John 1:4-13
Jesus the Light
One of the things that makes this time of year so great is that we have the sun's light for so much longer.
Light is a common theme throughout the Bible, from beginning to end. In the 3rd verse in the whole Bible we read, "God said let there be light, and there was light." But then all the way on the other end of the Bible we read in Revelation, the last book of the Bible, chapter 21, verse 23, "The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp." Those will be long days! No more sunsets or sunrises.
But all the way through the Scriptures we read of light. God's word is described as light in Psalm 119. It says, "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple." God's word gives guidance and understanding.
But not only is God's Word light, God Himself is light. In 1 John 1, our same author says that, "God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all." James says that He is the Father of Lights. And the Psalms say that "God wraps Himself in light" and He is "resplendent with light". Paul tells Timothy in his first letter that God dwells in unapproachable light.
And as we read God's Word we come to see that light symbolizes truth and holiness.
As we continue with our study in the opening verses of John's gospel we see in chapter 1 verse 4 that "In Him was life, and that life was the light of men." Jesus Christ is the Light of men. He is the source of truth and holiness. He is truth in body. Holiness in body. He came in body to the world; God sent Him into the world to be the light for those living in darkness and so that those who are blind could see.
But see what? What is it that Jesus helps the blind to see? What is it that the world in it's darkness cannot see? The answer is the true knowledge of God. When Jesus prayed in John 17, he said in verse 3, "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." Jesus was sent by God so the world could see God and could know God. God has come to the world.
God has not abandoned the world. He is not far away from the world or no longer interested. He doesn't hate the world. As a matter of fact, God so loved the world according to John 3:16! He loves the world and His purpose is that the world would know Him.
Listen to what Paul says in Acts 17. He says that God made every nation from one man, and that God determined the times and the places that each man should live. Why did God do this? Paul explains for us in verse 17, "God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though HE IS NOT FAR FROM EACH ONE OF US." God is not far away but very, very near. One poet said "He is nearer than my own breath." In Psalm 139 King David says, "Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?" And the answer is no where. There is no place we can go and be out of the presence of God. Always and everywhere He is near.
I say all this because God's plan and purpose is that He would be known to men. That the "lights would go on" for men and they would see God's light. That's what the Psalmist said. In Psalm 36:9, David said, "In your light we see light." God's light gives us sight, so that we would know Him as He truly is and worship Him for who He truly is. That is His ultimate purpose for us.
Our text today is going to be John chapter 1, verses 4 through 13. (Read Passage). John tells us 4 things about the Light.
Victorious Light
First of all, He says that it is a Victorious Light. Notice verse 5, "The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it."
The world we live in is a world of darkness. And when the Bible talks about darkness, it most commonly refers to the spiritual ignorance and evil of this world. This world is called the domain of darkness (Col 1:13) and those who are in the darkness are those who reject Christ and are under the power of Satan (Acts 26:18). In 2 Corinthians 4:4 Satan is called "the god of this age who blinds the eyes of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Jesus Christ, who is the image of God."
Satan has blinded the eyes of the unbelievers in this world and he uses all of his power and all of his intelligence to keep them from ever seeing the light of Jesus Christ. If a person rejects Jesus Christ, then they are under Satan's power, they are in his domain, he is their god and their destiny is the same as his ---that is, UNTIL they receive Jesus Christ. It is then - and only then - that a person has crossed over from darkness to light - it is then that they have gone from death and to life.
You want to hear this promise from Jesus? In John chapter 5 verse 24 He says, "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my words and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life."
You're hearing His words today, and if you believe what does He say you will have? (Eternal life). What does he say will not happen to you? (You will not be condemned). What have you crossed over from? (Death). What have you crossed over into? (Life)! What life? His life! His eternal life, the life that John says is the light of men! You must believe to overcome the darkness and come into the light.
Now the word in verse 5 translated as "understood" is the Greek word "katalambano", which has two meanings. It can mean to understand, or comprehend something. It basically means 'you get it' and you have attained the knowledge. (NIV "understand", NASB, KJV "comprehend").
But the second meaning of this word katalambano is more hostile. It can mean to overcome, or to overtake. And it may be that John had this sense in mind when he wrote verse 5. Every other place he uses this word he uses it with the hostile sense.
Scripture tells us events that clearly show the dark forces of Satan know Jesus Christ. In Matthew 8:29, as Jesus approached two demon possessed men, listen to what they say, "What do you want with us, Son of God?' they shouted. 'Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?'" They knew who Jesus was, and they knew they had an appointed time with Him where their torture would come for their rebellion against the Eternal Light.
