{"id":1189,"date":"2011-12-04T18:31:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T00:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:09","slug":"ye-are-the-light-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"Ye are the Light of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John 1:1-14, Matthew 5:14-16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: &#8220;And God saw the light that it was good.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Light was good for it drove away darkness.<br \/>\n2. Light was good for it made life possible.<br \/>\n3. Light was good for it gave warmth to a cold world.<br \/>\n4. Light was good for it is clean.<!--more--><br \/>\n5. Light is the power behind our insudtry.<br \/>\n6. Light makes life worth while and enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II &#8220;In the beginning was the word.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The word was with God, and the word was God.<br \/>\n2. &#8220;All things were made by him.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. &#8220;In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. To them gave He power to become the sons of God.&#8221;<br \/>\n4. &#8220;The word was made flesh and dwelt among us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: &#8220;He was not that light.&#8221; Cor. 2 4:3-7.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. John came to bear witness of that light.<br \/>\n2. John said : &#8220;He must increase, but I must decrease.&#8221; <strong>John 3:30.<\/strong><br \/>\n3. We are not the light, but light holders. We are witnesses of the light.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: &#8220;Ye are the light of the World, (Lightholders).&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light. They that dwell in the land of the shadow of Death, upon them hath the light shined.&#8221;<br \/>\n2. God has plenty of light, but there is a shortage of light holders, (The widow&#8217;s oil).<br \/>\n3. The light holders can be hid or dirty.<br \/>\n4. &#8220;Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m glad they didn&#8217;t ask me if the lantern was lit.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 1:1-14, Matthew 5:14-16 I: &#8220;And God saw the light that it was good.&#8221; 1. Light was good for it drove away darkness. 2. Light was good for it made life possible. 3. Light was good for it gave warmth to a cold world. 4. Light was good for it is clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}