The document discusses how God used light in creation to bring order out of darkness. It notes that before creation, the earth was formless and void with darkness covering it. God's Spirit hovered over the waters, preparing the earth for change. God said "Let there be light" and there was light, initiated by His supernatural word rather than the natural sun. This light revealed disorder and was the source of life. It then draws a parallel to how Jesus as the light of the world overcomes spiritual darkness. It states that without Christ, humanity is without form, void, and living in darkness. But the Holy Spirit prepares people for the light, and Jesus delivers believers from darkness to light by giving them form,

1. I Am The Light
of the World

2. John 8:12 Then Jesus
again spoke to them,
saying, "I am the Light
of the world; he who
follows Me will not walk
in the darkness, but will
have the Light of life."

3. I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

4. Genesis 1:1-5 In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth. (2)
The earth was formless and void, and
darkness was over the surface of the
deep, and the Spirit of God was
moving over the surface of the waters.
(3) Then God said, "Let there be
light"; and there was light. (4) God
saw that the light was good; and God
separated the light from the darkness.
(5) God called the light day, and the
darkness He called night. And there
was evening and there was morning, one
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

5. A. Before God worked on the earth.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

6. A. Before God worked on the earth.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.
(2) The earth was formless
and void, and darkness was
over the surface of the deep,

7. A. Before God worked on the earth.
1. The Earth was formless (tohu).
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

8. A. Before God worked on the earth.
1. The Earth was formless (tohu).
2. The earth was void (bohu).
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

9. A. Before God worked on the earth.
1. The Earth was formless (tohu).
2. The earth was void (bohu).
3. Darkness was over the surface of the
deep.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

10. B. God prepared the earth for change
with His Spirit.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

11. B. God prepared the earth for change
with His Spirit.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.
and the Spirit of God was
moving over the surface of the
waters.

12. B. God prepared the earth for change
with His Spirit.
1. The Spirit works in the darkness to
prepare it for the light. “The Spirit hovered
over the surface of the waters.:
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

13. B. God prepared the earth for change
with His Spirit.
1. The Spirit works in the darkness to
prepare it for the light. “The Spirit hovered
over the surface of the waters.
2. That which is in the dark cannot
comprehend the light without the Spirit’s
preparation.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

14. C. God’s light initiated the change in the
world.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

15. C. God’s light initiated the change in the
world.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.
(3) Then God said, "Let there be
light"; and there was light.

16. C. God’s light initiated the change in the
world.
1. The Light was initiated by God’s Word.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

17. C. God’s light initiated the change in the
world.
1. The Light was initiated by God’s Word.
2. The source of the light was Supernatural,
not natural (not the sun).
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

18. C. God’s light initiated the change in the
world.
1. The Light was initiated by God’s Word.
2. The source of the light was Supernatural,
not natural (not the sun).
3. God, as the source of light in creation,
previewed what it will be like in the new
heaven and new earth.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

19. C. God’s light initiated the change in the
world.
1. The Light was initiated by God’s Word.
2. The source of the light was Supernatural,
not natural (not the sun).
3. God, as the source of light in creation,
previewed what it will be like in the new
heaven and new earth.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.Revelation 21:23-25
And the city has no
need of the sun or of
the moon to shine on it,
for the glory of God
has illumined it, and its
lamp is the Lamb. (24)
The nations will walk
by its light, and the
kings of the earth will
bring their glory into it.
(25) In the daytime (for
there will be no night
there) its gates will

20. C. God’s light initiated the change in the
world.
1. The Light was initiated by God’s Word.
2. The source of the light was Supernatural,
not natural (not the sun).
3. God, as the source of light in creation,
previewed what it will be like in the new
heaven and new earth.
4. The Light: revealed disorder, was the
source for life, revealed what could cause
fear and pain.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

21. D. On the fourth day God replaced the
Supernatural light of his glory with the
natural light of the sun, moon and
stars to continue lighting the earth.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

22. D. On the fourth day God replaced the
Supernatural light of his glory with the
natural light of the sun, moon and
stars to continue lighting the earth.
I. The Light of God’s word would
overcome natural darkness to bring
order and life to the world.
Genesis 1:14-18 Then God
said, "Let there be lights in
the expanse of the heavens
to separate the day from the
night, and let them be for
signs and for seasons and for
days and years; (15) and let
them be for lights in the
expanse of the heavens to
give light on the earth"; and it
was so. (16) God made the
two great lights, the greater
light to govern the day, and
the lesser light to govern the
night; He made the stars
also. (17) God placed them
in the expanse of the heavens
to give light on the earth,

23. Just as God’s light brought
the earth out of physical
darkness, so God’s light
brings humanity out of
spiritual darkness

24. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.

25. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
• John 1:1-5 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 came into being
through Him, and apart from Him
nothing came into being that has
come into being. (4) In Him was
life, and the life was the Light of
men. (5) The Light shines in the
darkness, and the darkness did not
comprehend it.

26. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
A. The human condition is like the earth.

27. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
A. The human condition is like the earth.
1. We are without form.

28. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
A. The human condition is like the earth.
1. We are without form.
John 1:23 He (John) said, "I am
A VOICE OF ONE CRYING
IN THE WILDERNESS,
'MAKE STRAIGHT THE
WAY OF THE LORD,' as
Isaiah the prophet said."

29. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
A. The human condition is like the earth.
1. We are without form.
2. We are void (empty).

30. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
A. The human condition is like the earth.
1. We are without form.
2. We are void (empty).
Ephesians 2:12 remember
that you were at that time
separate from Christ,
excluded from the
commonwealth of Israel, and
strangers to the covenants of
promise, having no hope and
without God in the world.

31. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
A. The human condition is like the earth.
1. We are without form.
2. We are void.
3. We live in the sphere of darkness.

32. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
A. The human condition is like the earth.
1. We are without form.
2. We are void.
3. We live in the sphere of darkness.
John 3:19-21 "This is
the judgment, that the
Light has come into the
world, and men loved the
darkness rather than the
Light, for their deeds
were evil. (20) "For
everyone who does evil
hates the Light, and does
not come to the Light for
fear that his deeds will be
exposed. (21) "But he
who practices the truth
comes to the Light, so
that his deeds may be
manifested as having been

33. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
A. The human condition is like the earth.
1. We are without form.
2. We are void.
3. We live in the sphere of darkness.
A. The Spirit prepares us for the light.

34. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
A. The human condition is like the earth.
1. We are without form.
2. We are void.
3. We live in the sphere of darkness.
A. The Spirit prepares us for the light.
John 6:63-65 "It is the
Spirit who gives life; the
flesh profits nothing; the
words that I have spoken to
you are spirit and are life.
(64) "But there are some of
you who do not believe."
For Jesus knew from the
beginning who they were
who did not believe, and who
it was that would betray
Him. (65) And He was
saying, "For this reason I
have said to you, that no
one can come to Me unless

35. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
C. Jesus –the Word- is the true light of God.
He overcomes spiritual darkness to bring
order and life to the world.

36. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
C. Jesus –the Word- is the true light of God.
He overcomes spiritual darkness to bring
order and life to the world.
John 1:9-13. There was the true
Light which, coming into the world,
enlightens every man. (10) He was
in the world, and the world was made
through Him, and the world did not
know Him. (11) He came to His
own, and those who were His own
did not receive Him. (12) But as
many as received Him, to them He
gave the right to become children of
God, even to those who believe in
His name, (13) who were born, not
of blood nor of the will of the flesh
nor of the will of man, but of God.

37. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
C. Jesus –the Word- overcomes spiritual
darkness to bring order and life to the
world.
1. He pulls us out of the sphere of darkness and
delivers us to the kingdom of light.

38. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
C. Jesus –the Word- overcomes spiritual
darkness to bring order and life to the
world.
1. He pulls us out of the sphere of darkness and
delivers us to the kingdom of light.
Colossians 1:13
For He rescued
us from the
domain of
darkness, and
transferred us to
the kingdom of
His beloved
Son,

39. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
C. Jesus –the Word- overcomes spiritual
darkness to bring order and life to the
world.
1. He pulls us out of the sphere of darkness
and delivers us to the kingdom of light.
2. He gives us form.

40. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
C. Jesus –the Word- overcomes spiritual
darkness to bring order and life to the
world.
1. He pulls us out of the sphere of darkness
and delivers us to the kingdom of light.
2. He gives us form.
3. He takes away our emptiness.

41. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
C. Jesus –the Word- overcomes spiritual
darkness to bring order and life to the
world.
1. He pulls us out of the sphere of darkness
and delivers us to the kingdom of light.
2. He gives us form.
3. He takes away our emptiness.
4. He expels ignorance as light expels
darkness.

42. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
C. Jesus –the Word- overcomes spiritual
darkness to bring order and life to the
world.
1. He pulls us out of the sphere of darkness
and delivers us to the kingdom of light.
2. He gives us form.
3. He takes away our emptiness.
4. He expels ignorance as light expels
darkness.
5. He reveals our moral defects.

43. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
C. Jesus –the Word- overcomes spiritual
darkness to bring order and life to the
world.
1. He pulls us out of the sphere of darkness
and delivers us to the kingdom of light.
2. He gives us form.
3. He takes away our emptiness.
4. He expels ignorance as light expels
darkness.
5. He reveals our moral defects.
John 3:19-21 "This is
the judgment, that the
Light has come into the
world, and men loved
the darkness rather
than the Light, for
their deeds were evil.
(20) "For everyone
who does evil hates the
Light, and does not
come to the Light for
fear that his deeds will
be exposed. (21)
"But he who practices
the truth comes to the
Light, so that his
deeds may be

44. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
C. Jesus –the Word- overcomes spiritual darkness
to bring order and life to the world.
1. He pulls us out of the sphere of darkness and
delivers us to the kingdom of light.
2. He gives us form.
3. He takes away our emptiness.
4. He expels ignorance as light expels darkness.
5. He reveals our moral defects.
6. He reveals to us wisdom for living.

45. II. The Light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness to bring order and life to
the world.
C. Jesus –the Word- overcomes spiritual darkness
to bring order and life to the world.
1. He pulls us out of the sphere of darkness and
delivers us to the kingdom of light.
2. He gives us form.
3. He takes away our emptiness.
4. He expels ignorance as light expels darkness.
5. He reveals our moral defects.
6. He reveals to us wisdom for living.
7. He reveals to us the abundant and eternal life.

46. The Light of God’s Word
overcame natural darkness, the
light of God’s Word overcomes
spiritual darkness. As the sun
and moon are natural lights
continuing God’s brightness to
the world, so we are to reflect
God’s light in the darkness of
this world.

47. III. He has made us to be lights in this
present darkness.

48. III. He has made us to be lights in this
present darkness.
• Matthew 5:14-16 "You are the light
of the world. A city set on a hill
cannot be hidden; (15) nor does
anyone light a lamp and put it under a
basket, but on the lampstand, and it
gives light to all who are in the house.
(16) "Let your light shine before men
in such a way that they may see your
good works, and glorify your Father
who is in heaven.

49. III. He has made us to be lights in this
present darkness.
A. We must be lights where there is
intellectual darkness.

50. III. He has made us to be lights in this
present darkness.
A. We must be lights where there is
intellectual darkness.
B. We must be lights where there is moral
darkness.

51. III. He has made us to be lights in this
present darkness.
A. We must be lights where there is
intellectual darkness.
B. We must be lights where there is moral
darkness.
C. We must be lights where there is spiritual
darkness.

52. III. He has made us to be lights in this
present darkness.
A. We must be lights where there is
intellectual darkness.
B. We must be lights where there is moral
darkness.
C. We must be lights where there is spiritual
darkness.
D. We must bring light to formless, empty
lives.

53. IV. Act now, for the light will return to Israel.

54. IV. Act now, for the light will return to Israel.
Isaiah 60:1-20 "Arise, shine; for your light has come, And the
glory of the LORD has risen upon you. (2) "For behold,
darkness will cover the earth And deep darkness the
peoples; But the LORD will rise upon you And His glory
will appear upon you. (3) "Nations will come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising. (4) "Lift up
your eyes round about and see; They all gather together,
they come to you. Your sons will come from afar, And your
daughters will be carried in the arms. (5) "Then you will see
and be radiant, And your heart will thrill and rejoice;
Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you,
The wealth of the nations will come to you. (6) "A
multitude of camels will cover you, The young camels of
Midian and Ephah; All those from Sheba will come; They
will bring gold and frankincense, And will bear good news of
the praises of the LORD. (7) "All the flocks of Kedar will
be gathered together to you, The rams of Nebaioth will
minister to you; They will go up with acceptance on My
altar, And I shall glorify My glorious house… (11) "Your
gates will be open continually; They will not be closed day
or night, So that men may bring to you the wealth of the
nations, With their kings led in procession. (12) "For the
nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish,
And the nations will be utterly ruined. ... (19) "No longer
will you have the sun for light by day, Nor for brightness will
the moon give you light; But you will have the LORD for an

55. 2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who said, "Light shall
shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone
in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the face of Christ.
John 12:46 "I have come as Light into the world, so
that everyone who believes in Me will not remain
in darkness.
Are you ready to leave the darkness and
become a new creation?