Light and Darkness Part 1
Pastor Mike Bates
June 9, 2024

• God

_ light and God is light.
Genesis 1:1–5 , 1 John 1:5

• God has complete

_ and

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_ over darkness.

• Light represents

_ that God gives us.
• Darkness represents

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away from God.
Job 33:28 , Psalm 56:13

• God brings

to our lives when we are in a

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_ place.

Psalm 18:28 , Micah 7:8

• God brings us back to Himself by the

of His word.

Psalm 43:3

•

_ is described as the Light.

Matthew 4:16 , Luke 2:32

• Because Jesus is the light and our salvation we need to

_ about Him and not

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Him.

Luke 8:16 , John 1:1–5

• When we

Jesus and

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His commands we stay in the light.

John 8:12 , 1 John 1:5–7

• When we don’t have Jesus in our lives we live in

_.
John 12:46

• When we believe in Jesus and who He is and what He did for us then we will not

in darkness any longer.
John 12:35

*Encouragement: *
1. If you have never come to Jesus and accepted Him as your Lord and Savior, now is the time.
2. Whenever you get to a dark place always seek after Jesus and the light.
3. God’s light will always be in you and with you.
4. Ask God to help you to be the light to all the people around you who do not know Him.