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Bible Studies for Life Lesson for December 20: Saved By God’s Son
Matt Capps, pastor, Fairview Baptist Church, Apex
December 03, 2015
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Bible Studies for Life Lesson for December 20: Saved By God’s Son

Bible Studies for Life Lesson for December 20: Saved By God’s Son
Matt Capps, pastor, Fairview Baptist Church, Apex
December 03, 2015

Focal passage: John 1:1-5, 9-14

We live in a spiritually dark world. There is a lurking darkness not only in the world around us, but also deep within our souls.

The bad news is, there is no escape. No political or moral agenda can rescue us from this darkness.

Even worse, there is no way for us to rescue ourselves from the darkness of sin in our own lives.

When G.K. Chesterton was once asked, “what is wrong with the world?” His response was personal and profound. He simply said, “I am.”

The Good News is, Jesus came to earth to rescue us. He came to rescue us from the sin that plagues the world we live in. Jesus also came to rescue us from us.

Jesus entered into the darkness of our world, and there was light.

The Good News of the gospel is that Jesus, the light of the world, “… shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:5).

Jesus is our only hope. And just like in Genesis, when God spoke into the darkness and there was light, the light of the spoken gospel shines in our hearts and saves us from the darkness of sin. This light of God’s love gives us warming comfort in the cold darkness of the world we live in.

As God’s people, we are called to be a light to the nations, a city on a hill. In this sense, God calls us out of the darkness into the light, and then commissions us to go back into the darkness with the light.

The Good News of the gospel is a light to everyone groping around in the darkness of sin. Jesus, the light, is our salvation. And the Good News gets even better.

Those who come to the light will one day forever dwell in the radiant glory of God.

The New Jerusalem is described as having “… no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk” (Revelation 21:23-24)