Freedom in the Light
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
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 Let There Be Light by Hillsong 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 |
| 0:10.2 | there was freedom in the light, any part of our lives in which we're walking in darkness, |
| 0:17.1 | living isolated and unknown, makes space for our hearts to be chained to thoughts and |
| 0:22.8 | temptations that God wants to set us free from. |
| 0:26.8 | You may the Spirit lead us into the light today, and may we find the courage to follow |
| 0:32.2 | Him. |
| 0:33.2 | Welcome to the first-of-team podcast. |
| 0:51.0 | Our verse of today comes from Isaiah 42, verse 16, where Scripture says, |
| 0:58.0 | I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, and paths that they have not |
| 1:03.8 | known I will guide them. |
| 1:06.2 | I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places and to level ground. |
| 1:13.6 | These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them. |
| 1:20.7 | The imagery of light in darkness is used throughout Scripture as a metaphor for freedom |
| 1:27.2 | and sin, and God and that which is without God. |
| 1:32.6 | Jesus consistently refers to Himself as the light. |
| 1:37.7 | In reference to Jesus, Matthew 416 says, the people dwelling in darkness have seen |
| 1:43.8 | a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light |
| 1:50.6 | has dawned. |
| 1:53.2 | Scripture also refers to us as the light in Ephesians 5-8 saying, for at one time you were |
| 2:00.5 | darkness, but now you were light in the Lord. |
| 2:06.2 | And in John 3, 19-21, Jesus describes a freedom that comes from bringing ourselves to the |
| 2:13.5 | light. |
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