Peter Roselle: Darkness Can Never Extinguish the Light (John 1:5 NLT)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 01/10/2019

John 1:5 in the New Living Translation says, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.” This amazing truth should encourage and strengthen us when we’re walking through the dark, defiling circumstances we sometimes face. We can be “in the world and not of the world,” because the world’s darkness can never extinguish the light of Christ in us. Hebrews 4:15 TPT says, “He understands our humanity, for as a Man, our magnificent King-Priest was tempted in every way just as we are, and conquered sin.” Sin has been conquered by the risen Christ. We have access to that same sin-conquering power because the same Holy Spirit that empowered Jesus is dwelling in every Christian.

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John 1:1-4
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, and without Him nothing 
was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the 
light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the 
darkness did not comprehend it.”
Jesus came in the midst of the darkness
and shined a light just by the way he
lived His life. He's the light of the
world and then He said, in the
Sermon on the Mount, we are the light of
the world. Light belongs in darkness.
We live in a part of the country
where there's a lot of darkness.
It’s just very in-your-face around here, especially if
you cross the Hudson River and get into
New York City, it's really in your face.
We should not be intimidated by that.
The light in us is brighter than the darkness.
God's power strips away the sin.
That fire comes up on the inside, it
acts like a furnace and whatever film of
dirt is on us will just melt off.
That's how I want to live.
“In Him was life, and the life was the 
light of men.”
It then says, “the light shines in the darkness and the
darkness did not comprehend it.” 
That is the New King James Version.
But “The darkness did not comprehend it” was confusing to me.
When you think of “comprehend,” it's
more like the difficulty of trying to understand
quantum physics – it’s too complicated.
I looked at other versions and found that 
The Message version says, 
“The darkness couldn't put it out.”
That's very different than “could not comprehend.” 
Now it's a fight between light and darkness
and the darkness loses.
In the New Living
Translation says, “the darkness can never extinguish it.”
I just came up with a street version,
“darkness couldn't crack the code the darkness cannot crack the
code of Jesus.” 
The devil will never devise a strategy to defeat the light.
God is greater; His power strips sin of its power.
But we must submit ourselves to the Lord’s process to access that power.
Submitting yourself means you’ve got to say goodbye to some old habits.
The darkness is not going to defeat the light. 
Now, you might say, “What about the times when
somebody overdoses on drugs and dies?”
Fair enough – in some situations it looks like the darkness won.
But if that person had submitted themselves to the lordship of
Jesus and had surrendered themselves, had
allowed God to strip the sin of its power they’d likely still be alive.
Hebrews 4:14 says, “For we have a magnificent King-Priest,
Jesus Christ, the son of God, who rose
into the heavenly realm for us, and now
sympathizes with us in our frailty.
He understands humanity, for as a Man, our magnificent
King-Priest was tempted in every way
just as we are, and…”
What?
What did He do?
Say it louder!
You should put your foot down when you say that! 
He conquered sin!
This is the battle that we're all facing.
If you could get sin conquered in your
life things would change dramatically.
These are the things called
besetting sins that hold us back.
We've got this dual track running in our lives 
where these addictions are holding us back.
It could be arrogance or pride.
I heard somebody refer to it as 
“a coating of arrogance.”
You can picture that on the Pharisees.
Paul, before he was converted he
was called Saul. He's on the road to
Damascus to go kill Christians and all
of a sudden that coating of arrogance
burned off when the light of Jesus was shining on it.
It was so bright he couldn't even see.
That coating of arrogance became humility.
Now he's blind and
has to wait for somebody to come and
pray for him until he can see again.
That could be any of us in any
area we could be getting too haughty
or too prideful. It's funny how you could
be working well in 99 areas in your life
but if there's one area that needs work the Lord will say, 
“I'll help you come up higher.”