And then Mark 1 we see in verse 24 a demon possessed man stands up in the synagogue and interrupts Jesus sermon and cries out, "What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are - the Holy One of God!" And later in the chapter Mark says that Jesus was casting out all kinds of evil spirits and he would not permit them to speak "because they knew who he was" (verse 34).
Demons know who God is. They know who God's Son is. Darkness understands the identity of the Light, and they know they will not overcome the Light. They know that the Light has ultimate victory.
What about humans? Do they understand? Yes. John records in 5:18 and10:33 instances where the Jews were going to stone Jesus because they knew He was claiming to be the Son of God, sent by God and God in the flesh. In chapter19 verse 7, we see that the leaders of Israel knew Jesus claimed to be the Son of God and it was because of these claims that they demanded his death. They clearly understood that Jesus claimed to be God. That's why they crucified Him. It wasn't that they didn't understand, it was that they rejected what He said.
The Victorious Light of the life of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, will destroy the darkness. First John 1:8 says that "darkness is passing and the true light is already shining." It is shining in the world, and the darkness has not overcome it, it has not understood it. The Light, is victorious.
The Witness to the Light
So John says the Light is victorious over the darkness. Second, he says the Light has a witness. Notice verses 6-8, "There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light."
John the Baptist is one of the greatest men in the Bible. As a matter of fact, Jesus said in Matthew 11 verse 11, "I tell you the truth: Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist..." He is the last of those great men who were prophets in the OT, and before he came there were 400 years of silence. For 400 years God had not sent a prophet to the nation of Israel. You might say that they were in the dark until John the Baptist came.
His purpose was to announce the coming of the Christ. He was to declare to the nation of Israel that their Messiah was here, that He had come. Seven hundred years earlier, when the great prophet Isaiah said, "A voice of one calling: 'In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.'" It was John the Baptist he was speaking of! John is the voice of one crying in the desert. John is the one making straight the path for the Lord. He is the witness of the great Light of God, Christ Jesus the Messiah.
He was not the Light, but, he was the witness of the light. Everything John said was to point the attention and the spotlight onto Jesus Christ. He wasn't a man after self-glory. He wasn't trying to turn the spotlight on himself. Everything he did and said was so that all would see that Jesus is the Light of the world.
John the Baptist should really serve as an example to us as believers. Our words and our lives should be pointing always to Christ too. Everything about us should be an honor to His name. Ephesians 5:8 says, "For you were once in darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of the Light." Jesus confirms this in John 12:36 when He says that we become sons of light -- and James says our Father is the Father of lights. His light is in us and is to be shining out of us. Like John the Baptist, we are not the true lights either, but, we have the true light in us and are witnesses of the true light.
Doesn't it remind us also of Philippians chapter 2? "be blameless and pure, children of God, without fault in a crooked and depraved generation in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life." Who is the word of life? Jesus Christ! He is the eternal Word - the Word who's life is the light of men. Hold out Jesus Christ to the world; witnesses of Him. Matthew says, Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. Who gets the credit for your good deeds? Your Father! Your good deeds are to point people's attention to the Father.
So the question is, do people see more of me in me? Or, do they see more of Christ in me? John the Baptist's entire life was a witness, a sign pointing to the glory of Jesus Christ, and we have been saved to do the same. Along with him, we are witnesses to the true light that has come into the world.
The Rejected Light
So we see the Light is victorious, and we see the Light has a witness. Third we see the Rejection of the Light. Notice verses 10 and 11, "He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him."
God came into the world that He created. He created everything and therefore it is all His own as verse 11 says. Everything owes it's existence to God. God owns everything. Someone might say, well, he didn't create my house. He didn't make my car. Well, no, God doesn't work for Ford and He doesn't work for Legend Builders. But the wood used to build your house came from trees that God made grow out of the earth that He created.
Through Him all things were made and without Him nothing was made that has been made John says in verse 3. But, He was rejected by the world that He created. He was unwelcome. But this is how it was going to be. We are reminded of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "Who has believed our message? He was despised and rejected by men. He was despised and we esteemed Him not."
The world was hostile towards it's Creator and crucified Him. Why? John explains in chapter 3 verses 19-21, "This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of the light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
Men love darkness. They hate light. The reason they hate Light and do not come into the Light is because the things they do are evil. Their deeds, their thoughts, their words are evil. Men live in darkness and they live out the darkness.
That's why people hate the Light, because the Light exposes people's evil deeds. Judas betrayed Jesus at night. The Jews conducted a court session in the middle of the night to bring lies and false accusations against Jesus - AT NIGHT.
