Sermons by the Monday Club John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world. That only is "light" which lighteth another; and that, therefore, which should "light" everybody is the True, Original, Primal "Light." Nature teaches it. You cannot conceive of "light" which does not emit. It must propagate itself. The moment that "light" does not shed itself, it is gone out. There is no propagation in darkness. Darkness is naked. A dark room does not darken a light room; but a light room will lighten a dark one. And the more "light," the more it brightens — up to that Perfect "Light" which "lights" everything. The sun "lights" the whole world. Christ is the Sun of God's moral system. When the world was four days old, God gathered all the "light" — which vibrated and was diffused in the atmosphere — into one great centre: or, more accurately, He made for all that "light" one great reflector to "rule the day"; then He made another reflector for the sun — the moon, "to govern the night." When the world was four thousand years old He gathered all moral and spiritual "light" — of the law, of prophecy, of grace, of love, of hope — which was scattered and indistinct before, into one grand depository; or, more accurately, He gave a perfect mirror, to give back all His own lustre and glory, to be the ruler and arbiter of the Gospel Day (Hebrews 1:1). And then God made a reflector of that Divine luminary — the Church; the Church, to catch and disseminate its rays in a dark world; the Church, to rule and govern the world's night. (Sermons by the Monday Club.) Parallel Verses KJV: That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.WEB: The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. |
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