Illumination is our Occupation
Pastor Tom Weaver
May 21, 2017
Highlights:
1. The reason for good works to be seen, is not so that we may be congratulated as fine, upstanding servants of God, but so that observers will give glory to your Father.
2. Pride is a light dimmer in our lives because it pulls the glory from God and onto us. The first thing we need to repent of is our righteousness because it gets in the way of His.
3. When we become a follower He says that we have the light of life. His presence then is a fact.
Discussion Questions:
1. The opposite of grumbling is gratefulness. Talk together about the purposeful choice we can make to change the things we grumble about into the things we are grateful for.
2. What dark places has God called you to shine in? What effect is the light of God, through you, having on the lives and sitiations around you?
3. We must be fully persuaded that the light of the world can illuminate us. What about the cross and the Holy Spirit makes our illumination possible?
Key Scriptures:
-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.”
John 8:12 NLT
-“You are the light of the world—like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.
Matthew 5:14-16 NLT
-“Watch out! Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven.
Matthew 6:1 NLT
-For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true. Carefully determine what pleases the Lord. Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.
Ephesians 5:8-11 NLT