John 8:12 English Standard Version

I Am the Light of the World

¹² Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Think about the term “that’s enlightening” which brings us understanding, it is seeing things in a new light, and in our senses a truth about what we are seeing. Given that this is a spiritual element we should give this as a source of spiritual truth. Just as it is impossible for the human eye to look at the sun, it is impossible for the human eye to look at the Son. We see what He illuminates as a reflection off the spiritual issue, seeing these things in a reflective way.

The human eye is a series of physical creations. They eye is the receptor, the optic nerve is the transmission line, the optic centers combine the left and right eye to translate that signal to give depth and process those signals in a way that the brain can understand.

The spiritual eye is one spiritual gift that has no mechanical mechanism that is affected by health or misinterpretation. It sees truth spiritually without error. Since we are human, this sight system is unnatural and different in any way we once “saw things”. Spiritual sight is a new way for our new creation to receive truth.

2 Corinthians 5:7 English Standard Version (ESV) for we walk by faith, not by sight.

John 12:35b English Standard Version (ESV) The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

The essence of spiritual sight is to walk by faith and walking by faith is walking in God’s will to get to that point in life that God has created those divine appointments. We can only come to those appointments by obedience of faith.

Exodus 10:2 English Standard Version (ESV) and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the Lord.”

Let us go old school here to understand the difference between listening and hearing.

The Hebrew word of hearing is o’-zen which means to uncover the ear to reveal; the receiver of divine revelation.

Romans 10:17 English Standard Version (ESV) So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

So often we teach others that faith comes merely from reading the Word. If hearing is receiving divine revelation, then faith itself comes by divine revelation. That makes faith more than just simply believing.

Faith is the game changer for us because this life in Christ came by faith. Our understanding of how this all came about is rooted in the Word. The Word is not just the New Testament. God has been speaking to mankind from the very beginning. All that we came to know about those times before Exodus is because of Moses. He met with God face to face. Being the forerunner of Christ, his example is the OT equivalent of Christ spending His nights with the Father.

John 1:1-3 English Standard Version

The Word Became Flesh

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

There is a consistency in hearing that goes far beyond simply reading and believing. When we believe without faith we fail to receive the divine revelation that is truth itself. Jesus Christ is truth and His divine revelation is the light of truth.