The Names and Titles of Jesus – Jesus The Light
of the World – Episode 95
This series of the names and titles of Jesus will give us a more in-depth understanding of Jesus Christ our Lord. This is the fourth in the series. The following is an outline.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made.4In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it. 6There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7He came as a witness to testify concerning that light so that through him all might believe. 8He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 9The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.10He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—13children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15(John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”) 16Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. 17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. and[b] is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
Jesus THE LOGOS
HE IS THE REASON WHY FOR EVERYTHING
Colossians 1:16
For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.
Jesus The Word = Logos
Light – Life – Truth
Jesus the Light of the World
1 John 1:5
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
Psalm 36:9
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
1 Timothy 6:16
He alone is immortal and dwells in unapproachable light. No one has ever seen Him, nor can anyone see Him. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen
Nothing is a coincidence with God – everything he’s created can all be traced back to Jesus the
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome
Throughout the Old Testament, we have this promise of a great light that comes into the world and would push back the darkness of the world.
Prophecies
Isaiah chapter 9
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone” (v. 2).
In Isaiah 49 God says in relation to Messiah, the Servant of the Lord, He said: “I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth” (v. 6).
Isaiah 60: Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord [Jehovah] will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you (vv. 1–2).
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the Only-begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Σκηνόω Dwelt =(tabernacled)
Jesus the light of the World
John 1:18
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side [Jesus, the Logos/Word of God], he has made him known.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” [that God who spoke in Genesis 1] has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God [how?] in the face of Jesus Christ [the Logos, the Word].
After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.
4 Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.”
5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”
12 I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man, [d] dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. 14The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing … His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.
Philippians 2
15so that you will [i]prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you [j]appear as [k]lights in the world,
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE LIGHT ARE THE GLORY OF GOD
John chapter 1: 6-13
- Jesus the light of the world and the glory of God
- God is zealous for his glory
- The heavens declare the glory of God
- The sun is our light by day that warms, lightens and gives us life
- The moon gives us a testimony of the light of the sun with its reflection
- That brings me to John’s statement about John the Baptizer not being the light but a reflection of the glory of the true light Jesus Christ
John the Baptist
Matthew 11:11
Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist;…
- John the Baptist The light and Glory
- John contrasted to Jesus
- Jesus was in the beginning with God – John was sent from God
- Jesus was God – John was a man
- Jesus was the light – John was a reflection of the light
- Jesus was the fulfillment of the law and prophets –John terminated the prophets and law
God has called us not just to survive in this world, but to be light that pushes back the darkness
- Jesus is the Light of the world
- He’s the “Star come out of Jacob” that we read about in Numbers 24:17
- He’s the sun of righteousness risen with healing in His wings in Malachi 4:2
- He’s the One that John saw in Revelation 1:16 whose face was like the sun shining in full strength.
- He’s the bright morning star we read about in Revelation 22:16.
The Lamb, the Light of the world
One day He will return. There will be one final great sunrise. And then there will be no more sunrises. We read in Revelation 21 about the new Jerusalem. This city “has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb [the Lamb, the Light of the world] and [the] gates [of that city] will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there” (vv. 21–23).
As I studied this lesson on Jesus is light and in that light His life studied light itself the sun for instance gives us son gives us life and it is pure energy of God never does anything by coincidence the word is not even in the Hebrew language and so the sun is shoo-in that gives us life is also unapproachable if we got close to it we would be destroyed and so it is with God Timothy said he lives in unapproachable light no man can approach God and live
Facts about Light
- The human eye sees specific areas of the spectrum, but other animals and insects can actually see parts of the spectrum that we can’t.
- Light travels in a vacuum at 300,000 km per second (186,000 miles per second).
- Space does not have any light. We can see things in space due to light bouncing off of the objects in space.
- Light is used by plants to convert the light into energy as their ‘food’. The process is called ‘photosynthesis’ and converts carbon dioxide through the energy of the light.
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