Freedom in the Light
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
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As we near the end of our week on honesty, today we’re going to discover together how there is freedom in the light. Any part of our lives in which we’re walking in darkness, living isolated and unknown, makes space for our hearts to be chained to thoughts and temptations God wants to set us free from. So may the Spirit lead us into the light today, and may we find the courage to follow him.
Our Scripture for today comes from Isaiah 42:16, and today's worship is O Come To The Altar by Elevation Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | As we near the end of our week on honesty, today we're going to discover together how there is freedom in the light. |
| 0:12.0 | Any part of our lives in which we're walking in darkness, living isolated and unknown, makes space for our hearts to be chained to thoughts and temptations |
| 0:23.4 | that God wants to set us free from. So may the Spirit lead us into the light today, and may we |
| 0:30.4 | find the courage to follow him. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:57.0 | Our verse of today comes from Isaiah 42, verse 16, where Scripture says, I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know. |
| 1:02.0 | In paths that they have not known, I will guide them. |
| 1:06.0 | I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places, into level ground. |
| 1:12.6 | These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them. |
| 1:20.6 | The imagery of light and darkness is used throughout Scripture as a metaphor for freedom and sin. |
| 1:28.3 | And God and that which is without God. |
| 1:32.3 | Jesus consistently refers to himself as the light. |
| 1:37.3 | In reference to Jesus, Matthew 416 says, |
| 1:41.3 | The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, |
| 1:45.0 | and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, |
| 1:49.0 | on them a light has dawned. |
| 1:52.0 | Scripture also refers to us as the light, in Ephesians 5 8, saying, |
| 1:59.0 | For at one time you were darkness, |
| 2:01.6 | but now you were light in the Lord. |
| 2:04.6 | And in John 3, 19 through 21, |
| 2:08.6 | Jesus describes a freedom that comes from bringing ourselves to the light. |
| 2:14.6 | And this is the judgment. The light has come into the world, and people loved the light. And this is the judgment. |
| 2:17.9 | The light has come into the world, and people love the darkness rather than the light, |
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