Jesus
is the Light and Life of the world.[1]
In Jesus
was life, and His life gave light to all humankind – both men and women.[2] Jesus
is the Author of Life, Bread of Life, and Giver of Life as He holds the keys to
life and death.[3]
The prophet Isaiah saw Jesus’s glorious Light in the Old Testament.[4] The
Gospel writer John called Jesus the bread or manna of God that came down from
heaven who gives nourishing and abundant life.[5] Jesus
gives new life and a rebirth for those who believe and look to Him in faith as
Lord.[6] Jesus
is the Lifegiving Spirit.[7]
Both
God the Father and Jesus have and give life and light to the world as One.[8] Like
His Father – the Sovereign LORD God, Jesus is the Light and Life of the world.[9] Jesus
is the radiance and brightness of God’s glory and the exact representation of God’s
being.[10] The
apostles of Jesus saw Jesus’s light and life.[11]
Even more, the Apostle Paul personally saw the great Light of Jesus on the
Damascus Road.[12]
The living LORD God sent His Son Jesus as a Light to shine in this dark world
so that all who put their trust in Him will no longer remain in Satan’s
darkness but live in His gracious Light.[13]
Satan cannot overtake Jesus’s Light.[14] Jesus’
great light shined through the darkness, and the darkness could NEVER
conquer, quench, nor accept Jesus’ light.[15]
Jesus
is the great Light, the Day, and Sun of Righteousness predicted by the Old
Testament prophets that came from heaven with healing rays, righteousness, and
peace.[16] The
Holy Scriptures call Jesus the great and glorious Daylight, Morning Dawn, and
Sunlight in the beginning of creation, and He shines like His Father – the
Sovereign LORD God.[17]
Jesus has NO darkness within Him as He is good and separated from
darkness of the Night.[18] One day, the New
Jerusalem will need no sun or moon because the glory of God will give the city
light, and this light is the Jesus the Lamb.[19] Darkness
and the Night are all associated with the Evil One – Satan and Satan’s evil
minions.[20]
Satan is the god of this world and those who reject Jesus as Lord.[21] Jesus
is NOT the sun because the living LORD God created the sun on the fourth day.[22]
The Holy Scriptures are clear: God forbids the worship of all the forces of
heaven — the
sun, moon, and stars as these are just created things and NOT the Creator.[23]
The
Holy Bible teaches that Jesus gives real and abundant life to everyone that
obeys and follows Him as Lord.[24] Through faith in Jesus, WE FIND TRUE, ABUNDANT, SPIRIT-FILLED,
and a RESTORED LIFE both NOW and for all ETERNITY because Jesus is the Author
and Savior of Life.[25] This is the testimony, that God gives us life
now and eternal life, and this life is through faithfulness and obedience
to His Son, Jesus.[26] Truly knowing and understanding the living LORD
God and His Son Jesus mean accepting, obeying, and faithfully depending upon
the Father and His Son Jesus as LORD.[27] Everyone who
believes and obeys Jesus has everlasting life and light from God.[28]
Followers of Jesus are called to walk daily in this new life and light.[29]
Even
more, we are saved from God’s wrath and judgment through faith in His Son,
Jesus.[30] Whoever
has the God’s Son Jesus has life; whoever does not have Jesus does not have
life but God’s wrath and judgment.[31] This is the way
to the real and eternal life: knowing and believing in the Heavenly
Father – the one and only true living God – and His Son Jesus as the Christ
sent from His Father.[32]
[1]
John 1:4-5, 9; John 4:14; John 8:12; John 9:5; see also Isaiah 9:1-2; Isaiah
42:6; Isaiah 49:6; Luke 2:32.
[2]
John 1:4-5; see also Genesis 1:3; John 11:25-26; 1 John 1:5; 1 John 5:11-12.
[3]
See e.g., John 1:4; John 3:15-16, 36; John 4:14, 36; John 5:21; John 6:27, 33,
35, 39-40, 47-48, 50-51, 53-54; 68; John 8:12; John 10:10, 25, 28; John
11:25-26; John 14:6; Acts 3:15; Acts 5:31-32; 1 Corinthians 15:22, 45; Revelation
1:18.
[4]
See e.g., Isaiah 9:1-2; Isaiah 40:5; Isaiah 60:1-3, 19-20.
[5]
See John 6:35.
[6]
See John 3:3-8, 14-17.
[7]
See e.g., John 5:21; 1 Corinthians 15:45.
[8]
see Deuteronomy 6:4-6; Psalm 36:9; Psalm 104:2; John 5:26; John 10:30, 38; John
11:25; John 17:2-3, 11, 21; Colossians 3:4; 1 Timothy 6:13-16; 1 John 1:1, 5.
[9]
See e.g., Psalm 104:1-2; John 1:1-5; John 8:12; John 9:5; John 12:46; John 14:6;
1 Timothy 6:16.
[10]
See e.g., John 1:14; John 17:5, 22, 24; Hebrews 1:3.
[11]
See e.g., 1 John 1:1-4.
[12]
See e.g., Acts 9:3-5; Acts 22:6-8; Acts 26:13-15.
[13]
See e.g., John 1:4; John 3:19; John 8:12; John 9:5; John 12:35-36, 46.
[14]
See e.g., John 1:5; John 3:19
[15]
See e.g., John 1:5; John 3:19-20; John 8:12.
[16]
See e.g., Isaiah 9:1-2; Isaiah 42:6-7; Isaiah 49:6; Isaiah 53:5; Isaiah 60:1-2,
19-20; Malachi 4:2; Matthew 4:14-16; Luke 1:78-79; Luke 2:32; Matthew 17:1-2;
Acts 26:22-23; 1 Thessalonians 5:4-8; 2 Peter 1:19; Revelation 1:16.
[17]
See e.g., Genesis 1:3-5; Habakkuk 3:3-4; Matthew 17:2; Luke 1:78-79; John 1:5;
John 8:12; 2 Corinthians 4:4-6; Revelation 22:5.
[18]
See e.g., Genesis 1:3-5; 1 John 1:5-7; John 12:46.
[19]
Revelation 21:23-24; Revelation 22:5; see also Isaiah 60:19-20; 1 Timothy 6:16.
[20]
See e.g., John 3:19-21; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Ephesians 5:11, 13; Ephesians 6:12.
[21]
See e.g., 2 Corinthians 4:4.
[22]
See e.g., Genesis 1:14-19; Deuteronomy 4:19.
[23]
See e.g., Deuteronomy 4:19; Deuteronomy 17:3; 2 Kings 17:16; Isaiah 40:26;
Romans 1:24-25.
[24]
See e.g., John 1:4-5; John 10:10-11, 27-28; John 11:25-26; John 17:3.
[25]
See e.g., John 1:4-5; John 3:15-16; John 4:14; John 5:21; John 6:39-40, 44; John
10:9-10; John 11:25; John 14:6; John 20:30-31; Acts 3:15; Acts 4:12; Acts 5:31;
1 Corinthians 15:22.
[26]
John 1:4; see also John 17:3; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:11.
[27]
See e.g., Jeremiah 9:23-24,
[28]
See e.g., John 3:16, 18, 36; John 6:47-48.
[29]
See e.g., Ephesians 5:8, 14-15; 1 Thessalonians 5:4-8; 1 John 1:5-7.
[30]
See e.g., John 5:24; John 6:47.
[31]
See e.g., John 3:15-16, 18, 36; John 6:47; 1 John 5:11-12, 20.
[32]
See Jeremiah 10:10; John 5:44; John 17:2-3; John 20:30-31; Romans 16:27; 1
Timothy 1:17; 1 John 5:20.
