7.6.25 - I AM (Week 2)
Part of I AM
July 3, 2025

Week 2: I AM the Light of the World

Seven I AM statements of Jesus
1. “I am the bread of life.”
2. “I am the light of the world.”
3. “I am the door of the sheep.”
4. “I am the resurrection and the life.”
5. “I am the good shepherd.”
6. “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
7. “I am the true vine.”


Exodus 3:13-14
Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your
fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell
them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites:
‘I am has sent me to you.’”


''This signifies the real being of God, his self-existence, and that He is the Being of
beings; also it denotes His eternity and immutability, and His constancy and faithfulness
in fulfilling His promises, for it includes all time, past, present, and to come; and the
sense is, not only I am what I am at present, but I am what I have been, and I am what I
shall be, and shall be what I am.'' - Author Unknown


John 8:58
“Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”


John 8:12, 9:5
12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
5 “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”


John 1:4
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.


John 3:19
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of
light because their deeds were evil.


Jewish Feast of Tabernacles - Illumination of the Temple ceremony


John 8:12
12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”


John 2:19-22
19  Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20  They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to
raise it in three days?”  21  But the temple he had spoken of was his body.  22  After he was
raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the
scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.


3 Wilderness images
* Bread of Life - Manna in the wilderness (John 6)
* Living Water - Water from the rock (John 7)
* Light of the World - A pillar of fire (John 8)


John 1:4
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.


John 3:16
16  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever
believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.


“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but
because by it I see everything else.” - C.S. Lewis Is Theology Poetry?


1 John 2:2
2  He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the
whole world.


John 12:35-36
35  Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk
while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. Whoever walks in the dark
does not know where they are going.  36  Believe in the light while you have the light, so
that you may become children of light.” When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and
hid himself from them.


John 8:12
“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will
have the light of life.”


John 8:3-11
3  The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery.
They made her stand before the group  4  and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was
caught in the act of adultery.  5  In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such
women. Now what do you say?”  6  They were using this question as a trap, in order to
have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.  7  When they kept
on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is
without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”  8  Again he stooped down and wrote on
the ground.
9  At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only
Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.  10  Jesus straightened up and asked
her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11  “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”


John 12:46
46  I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in
darkness.


Micah 7:8
8  Do not gloat over me, my enemy!
    Though I have fallen, I will rise.
Though I sit in darkness,
    the Lord will be my light.


Ephesians 5:8
8  For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light


Revelation 22:5
5  There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the
sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.