The Parable of the Lamp on a Stand
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🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 11 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 Let There Be Light by Bryan & Katie Torwalt.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue to look at the profound, life-transforming concepts that Jesus shared through |
| 0:09.9 | parables, today we'll focus on the parable of the lamp on a stand. |
| 0:15.1 | May what might have once been a concept that caused many of us to feel pressure, now |
| 0:19.8 | bring forth peace, purpose and freedom, and God's love and identity for us. |
| 0:25.9 | Welcome to the first-a-team podcast. |
| 0:31.1 | Our scripture for today comes from Matthew 5 verses 14 through 15, where Jesus says, |
| 0:47.8 | you are the light of the world. |
| 0:50.5 | A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. |
| 0:54.1 | Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand and it gives light |
| 1:00.1 | to all those in the house. |
| 1:04.6 | Reading Matthew 5, 14 through 15, uses stress me out. |
| 1:09.2 | How can we, with all our mistakes, misgivings and failures, be the light of the world? |
| 1:16.2 | How could God and all His wisdom choose to use us to reveal Jesus, the only hope of eternal |
| 1:22.6 | salvation, to a lost and dying world? |
| 1:28.2 | As I grow in my knowledge of God's heart, I grow in the revelation of His desire to use |
| 1:34.3 | me. |
| 1:36.1 | Passages like Matthew 5, 14 through 15 used to focus my attention on my own sin and darkness, |
| 1:43.3 | rather than God's grace and love. |
| 1:46.8 | The faithfully, in His love, He guides my thoughts to what matters, the overwhelming reality |
| 1:54.0 | of the Holy Spirit transforming me into the image of the God who created me. |
| 2:00.2 | Today, let's allow the Spirit and the Word to transform the way we view ourselves and |
| 2:07.1 | how God in His infinite wisdom would use us to change the world. |
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