The Parable of the Lamp on a Stand
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🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
As we continue to look at the profound, life-transforming concepts Jesus shared through parables, today we’ll focus on the parable of the lamp on a stand. May what might’ve once been a concept that caused many of us to feel pressure, now bring forth peace, purpose and freedom in God’s love and identity for us.
Our Scripture for today comes from Matthew 5:14-15, and today's worship is My Lighthouse by Rend Collective.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue to look at the profound life-transforming concepts Jesus shared through parables, |
| 0:10.0 | today we'll focus on the parable of the lamp on the stand. |
| 0:14.0 | May what might have once been a concept that caused many of us to feel pressure, |
| 0:20.0 | now bring forth peace, purpose, and freedom |
| 0:22.8 | in God's love as identity for us. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Reading Matthew 5, 14 through 15 used to stress me out. |
| 0:39.8 | Jesus says, you are the light of the world. |
| 0:42.2 | A city on a hill cannot be hidden. |
| 0:44.7 | Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand. |
| 0:49.4 | And it gives light to all in the house. |
| 0:52.8 | How can we, with all our mistakes, misgivings, and failures |
| 0:56.4 | be the light of the world? How could God and all his wisdom choose to use us to reveal Jesus, |
| 1:03.0 | the only hope of eternal salvation, to a lost and dying world? As I grow in my knowledge of God's |
| 1:09.9 | heart, I grow in the revelation of his desire to use me. |
| 1:13.6 | Passages like Matthew 5, 14 through 15 used to focus my attention on my own sin and darkness, |
| 1:20.6 | rather than God's grace and love. But faithfully in his love, he guides my thoughts to what matters, the overwhelming reality |
| 1:29.2 | of the Holy Spirit transforming me into the image of a God who created me. Today, let's allow the |
| 1:35.6 | spirit and the Word to transform the way we view ourselves and how God and its infinite wisdom |
| 1:41.2 | would use us to change the world. Ephesians 210 says, |
| 1:46.0 | For we are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, |
| 1:50.0 | which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. |
| 1:53.0 | At salvation, your identity changed. |
| 1:56.0 | You are now created in Christ Jesus. |
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