Jesus our Light and Light of the World

Notes of meeting on 14 April 2015

Picture of a long column of people all moving on a path toward a great light.
Jesus was that light, it was in Him and all around Him, and shone out to all.
This light is the light of the Father who is in Him.
The people of all nations walked towards Him and the nearer they got to Jesus the more they shone with His love.
There were others in the background who were not of this light and they appeared as animals ready to attack. Jesus sent angels to protect the people on the path from those who were not on the path.
The people on the path were from all countries and all religions. Those not Christian had converted to Jesus because He revealed Himself to them, they were included in the light because they called Him "Lord and Son of God".
All the brothers and sisters praised God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Jesus days "I am the light of the world, come follow Me"

We shouldn't judge other nations, religions but pray earnestly for Jesus to reveal Himself to them. our ways are not the ways of Jesus. He says He is the True Light so perhaps he means for us to look to Him and not the so called light of material things such as money, power etc. that the lord of the underworld would have us look to for fulfilment.

John 1 v 1-14
¹ In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God.
² He was with God in the beginning.
³ Through him all things came into being, not one thing came into being except through him.
⁴ What has come into being in him was life, life that was the light of men;
⁵ and light shines in darkness, and darkness could not overpower it.
⁶ A man came, sent by God. His name was John.
⁷ He came as a witness, to bear witness to the light, so that everyone might believe through him.
⁸ He was not the light, he was to bear witness to the light.
⁹ The Word was the real light that gives light to everyone; he was coming into the world.
¹⁰ He was in the world that had come into being through him, and the world did not recognise him.
¹¹ He came to his own and his own people did not accept him.
¹² But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believed in his name
¹³ who were born not from human stock or human desire or human will but from God himself.
¹⁴ The Word became flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that he has from the Father as only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

2 Corinthians 4 v 1-12
¹ Such by God's mercy is our ministry, and therefore we do not waver
² but have renounced all shameful secrecy. It is not our way to be devious, or to falsify the word of God; instead, in God's sight we commend ourselves to every human being with a conscience by showing the truth openly.
³ If our gospel seems to be veiled at all, it is so to those who are on the way to destruction,
⁴ the unbelievers whose minds have been blinded by the god of this world, so that they cannot see shining the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
⁵ It is not ourselves that we are proclaiming, but Christ Jesus as the Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
⁶ It is God who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' that has shone into our hearts to enlighten them with the knowledge of God's glory, the glory on the face of Christ.
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.