 Our sermon title this morning is my Lord and my God my Lord and my God and we are in part 3 as we're working through the gospel of John beginning this morning chapter 1 verses 1 through 5 Where the Bible says in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God He was in the beginning with God all things were made through him and without him Nothing was made that was made And in him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it Jesus Christ according to John's gospel according to the Bible according to the testimony of God through scripture Jesus Christ is God incarnate The theme of John's gospel is to display the incarnate Christ and all the glory and power and Fulness of deity that dwells in him dwells within him He is fully man and yet not considering it robbery to be equal with God And he is fully God and yet making himself of no Reputation to come in the likeness of men and John's emphasis here is on the heavenly Perspective as we've talked about not a word at a place not a word misspoken Not a word without purpose without intention without importance The Holy Spirit as the ultimate author of the gospel of John Inspiring the words of this gospel through the pen of the human author John testifying of his divine Subject the Lord Jesus Christ the author and finisher of our faith John sets about in the task here in the opening verses and throughout the gospel of presenting Jesus Christ the embodiment and expression of the eternal Godhead majestic eternal Omnipotent alone wise incomparable ineffable as the hymnist says matchless Unconquerable Victorious and all in the form of a bond servant coming in the likeness of men and Jesus Christ is seen throughout the gospel of John doing what only God can do It's more testimony of his deity and Genesis 1 it describes the creation And the attributes of creation to the power of God in John chapter 1 verse 3 it says that all things were made through Christ Colossians 1 says that by Christ all things were created Hebrews chapter 1 says that the worlds were made and then the worlds are sustained by Christ Jesus Christ forgives and saves from sin only that which God can do in Psalm chapter 3 verse 8 salvation belongs to the Lord In Isaiah chapter 43 verse 11 Besides God God himself says there is no savior in Titus chapter 3 verse 4 God our Savior saved us according to his mercy yet in light of those passages about God saving in Titus chapter 2 Jesus Christ our great God and Savior gave himself that he might save us in Acts chapter 4 verse 12 There is salvation in no one other than Jesus Christ In Mark chapter 2 in Luke chapter 7 Jesus has power on earth to directly forgive sins It's blasphemy if he is not God in the flesh Jesus Christ is God incarnate in Ephesians chapter 1 We have redemption through his blood Even the forgiveness of sins Paul says in Isaiah chapter 33 verse 22 God is our lawgiver. He's our king He's our judge in Matthew 25 all nations will be gathered together before the judgment of the son of man He calms the sea he controls the weather He reads people's minds. He knows their hearts. He is Lord of lords Very God of very God and yet very man of very man Jesus Christ is called by the names of God in the Bible He is in John 20 my Lord and my God with the definite article the God my Lord and my the God take that Jehovah's Witnesses He is our great God and Savior in Titus 2 and he is our The great God take that Mormons He is the eternally blessed God in Romans chapter 9 He is wonderful counselor mighty God in Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 He is our God and Savior Jesus Christ in 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 1 and in the Greek our The God in Psalm 102 verse 24 the psalmist says oh My God do not take me away in Hebrews chapter 1 verses 10 through 12 The author of the book letter to the Hebrews says that that was written of the Sun in Isaiah chapter 44 verse 6 thus says the Lord of hosts I am the first and I am the last besides me. There is no God and Revelation 22 verse 13 Jesus says I am the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end the first and the last and Jesus Christ is rightly worshiped in Scripture as God in Matthew chapter 4 Jesus says you shall worship the Lord your God and him only you shall serve and in Matthew 14 When Christ call in the storm the disciples worshiped him saying truly you are the son of God After his resurrection in Matthew chapter 28 the disciples worshiped him Jesus didn't rebuke them Encourage their worship and although men are rebuked for worshiping angels in Hebrews chapter 1 verse 6 Angels are instructed by the father to worship the son And in God who says that he will not share his glory with another Answers the prayer of Jesus Christ the son when he prays in John 17 Glorify me together with yourself with the glory which I had with you before the world was Jesus Christ is expressly stated to be God Jesus is called by the names only used for God Jesus possesses characteristics that only God can possess Jesus does work that only God can do and Jesus is worthy of worship and honor that only God deserves Jesus is my Lord and my God And John wonderfully displays this truth in the opening words of his gospel in Technicolor splendor It's beautiful profound universe shaking truth in words that a child would understand and John picks up this beautiful diamond of who Christ is But it holds it up in the light right and just turns it in the light in front of a black backdrop so that we can see every cut every facet as the light is reflected in that beautiful diamond Just awesome to look at we look at Christ that way here in the Gospel of John and we're reminded by that That Jesus Christ came before a black backdrop John paints a picture of the glories and Perfections and wonders of the person and work of Christ and he paints that picture against the black backdrop of man's depravity He came into the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it We see how men in the Gospel of John respond To the grace of God in our Lord Jesus Christ and how man in of himself is dead in sins and trespasses He is in darkness. He has a dark heart how literally the God the Godhead Has to do everything in salvation to redeem us if anyone is ever saved It is not by blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God Let that sink in for a moment is if anyone is ever saved ever to be saved It is not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God as we consider that Black darkness through the Gospel of John The diamond of all that Christ is and the diamond of all that Christ has done just shines all the brighter And John writes so that men will simply look at the diamond and believe that believing in Christ You might have life in his name You know what you do with Christ is going to affect your eternal destiny What you decide about Christ how you respond to Christ will affect your eternal destiny And most people reject him out of hand They just throw up a wet blanket over the reality of who Christ is They suppress the truth of him in their unrighteousness and because Christ is God To reject him as anything less than God is blasphemy Many say they believe and by the conduct of their lives They deny him as Paul said the Titus they are lukewarm and as such Christ says that he will vomit them out of their mouth Very few are born again of his spirit and transformed into his image from glory to glory and as Christians We pray that as we look at the Gospel of John and read through these verses that we see Christ face to face that we See and look into that diamond see Christ and that we are transformed into his image We become like him because we see him and one day will become just like him because we'll see him as he is And so last week we began looking at looking at this diamond against this black backdrop and we saw first last week that Those facets of who Jesus Christ is that he is infinite in the beginning was the word that's infinite Induration if you look into eternity future you see Christ there with no end if you turn and look into eternity past You see Christ there with no beginning Christ Transcends time and he is infinite. We saw him as individual the word was with God he is his own individual distinct person within the Godhead He is God and yet distinct from God the father He is God and yet he is distinct from God the Holy Spirit. This is the glorious truth of the Trinity We saw last week that he was indivisible where the Bible says and the word was God although he is distinct He is Indivisibly God is fully God though Christ is distinct from the father He is indistinguishable from God distinct and yet Indivisibly God he is at the same time God and with God as we come to verse 2 John says in light of that truth it is this one It's that one the one that I'm speaking of the one who is infinite individual and yet Indivisible it is this one who was in the beginning with God The word who is God the word who was with God it is he it's that same one that was in the beginning who is eternal He was in the beginning with God. So it's this week as we consider in verses 3 and 4 now in 5 Examining this diamond. We're gonna see more facets. We're gonna see Christ the word now who is one infinite Two individual three. He is indivisible Today he is also in verses 3 4 and 5 Independent 5 he is incarnate and 6 he is invincible Infinite individual indivisible independent incarnate and invincible We could have a lot more ends that we could add there to describe Christ Fourth point on your notes. He is independent. He was in the beginning with God. Now. What was he doing in the beginning with God? He was making everything. That's right. He was creating Everything that exists in verse 3 was made by Christ So Christ and making everything then stands separate from all of that which is created he himself as uncreated is Independent from creation if he's independent from creation. He is self-existent. He is self-sufficient He's independent of all that is created. We'll see verse Point 5 that he is incarnate Verses 4 and 5 he came into the darkness of this world as the embodiment of life and light That's the purpose for which he was for which he came the purpose for the incarnation was to come into the world as Life and light the life of God the light of God in the flesh the revelation of God in bodily form and Point 6 he is invincible as God in the flesh Christ accomplished all that he came to do and even now Reigns victorious at the right hand of the father as Lord of lords and king of kings The darkness did not and will not overcome him. So let's take a look at verse 3 first Point 4 on your notes. He is Independent the Bible says in verse 3 all things were made through him and without him Nothing was made that was made So he created everything Everything you say Everything everything was created by Christ. There's nothing that exists that Christ didn't create planets Yes galaxies Yes, a universe that if you travel at the speed of light 186,000 miles per second would take you 13 billion years as far as we know to get across Did he create that universe? Yes Sky skyscrapers. Yes, he made sky skyscrapers. He made the stuff that makes skyscrapers He gave us the brain to devise