Light and Darkness (John 12:35-43)

John 12: 35-43 (Light and Darkness)

In verses 35-36 we see Jesus’ public appeal

This is the final teaching of Jesus

James M. Boice: Men do not know God. Jesus comes; His light shines upon men. Now those who were in darkness have the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.” 

Many people didn’t understand the of the moment to hear the teaching of Jesus .

The word Walk:

The word should be understood as “” in John 12 and is not used the same way Paul does in Ephesians 4, Colossians 1, and 1 Thessalonians 2. 

The warning: Lest darkness you

Alexander Maclaren:  “Rejected light is the parent of the densest darkness, and the man who, having the light, does not trust it, piles around himself thick clouds of obscurity and gloom, far more doleful and impenetrable than the twilight that glimmers around the men who have never known the daylight of revelation.”

The Religious leaders desired to remain in the and it overtook them, and they became to the things of God.

We have great access to the Gospel, yet some continue to Jesus. 

John 12:36  Both great and at the same time

The verse is great because Jesus is people to believe in Him

What does it mean to be “l“?

What do people mean when they say, “I am but not religious?” 

Is that it is quite possible for one to they are spiritual and be .

The invitation of Jesus is to come to Him as the one true light of the world — the Jesus of the — to believe in Jesus is to believe in Him as he is presented in the of God — not our own design.

So it is in the backdrop of people that are truly spiritually lost that God sent His own son into the world with an — that He lived the perfect life that we could not and paid the debt that you and I deserved to pay — and this right standing before God is available to all that will place their in Jesus.

John 12:37

Two Catagories of People that Reject Jesus: 

Rejectors 

Rejectors 

The uses of Isaiah here show that it was the plan of God that Jesus would be but also shows that there would be some who would believe.