Look around, the evil of man is done primarily at night. Man tries to keep his evil shrouded in darkness - to keep it secret. That's the nature of a man's guilty conscience - to hide his guilt and his shame. Adam and Eve were naked when they were innocent, but, when they sinned against God they tried to cover themselves and when God came for them they hid! They tried to cover up.
People do that today - they cover their guilt with pride and self-boasting. They cover up with religion and outwardly do everything they can to appear right, but, they are like whitewashed tombs, pretty on the outside, but dead on the inside. They have great curb-appeal as Christians, but, Jesus does not live in that home.
The Children of Light
So we see the Victory of the Light, the Witness of the Light, the Rejection of the Light, and now we see the Children of the Light. Notice verses 12 and 13, "Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God - children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God."
To become a child of God John says you must receive Jesus Christ by believing in His name. That means everything that Jesus is, says, does, and claims you accept as true, and you commit yourself to Him. This is not just intellectually accepting His claims. It's not being able to recite all the facts and the stories. This placing your dependence on Christ for your acceptance by God. It is relying on Jesus and only Jesus to go to heaven. A person can know all that Jesus said and did but not know Jesus.
And here is the promise: you will have the right to become a child of God. God will make you His very own child when you trust in Christ. Listen, this doesn't happen by human effort. When John says, "not born of natural descent, nor of human decision, or a husband's will" he's describing human effort.
This is very important: anyone who tries to be accepted by God, anyone who tries to become a child of His through their own human effort, John says they do NOT have the right to be a child. He's saying becoming a child of God doesn't happen by your effort all by yourself. It happens only one way: and that is by believing in Christ. Believe and you will be born - born as a child of God. Believe in Jesus Christ and you will have the right to become a real child of God.
Conclusion
Have you become a child of the light? Have you crossed over from darkness to the light that is in Jesus Christ? Have you been born into God's family? Do you know the light of life is in you? You might say, I don't know. How can I know? John answers that for us. He says that if you receive Jesus Christ, that is, if you believe in His name, and you trust Him and Him alone for the forgiveness of your sins, then God will forgive you, He will make you new, and He will give you brand new life, eternal life in Jesus Christ. Trade in your sins for salvation. Give Him your trust, and He will give you the eternal life of Jesus Christ. Admit you're in the dark without Christ, and accept the light into your life by believing Christ is your Savior.
Jesus the Light
One of the things that makes this time of year so great is that we have the sun's light for so much longer.
Light is a common theme throughout the Bible, from beginning to end. In the 3rd verse in the whole Bible we read, "God said let there be light, and there was light." But then all the way on the other end of the Bible we read in Revelation, the last book of the Bible, chapter 21, verse 23, "The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp." Those will be long days! No more sunsets or sunrises.
But all the way through the Scriptures we read of light. God's word is described as light in Psalm 119. It says, "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple." God's word gives guidance and understanding.
But not only is God's Word light, God Himself is light. In 1 John 1, our same author says that, "God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all." James says that He is the Father of Lights. And the Psalms say that "God wraps Himself in light" and He is "resplendent with light". Paul tells Timothy in his first letter that God dwells in unapproachable light.
And as we read God's Word we come to see that light symbolizes truth and holiness.
As we continue with our study in the opening verses of John's gospel we see in chapter 1 verse 4 that "In Him was life, and that life was the light of men." Jesus Christ is the Light of men. He is the source of truth and holiness. He is truth in body. Holiness in body. He came in body to the world; God sent Him into the world to be the light for those living in darkness and so that those who are blind could see.
But see what? What is it that Jesus helps the blind to see? What is it that the world in it's darkness cannot see? The answer is the true knowledge of God. When Jesus prayed in John 17, he said in verse 3, "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." Jesus was sent by God so the world could see God and could know God. God has come to the world.
God has not abandoned the world. He is not far away from the world or no longer interested. He doesn't hate the world. As a matter of fact, God so loved the world according to John 3:16! He loves the world and His purpose is that the world would know Him.
Listen to what Paul says in Acts 17. He says that God made every nation from one man, and that God determined the times and the places that each man should live. Why did God do this? Paul explains for us in verse 17, "God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though HE IS NOT FAR FROM EACH ONE OF US." God is not far away but very, very near. One poet said "He is nearer than my own breath." In Psalm 139 King David says, "Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?" And the answer is no where. There is no place we can go and be out of the presence of God. Always and everywhere He is near.
I say all this because God's plan and purpose is that He would be known to men. That the "lights would go on" for men and they would see God's light. That's what the Psalmist said. In Psalm 36:9, David said, "In your light we see light." God's light gives us sight, so that we would know Him as He truly is and worship Him for who He truly is. That is His ultimate purpose for us.
