LIGHT OF DARKNESS

1. LIGHT OF DARKNESS is hard to imagine, as there are no two things as disparate as LIGHT and DARKNESS. We have our natural eyes which are blind without light and God, in His infinite wisdom also made provision in Jesus Christ for SPIRITUAL EYES to engage realities of His Kingdom, “… EXCEPT a man be BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT SEE the kingdom of God” [John 3:3] Our physical eyes come with NATURAL BIRTH, our SPIRITUAL EYES are received at NEW BIRTH; we are BORN AGAIN with EYES equipped to SEE and UNDERSTAND things of God. Our SPIRITUAL EYES are enlightened in daily fellowship with Christ to SEE and WALK with God through prism of LIGHT OF LIFE, “Then SPAKE JESUS again unto them, saying, I am the LIGHT OF THE WORLD he that FOLLOWETH ME shall NOT WALK IN DARKNESS, but shall have the LIGHT OF LIFE” [John 8:12] We SEE through the EYES of God and FOLLOW in footsteps of His Christ and DARKNESS is no barrier as it is to those without Christ [John 1:5] If men made infrared goggles to see at night, it is no surprise Satan also offer LIGHT OF DARKNESS to those who will walk with him, “But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the LIGHT THAT IS IN THEE BE DARKNESS, how great is that darkness!” [Matthew 6:23]

2. LIGHT OF DARKNESS is as fatal attraction of a mirage in the desert,  a dazzling optical inversion of TRUTH. Jesus Christ is the TRUTH, the LIGHT OF LIFE and the WORD which was God, and at the appointed time revealed in flesh and blood, “In the BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, and the WORD WAS WITH GOD, and the WORD WAS GOD. And the WORD WAS MADE FLESH, and dwelt among us …” [John 1&14] In the beginning was the WORD, that is, the WORD was ever synonymous with God; Whosoever has the WORD and obey it, has the LIFE of God. That was the template presented to Adam, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not EAT OF IT: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt SURELY DIE” [Genesis 2:17] The WORD was with God, the LIGHT of LIFE over Adam and Eve and ultimate PROTECTION as long as they kept His commandment. We may never know how long they kept the WORD, then came along the Serpent and the woman said: “But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, GOD HATH SAID, Ye shall NOT EAT of it, neither shall ye TOUCH it, lest YE DIE” [Genesis 3:3] The woman remembered quite well what God said and obviously dissatisfied with God’s standard of RIGHTEOUSNESS and VERDICT of death, was open to “SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY”, and the Serpent was conveniently at hand to offer LIGHT OF DARKNESS.

3. LIGHT OF DARKNESS is EVIL painted as GOOD, a very present snare as long as we are in this body, “Wherefore let him that THINKETH HE STANDETH TAKE HEED LEST HE FALL” [1 Corinthians 10:12] It strikes as a flash of lightning, coating hidden things of darkness in pleasant colours and ascribing them to God, “… GOD DOTH KNOW that in the day ye eat thereof, then your EYES SHALL BE OPENED, and ye shall be as gods, knowing GOOD and EVIL” [Genesis 3:4-5] LIGHT OF DARKNESS does not deny existence of God and quick to profuse adoration, it retreads His WORD to suit human sensibilities; making a difference between God and His WORD, “And when the woman saw that the tree was GOOD FOR FOOD, and that it was PLEASANT TO THE EYES, and a tree to be desired to MAKE ONE WISE, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, …” [Genesis 3:6] Take note, Adam and Eve in their DISOBEDIENCE did not deny existence of God or His GOODNESS; they remained in His Garden, reveling in ungodly interpretation of His WORD.  Can we in good conscience deny LIGHT OF DARKNESS in our Churches? Our pulpits overflow with strange interpretation of Scriptures and have replaced sure PROMISE of ETERNAL LIFE with a rat race of crass materialism [1 John 2:25-26] Be warned, those who inflame fleshly lusts in you for earthly things pretend to love you more than God does to liquidate your SPIRIT, “For the kingdom of God is not MEAT and DRINK; but RIGHTEOUSNESS, and PEACE, and JOY in the Holy Ghost” [Romans 4:17]

4. LIGHT OF DARKNESS is a conveyor belt to “DEPTHS OF SATAN”, “But unto you I say, …  as many as have not this DOCTRINE, and which have not known the DEPTHS OF SATAN; …” [Revelation 2:24] A seemingly harmless mishandling of the WORD of God for self-gratification opens the portal to hidden pleasures of DARKNESS and as Eve testified, it is “… desired to MAKE ONE WISE, … and did EAT” [Genesis 3:6] This strange desire for “ILLUMINATION” outside the WORD of God is resolved in MYSTICISM in which some are fallen, holding Bible in the day and in secret hobnobbing with devils, “For it is a SHAME even to speak of those THINGS WHICH ARE DONE OF THEM IN SECRET” [Hebrews 5:11] When they speak, it is to seduce with vanities of this world, they promise “LIBERTY’ from vagaries of the earth but themselves are slaves of rulers of darkness of this world. Those whose EYES are enlightened by LIGHT OF LIFE have a sacred duty not to fall into DEPTHS OF SATAN; it is a BLACK HOLE, there is no escape, “For it is IMPOSSIBLE for those who were once ENLIGHTENED, and have tasted of the HEAVENLY GIFT, and were made partakers of the HOLY GHOST … If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance” [Hebrews 6:4-6] Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, and receive the LIGHT OF LIFE. amen