The Cross dispels the darkness

Notes of meeting on 24 June 2014

Picture of Jesus full of light.
Many people are in darkness and the Cross with the Lamb on it is thrown into the darkness and the light from the Cross dispels the darkness and bathes the people in light.

Psalm 8

1Yahweh our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the world! Whoever keeps singing of your majesty higher than the heavens,
² even through the mouths of children, or of babes in arms, you make him a fortress, firm against your foes, to subdue the enemy and the rebel.
³ I look up at your heavens, shaped by your fingers, at the moon and the stars you set firm-
⁴ what are human beings that you spare a thought for them, or the child of Adam that you care for him?
⁵ Yet you have made him little less than a god, you have crowned him with glory and beauty,
⁶ made him lord of the works of your hands, put all things under his feet,
⁷ sheep and cattle, all of them, and even the wild beasts,
⁸ birds in the sky, fish in the sea, when he makes his way across the ocean.
⁹ Yahweh our Lord, how majestic your name throughout the world!

2 Corinthians 4 v 7-15

⁷ But we hold this treasure in pots of earthenware, so that the immensity of the power is God's and not our own.
⁸ We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out but we never despair;
⁹ we are pursued but never cut off; knocked down, but still have some life in us;
¹⁰ always we carry with us in our body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our body.
¹¹ Indeed, while we are still alive, we are continually being handed over to death, for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our mortal flesh.
¹² In us, then, death is at work; in you, life.
¹³ But as we have the same spirit of faith as is described in scripture -- I believed and therefore I spoke -we, too, believe and therefore we, too, speak,
¹⁴ realising that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up with Jesus in our turn, and bring us to himself -- and you as well.
¹⁵ You see, everything is for your benefit, so that as grace spreads, so, to the glory of God, thanksgiving may also overflow among more and more people.