Life and Light: The Essence of Christ

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In him that is in Christ the word in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God he was in the beginning with God all things were made through him without him was not anything made that was made verse 4 in him this word this Jesus Christ this God was life in him was life therefore in the beginning before there was anything else but God there was life. [00:50:49]

Ultimate Reality is living Ultimate Reality is alive original reality Ultimate Reality absolute reality is a living person how can I help you begin to feel the wonder that you should I should feel at that raw fact that ultimate original absolute from which everything else comes reality is a living person. [00:92:10]

If your child, which he or she will do eventually if you have children, says to you at about age four or five, where did God come from, you will answer perhaps, God didn't come from anywhere, he always was there, he never had a beginning, he was there before anything else was, he made everything else. [00:139:02]

Physical matter did not give rise to life, it's the other way around, life gave rise to physical matter, once there was only life and no matter, that's all it was was life and no physical matter whatsoever existed, and then personal life created matter and there was both life and matter. [00:291:12]

For Christians it's the other way around, first there was life, and then there was matter and energy first it was living personhood, and then there was matter and energy in the beginning was the word, and in him was life, before there was anything else there was life. [00:449:40]

The life that John has in mind as he writes verse 4 is New Life, spiritual life saving life the gift of eternal life, the opposite of being dead even though you're walking around, it's the opposite of condemnation and judgment, that's mainly what he means here not that the other is wrong. [00:607:55]

If you believe in Jesus, you from the entire mass of human death have passed out of it into life, everybody's dead, that's the meaning of sin and the fall, the entire human race is spiritually dead to Jesus Christ, apart from him, we're all dead, and with him, we will live forever and not come into judgment. [00:669:37]

Whoever has the son has life, whoever does not have the son does not have life he's dead, so everybody's dead until they have Jesus, you don't need to work to make Christianity controversial, say sentences from the Bible, here's another one, John 5 40 you refuse to come to me that you may have life. [00:737:04]

The life that is in the sun in the word in God in Jesus the life was the light, life is light life was the light of men, what does he mean by that why did they say that I think he says that because we don't really understand what our deadness is until he starts putting it in terms that we can kind of connect with. [00:844:74]

This life is the light of men, people aren't dead because they can't walk, they did because they can't see, that's why light is so crucial here, you can't see him for who he is without Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, a fallen sinful unregenerate person will look at Jesus Christ he'll either be boring. [00:918:18]

When that life comes into you moves on you, you're awakened to see what really is, light goes on for you, life enables light, that's what he's saying, chapter 8 verse 12 I am the light of the world Jesus says I am the light of the world whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life. [00:1006:01]

The light shines in the Darkness and the Darkness is not overcome it, Christ is shining in the Darkness, so he's come into the world as the light and the life he's Shining and the Darkness that's the collective six billion darkened Souls, and then how should this be translated ESV says has not overcome it. [00:1093:20]

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