tonight and it says that the First Fundamental message of those who witness Grace is not a message of condemning sin but of proclaiming that sin is taken away by the Lamb of God and we have to understand that it is by Jesus alone that it’s taken away that man contributes nothing to it that this grace is of the fullness of Christ and upon this Grace there is also Grace for daily living on this Earth and there is Grace that’s going to be revealed at the
appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ now with that in mind I want to talk to you tonight about walking in the light what does that mean I have heard over the years so many Mis uh interpretations and references concerning the light and and and we need to find out contextually what this means you know when you again when you take things out of context and just kind of kind of go with it you you end up in all kinds of weird places and the one of the reasons why we’re talking about The Book of John in in context is it’s because John
prophetically saw a lot of amazing things about the grace of God out of all those who wrote the Gospel I tell you John really tapped into something you know you can see why Revelations God could use them for that book as well he really tapped into this so let’s look at St John chapter one and beginning at verse 6 and n and we’re going to look at this this area of the life verse 6-9 verse 6 says there was a man sent from God whose name was John now this John he’s referring to is John the Baptist okay not John the writer here
but John the Baptist he says the same Came John came for a witness and John was to Bear witness of the light all right now we know that the light here is referring to to Jesus Christ okay and he was sent to Bear witness of the light that all men through him all men through the light believing in light might believe and John the Baptist was sent to Bear witness he said he was not that light John the Baptist was not that light okay but John the Baptist was sent to Bear witness of that light see that pretty clear right he said uh that was the True
Light referring to Jesus which lith every man that cometh into the world now you you you automatically know that you’re going to have to rightly divide the word when you read this in John and it’s very clear that John the Baptist that man was not Delight but here’s here’s something that’s even more important Jesus is referred to as the light now under grace man is not the light of the world and that statement is so important under grace he is not the light of the world only the word that was with God that’s
Jesus and the word that was God that’s Jesus is the light of the world during the age of Grace now I’ve said something so amazing amazing here cuz we’re talking about now uh in in the grace dispensation that no man man is not the light and we heard it very clearly as John be to foresee this that Jesus is that light now the reason why I say it is I’m going to take you to a place in the scriptures in Matthew 5 where it sounds like the contradiction and you remember I told you we’ve got to start
dealing with the contradictions and right now I I feel like I’m on a roll I’m trying to find every contradiction I can find and resolve the contradiction and in my you know me doing that you know now I’m controversial because I’m dealing with the controversy all right the contradiction that’s in the Bible but go to Matthew Chapter 5 and verse 14 and 16 Matthew chap 5 verse 14 and 16 I thought about this last Wednesday I said my God I just dropped that on everybody and left you know like what we ain’t the
light I what what about you know let your light shine that’s what we getting ready to read don’t shine your light Let It Shine and we made a s Let It Shine Shine This little light light of mine that my best song favorite song you know now watch this Matthew 5:14 look carefully you are the light of the world that’s already a contradiction to what we just read in John you are the light of the world a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid verse 16 let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works ah all
now notice now let your light shine before men so they can see your good works so this light and good works are going together here let your light shine before men so they can see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven all right now if we look at the dispensation of Grace it is not our good works that glorifies God it is our belief in him that glorifies God so let’s let’s break this down a little bit this was a condition under the law and that that the good works were the works of the
law it’s it’s it’s very clear here the good works these are the works of the law somebody says how would you say that well in verse 17 just move right on down to verse 17 Jesus is talking about I have not come think not that I am come to destroy the law okay or the prophets I am not come to destroy the law of the prophets but to fulfill so right there he’s telling us us that in context this good works let your light shine so that men might see your good works and glorify God that is not true under the
dispensation of Grace while it was true under the law and so and uh under the law God was glorified by the good works of man but under grace all witness must be concerning the light under grace everything is about Jesus Jesus under grace everything is about the light under the law it was the good works of men that glorified God under the grace of God it was the light it was the son of God and it is definitely caution to us that man is not the light we see that in John chap 1 and8 he came to be a witness to the light but Jesus is the
light the Son of God is the light now you see why it was necessary for me to talk to you about that because you know your M and them going to go get the Bible and say see there it is right there Josephine right there in Matthew Chapter 5 I am the light of the world and that’s why we we oh my goodness you understand why I teach homiletics on Sunday morning because we have to rightly divide the word of Truth what was true under this uh this uh dispensation of the law may not be true under the dispens of Grace what was true
under the Old Testament it may not be true under the new for example the Old Testament the Bible talks about in Hebrews 10:1 the shadow of those things that are to come all right well most of the Old Testament is nothing but Shadows that point to Jesus somebody’s got to be responsible for casting a shadow I’m working on a sermon I call Jesus the shadow Caster amen he’s the one that cast The Shadow and they’ll UST ation I want to give you is that in the old Covenant you see people talking about
