Handeling Christmas: The Light
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In both Isaiah 9:1-3 and Isaiah 60:1-3, the prophet Isaiah describes how, in the previous generation, the Galilee region became a dark place. When God allowed the Assyrians to invade and subjugate the northern Kingdom of Israel, the first ferocious attack fell upon Galilee. In chapter 60 Isaiah prophesies that the place first darkened by the Assyrian conquest would be the first region where God’s light would rise and God’s glory would be seen. In His gospel, the apostle John makes it clear that Jesus is that light that shines in the darkness – a light which darkness cannot overcome. And in his first epistle, John connects the dots to us – that we are called to walk in the light of Christ.
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Handeling Christmas: The Light
- 2. Handeling Christmas Series Outline • The Forerunner • The Virgin • The Light • The Son • The Shepherd
- 3. Handeling Christmas First Point The Darkness Before the Dawn ReadIsa.9:1-3
- 5. Handeling Christmas 2 Kings 15: The First Assyrian Invasion 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
- 7. Handeling Christmas 2 Kings 15: Judgment upon Pekah 30 Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and struck him down and put him to death and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
- 8. Handeling Christmas 2 Kings 16:9: Judgment upon Rezin And the king of Assyria listened to [King Ahaz]. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.
- 10. Handeling Christmas How did we get our values so mixed up? – Billy Graham 1. We’re shortsighted. 2. Our morals are relative. 3. Our conscience has been perverted. 4. Self-centeredness. 5. Rationalization.
- 11. Handeling Christmas Second Point The Light that Could Not Be Overcome Jn.1:1-5;Mt.4:12-16
- 12. Handeling Christmas Matthew 4 12 Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. 13 And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,
- 13. Handeling Christmas Matthew 4 14 so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: 15 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles
- 14. Handeling Christmas Matthew 4 16 the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”
- 15. Handeling Christmas Why Galilee? •Galilee was multi-cultural. “Galilee of the Gentiles”. Assyrian resettlement. Greek occupation. Roman occupation.
- 16. Handeling Christmas Why Galilee? • Galilee was multi-cultural. • Galilee was highly populated. Most fertile region. Most populous region.
- 17. Handeling Christmas Why Galilee? • Galilee was multi-cultural. • Galilee was highly populated. •Galilee had a strong disciple- making culture.
- 18. Handeling Christmas Third Point The Light In Which We Must Walk Read1Jn.1:5-10
- 19. Handeling Christmas Walking in the Light • Walking in the light means walking in God’s truth.
- 20. Handeling Christmas Walking in the Light • Walking in the light means walking in God’s truth. • Walking in the light puts us in close fellowship with others who are walking in God’s light.
- 21. Handeling Christmas Walking in the Light • Walking in the light means walking in God’s truth. • Walking in the light puts us in close fellowship with others who are walking in God’s light. • Walking in the light changes our relationship with sin.
- 22. Handeling Christmas "The Christian no longer loves sin; it is the object of his sternest horror: he no longer regards it as a mere trifle, plays with it, or talks of it with unconcern … Sin is dejected in the Christian's heart, though it is not ejected. Sin may enter the heart, and fight for dominion, but it cannot sit upon the throne.“ – Charles Spurgeon
Editor's Notes
- Series Outline The Forerunner The Virgin The Light The Son The Shepherd
- First Point The Darkness And The Coming Light Isa. 9:1-3 9 But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone. 3 You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
- 2 Kings 15 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
- 30 Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and struck him down and put him to death and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
- 2 Kings 16:9 And the king of Assyria listened to [King Ahaz]. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.
- Darkness and Light are a key theme in the Book of Isaiah. Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 8 19 And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living? 20 To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. 21 They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against[i] their king and their God and turn their faces upward. 22 And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.
- Second Point The Light that Could Not Be Overcome 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life,[a] and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
- Matthew 4 12 Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. 13 And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,
- Matthew 4 14 so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: 15 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles
- 16 the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.” Isa. 60:1-3 60 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. 2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. 3 And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
- Why Galilee? Galilee was multi-cultural. Isaiah calls it “Galilee of the Gentiles.” Assyrian resettlement policy In the centuries after Isaiah, this ethnic diversity continued to grow as Alexander the Great conquered this region and introduced Greek culture and philosophy. In 63 BC Rome gains control and adds a Roman touch. All of this created a culture that was open to new ideas.
- Why Galilee? Galilee was highly populated. Describe population of Sarasota FL before and after snowbird migration. Jerusalem in the time of Jesus was about the same as Sarasota. The best estimates are that there were 50,000 people in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus, and that the population would double during the Jewish festivals. According to Josephus, at the time immediately preceding the Jewish revolt against Rome, a few decades after Jesus, there were 200 villages in Galilee. There is a big spread in the population estimates, but the most reliable sources state that the total population of Galilee at the time of Jesus was between 200,000 and 700,000. Galilee was the most fertile region in the Holy Land. It was their Midwest… the breadbasket of the Holy Land.
- Why Galilee? Galilee had a strong disciple-making culture.
- Third Point The Light in Which We Must Walk 5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
- Walking in the light means walking in God’s truth.
- Walking in the light puts us in close fellowship with others who are walking in God’s light.
- Walking in the light changes our relationship with sin. Guzik A Christian no longer loves sin as he once did. A Christian no longer brags about their sin as he once did. A Christian no longer plans to sin as he once did. A Christian no longer fondly remembers his sin as he once did. A Christian never fully enjoys his sin as he once did. A Christian no longer is comfortable in habitual sin as he once was.
- The Christian no longer loves sin; it is the object of his sternest horror: he no longer regards it as a mere trifle, plays with it, or talks of it with unconcern … Sin is dejected in the Christian's heart, though it is not ejected. Sin may enter the heart, and fight for dominion, but it cannot sit upon the throne.“ – Charles Spurgeon