{"id":47268,"date":"2022-10-01T02:48:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/let-our-light-so-shine-before-men-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:48:10","slug":"let-our-light-so-shine-before-men-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/let-our-light-so-shine-before-men-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Our Light So Shine Before Men &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darkness and light are contrasted in the Bibles presentation of Jesus:<\/p>\n<p>The prophet Isaiah tells us:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined<\/strong> (Isaiah 9:2-NKJV).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>John provides us with this illustration of Jesus life:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>In Him [Jesus] was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it<\/strong> (John 1:4-5-NKJV).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As followers of Jesus, it is our privilege to be His light-bearers today. Paul urged the Christians in Philippi to become:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world<\/strong> (Philippians 2:15-NKJV).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With God as our refuge (Psalm 46:1-NKJV), we never have to be afraid or oppressed by the spiritual darkness around us (2 Timothy 1:6-8-NKJV). Therefore, let us let our light so shine before men, that they may see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven (Matthew 5:16).<\/p>\n<p>Related Posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Background of Darkness<\/li>\n<li>Truth Illuminates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darkness and light are contrasted in the Bibles presentation of Jesus: The prophet Isaiah tells us: The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined (Isaiah 9:2-NKJV). John provides us with this illustration of Jesus life: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/let-our-light-so-shine-before-men-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let Our Light So Shine Before Men &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}