The Light of Truth

Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” Amen.

 

The decline in the Judeo-Christian impact on America has been directly in proportion with the churches backing out of the Great Commission and Cultural Mandate of the Lord Jesus Christ from society and government. This has been deliberate on both sides of the equation, creating the degeneration and regression for faith in God and His Plan of Salvation of this world which is lost in Sin. Rebellion against our Almighty Creator God has been active since original Sin in the Garden of Eden and Jesus explains in John 3:18-20 that “he who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For

everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.”

 

As when light is removed, darkness fills the emptiness, when the light of truth in the Kingdom of God and the sovereign authority is not proclaimed and maintained but retreats from the public arena, then unrighteousness lawlessness fills the void. Darkness cannot physically co-exist with light as, by definition, darkness is the absence of light. In the same way, Sin is the absence of God, His Word, Hos Will, His reign and His rule. The depravity of sinful mankind wars against God in continuous attempts to extinguish the light of righteousness, holiness, faithfulness and obedience to their Creator, who they are accountable to. They pretend that the Lord doesn’t exist and is not 

 

In Matthew 5:13-16, Jesus told His disciples that “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its taste (purpose), how can it be made salty? It is no longer good for anything, but to be thrown out and walked on by people. “You are the light of [Christ to] the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good deeds and

moral excellence, and [recognize and honor and] glorify your Father who is in heaven.

 

The disciple of Christ (His Student/Followers/Ambassadors) are to run into the darkness and expel the darkness of sin and unbelief. They are to engage and exorcize that which is godlessness and abominations in the eyes of the God. Sinful hearts are in rebellion to God holy and pure Word, Will and Way. The Sin nature of the human flesh desires, the God-rejecting world system and the devil with his demonic kingdom will do everything in their power to distract and deceive the masses with lies, half-truths and evil argument to silence the people of God in their plot to steal, kill and destroy all godly light. God’s people are to stand firm wearing the Full armor of God, take down the enemy’s strongholds and bring the light of the Gospel truth to the world.

 

Jesus tells us in Luke 11:34-36 “The eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is clear [spiritually perceptive, focused on God], your whole body also is full of light

[benefiting from God’s precepts]. But when it is bad [spiritually blind], your body also is full of darkness [devoid of God’s word]. Be careful, therefore, that the light that is in you is not darkness. So if your whole body is illuminated, with no dark part, it will be entirely bright [with light], as when the lamp gives you light with its bright rays.”

 

John 17:17 “Sanctify them in the truth [set them apart for Your purposes, make them holy]; Your word is truth.”

 

There is tremendous chaos in this land today and holy ground has been lost, but if God (Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth) is for His people, who can be against. The split in this nation and the entire world is not liberal or conservation, but belief and unbelief in God, obedience to and rebellion against God, love for and hatred of God, light and darkness. There is no compromise of the Commandments of God, the Statutes of our Creator, the teaching of our Heavenly Father, or His Divine Word in the sacred Scriptures of the Holy Bible. 

 

1 Timothy 6:11-13 “But as for you, O man of God, flee from these things; aim at and 

pursue righteousness [true goodness, moral conformity to the character of God], godliness [the fear of God], faith, love, steadfastness, and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith [in the conflict with evil]; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and [for which] you made the good confession [of faith] in the presence of many witnesses. I solemnly charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and [in the presence] of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession [in His testimony].”

 

Expect resistance and fierce battles in this war for the hearts and minds of God’s created people, but disciples remember that eternal souls are at stake and know how big and powerful your God is. Do not be intimidated by secular political correctness or godless humanism’s claims of intolerance or lies of hatred in matters of that which God calls sin. The Lord Jesus told us in Matthew 5:14-16, “You are the light of [Christ to] the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good deeds and

moral excellence, and [recognize and honor and] glorify your Father who is in heaven.”

 

In Christ, Brian