Jesus told Paul: "Yes, I am going to send you to the Gentiles to open their eyes to their true condition so that they may repent and live in the light of God instead of in Satan's darkness, so that they may receive forgiveness for their sins and God's inheritance along with all people everywhere whose sins are cleansed away, who are set apart by faith in Me."

   Here, then, is the message which we heard from Him, and now proclaim to you: GOD IS LIGHT and no shadow of darkness can exist in Him. Consequently, if we were to say that we enjoyed fellowship with Him and still went on living in darkness, we should be both telling and living a lie. But if we really are living in the same light in which He eternally exists, then we have true fellowship with each other, and the blood which His Son Jesus shed for us keeps us clean from all sin.

   [Jesus said:] "I am the light of the world. The man who follows Me will never walk in the dark but will live his life in the light."

   Any man who believes in Him is not judged at all. It is the one who will not believe who stands already condemned, because he will not believe in the character of God's only Son. This is the judgment - that light has entered the world and men have preferred darkness to light because their deeds were evil.

   Everybody who does wrong hates the light and keeps away from it, for fear his deeds may be exposed. But everybody who is living by the truth will come to the light to make it plain that all he has done has been done through God.

   In [Jesus] appeared life and this life was the light of mankind. The light still shines in the darkness and the darkness has never put it out.

   The god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, and prevents the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, the image of God, from shining on them. For it is Christ Jesus as Lord Whom we preach, not ourselves; we are your servants for Jesus' sake. God, Who first ordered light to shine in darkness, has flooded our hearts with His light, so that we can enlighten men with the knowledge of the glory of God, as we see it in the face of Christ.

Taken from Acts 26, I Jn. 1, Jn. 8, 3, 1, II Cor. 4, The Living Bible and The Phillips
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