The Light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.Īnd the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.Īnd the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.Īnd the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.Īnd the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not grasp it. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it. Will you obey? Will you come out from among them, and remain separate and distinct from them? “For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?” You cannot mingle with worldlings, and partake of their spirit, and follow their example, and be at the same time a child of God.The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. God calls for separation, like He called to the light to be divided from the darkness. Here is the plain direction that we are to be out of communion with these people – no communion. They are in darkness we are to be the light. God still divides light from darkness.Ģ Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for … what communion hath light with darkness? … 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean and I will receive you,Īs we are preparing for the imminent coming of Jesus and all our preparation is very intensely exercised, we are called to be the children of light getting ready for Jesus to come, while the rest of the world are not getting for Jesus to come. If we are children of the day and of light, and we live in a world surrounded by darkness, what has God’s command been? “Let there be light, and I will divide the light from the darkness.” Do we understand what that really means in reference to that analogy? A divided state from those who are darkness. Is that right? The analogy comes directly into focus. What does that mean? He separated them, so that one does not blend with the other. What did God do in reference to day and night? It says that He divided the day from the night, the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. 4 And God saw the light, that good: and God divided the light from the darkness. Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. What God did at creation He still does today. The people who are illuminated by God are children of light, of the day. The children of the world, people who are not illuminated by the light, are darkness they are not day. If it is night and you haven’t got lights to show you the way then you are in the dark. If it is day time it is light and you can see where you are going. Children of the Day Versus Children of the Nightġ Thessalonians 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. If we are illuminated with the truth that we have, we are identified as children of light versus those who are not illuminated with the truth that we have. It is very powerfully expressed in 1 Thessalonians 5. It is the analogy of relationships with people who are not light, but darkness. The analogy of light and darkness is here conveyed. When they have their special occasions and gatherings, it’s a high time to fellowship together. When we go in amongst the people and our families, there is something in which to commune together. When we get together we hold communion we commune together. Meditate on those two words – fellowship, and communion. We need to occupy ourselves with something much higher than merely enjoying this planet especially with regards to our social pastimes and our social interactivity with others around us.Ģ Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? With the considerations that we have in the fact that Jesus is very soon to return, and that all the things of this earth are to be destroyed, and we can see how it’s all crumbling around us, there is a preparation that is to be entered into with an intensity not yet seen. There is comfort in the Lord, and that can never be removed from us. The world, all its joys and comforts are of no real support when we see around us things falling down and all that people have planned and worked towards being lost delays and discomforts.
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