16th Post - The Light of the World.

The Bible verses we looked at are as follows: John 8:12; John 9:4-5; John 11: 9-10; John 12:35-36; and John 11: 25-26.
These passages are all from John, they come toward the end of Jesus' earthly ministry, before He goes to the cross. Jesus likens the darkness to sin, on the one hand and then applies the coming darkness to His coming death when He will leave this world and go back to Heaven. Jesus came into the world to save it from sin. Sin was brought into the world through the fall of Adam and Eve (Genesis chapter 3). Since the fall, all mankind has had a sinful nature. It is this nature that causes us to do things contrary to God. God gave the Law to Moses as part in the 10 Commandments. These were to be guides to show us how to live as individuals. God gave Moses another part of the Law to show us how to live in a society (this is found in Deuteronomy). If you look at any society they have rules that the people living in that society agree to live by. If you look at these laws you will see that some pertain to us and some to God. This means we can victimize others and God if we choose to break these commands. When we victimize others, they will speak out and demand satisfaction. God on the other hand is not as vocal as we are. We take God's silence as a sort of silent approval; we say well, He didn't disapprove. The problem is that He does disapprove and He tells us in the Bible through His Word. This is why in the Old Testament God raised up prophets to speak for Him, when the office of High Priest was not speaking for God. To be continued next post.