1. Marvelous LIGHT
What Now

3. what is a world-changing event?

4. what we want

5. Matthew 2

6. Pakistan

7. China

8. In place like ….

9. most people

10. for most people the arrival of a new King, Jesus Christ, means almost nothing

11. for most people the announcement that God is with us, means almost nothing

12. for most people the world changing event of Christmas, means almost nothing

13. Christian ghetto

14. post Christian

15. pre Christian

17. not the way of Herod, but the way of the unchanged uninterested unmoved world

18. John 1:1-18

19. what now: in a world that doesn’t care

20. John 1:5, 10-11
The light shines in the darkness and the darkness doesn’t comprehend it. He was in the world, and the world did not know him. He came unto his own, and his own didn’t receive him.

21. the whole world had changed in Jesus, but most people’s world never changed at all

22. John 1:7-8
He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.

23. Luke 2:17, 20
And when they saw him, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child… glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.

24. To be a witness in pre & post-Christian times is to leave a trail of evidence
that your world
and the world
has been changed by the coming of Jesus

25. you
your life
your calling
all you have
becomes a witness to the world-changing one

26. point with our changed lives to Jesus, not the changes he makes

27. John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

28. putting flesh, hands, feet on the Word

30. putting flesh, hands, feet on the Word

31. When you have found the treasure that we have found in Jesus, everything will change