The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-11-08
CHRIST THE LIGHT.
Reveals and Cleanses Sin and Leads
the Way Back to God.
Sermon on One ~ the six Startling
Claims Of Jesus ~ the "Hfsh-
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Preacher.

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Copyright. 1902. by A. N. Keliogs News
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Chicago. Nov. Q. 1so1
Text:-"I am the Light of the world"-
John S:12
The great, glowing sun mounts the
heavens, and the darkness fees before
| II, but Jesus is the Light of the
world.
Scientists tell us that the light and
heat of the sun will fail some day,
but Jesus, the Light of the world,
is from everlasting to everlasting.
Gods Word tells us that the
heavens and earth shall pass away,
but in that new Jerusalem which
John saw in prophetic vision there
was no sun or moon, for 1t had no
need thereof, "for the glory of God
did tighten it, and the Lamb is the
Light thereof"
Isaiah cries: Lift up your eyes to
the heavens, and hook upon the earth
beneath; for the heavens shall vanish
away like smoke, and the earth shall
wax old like garment, and they
that dwell therein shall die in like
manner; but Tin Jesus the Light OF
the WORLD My salvation shall be for
ever, and My righteousness shall not
be abolished"
Jesus, in foretelling future events,
declared: Immediately after the
| tribulation of those days shall the
sun be darkened, and the moon shall
not give her light, and the stars shall
| fall from heaven, and the powers OF
| the heavens shall be shaken" but then
"they shall see the Son of man coming
| in the clouds of heaven, with power
and great glory" Paul bears witness
of the literal brightness of the glory
Of Jesus in his defense before King
Agrippa when he says: "At midday,
| o king, 1 saw in the way light
from Heaven, above the brightness
of the sun, shining round about me,
and heard voice speaking
| unto me and He said: l am
Jesus, whom thou persecutest."
| Notwithstanding the light OF the
sun shines upon the just and the un-
| just, the people of the world, out OF
fellowship with God, walk in dark
ness" "for God Is light and in Him
is no darkness at ALL" The natural
eye may behold the beauty of the
sun of the heavens, but il the minds
"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" Nowadays
| we hear so much about "this enlight-
| ened age" and the world is rejoicing
| in its intellectualism, it's commercial
ism, its electrical and mechanical
achievements, its fraternalism, and
| its ecclesiasticism, and turning from
the Heaven-sent Light, it is binding
itself with it's own feeble, Pickering
flame. The world in the light OF its
own imaginings is seeking the way
of success and happiness, with Heaven
ms the intended goal, while the eter-
nal truth of God remains that Jesus
Is the Light of the world and only
can reveal the way to God. The
light streams from His cradle, the
cross and the tomb, and "if we walk
in the light, as He is in the light, we
have fellowship one with another, and
the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth
us from all sim" Yes, the Light OF
the world is Jesus.
Text Setting.-What wonderful
and attractive declaration is that OF
our text: "I am the Light of the
world!" According to the twentieth
verse of the chapter from which 1t is
taken, Jesus had been sitting in the
| treasury of the temple teaching.
| Close beside Him were two colossal
lamp-stands, gorgeorsly gilded, on
which hung multitude of lamps,
lighted after the evening sacrifice
| during the feast of tabernacles, and
| diffusing thsir brilliancy, 1t is said,
| over all the city. The scene which
was familiar to the eyes of Jesus is
| probably accurately described by
Canon Farrar, VINO says: "Round
| these lamps, the people, in their joy
| Gus enthusiasm, and even the state
| Hest priests and Pharisees, Joined in
| festival dances; while, to the sound
| of flutes and other music, the Lev
| titles, drawn up in array on the fifteen
steps which led up to the court,
,hanted the beautiful Psalms which
! early received the title of Songs OF
Degrees In allusion to these great
| lamps, on which some circumstance
of the moment may have concentrat-
ed the attention of the hearers,
| Christ exclaimed to them: 4 am the
Light Of the world"
Natural and Spiritual Light.-Thc
same hand which hung the great sun
in the heavens to give light and life
to the earth sent His Son into the
world to become the light and life
of the soul of man. Jesus called
Himself the Light of the world be-
cause His relations to the soul close
" paralleled the relations which the
sun sustaiRs to the earth. and thus
things and conditions in the natural
sphere illustrate and make plain pro-
found spiritual truth.
| The sun Is the one universal source
| of light to the world. As n rides in the
heavens It sheds its beams of light
upon every land and every people on
| che globe. It wakens this land to the
activity Of another day as its first rays
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