Walking In The Light!

We're all are gonna have to listen really quickly this morning.

If you're visiting with us, we normally traditionally go about

an hour for worship, and uh today was a little

unique and you have to you have to be flexible

so you don't end up quenching the spirit because we

can come with our preconceived plans and he has the

ability to uh change them up and that's a good thing.

So good morning those of you on live stream. We

apologize for.

The delay, but I think we're good, all right.

So in the next hour and a half before we

just joking. This was one of those weeks where I've

said this before. I literally woke up this morning and

was like, it's been a crazy week. We've been running

from morning tonight every night, and my buddy Brad Roberts

is up in the sound booth. He's a sound engineer

from Dallas and he's been working on the system and

changing the live stream and anyways, so I don't know

if you all noticed the.

Sound was a little bit different. Sean was like, man,

is that me?

I said, he put every glory app on there, and

but we appreciate Brad coming and helping us out I've

known him for twenty six years. For those of you

that were around here when so Cafe was running, I actually,

in fact, Brad and I worked for the same nuclear company,

the Atlantic Group.

Way back. My hair was my I love you, Becky Bowen. Anyways, so.

I want to stretch the way you think about the

Lord this morning.

That's my goal.

I specifically want to stretch you in the way you

think about being light. So I want to talk to

you just for a little bit here on walking in

the light and really what that means. And there's probably

some metaphoric, preconceived ideas y'all have had where you thought

it was way more metaphor than literal. I'm going to

hopefully get to a couple of things that just really

mess you up in a good way and make you

want to go.

Study the Word. My heart.

Every time I teach is more than anything, I'm able

to impart a hunger for his word and help give

you skill on how to study.

His word for yourself. Does that sound reasonable?

And so every time I teach, my heart is that

y'all don't just gain knowledge, but you actually grow in

intimacy with Him through impartation. Because of the revelation and

that it's not just simply knowledge of Him. Okay, so

if you have your Bibles with you or your Bible

app go to Genesis one.

We're going to start in the beginning. We're gonna we're

gonna work all the way through. No, we're not.

And I'm gonna point out a couple of things you're

gonna find as God begins to unveil himself in Genesis

one that you're going to see there are actually different

types of light. Because God is light. He's not a

metaphoric light. He is literal light. He is the light

that meant Paul on the road to Damascus and literally

blinded him.

Because of his glory.

And it's this light that comes into us through his

sun and begins to permeate every fiber of our being.

It begins to change us from the inside out. And

as we submit to his spirit and surrender our lives

to him, we begin to recognize that we're lighter, We

begin to radiate light.

People begin to notice.

That you're not nearly as dark as you were a

couple of years ago. And you can even see before

and after pictures when people get delivered. I love when

people come into my office, and they get healing and deliverance,

and their continence literally is radiating more light, and it's

not metaphoric, it's literal, radiant light. And in Genesis it says,

in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was

over the face of the deep, and the spirit of

God was hovering or brewing over the face of the waters.

And God said, let there be light, and there was light.

So right there, eternal light and spoken light are in

that one sentence. You have eternal light. Who is God?

You have spoken light? Where he said, let there be light,

And then we're going to see that you have created

light when he made the stars, the sun, and the moon,

and he says, he says that the light was good,

and God separated the light from darkness. God called the

light day, and the darkness.

He called night.

And there was evening and there was morning, and that

was the first day. Day starts at night. According to

the scriptures, it doesn't actually start. In the mons, and

God said, let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed

and fruit, trees bearing fruit in which their seed, each

according to its kind, on earth.

And it was so.

The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to

their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is

their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw

that it was good. And there was evening and there

was morning, and that was.

The third day.

So if you're wondering, yes, I'm skipping a little bit

of a I'm skipping one of the days. But notice

that that was the third day. That vegetation is growing,

trees are growing. You have life, and it's being nurtured

by this spoken light. And yet the sun in the

moon is not there yet. Remember in Revelation it says

that there will be no need for the sun or

the moon, because the Lamb is the light. And from

day one, God has been revealing himself through his Word,

which who is his word, Jesus. In the beginning was

the word, the word was with God, the word was God,

and the word became flesh. So the Father, the Son,

and the Spirit are there in creation. Right there in Genesis,

the God had literally recreating an earth that's in chaos,

full of darkness, and the Holy Spirit's brewing over this,

and the eternal Light says, let there be light, and

he's literally released the light of Jesus into the earth,

and life happens. And then it goes on to say,

are y all with me, and let and he goes

and let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens,

to separate the day from the night. And let them

be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.

