Christ Is Like Sunlight

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

We see the sun by means of seeing the rays of the sun. So also we see God the Father by seeing Jesus.

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0:00.0	October 24, Christ is like sunlight.
0:05.7	He is the radiance of the glory of God
0:09.3	and the exact imprint of His nature.
0:12.2	Hebrews 1, 3.
0:14.8	Jesus relates to God the way radiance relates to glory
0:19.0	or the way rays of sunlight relate to the sun.
0:24.7	Keep in mind that every analogy between God
0:28.1	and natural things is imperfect and will distort
0:31.0	if you press it.
0:32.0	Nevertheless, consider, for example, 1.
0:37.4	There is no time when the sun exists
0:41.0	without the beams of radiance.
0:44.2	They cannot be separated.
0:46.3	The radiance is co-eternal with the glory.
0:50.4	Christ is co-eternal with God, the Father.
0:54.0	2.
0:55.0	The radiance is the glory radiating out.
0:59.4	It is not essentially different from the glory.
1:03.0	Christ is God standing forth as separate,
1:06.2	but not essentially different from the Father.
1:10.5	3.
1:11.5	Thus, the radiance is eternally begotten as it were
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