Title: The True Light
Reference: John 1:4-13
Speaker: Bill Gorman, BillG@cckc.church

> The world can be a very dark place

“Much of what our generation calls “culture,” Jesus and the writers of the Bible call “the world” – a system of ideas, values, practices and social norms that are institutionalized into a culture that is organized around rebellion against God and the redefinition of good and evil.”
—John Mark Comer

> Do you recognize the darkness?

> The greatest darkness is often within us

"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

> Deceptive ideas (lies)
> That play to disordered desires (flesh)
> That are normalized in a sinful society (world)

> Will you confess the darkness?

> What do we do about the darkness?

> The only hope in the darkness is Light

> Only Jesus can overcome the darkness around you and in you

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King, Jr

> Receive the light