The War Between Light And Darkness.

THE WAR BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS!

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

On my first missions trip to Haiti the church there had what they called The Great Convention where Preachers and Christians gathered together from Haiti and the Dominican Republic for a week of services day and night. The first night each missionary was introduced and had time for a brief introduction. When it was my turn I stood with the interpreter and I said: I AM A CANDLE FOR THE LORD… I GIVE MYSELF FOR THE LIGHT. The little man said: WHAT? So I said it again: I AM A CANDLE FOR THE LORD… I GIVE MYSELF FOR THE LIGHT. He still did not understand what I was saying? So I held up my index finger and took my other hand and made a flame. He said: OK, I GET IT, and YOU ARE A CANDLE AND YOU ARE GIVING YOURSELF FOR THE LIGHT OF JESUS!

Later that night, I heard people talking as I walked among them. I asked the interpreter what they are saying. He boldly proclaimed: THEY ARE SAYING HERE COMES THE CANDLE. Each year as I returned to Haiti I could understand that they were saying: HERE COMES THE LIGHT, HIS CANDLE SHINES BRIGHTLY.

The candle becomes and instrument. The candle is not of great importance… the CANDLE EXIST FOR THE LIGHT. When all is said and done, the candle is consumed, burned up into a ball of wax… BUT THE LIGHT SHINES INTO THE DARKNESS.

John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

DO YOU THINK THAT MAN WILL EVER UNDERSTAND THE POWER ON WORDS? DO WE UNDERSTAND: WHAT WAS THE FIRST RECORDED WORDS OF GOD ALMIGHTY?

GOD SPOKE 4 WORDS… THE POWER OF THOSE 4 WORDS ARE STILL FUNCTIONING TODAY: LET THERE BE LIGHT --- AND THE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD RELEASED: THERE WAS LIGHT… Then God saw: “ LIGHT WAS GOOD…

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

There started and ENMITY that day… LIGHT and DARKNESS cannot co-exist.

Ephesians 5:8 (MSG) You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it! 9 The good, the right, the true—these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. 10 Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it. 11 Don't waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. 12 It's a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see. 13 Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ. 14 Wake up from your sleep, Climb out of your coffins; Christ will show you the light!

ALL LIFE AS WE KNOW IT COMES OUT OF THE GIFT OF LIGHT… Light gives us a NEW HOPE… We are prisoners of hope.

Zechariah 9:12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

WE ARE IN AN ALL OUT WAR, LIGHT AGAINST DARKNESS.TOXIC: COULD WE HONESTLY, SERIOUSLY PONDER ENEMYS TO SPIRITUAL LIGHT? DARKNESS RULES BY LACK OF VISION AND IGNORANCE.

**A WEALTH OF INFORMATION CAN LEAD TO A GREAT POVERTY OF ATTENTION?

ADDICTION: not able to stop, spends much time doing, habitually or obsessively surrender to, compulsive physiological need, dependence, tolerance…

Throughout the history of mankind we have seen many enemies to God’s work? There was idleness, laziness, ignorance, materialism, etc. TODAY WE HAVING SEEMINGLY FOUND A GREAT SPIRITUAL ENEMY TO LIGHT --- ADDICTION.

THE DIGITUAL ADDICTION! We would like to thank Dr. Garry Brackett for the fodder for this thought.

30 years ago a young boy came to the altar and was weeping and in earnest prayer. After a few minutes I laid down my guitar and knelt next to the broken lad. We prayed together and I asked him was there something I could agree in prayer for him. He looked up at me and said: PREACHER COULD YOU PRAY THAT MY MOMMY WOULD LOVE ME AS MUCH AS SHE LOVES THE DOG? My heart was broken for this boy.