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It is when he is lifted up on the cross that he shines like a torch, like a beacon in the night, giving light to everyone in the house, everyone in the world. This is how the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. Ironically, the light of Christ is shining at its brightest in his dying. Sundays light comes out of Fridays darkness. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Look for the return of light with the Paschal candle this Sunday morning. The darkness over the land on Friday will yield to the light dawning on Sunday. The loud noise, the strepitus, the sound of the earthquake when Jesus dies, will be matched on Easter morning at the earthquake when he rises. John tells us the truth: The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. The loud noise, the strepitus, the sound of the stone being rolled into place and sealing the tomb-that sound will be matched on Easter morning when the stone is rolled away. They get him condemned falsely and nailed to a cross. We want to hide from God, to keep his searchlight from shining in the dark recesses were trying to keep hidden. They wanted to extinguish the light, because the light was exposing their evil deeds. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. Here was the true light, but men preferred the darkness. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The eternal Son of God was coming into the world, the one who was there in the beginning with God, the Word, the Logos, through whom the heavens and the earth were created, when God said, Let there be light. This is Jesus, the Word made flesh, the one who declares, I am the light of the world. He came bringing light with him, light from above. It was there when Jesus came into this world, this land of shadows. Darkness masquerading as light.īut the darkness has been around a long time. Cover story, Newsweek, this week: The End of Christian America. And some are cheering. Men and women and children become their own gods, each one living for self and following the desires and opinions of their own sinful heart. People turning their backs on God, wanting nothing to do with God, with no desire to listen to his word. People hurting other people, people hurting themselves. Shadows and darkness, death and grief and unrelenting sadness. But the honest truth is, that is not going to work. We may try to hide the darkness from ourselves. We try to hide those dark, hidden recesses from others-and we may succeed to some extent. There are dark, hidden places inside, places of lovelessness and lust, of selfishness and deadness-vile places, ugly places. The heart of darkness lies within us all. There you will find no light of your own. Deep, dark shadows surrounding us everywhere we turn. There are other shadows, shadows called recession and hospice and addiction and violence and families on the brink and torn apart.
#Sermons on light shining in darkness skin#
There is the shadow called old age, which creeps up on us all and turns our hair white, our skin wrinkled, and our bones brittle. There is the shadow called cancer, casting its gloom over lives once bright and cheerful. You will see suffering and hurting people, people losing hope. Look all around you, and you will see dying people. Jesus of Nazareth-crucified, dead, and buried. The one who had brought healing and had shown Gods mercy to so many-dead. The one who had done only good, a righteous man-murdered. The one in whom men had put their hope-killed.
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It seems that darkness has covered the earth. This is the time of darkness and shadows.
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The loud noise at the end of this Tenebrae service, what is called the strepitus-that will remind us of the earthquake at the moment of Christs death or perhaps of the rolling of the heavy stone to seal the tomb. And then his lifeless body was placed in the tomb, and night fell, and all was darkness and shadows. This reminds us of the darkness that came over the land when Christ was hanging on the cross, the great darkness that occurred when the author of life was put to death. Tonight we are doing the traditional Good Friday evening service called Tenebrae. The Latin word, tenebrae, means shadows or darkness. This is the Service of the Shadows, the Service of Darkness-increasing darkness, as the service goes along. The Light Shines in the Darkness (John 1:5) Posted on 8:44:21 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson "The Light Shines in the Darkness" (Sermon for Good Friday-Tenebrae Vespers)