Our text today is going to be John chapter 1, verses 4 through 13. (Read Passage). John tells us 4 things about the Light.
Victorious Light
First of all, He says that it is a Victorious Light. Notice verse 5, "The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it."
The world we live in is a world of darkness. And when the Bible talks about darkness, it most commonly refers to the spiritual ignorance and evil of this world. This world is called the domain of darkness (Col 1:13) and those who are in the darkness are those who reject Christ and are under the power of Satan (Acts 26:18). In 2 Corinthians 4:4 Satan is called "the god of this age who blinds the eyes of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Jesus Christ, who is the image of God."
Satan has blinded the eyes of the unbelievers in this world and he uses all of his power and all of his intelligence to keep them from ever seeing the light of Jesus Christ. If a person rejects Jesus Christ, then they are under Satan's power, they are in his domain, he is their god and their destiny is the same as his ---that is, UNTIL they receive Jesus Christ. It is then - and only then - that a person has crossed over from darkness to light - it is then that they have gone from death and to life.
You want to hear this promise from Jesus? In John chapter 5 verse 24 He says, "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my words and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life."
You're hearing His words today, and if you believe what does He say you will have? (Eternal life). What does he say will not happen to you? (You will not be condemned). What have you crossed over from? (Death). What have you crossed over into? (Life)! What life? His life! His eternal life, the life that John says is the light of men! You must believe to overcome the darkness and come into the light.
Now the word in verse 5 translated as "understood" is the Greek word "katalambano", which has two meanings. It can mean to understand, or comprehend something. It basically means 'you get it' and you have attained the knowledge. (NIV "understand", NASB, KJV "comprehend").
But the second meaning of this word katalambano is more hostile. It can mean to overcome, or to overtake. And it may be that John had this sense in mind when he wrote verse 5. Every other place he uses this word he uses it with the hostile sense.
Scripture tells us events that clearly show the dark forces of Satan know Jesus Christ. In Matthew 8:29, as Jesus approached two demon possessed men, listen to what they say, "What do you want with us, Son of God?' they shouted. 'Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?'" They knew who Jesus was, and they knew they had an appointed time with Him where their torture would come for their rebellion against the Eternal Light.
And then Mark 1 we see in verse 24 a demon possessed man stands up in the synagogue and interrupts Jesus sermon and cries out, "What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are - the Holy One of God!" And later in the chapter Mark says that Jesus was casting out all kinds of evil spirits and he would not permit them to speak "because they knew who he was" (verse 34).
Demons know who God is. They know who God's Son is. Darkness understands the identity of the Light, and they know they will not overcome the Light. They know that the Light has ultimate victory.
What about humans? Do they understand? Yes. John records in 5:18 and10:33 instances where the Jews were going to stone Jesus because they knew He was claiming to be the Son of God, sent by God and God in the flesh. In chapter19 verse 7, we see that the leaders of Israel knew Jesus claimed to be the Son of God and it was because of these claims that they demanded his death. They clearly understood that Jesus claimed to be God. That's why they crucified Him. It wasn't that they didn't understand, it was that they rejected what He said.
The Victorious Light of the life of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, will destroy the darkness. First John 1:8 says that "darkness is passing and the true light is already shining." It is shining in the world, and the darkness has not overcome it, it has not understood it. The Light, is victorious.
The Witness to the Light
So John says the Light is victorious over the darkness. Second, he says the Light has a witness. Notice verses 6-8, "There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light."
John the Baptist is one of the greatest men in the Bible. As a matter of fact, Jesus said in Matthew 11 verse 11, "I tell you the truth: Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist..." He is the last of those great men who were prophets in the OT, and before he came there were 400 years of silence. For 400 years God had not sent a prophet to the nation of Israel. You might say that they were in the dark until John the Baptist came.
His purpose was to announce the coming of the Christ. He was to declare to the nation of Israel that their Messiah was here, that He had come. Seven hundred years earlier, when the great prophet Isaiah said, "A voice of one calling: 'In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.'" It was John the Baptist he was speaking of! John is the voice of one crying in the desert. John is the one making straight the path for the Lord. He is the witness of the great Light of God, Christ Jesus the Messiah.
He was not the Light, but, he was the witness of the light. Everything John said was to point the attention and the spotlight onto Jesus Christ. He wasn't a man after self-glory. He wasn't trying to turn the spotlight on himself. Everything he did and said was so that all would see that Jesus is the Light of the world.
