The Christ Candle

“While I am in the world, I am the light John 9:5 “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Light Gives Direction

of life; in Your light we see light.” Psalm 36:9 “For with you is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.”

2 Corinthians 4: 4 & 6 4 “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”

Light Can Be Unpredictable

John 1:5 “The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.”

Light Can Be Temporarily Painful

Matthew 4:16 “The people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.”

From that time on Jesus began to preach, Matthew 4:17 From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.”

John 3: 19-21 Mankind rejects The light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ because it will require leaving sinful behaviors.

Those who spend a long time in darkness grow accustomed to it and learn how to “get by” living that way.

- Author H.G. Wells (Atheist) “In the white blaze of this Kingdom of his there was to be no property, no privilege, no pride and precedence; no motive indeed and no reward but love… Is it any wonder that men were dazzled and blinded and cried out against him? Even his disciples cried out when he would not spare them the light… Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?” - Author H.G. Wells (Atheist)

1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.”

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