This morning we are listening to Christ’s 2nd declaration of Who He was and what He can do to all who come to Him. What did He say? He said, “I AM the Light of the World.”
As we turn to our text in John 8:12 we need to ask ourselves several questions. Remember, to fully understand God’s Word by the power of the Holy Spirit we need to “search the Scriptures”. We do this often by asking questions. Here are the key questions for this passage:
1. Where was Jesus when He declared He was the Light of the World? The Courtyard of the Temple of Herod.
2. When in Christ’s life and ministry was it that He declared He was the Light of the World? During the Feast of Tabernacles.
3. How did Jesus say we could have the benefits of Him as the Light of the World? Follow Him.
There they are, the three keys to walking in the Light:
1. We need to watch Jesus against the backdrop of the Divinely prescribed Worship of Israel, that is the 1st key to walking in the Light.
2. We need to see Jesus in the events of the Divinely appointed Feasts of Israel, that is the 2nd key to walking in the Light.
3. We need to follow Jesus the way He asked us to in this passage, that is the 3rd key to walking in the Light.
When Jesus walked into Jerusalem as the crowds swelled the city’s population for the Feast of Tabernacles, He was planning on making His greatest offer to Israel in His ministry. To perhaps the largest crowd of all, this happy celebration drew faithful Jews from all over the Land and even the world. And here, at the great feast God had given to Moses to write 1,500 years earlier as a testimony of Christ, Jesus arrives and offers Himself to any and all who would listen.
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