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Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive, where we just spent a few minutes diving into God's Word.

I'm Mike Bro, and we are walking through the Gospel of John in the New

Testament section of the Bible, and we are in Chapter 8. Jesus was in Jerusalem for what was

called the Festival of Shelters, and there's lots of people there. And as Jesus was teaching

out in front of the temple, a woman who was set up and used by the power-hungry religious leaders,

she gets dragged before the crowd and thrown down the dirt in front of Jesus. As the people get ready to

stone her for her sexual sin, Jesus stoops down to be with her in the dirt, gets down on her level

and tells the people, whoever is without sin, go ahead and throw the first stone. So let's just pick it up now in verse 12 today.

It says this, Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, I am the light of the world.

If you follow me, you won't have to walk in darkness because you will have the light that leads to life.

Now, during the festival, they would light these 16 golden bowls filled with oil,

and they would give light to the inner courts of the temple.

So Jesus was likely standing beneath them when he says,

I am the light of the world.

He is making the claim that anyone who follows him would have life.

Now, of course, there is big-time pushback from the religious leaders.

They shouted him, you're making those claims about yourself?

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