skyscrapers He made the laws of nature the laws of physics that made skyscrapers possible Jesus Christ created everything and there's a positive aspect to this all things that were made were made through Christ And there's a negative aspect to this. There is nothing that he didn't make So John gives both the positive and the negative the angels He made them heaven and hell Yes, he made them time and space Yes, Hebrews 1 said that it is Jesus through whom God made the ages that word there Cats yes, he even made cats You may say to yourself I didn't think that God was the author of evil well when God created cats They were good cats are a result of the fall Cats were good when he made them and one day he's gonna make them good again You may say well, I thought the Bible taught that God made everything Isaiah 42 chapter chapter 42 verse 5 says thus says God the Lord Who created the heavens and stretched them out who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it That of course is true Bible says that God is the Creator and yet God Does all of his creating through the agent of creation Jesus Christ the Son Jesus Christ becomes the agent by which God creates all things and verse 3 says there isn't one thing in Existence that Jesus Christ didn't himself make So what's the point of saying it that way? What's the point of emphasizing in this verse the positive and the negative and going to that trouble so to speak Is to make the point that Christ is not and Cannot be a creature a created being himself John again in verse 1 Establishing the fact that Christ is God in verse 2 Reiterates and repeats verse 1 with a little nuance saying that Christ is God in the flesh as we come to verse 3 and he created everything Everything that has been made has been made by him and there's nothing that exists that hasn't been made by him to say that he is Independent of his creation to say again that Jesus Christ is God He says it in such simple terms that a child could understand it He is there for God in the flesh. He cannot be a creature himself. He cannot be created himself and as Uncreated he is God He is independent from creation. This is the doctrine of God's assayety God's assayety his independence. He needs nothing. He is self sufficient He is self-existent and this again this assayety is an attribute of God and God alone is Independent and each of these as we discuss this about the word keeps pointing back to deity keeps pointing back to the fact that Jesus is God the word was God and Get this if the word was God and yet the word was also The agent through which God did is creating Then the word again in verse 3 also has to be distinct from God the father so even in concept He's repeating verse 1 in verse 3 in one the word was with God and The word was God individual and yet indivisibly God in verse 3 He is God the Creator and yet the agent of creation God created everything through the Son of God He is both God and with God so to speak both Individual and indivisible No matter how you keep looking at it John just keeps pushing you toward the inevitable conclusion We keep coming back to the statement of Thomas in John chapter 20 my Lord and my God Now that being said now if everything was made through Christ and he sustains all things by the word of his power then we as Created are completely dependent upon him He is outside of dependence on anything. He is self-sufficient self-existent. He is independent But we as his creation are dependent upon him for everything if he created us And this sustains all things by his power then in every possible way. We are dependent on Christ We have absolutely no independence and Yet the wretched course of men from their very birth is that we live as if we do we live as if we're independent As if we rule ourselves and are accountable to no one and when the rest of creation the rest of his creation obeys him perfectly We're the ones the pinnacle so to speak of his creation We're the ones who rebel against him who become enemies of his by our wicked works The truth of the Bible is that you are made you are a created being and as such you are Accountable to God your creator for the way in which you live your life You were created for a purpose to glorify God But you rebelled against your Creator as such we have plunged the entire world with our sin ourselves and all the creation Plunged the entire world into futility because of our sin look with me at Romans chapter 8. Let's take a look at that Romans chapter 8 And look down at verse 18 Romans chapter 8 verse 18 everything's been corrupted by our rebellion We are created we owe honor and glory and praise and worship and obedience to our Creator and Yet from our very beginning We have rebelled against God lived for ourselves and acted as if we were independent acted as if we were Self-sufficient and self-existent And as such everything's been ruined since then in verse chapter 8 verse 18 The Bible says for I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory Which shall be revealed in us for the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God For the creation was subjected to futility Not willingly but because of him who subjected it in hope because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of Corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now Not only that but we also have the first fruits of the Spirit even we ourselves Grown within ourselves eagerly waiting for the adoption if you're in Christ you want the adoption You want to be glorified you want to be fully and finally free from sin Verse 24 for we were saved in this hope but hope that is