Let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens,

to give light upon the earth. And it was so oh,

and God made the two great lights, the greater light

to rule the day and the lesser light to rule

the night, and the stars to rule over the day

and over the night, and to separate the light from

the darkness. And God saw it was good. And there

was evening and there was morning, and that was the

fourth day. So the sun and moon is literally made

the day after everything's already growing. So my challenge to

you this morning is to actually begin to think in

terms of light, to process in terms of color, to

recognize that when Jesus says you are the light of

the world, that it's not metaphoric. And when we sing

that song from camp, this little light of mine, I'm

gonna let it shine. It's actually a much bigger light

than a little light. Now you can dim your light.

There are dim lights out there, especially in the political world.

But you can brighten your light. And I'm going to

show you how hopefully. And John three nineteen to twenty one,

it says, and this is the judgment. The light has

come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than

the light because their works were evil. For everyone who

does wicked things hates the light and does not come

to the light lest his work should be exposed. But

whoever does what is true comes to the light so

that it may be clearly seen that his works have

been carried out in God, Why do you think people

when they're struggling with sin disappear because there's a part

of them wrestling with the reality. They don't want to

be in the light because they understand that once they're

in that light, what they've been carrying and what they've

been trying to hide can no longer stay hidden. Jesus said,

what you speak in the secret places is going to

be shouted from the mountaintops. And we're seeing that, we're

seeing exposure by his light all over the place. Why,

because he is drawing near in this season, and the

closer he draws, whatever darkness is in your life, whatever

darkness you've not dealt with, it's going to get exposed

by his light. All of this is written for believers,

you understand, Like when we read the Word, all of

it was written for believers. It wasn't written for the world.

And so when he's addressing these crazy Sins and Corinthians

and tone them like, hey, this crap's not even been

heard of among Pagans. That's crap ola for Greek. And

he says, that's not even been heard like the Pagans

don't even do that. He is a loving father, saying

that this darkness has nothing to do with you.

You have nothing in.

Common every time you choose to sin willfully because it's

no longer a slave descin because you've been set free

from the power of sin, from the slavery of sin.

When you step into.

G Jesus and you carry this light inside of you,

and if we don't understand that that is an eternal, everlasting,

literal light because the moment you stepped into Jesus, you

your spirit came alive and your maid in God's image,

and he is light. He literally when he manifest, he

can manifest just like he did on the road said Damascus,

as a light, because that's who he is. It's his nature.

It's not just something he does. He is eternal light.

Amos eight eleven and twelve says, behold, the days are coming,

declares the Lord God, when I will send a famine

on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a

thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.

They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north

to east, and they shall run to and fro to

seek the word of the Lord, that they won't find

it interesting enough. In Isaiah nine, it says the people

who walked in darkness have seen a great light this

and goes on to say, those who dwelt in the

land of deep darkness, on them the light shone. So

it's prophesying Isaiah nine the birth of Jesus, and it's

and it's actually giving you a picture of deep darkness.

So Galatians four to four when it says in the

fullness of time, that's when Jesus came, And the fullness

of time meant that it was in the fullness of

darkness you had a roughly four hundred year lapse between

Malachi and Matthew, where there's no revelation being released. I mean,

you had the scrolls and you had the Old Covenant,

but literally there was no prophetic words going. It was silence,

and it was in the fullness of time in the

in this moment, this crescendoing moment in history, where it's

so dark, it says, for unto us, a child is born,

to us, a son is given, and the government will

be upon his shoulders, and his name shall be Wonderful

counselor Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, of the

increase of his government and of peace. There will be

no end. You have been You have been given a

kingdom that exists inside of you that literally radiates the

light of your creator. And as you embrace his spirit

and allow him to increase the capacity of your spirit,

that light increases. You become a greater light to the

world around you. And every moment that we choose to

stiff our him or not yield, or not allow him

to lower or to remove our strongholds, we're putting a

bushel over that light. And you have people in your

life that are watching you right now that you have

influence with that, whether you recognize it or not, these

people are looking at you because there's something that they're

picking up on. And it's not even as much as

what you're saying. It's what you're carrying. And don't forget

that people are looking at you way more than you think.

And the more you increase your spirit's capacity, the brighter

the lights are going to be, the easier the potential

for those that are in darkness to come out. Isaiah

sixty one and two says, a rise, shine, for your

light has come, and the glory of the Lord has

risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,

and thick darkness the peoples. But the Lord will arise

upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.

Remember y'all have back at two fourteen, for the earth

will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of

the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. This issue,

this time and history that we're living, which is literally

a perplexity of nations, and we're living in this I

would say this tipping point, this reprieve for our country

where literally as the government is being audited, the Lord

has been auditing the church the Lord has been dealing.

He is drawing close and exposing the church. It says

judgment starts first in the House of God, and he starts.

With his elders.

But we need to be very careful as the body

of Christ to not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

God has not changed his mind on what his government is.

But it's wounded people that have refused to remove their

bushels and allow that light to increase, that have ended

up living their lives at the expense of others.

Because wounded people, wound people.

