Jesus - the Light and Life

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Faith of Jesus Christ - I. Jesus – the Light and Life

Yesterday we learnt that Jesus Christ was created by God in His image. And because he had loved righteousness and hated iniquity God anointed him with the oil of gladness.

There are certain things which we need to focus to understand more about Jesus. When God created Him.

Colossians 1:15-17 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. For by him all things were created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consists.

Are we reading this right: All thrones, principalities, powers, dominions whether visible or invisible are created by God and for God? Yes, we need to understand something very important here – God is a good God –

Mark 10:18 No one is good but One, that is, God.

And everything that he created is and was and will be Good. Then you may question why then did Lucifer in the first rebelled against God? How could evil come out from God’s creation though he was after all created by God? Why this world has so much of hatred and corruptions?

When God created Beings - Angels or Humans - He has given them a Mind to understand and reason ie. the will of man.  He allowed them to have their personal choices- just like Adam and Eve everyone is given choices. Similarly, Lucifer was also created being (to know about the Fall of Lucifer click the link) and he has been given an understanding to choose what He wants for himself.

Matthew 15:19 “ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, theft, false withness, slanders.

Mark 7:21-22 “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.

Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

James 1:13-14 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

So do you understand sometimes when we sin or make a choice of wrong it is not always Mr. Satan but it is our “OWN HEART” – though Satan is the Father of Lies, yet there are times we ourselves create a breech by allowing our heart to sin and thereby allowing Satan to work in us. Satan devised in his heart evil – it was not God who made him Evil. Out of God only Good can compass. 

John 1:3-5 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. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Jesus Christ as we all know was with God in the beginning and everything that was created was made by him and for him. And it states in him was LIFE. Now I want you to dive back in the beginning at Genesis again, When the EARTH was VOID and Darkness was upon the face of the deep and God said let there be Light. We know what happened – There was Light.

My question to you, as we speak about Light – we understand morning happens because Sun rises, and Night occurs when Sun goes down. But these two dominating lights were created on the Fourth day (Read Genesis Chapter 1:1-19) Isn’t?  So what is this Light that was asked to reflect on the very first day? Now you are getting it right…

John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

So we see that Light appears the moment when God says Light – Jesus reflected himself for the World to bring Life…. Light is Jesus, in the beginning- bringing Life further to the creation. Isn’t is beautiful now to understand everything created including the Light is personifying Christ. All creations are subjected to him – in other words all things are seen and exist because he became the Light and the Life.  People worship Sun and Moon and the satrs.. but much before them there was and is a Light which has Life that Shines which created even them. Praise God !!!

So here we see Jesus, is the Creator, He is Light himself, He is Life, He is the Word which created everything – in totality Jesus is the Lord God of all. When we see throughout Old Testament- Jesus has been talked about in the form of Lord-God and Saviour, the Messiah.  As we studied in our previous blogs we have seen Jesus Christ as Lamb slained at the Garden of Eden. There are many other references that we have not talked about but will be discussing sometimes later where Jesus had been seen in the OLD Testament. But yes, we do know Christ is pictured as a An Ark of Noah, Passover lamb, and many many more… But I want you to draw your attention to one key point- other than the prophecies which was ever in Old Testament was Jesus called a Son of GOD? No.. He was addressed as God, as Lord but a promise of God which was given at the Garden to Adam was the seed- remember (Genesis 3:15) which was also recorded in the prophecies further through David, Isiah, Zachariah, Malachi and many more..

We will dive into more about knowing Jesus tomorrow…

Till then have a great day.. God bless you all…

Love

Tanvi Joseph