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According to Jesus, and when he said this originally, the people in his original audience had no idea

the magnitude of this. He was looking way into the future. He was like, I guess he was looking at us.

And he says in that we call it the Sermon on the Mount, he looks at this very disenfranchised,

confused, oppressed group of people who had some interest in following him and he said,

you are the light of the world. And they thought, no or not, we're not the light of anything.

A little did they know that that little spark of 2000 years ago would ignite a fire that really

would create a light in a very dark world and the world will always be dark. And according to

Jesus, there will always be a light. And if he's correct and I always think Jesus is correct,

I mean, if you predict your own death and resurrection, pull it off, you just go with whatever he says,

right? We say that all the time. And he said that we, that you are the light of the world. And there's

a sense in which, be rich is how we, in the words of Jesus, let our light shine before others

that they might see our good deeds and not glorify us and not say, wow, what a great church and

what nice generous people. But they would see our good deeds and ultimately look up and glorify

or look up and connect with and understand that there really is a father and heaven.

And honestly, and you can imagine if you could just put yourself in my place in just this one

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