seen is not hope for why does one still hope for what he sees But if we hope for what we do not see we eagerly wait for it with perseverance the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses We don't know how we should pray as we ought but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered Now he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God Even the creation is corrupted by sin corrupted by our rebellion and think about it the creation Loads to give up its air for wicked sinners to breathe it groans under the weight of doing that the creation groans under Giving up its harvest for food for wicked sinners who rebel against God and it groans to be adopted to be recreated to be made anew Our sin corrupted everything our sin is the reason there are weeds Think about it It's the reason there are lawyers It's the reason that we have insect repellent It's the reason that there's chemotherapy our sin is the reason there are such things as Antivenom and psychologists All because of sin everything Christ created everything that Christ created all things that were created through him were created very good He created us as good Everything he created including ourselves. We have corrupted with our sin Think about it as being depraved because of sin. You can't think straight as Being depraved because of sin. You can't reason correctly as being depraved because of sin Your foolish heart is darkened. You are unwise as The result of being corrupted by sin. You can't feel the way the Lord designed you to feel Because you've been corrupted by sin You can't imagine in the way that the Lord created your imagination. You are totally in every faculty You are totally depraved. You are depraved in every piece of you so to speak totally depraved The story of the Bible all points to God's plan For Jesus to purchase it all back and to make it anew Including those that will repent and believe the gospel. He recreates everything you become a new creation in Christ One day fully glorified in Christ It's interesting the Bible says that those who turn from sin and place faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ are his Workmanship and look at this created in Christ Jesus for what? For good works for good works everything we do before Christ are filthy rags But he created us Christ created us in him for the purpose of good works We are his workmanship. So in a world that is corrupted by sin in a world It's dark and men prefer the darkness because their deeds are evil in a world that is dying and passing away Where men are dead in their sins and trespasses in a world where there are cats and lawyers God comes in human flesh and dwells among us. He dwells among us. He is incarnate point five on your notes Christ is incarnate. He came God in the flesh to dwell among us verse 4 says in him was life and The life was the light of men John says he became flesh and dwelt among us the incarnation means that he came in a human body God almighty God the Lord of glory came in a human body wrapped himself in the mud of human flesh Traips through the dirt of this filthy world in Verses four and five the purpose of his incarnation the reason that he came incarnate is to bring life and light The life of God and the light of God So Jesus Christ in the incarnation becomes the embodiment of The life of God and the embodiment of the light of God. He came to bring life and light now First thing I want you to do is tie those comments in verse 4 To the comments that John makes about the creation in verse 3 and you came and you come to the same conclusion just as he was the source of All that has been created Jesus Christ is the source of life Which it's amazing and just simple words how all of this ties together and you can't escape it It is all woven through the fabric here of what is what John is teaching in the prologue that Jesus Christ is God It all connects if he is life Or if he is the creator if he was the source of all that's been created He's the source of life. He came bringing life No one gave life to him He has life within himself. He didn't acquire life from anyone didn't acquire life from anything He is self-sufficient. He is self-existent. He is independent needing nothing He is the source himself of life life Exists within him and all of that he is Infinite he is Individual he is indivisibly God. He is independent and he is incarnate He himself is the source of life life exists within himself for that to be the case The conclusion that you have to come to if Jesus Christ is life the source of life then Jesus Christ is God He is independent He is God Second as the creator Jesus Christ is the creator of physical life Mostly represented by the Greek word be us That word the Greek word there is where we get our word biology biological life And this is one form of life Biological life physical life. However, the word that he uses here in verse 4 is not biological life. It's zoe. It's Spiritual life. It's soul life so to speak It pertains more to spiritual life, and it's that life in us that will never die You now are created to live forever and you'll live forever with eternal life with spiritual life Or you'll live forever as an object of spiritual death You'll never die in that way So if you connect the two here you connect the two which is what you have to do You have John speaking of spiritual life then and spiritual light Jesus comes to men who are spiritually dead in their sins, and he comes bringing spiritual life He comes to a world that is spiritually dark where men love the darkness rather than the light He comes to people who have darkened