What Is The Gift From God?

The Gift from God

Stand with me with your bible.

Say this with me,

This is my Bible.

I am what is says I am

I can do what it says I can do

Today I will be taught more of the word of God

I boldly confess

My mind is alert

My heart is receptive

I want to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever living seed of the word of God

I will never be the same

I will never be the same

In Jesus Name

God is good. All the time.

All the time. God is good.

The suffering we have in this world is because we live in a world that has been cursed with sin, and if you think that I’m going to line up against God in favor of the devil, and line up with the one who has wounded me in the past, you are so wrong.”

Open your bibles to James 1:17.?Say, “Amen” when you are there.

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the father of lights with whom there is no variation, or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of His creatures.”

What does He mean by the Father of Lights?

The writer, James is comparing God to the sun that shines in the sky. You know the Bible says that God put the sun in the sky and the moon there as signs. There is a lesson there, there is a lesson in all of nature.

Elizabeth Barret Browning said that “Earth is crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God. But only he who sees, takes off his shoes. The rest surround it and pluck blackberries.”

You know if you would just see that God is in nature. God shows Himself as the Father of Lights, and when you see the sun shining in the sky today, there are some lessons I want you to learn about our great God.

John also said in first John chapter 1:5 “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.”

So I want you to think about the Father of Lights today. I want you to think about this good God today.? The Father of Light. And understanding that, just seeing who God is I am going to share with you so we can learn to live in the sunshine.

Now, I’ve been thinking over the past several months about light.

I remember a doctor I had said the best thing I could do each day was to spend some time in the light of the sun. 10 minutes would be good for my whole body.

Today I am going to share some wonderful things about light. The very first thing I want you to see about God’s light is, that it is pure light. Pure light.

Some of what I am going to share in this message came from a man who made a big impact on my life years ago when I had found out that my previous wife had had an affair. I went to a pastor’s conference and I met a man named Adrian Rogers. Even though he was pastoring a very large church, he always had time for me. He became a big brother to me for a few years until the Lord called him home.

I have a question for you.

Did you know that that there is nothing known in the universe as pure as light? Nothing as pure as light. You see, it is absolutely impossible for light to be messed up. You can pass light through any medium, it will not pick up the properties of the medium through which it passes. It’s just as pure as when it comes out the other side as it was when it went in. You cannot stain light. You can shine a light on the ground, and the light will shine upon the ground, but the light will not be the ground. You can put some disease germs there, and the light may shine upon those disease germs but the light cannot catch that disease. It is absolutely impossible to soil light.

Now, when the snow falls on the ground, after a little while the snow gets muddy and dirty. It may be crystal white when it comes down, but after a while, it’s dirty. I remember when I lived in Northeast Pennsylvania and it would snow. It was beautiful. Then the plows would come by to clear the roads and I would shovel off the sidewalk and clean the driveway and the snow would be dirty quickly.

I had a stream by the house I used to live in in Pennsylvania. Water may bubble up from a pure stream, but after it runs along the banks of the stream it picks up the minerals and dirt and the slime that’s in the base of the course it takes. You see, everything else can be defiled, but light can never ever be defiled.