John the Baptist should really serve as an example to us as believers. Our words and our lives should be pointing always to Christ too. Everything about us should be an honor to His name. Ephesians 5:8 says, "For you were once in darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of the Light." Jesus confirms this in John 12:36 when He says that we become sons of light -- and James says our Father is the Father of lights. His light is in us and is to be shining out of us. Like John the Baptist, we are not the true lights either, but, we have the true light in us and are witnesses of the true light.
Doesn't it remind us also of Philippians chapter 2? "be blameless and pure, children of God, without fault in a crooked and depraved generation in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life." Who is the word of life? Jesus Christ! He is the eternal Word - the Word who's life is the light of men. Hold out Jesus Christ to the world; witnesses of Him. Matthew says, Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. Who gets the credit for your good deeds? Your Father! Your good deeds are to point people's attention to the Father.
So the question is, do people see more of me in me? Or, do they see more of Christ in me? John the Baptist's entire life was a witness, a sign pointing to the glory of Jesus Christ, and we have been saved to do the same. Along with him, we are witnesses to the true light that has come into the world.
The Rejected Light
So we see the Light is victorious, and we see the Light has a witness. Third we see the Rejection of the Light. Notice verses 10 and 11, "He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him."
God came into the world that He created. He created everything and therefore it is all His own as verse 11 says. Everything owes it's existence to God. God owns everything. Someone might say, well, he didn't create my house. He didn't make my car. Well, no, God doesn't work for Ford and He doesn't work for Legend Builders. But the wood used to build your house came from trees that God made grow out of the earth that He created.
Through Him all things were made and without Him nothing was made that has been made John says in verse 3. But, He was rejected by the world that He created. He was unwelcome. But this is how it was going to be. We are reminded of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "Who has believed our message? He was despised and rejected by men. He was despised and we esteemed Him not."
The world was hostile towards it's Creator and crucified Him. Why? John explains in chapter 3 verses 19-21, "This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of the light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
Men love darkness. They hate light. The reason they hate Light and do not come into the Light is because the things they do are evil. Their deeds, their thoughts, their words are evil. Men live in darkness and they live out the darkness.
That's why people hate the Light, because the Light exposes people's evil deeds. Judas betrayed Jesus at night. The Jews conducted a court session in the middle of the night to bring lies and false accusations against Jesus - AT NIGHT.
Look around, the evil of man is done primarily at night. Man tries to keep his evil shrouded in darkness - to keep it secret. That's the nature of a man's guilty conscience - to hide his guilt and his shame. Adam and Eve were naked when they were innocent, but, when they sinned against God they tried to cover themselves and when God came for them they hid! They tried to cover up.
People do that today - they cover their guilt with pride and self-boasting. They cover up with religion and outwardly do everything they can to appear right, but, they are like whitewashed tombs, pretty on the outside, but dead on the inside. They have great curb-appeal as Christians, but, Jesus does not live in that home.
The Children of Light
So we see the Victory of the Light, the Witness of the Light, the Rejection of the Light, and now we see the Children of the Light. Notice verses 12 and 13, "Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God - children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God."
To become a child of God John says you must receive Jesus Christ by believing in His name. That means everything that Jesus is, says, does, and claims you accept as true, and you commit yourself to Him. This is not just intellectually accepting His claims. It's not being able to recite all the facts and the stories. This placing your dependence on Christ for your acceptance by God. It is relying on Jesus and only Jesus to go to heaven. A person can know all that Jesus said and did but not know Jesus.
And here is the promise: you will have the right to become a child of God. God will make you His very own child when you trust in Christ. Listen, this doesn't happen by human effort. When John says, "not born of natural descent, nor of human decision, or a husband's will" he's describing human effort.
This is very important: anyone who tries to be accepted by God, anyone who tries to become a child of His through their own human effort, John says they do NOT have the right to be a child. He's saying becoming a child of God doesn't happen by your effort all by yourself. It happens only one way: and that is by believing in Christ. Believe and you will be born - born as a child of God. Believe in Jesus Christ and you will have the right to become a real child of God.
Conclusion
Have you become a child of the light? Have you crossed over from darkness to the light that is in Jesus Christ? Have you been born into God's family? Do you know the light of life is in you? You might say, I don't know. How can I know? John answers that for us. He says that if you receive Jesus Christ, that is, if you believe in His name, and you trust Him and Him alone for the forgiveness of your sins, then God will forgive you, He will make you new, and He will give you brand new life, eternal life in Jesus Christ. Trade in your sins for salvation. Give Him your trust, and He will give you the eternal life of Jesus Christ. Admit you're in the dark without Christ, and accept the light into your life by believing Christ is your Savior.
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