hearts, and he brings spiritual light life and light connected concepts death is The absence of life not necessarily the opposite of life, but the absence of all life in the same way that darkness Not really in the sense the opposite of light darkness is the absence of any light So Jesus Christ comes into a world full of dead people and their sins and trespasses, and he brings spiritual life Comes into a world that is dark a darkened world into a world where you have darkened hearts We have darkened hearts and Christ brings light So Jesus Christ came to bring life to dead men and Jesus Christ came to bring light to darkened hearts This is miraculous power It's miraculous power the fact that Jesus Christ created everything including this universe is miraculous power But the fact that Jesus Christ Became incarnate God in flesh came into this world bringing spiritual life and Spiritual light is even more unfathomable awesome miraculous power To bring dead men to life Awesome power. You know it said there in World War two the atomic bombs that were exploded, right? massive massive explosions And it said that those massive explosions were brought about from the energy within a pea-sized amount of uranium immense unfathomable power in a pea-sized Amount of uranium and that is nothing Nothing compared to the power God in human flesh Incarnate bringing the power of life and the power of light to dead dark men. It is an awesome power God wrapped in human flesh bringing miraculous life so John writes then so that you Understanding that and seeing that and believing that might have that spiritual life yourself You might have life in his name apart from Christ. You need to understand that you are dead in your sin Apart from Christ you are dark and hopelessly in darkness because of your sin. You are wandering Into an eternal night You're dark in your sins. What's the one thing that a dead man needs? Needs life Needs life a dead man needs life. He can't do anything without life Can a dead man believe? No, he needs life to believe can a dead man repent No, he needs life to repent. Can a dead man follow? Can he trust? Can he obey? Listen if you are not in Christ and if Christ is not giving you a new heart And if you're not and dwelt by his spirit and if you're not because of the work of the grace of God within you Living wholeheartedly for him, then you are in darkness. You are dead and you need life Life is the way that you repent life is the way that you believe life is the way that you follow trust in a bay You come along to a dead man and you poke him in and prod him and you you inject him with or you try To with some spiritual truth. What does a dead man do? He does nothing he stinks He stinks he lies there and stinks Lazarus in the tomb. He's stinketh That's why Jesus says to Nicodemus Nicodemus. He must be born again Must be born again salvation is of the Lord cry out to the Lord to give you life Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and have life Let God breathe into you the spiritual life that Jesus Christ came into the world to bring That life comes only through Jesus Christ That's why Jesus says in John chapter 5 verse 21 For as the father raises the dead and gives life to them even so the son gives life to whom he will in John chapter 6 verse 35 Jesus says I am the bread of Life he who comes to me shall never hunger he who believes in me shall never thirst in John chapter 8 verse 12 I am the light of the world he who follows me shall not walk in darkness But have the light of life in John chapter 10 verse 10 I have come that they may have life and they may have it more abundantly in John chapter 11 verse 25 I am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me though he may die He shall live in John 14 6. I am the way I am the truth and I am the Life no one comes to the father except through me Christ is the only source of life Without Christ the source of life. You will die You'll die in your sins and this life Was the light of men In a dark world full of death and corruption To men who have dark and dead hearts And in this darkness illustrating ignorance and sin and error and shame and guilt This eternal life comes as a laser light shining through the darkness Christ steps into a dark room and flips the light on and dispells the darkness where the light is the darkness runs In the same ways that the the rays of the Sun emanate from the Sun in the same way that heat and light emanates from the fire light emanates from the source of light life emanates from the source of all life Apart from Christ men are staggering blindly through a dark world. Don't know their right hand from their left Eternal darkness lies ahead the Prince of Darkness rules over this world and he has Veiled the eyes of the unbelieving lest they see and be saved There's a veil of darkness that is drawn drawn over the spiritual life of unsaved people of unbelievers men love darkness rather than light because their needs are evil if you love your life If you love your sin If you love living for yourself if you don't really want to be here because of your sin You don't really have any interest in the things of God Unbelievers don't want to come to a church like this because their sins will be brought into the light Unbelievers don't want to have a conversation about the gospel because someone's gonna expose their sin and bring it into the light Remember going to see on vacation once System of caves in North Carolina Went into the cave really cool to look at just need to see Went down into the caves and as we're going down into the caves We're getting farther and farther