People That Rebel Against The Light

PEOPLE THAT REBEL AGAINST THE LIGHT

"There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways nor abide in its paths." (Job 24:13)

God is the Creator of the world and of every person in it; "The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein" (Psalm 24:1). As such, he deserves our worship and total obedience to His instructions, which are being imparted into our lives through His Light. "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth" (1 John 1:5-6).

He communicates with humanity through various degrees of light—light of truth, light of mercy, light of knowledge, light of holiness, light of wisdom, light of knowledge, light of understanding, and so on. Those that will embrace these lights must obey God and avoid darkness. Every man has a reflection of God's light in their life, though we don't recognize it. It is the light of God's mercy that spared our lives till this moment.

Light is sovereign, and resistance to it is rebellion against it. God has given it to be a display of Himself, for God is light, and He has clothed it with a measure of His majesty and power of judgment. Rebellion against light has a high degree of sin in it. It may be virtuous to rebel against darkness, but what will be said of those who resist the light? truth, holiness, and knowledge?

It is wickedness to reject and rebel against the light of God.

"For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry, because you have rejected the word of the Lord. He has also rejected you from being king." (1 Samuel 15:23).

We cannot be said to rebel against anything except that which has power and authority over us. A man may oppose and contend with his equal, but he cannot be said to rebel against his equal; we rebel only against those that are above us.

It is rebellion when a child opposes his father and a servant opposes his master, because fathers and masters have authority over their children and servants. All rebellion is the breaking of the bands of subjection, and this happens when light is being rebelled against. Because light of heavenly truth is invested with all power and authority over us, it has the power to lift us up and the power to humble/cast us down. It has the power to persuade and the power to comfort; it has the power to kill and the power to bring back to life.

THE LIGHT OF DIVINE TRUTH

The Sun gives light to the eye, or outward man; the spirit of truth gives light by the word to the inner man. When God sends His word to people, He sends light to illuminate their dark minds and embrace the truth. Christ is the light of the world. His word is light as well.

1. Light is pure and beautiful, and it cannot be tainted; truth is the same. Though many people have attempted to corrupt the truth and word of God, the truth remains incorruptible forever and ever. Its beauty is not faded, nor is its purity stained, by all the filth of false doctrine which has been cast in its face from the beginning of the world to this day.

2. Light is pleasurable and delightful (Ecclesiastes 11:7). is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing to behold and receive the light of divine revelations, which ravish the soul and fill it with unspeakable delights. Truth is appropriate and pleasant to the understanding, encompassing great delights; "If your law had been my delights, I would have perished in my affliction." (Psalm 119:92), "Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me; yet your commandments are my delight." (Psalm 119:143). All David's troubles were overbalanced and conquered by his delights in the law, and all his delights and contentment were centered on the law. That light delighted him so much that it overcame all worldly darkness and even extinguished all his worldly lights.

3. Light has heat in it and is accompanied by influences. All living creatures are cherished and refreshed with the heat, while non-living things (stones, gems, and minerals) are concocted and refined with the warmth and virtue of it. So is truth; the light of the word carries heat and influences with it, to warm the heart and comfort if possible, to concoct the grossness of man's mind and sublimate it into heavenly purity.

"And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight" (Luke 24:31).

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4. Light discovers and makes manifest what truth is. "For every one that does evil hates the light, nor comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved; but he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." (John 3:20-21). Light makes manifest. The word of God is a discernment of the thoughts and intents of the heart. It reveals this to us through the lens of the word.