SPIRITUAL LIGHT: THE SOURCE IS NOT OTHER CREATURES
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Spiritual Light
a) Looking down from a hill upon a town at dusk, you see it bathed in light, but from many light sources, not one. Or at a boat harbor you will see many lights shining from the boats and jetties and their reflections twinkling in the rippled water, combining with many lights along the shore.
b) Some folk think that spiritual light is like that. There are many lights, each a little different, but each genuine and each making its contribution to the enlightenment of the world. You can have your favorite light but you acknowledge the other lights as well. Is that the way of true spiritual light? Are there many sources of spiritual light, or only one?
c) God alone gives light. Paul prayed for his dear friends that "the Father of glory may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your heart being enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling..." (Ephesians 1:16-19).
2. The Source Is Not Other Creatures
a) Other created beings likewise have no light within themselves.
b) Jesus mentioned the angels of little children. He said, "their angels continually behold the face of My Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 18:10).
c) These angels beheld not their own light, but the glory of God. When angels turned away from God, they found themselves in darkness (Jude 1:6, 2 Peter 2:4).
Jude 1:6
"The angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, the Lord has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day."
2 Peter 2:4
"God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them into Tartarus and committed them to chains of darkness reserved for judgment."
The End ...
1. Spiritual Lighta) Looking down from a hill upon a town at dusk, you see it bathed in light, but from many light sources, not one. Or at a boat harbor you will see many lights shining from the boats and jetties and their reflections twinkling in the rippled water, combining with many lights along the shore.
b) Some folk think that spiritual light is like that. There are many lights, each a little different, but each genuine and each making its contribution to the enlightenment of the world. You can have your favorite light but you acknowledge the other lights as well. Is that the way of true spiritual light? Are there many sources of spiritual light, or only one?
c) God alone gives light. Paul prayed for his dear friends that "the Father of glory may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your heart being enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling..." (Ephesians 1:16-19).
2. The Source Is Not Other Creatures
a) Other created beings likewise have no light within themselves.
b) Jesus mentioned the angels of little children. He said, "their angels continually behold the face of My Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 18:10).
c) These angels beheld not their own light, but the glory of God. When angels turned away from God, they found themselves in darkness (Jude 1:6, 2 Peter 2:4).
Jude 1:6
"The angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, the Lord has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day."
2 Peter 2:4
"God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them into Tartarus and committed them to chains of darkness reserved for judgment."
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