Light Is Our Knowledge Base

Darkness is being blinded to knowledge, blinded to the gospel. Verse 6 says the same thing, that God commanded the light to shine out of darkness. The light has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Light is knowledge, and darkness means ignorance, lack of knowledge, no knowledge. We saw in Ephesians 4 where Paul says that the Gentiles’ mind, or the pagan mind, the unregenerate, unsaved mind is darkened, blinded. In Romans 1, it says the same thing, their foolish heart was darkened.

So light, intellectually, means knowledge, and darkness intellectually means ignorance, a lack of knowledge. Morally, you have behaviour. Sometimes light and darkness speak of holiness and unholyness. For example, in Isaiah 5, to give you one illustration, verse 20, it’s a very graphic one. Woe unto them who call evil good and good evil. Boy, is that a sermon for today. Woe unto them who call good evil and evil good, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put the bitter for the sweet and the sweet for the bitter. And the point is, he compares good and evil with light and darkness, and he’s talking about behaviour.

So sometimes the concept of darkness has to do with behaviour. In Romans chapter 13, we see a New Testament illustration of this. He says the night is far spent, the day is at hand, let us therefore, watch this line, cast off the works of darkness. Where there is intellectual darkness, there will be the works of that darkness. The next verse says, wild parties, drunkenness, immorality, shamelessness, strife, and envy. So on the one hand, you have the intellectual side of darkness, not knowing God or his truth, which results in a moral darkness, doing the deeds of that darkness.

On the other hand, light is knowing the truth, and it results in living it out. Now as Christians, people, we walk in the light. Now let me make it clear, if you’re a Christian, you walk in the light. Let me tell you why. Look at 1 John chapter 1 verse 5, it says this, This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you. Here it comes, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. Now God is light, and in him is no darkness. If you are a son of God, you are a son of light.

And if you are a son of light, there is in you no darkness at all. In other words, when you were redeemed, you were fully redeemed. There is no residual darkness. I do not believe that Christians walk in the darkness. Verse 7 of 1 John says it, If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we are having fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his son is cleansing us from all sin. Put the verse in reverse, If we are the ones whom the blood of Christ is cleansing from all sin, then we are the ones having fellowship one with another.

Then we are the ones walking in light. In other words, the ones being forgiven are the ones in the light. And that’s the whole point. As long as we are God’s children, God is light, light produces light, God’s children are light. And Matthew 5, 14 says it, ye are the light of the world. We are called sons of light repeatedly in the New Testament. In 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 and verse 4, ye brethren are not in darkness, verse 5, ye are all sons of light. If God is light, he gives birth to us, we become light.

Then, says Jesus, we are the light of the world. We walk in the light, we are the ones having fellowship, we are the ones being cleansed. The point is, this is a definition of a Christian. A Christian is somebody in the light. We don’t walk in darkness. We have been translated, Colossians 1 says, out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his dear son, which is a kingdom of light. Because he said, I am the light of the world, whosoever followeth me shall not walk in, what darkness. I don’t think there’s any middle ground.

I think when you were saved, you were taken out of darkness into light. You say, well, what about when we sin? Well, when you sin, you do the deeds of darkness, but you do them in the light. And they are manifest, right? They are manifest. And we’ll see more about that as we go. We are to walk, Ephesians 5, 8. We are to walk as children of light. Listen, people, if we are the children of light, if we are the sons of light, if we are the sons of the day, if God is our father and he is light, and then we are the light of the world, we are to live that way.

Do you see what he is saying? Boy, what a great thing. What a tremendous truth. We are the light of the world. I don’t believe a Christian can walk in darkness. I don’t believe that. I think you can do the deeds of the darkness, but you’re going to do them in broad light and God’s going to know and everything is going to be exposed. Light and darkness are absolute opposites, just like conversion is an absolute opposite. The ultimate contrast, light and darkness. And we live in a world that’s so dark and so desperately in need of the light that we give.

And so Paul says, walk as children of light. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of light is our Knowledge Base. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong and continue to shine your light in the world. To hear these daily devotions of your daily bread, please log on to goddessgovernment.com. Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way. [tr:trw].