You didn't walk into this building and go, oh, it

hurts so bad to come in here. No, if you

get hurt in church, you get hurt by people. Right,

You didn't get hurt by a shell of a building.

This building is not the church you are. And God

is purifying his bride because he wants us to be

the light and salt we're called to. As much change

as we've seen in the last month in this country,

it will disappear as quick as it's come if the

church is not awakened to the reality of who they

are and to take their rightful place so that they

can advance the kingdom and bring the Kingdom to earth.

Make no mistake. Literally, this can be gone like that

in a moment. And it's not politicians jobs to save

a country. It's the church's job to be the church

to advance the Kingdom. Everything on earth that is not

in heaven. Guess what, there's your assignment. You don't need

an angelic visitation to go pray for someone. If you

see the evidence of darkness in their life, that is

a target.

You don't need anything beyond that in that moment.

So John one to five, the light shines in the darkness,

and the darkness has not overcome it.

I shared this first service.

I remember John Paul Jackson sharing a story probably fifteen

years ago. They used to do outreaches in Salem. So

they would do outreaches dream They would have a booth

and they would do spiritual reading, spiritual cleansings, which were

you know, deliverance and dream interpretation, and they would meet

with these witches and these warlocks. And this warlock came

up to John Paul and said, when I'm done with you, you

know you're gonna be on the ground. I'm gonna, you know,

blah blah blah, I'm gonna curse you and you like that, Alex,

I got the blah blah blah, and I'm gonna curse you,

and when I'm done with you, you're just gonna be

a puddle of nothing. So John Paul goes, all right, well,

go ahead, and the warlock starts running his mouth trying

to do all this stuff, and he's like he was done.

He goes, okay, he goes, I don't know what I'm

supposed to be feeling right now, he goes, But you

had your chance, now it's mine. Then he said Lord,

and he prayed a simple prayer, and that guy lifted

off of the ground and supernaturally stuck to the wall

and begin to scream at the top of his lungs.

Because darkness is no match to light. It's like it's

like taking a match and trying to fight a bonfire, y'all.

It's it's not like, it's not even close. You don't

have to be a friend of darkness. Do you understand

If you walk into a room it's pitch black, and

you light a little candle, what happens? That room illuminates

just from a little candle. I'm talking quick, y'all, listening quick?

All right? Great again?

Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of

the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness,

but will have the light of life. And first John

one seven says this, but if we walk in the

light as he is in the light, we have fellowship

with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his son

cleanses us from all sin.

Over and over and over.

In fact, there is this Greek word that's called poikilos,

and it's translated all through the New Covenant as various

or multi colored. And when you realize that that word

it means multicolored, all of a sudden, it begins to

change things like the scriptures that you read when it

talks about the manifold wisdom of God, the multicolored of God,

the multicolored gifting of God, the multicolored trials, the multi

colored diseases. All of a sudden, you realize again this

issue of light is hitting home. You realize that it's

not metaphoric, it's literal, and that heaven is going to

be full of colors that we've not even perceived yet.

Ephesians five says, for at one time you were darkness,

but now you are light in the Lord. Walk is

children of light, for the fruit of light is found

in all that is good and right and true. And

try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take

no part in unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

For it's shameful even to speak of the things that

they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by

the light, it becomes visible. For anything that becomes visible

is light. Therefore, it says, awake, o sleeper, and arise

from the dead, and Christ will.

Shine upon you one more.

And then we're going to dive deep for about five minutes,

and then I'll let you come up for air. Okay,

this is the message we've heard from him. And proclaim

to you that God is light and in him is

no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship

with Him, while we walk in darkness, we lie and

do not practice the truth. But if we walk in

the light as He is in the light, we have

fellowship with one another. And the blood of Jesus's Son

cleanses us from sin. Y'all, we always pray for oneness

and the body of Christ. We talk about John chapter seventeen.

We talk about true unity, even in Psalms where it

talks about that the blessing comes when the brother the

brethren dwell in unity. It's like the oil dripping from

Aaron's beard. But if you're in darkness, you're not ever

going to be in true unity with the Body of Christ.

Because if they're in light, and they're walking in the light,

because they're children of light, and you choose to go

into darkness, you've automatically disqualified yourself from that true oneness

that Jesus prayed for in John seventeen. It's impossible because

darkness has nothing in common with light. Centuries ago, Isaac

Newton discovered that life light shining through a prism produced

a rainbow. A prism is three sided and has seven colors.

Interestingly enough, we see there are seven spirits of God

according to Revelation three to one, four, five, and five six,

And we see exactly what those seven spirits are. Those

angels on the roof. We say exactly what those spirits are.

In Isaiah eleven two, we see the seven spirits of God.

Science reveals that an atom is composed of a nucleus

and electrons. Even small particles, protons and neutrons make up

the nucleus. Particle physics has further discovered that protons and

neutrons are a collection of extremely small light particles called

gluons and mesons, which are comprised of color and anticolor.