into the cave They want to demonstrate to you how dark it is in that cave as you get down in there and they turn the light off When you turn the light off, I mean you literally cannot see there anything it is a complete absence of light You cannot see your hand directly in front of your face. There's no shadowy. There's nothing no light But if you were in that cave and you lit even a small candle Just a match That cavern is going to be filled with light instantaneously it Shuns the darkness sends the darkness running The darkness will not overcome not even that small flickering match light We're not overcome that small flickering candle How less then will any darkness ever shroud the Billions upon billion watts of electric light power That shines forth from the source of all light Jesus Christ that shines in the darkness There's no room for any darkness at all In that point six Christ is invincible Christ is invincible Verse five says the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it There's a word at the end of that statement in verse five did not comprehend comprehended That word there at the end translates the Greek word kata lumbano kata lumbano it Doesn't necessarily mean comprehend in that sense. We view comprehend as it didn't understand it. It could mean that But kata lumbano means more to the point that the darkness did not seize upon it did not grasp it with both hands did not Overcome it did not overpower it did not overwhelm it the darkness was not victorious over it The darkness did not dispel the light the darkness was powerless against the light The light of Jesus Christ is coming to the world and the darkness of this work wicked world cannot overcome it light always dispels darkness You could say additionally of Christ that in the face of that darkness in The face of those odds in the face of those enemies that array themselves against him in the face Even of your wicked dark heart in the face of all your sin That Jesus Christ light shines In the face of enemies Jesus Christ is not only invincible. He is incorruptible in the face of darkness in the face of Sin in the face of his temptation in the wilderness Where Satan barraged Jesus Christ with temptation? He's sinless He's incorruptible. He's indivisible. He is indestructible. He is indomitable. He is ineffable. He is inextinguishable He is invincible Christ Came to shine a light on the black backdrop of this world But not just to shine a light on the black backdrop of this world Christ came to shine the light on the black backdrop of your own heart my own heart Dead in our sins Overcome by darkness we are and Christ came to be victorious To triumph over that where we can't We're lost in the dark. We can't do anything for ourselves We grapple and search and crawl can't find the door We crawl and grapple and search apart from Christ for our sin Just want more darkness I want to stay in the dark And yet Christ comes Bringing the light of life The life of light the life and light of salvation to a dark world to a dark hearted depraved men In such a way that not even the gates of hell can prevail against it And as great as your sin is Greater is the light as Great as your depravity as thorough as your depravity is Greater is the life that Christ brings if you'll but believe as John says on his name That believing on his name you might have life You know Herod tried Tried to have all the babies murdered under the age of two because he wanted to put out the light the Davidic line was Reduced at one point to one king Hidden by his mother so that Satan wouldn't put out the light He tried to do it on the cross and yet at the cross light shines the brightest When the dark Seems the darkest Satan thought he had victory and Christ says it is finished Christ won the victory at the cross Yet we is Men and women in the light of that live for ourselves Turn our backs and head into the darkness And we'll continue walking in darkness and head toward an eternal darkness Rather than come into the light And receive cleansing and forgiveness Miraculous display isn't it of the darkness within our own hearts apart from him You must turn from sin turn from darkness But your faith and trust in Christ alone to save you can't work your way out of the darkness You are blind and you are dead All you can do is put faith and trust in Christ Believe on him as the life and light in this world Trust him alone To forgive you to cleanse you to enable you to live this christian life And follow him as a lord And he'll give you an eternity in light an eternity of life With all the saints in heaven Amen. Amen. Let's pray Father in heaven would praise be to you Lord for life and light praise be to you Lord that You could have Left us in darkness. We deserve it. God we deserve it. We've Chosen it Lord we Been completely corrupted completely enveloped in it And yet you got in your great mercy and your great grace toward us Brought life and light In Jesus christ god the sun We praise you lord. Thank you for that. We worship you As god And thank you for the salvation that we have in him I pray god that we would live with our eyes just Pealed on the light god just laser focused on the light We wouldn't become like those that live continuously in darkness blind But we would just keep our eyes on christ But if there's anyone here lord who's never come to the light, they're still trying to hide in some dark corner Pray god that by your grace and mercy that you draw them out Give them life Turn them to christ and save them for your glory all these things We pray in the blessed name of our great god and savior jesus christ. Amen