Summary
The contrast between light and darkness is a common and a prevalent theme in holy scripture. For example, light is used to refer to truth Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. The contrast then of light communicating truth is darkness communicating falsehood. The contrast then between light and darkness, between truth and falsehood. Just as you can't hide a city, or you wouldn't do the ridiculous thing of light to lamp and then put it under a bushel basket to hide it. We can be tempted as the body of Christ across the world to move into a hiding, to move into a holy huddle, to hide behind walls of the protective cocoon of the church, to bask in the light the light of the presence of Christ as we gather.
Video citations
- "Light" October 28, 2018 — Would you open your Bible, please, with me, to the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. We are in a four-week study that I have entitled the Mission. Leveraging off of our study in the Book of…