The Life-Giving Light

Light + Truth

Desiring God

Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity

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🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What makes Christ a life-giving light? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 1:1–13 and shows us the light breaking into darkness.

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0:00.0	In Him was life, and that life became light.
0:06.5	Therefore, that light is the light of life.
0:10.7	It's the light that was produced by life.
0:12.9	I've got to have life.
0:14.1	I'm dead.
0:15.1	And if I'm dead, I can't see.
0:16.6	I've got to live so that I can see.
0:20.8	How is Jesus the Son of God, the life-giving light?
0:25.9	That's the question John Piper answers from John 1-1
0:29.5	to 13 in this episode of Light and Truth.
0:33.8	This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church
0:37.9	on October 5, 2008.
0:43.9	John chapter 1 verse 4.
0:50.9	In Him that is in Christ the Word, in the beginning was the Word,
0:55.6	and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
0:58.7	He was in the beginning with God.
0:59.9	All things were made through Him without Him was not anything made
1:03.2	that was made.
1:05.4	Verse 4.
1:06.6	In Him this Word, this Jesus Christ, this God was life, in Him was life.
1:18.2	Therefore, in the beginning, before there was anything else but God,
1:24.6	there was life.
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