When Jesus comes, the truth about all things comes. Truth about God God without God without Jesus.

Can't know God without Jesus.

Truth about ourselves.

We can't know ourselves without Jesus.

His teaching, his person. The truth about the way of salvation comes.

You can't know how to be saved without Jesus.

The truth about what is good and beautiful, what is evil and ugly,

all the criteria that makes something right around. good and beautiful and beautiful,

all the criteria that make something right or wrong, beautiful or ugly, is in Jesus.

What difference does it make that the light of God has broken into the world in Jesus?

That's the question John Piper answers from John 3, 16 to 21 in this episode of Light and Truth.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on May 17, 2009.

Let's start with verse 19.

This is the judgment.

What?

The light has come in to the world.

Now let's just stop right there and get that clear.

The light has come into the world. What is that? That's Jesus.

John, the writer of this gospel, wrote in his first letter, God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.

And he said in the very first verse of this gospel,

the word was God. And then in verse 14, the word became flesh. What else could he be but the light of the world?

And he says so in chapter 8 verse 12,

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