the Sabbath and the Sabbath in the Old Testament represented a day but then you come over to the New Covenant and it says the Sabbath is no longer a day the Sabbath is Jesus Jesus under the New Covenant is our Sabbath so if we’re going to deal with the contradictions we got to make sure we understand how to rightly divide between what happened and what was true before Jesus went to the cross and what is true after he went to the Cross we’ve got to understand what was true uh when you’re dealing with
shadows versus what the Shadows pointing to in the old Covenant we’ve got to understand what is true under the dispensation of the law versus the dispensation of Grace and when you can rightly divide those you can easily Rectify situations right here that we’re looking at and you don’t get confused now think about when you didn’t understand what I just explained to you and you understand that now think about what you would have done with somebody saying you are not the light and you said yes I am Matthew 5 says I’m the
light and then they and then somebody says no you not John chapter one say he the light you follow what I’m saying and then there’s a split because of the light now we got Jesus is the Light Christian chrisan Center and I’m the Light Christian Center that’s how all of that started because we didn’t understand how to rightly divide the word of Truth you got to understand that and and I and I’m looking at this uh I I I finally found a scripture that’s why I got a book I’ve been working on for three years I didn’t
release it cuz I couldn’t find this this this particular scripture and I found this scripture that plainly said that you do understand that everything that was written so far is not everything that it was just information right there but it’s pointing to what is getting ready to happen you don’t have the whole story now so the revelation of Jesus Christ is a progressive revelation you first see the shadow of Jesus as all the Shadows eventually point you to the one who’s cast in The Shadow all right
MDC was a shadow he was the high priest of the most high God that was a shadow or a signpost pointing to Jesus our high priest Jesus is our mzc so when we read the old Covenant we we’ve got to all we got to do is follow the shadow pointing to Jesus and then back up and you begin to to to see what you need to see here now I did want to take this a little a little further since we talking about the light and and and we know who the light is look at John 8 verse vers 12 John 8 and verse 12 now this is interesting here because
now this is going to be dealing with your performance versus you know who Jesus is who is the light all right now verse 12 says this he says then spake Jesus again unto them and look what he said I am the light of the world my gosh did you see that huh did you see that what Jesus say what Jesus say Jesus say I’m the light of the world now you the light no you you the light of the world well is you or is you’re not the light of the world you I’m saying he spake Jesus again said I am the light of the
world he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of what life okay so today we don’t need to be afraid of his light because when we enter that light in the New Birth the new birth is how we enter that light we enter Christ himself so basically when we enter that light or we enter Christ or the day we get born again we enter that light now that light does not expose our sin it reveals the Perfection of the blood of Jesus in taking our sins away the light doesn’t EXP Expos the
sin the light reveals how the blood of Jesus has taken your sins away so you have to be careful cuz we love to use human illustrations to try to figure out God and then not working here well we going to shine the light you better watch out the light going to shine on your sin and then we going no he he don’t need to shine no light on your sin he already know your sin right but when you enter in when you get born again you become a Christian you’ve entered into the light you’re because Jesus is the light okay and when
you enter into Jesus who is the light you don’t have to be afraid of the light exposing your sins because what the light is going to do is reveal glory to God the power of the blood of Jesus and how he has remove your sins and what happens is you become enlightened to the grace and truth that that that happened to you when you got born again hallelujah praise God all right now so in John 8:12 you see this phrase shall not walk in darkness you see that shall not walk in darkness I was so blown away for the
believer who is in Christ now th those of you who are born again tonight say I’m in Christ I’m in Christ and to be in Christ also means you’re in what you’re in the light right say I’m in the light I’m in the light because I’m in Christ because I’m in Christ all right now for the believer who is in Christ or in the light I’m going to say something is really really strong and controversial it’s cool truth is controversy you understand just because something’s controversial don’t mean
that it’s wrong or it’s bad but Truth by itself is controversy and and here it is once you’re in Christ once you’re in the light it is impossible to walk in darkness ever again y y’all easing into the amen praise the Lord if you say so R Praise Jesus hop hop Hallelujah I tell you I had the same reaction and I couldn’t stop right there I’m like okay hold on I am the light of the world Jesus said he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life and so I’m saying to you that you
who are in Christ it is not possible for you to ever again walk in darkness now we still sin but we will never be in darkness again think on that a little bit now now now now now again let me let me let me turn it back on you you I dare you to act like you shot when I say we still sin uh you are getting better and you are growing and your state is catching up with your stance every day of your life because of the Holy Spirit he’s taking desires away from you that you used to have you are on a journey and you are
being successful because of the Hool ho Spirit but you’re never going to walk in darkness again you’re in the light how can you ever walk in the darkness when you’re in the light you’re never going to walk in darkness again that old man You’ll Never Walk with that again that’s gone that’s gone you’re not perfect and that’s the thing I say to people who want to be judgmental of other people sin I want to like okay how was you how was your last week well I ain’t did the Big 10 yeah