They're constantly moving in and out of the quark. There

are six flavors of quartz. They can successfully account for

all known mesons and borons, over two hundred, the most

familiar borons for the protons and neutrons. This, this literally

tells us that everything literally on a cellular level of

an atom is made up of light, of color, and

it's moving. So this, even though it's solid, it literally

is moving and it's light. Everything is made of light.

Nothing that was created was not. It was not created

apart from light, because He is light.

Last point. So when you go back to.

Genesis and he says, let there be light, that is

the substance these atoms.

Creation is made of light from him.

As dan in here she was her first service.

Is Dean here.

She's an art a part of me. She's an artist

and understands the color wheel. And what's interesting if you

in Exodus twenty eight you see the breastplate of the

high priest.

There were twelve stones.

You also notice that when all the sons of Abraham,

the twelve tribes, when those twelve brothers were blessed, it

gives description to the characteristics of each of them, of

who they are. And when you take those stones, each

tribe has a colored stone, you also begin to get

definition of the color and the characteristics of them. So

like when you take the rainbow and you align it

with Isaiah eleven two, which are the seven spirits of God,

you actually begin to get definition of what that the

seventh spirits mean. So red is wisdom, purple is the

fear of the Lord. You actually begin to understand in

this term. With the mind of Christ, you start thinking

in terms of light and in color. And then all

of a sudden, now when you have a dream and

you see a certain color that like say, your shirt

is blue, why is it blue? Well, you study scripture

and you realize blue's revelation. You realize in the in

the temple, so many things were colored and covered in red,

and they were covered in blue. And they were given

specific directions to cover these items in the tabernacle in

these fabrics and specifically in blue. See when you're reading

the scriptures, you have to ask questions, why did you

do this, why didn't you do this?

And if it was important enough.

To you to give that type of detail to tell

you how to handle something, why, Because it's when you

ask the Lord why to these things that you actually

open yourself up to revelation and encountering Him. And it

no longer just gaining some knowledge that you can spit

out to somebody and look spiritual.

Now it's about encountering.

Him and being transformed by his light, be transformed by

His word. Revelation four five, it says around the throne

were twenty four thrones, and seated on the thrones were

twenty four elders, clothed in white garments with golden crowns

on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings,

and peals of thunder. And before the throne were burning

seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God.

And remember, God is also an all consuming fire. So

all of a sudden, all these descriptions our God is

an all consuming fire, God is light. All of a sudden,

you realize these things aren't metaphoric. If you're in the

throne room you see the seven spirits burning like a lamp.

You see them like a rainbow over the throne.

And when you see that, it says that Lucifer walked

in the midst of the fiery stones. You understand that

those two stones actually represented Jesus and the Holy Spirit,

and that Lucifer at one point had such intimacy with

the Lord. He was walking in the midst of the

fiery stones. He had that intensity, that closeness of intimacy

with the Godhead. And there's twenty four colors to a

color wheel, just like twenty four elders around his throne. See,

there's something that the Lord wants us to understand. It's

that we're either abiding in light or abiding in darkness.

And we literally anytime we try to enter into the

spiritual realm through illegal access, meaning any other way except

for Jesus, I don't care what you think you're accomplishing.

You're not being enlightened. You're being darkened. And when we

walk in the dark, we have no clue where we're walking.

When we hold on to hatred and unforgiveness towards our brother,

it says we're not walking in the truth and we're

lying and we're stumbling. We have nowhere, we have no

clue where we're headed. This is not a time, in

this time and history, This is not a moment for

us to think that God is winking at darkness, that

He's winking at our darkness. Every time we get that attitude,

you need to remember the price He paid to redeem

us from sin and darkness and to literally cause us

to be born again. When it says you're dead and

your trespasses and sins, your spirit wasn't radiating any light.

It was dead, and all of a sudden, the seed

of God came into you and boom your new creation.

And now your spirit is radiating light. And it's through

the spiritual disciplines of fasting and reading His word and

meditating on his word, and intercession and prayer and waiting

on him, beholding him, spending time with him that causes

our spirits to grow, which means the light in you

is growing, which in turn allows more of the Holy

Spirit to be in you, because He dwells inside of

your spirit. If you can grab a hold of the

reality of God being light and you being light, and

be conscious of the reality that everywhere you go, you're

actually bringing the light of life with you you have.

The reality is you actually can change the atmosphere whatever

room you walk into. You don't have to be afraid

of the darkness. You can say it's okay, the light

is here because the light is Jesus and He is

inside of you. When he says let your light shine,

that means walk in the light, Abide in the light.

God is light and in him is no darkness.

And if we're going.

To step into a place of unity in the body

of Christ and stay there, we must abide in his light.

It is not optional. All right, Let's stand up. Thank

you forgiving me grace.