The lamp, not the light

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• 1Th 5:16-23
  • New Testament people are exhorted to rejoice and pray constantly
• John 1:6-8, 19-28
  • John proclaims the Messiah has come.
  • "I am not the Messiah!" Obama: not born in Bethlehem Born on Krypton!
  • Who are you? John's answers are in code. Like the joke "One", etc.
  • "testify to the light" When is it dawn? When you look at a stranger and see a friend.
  • "He himself was not the light" In 5:35 Jesus says he's a lamp (not the light but a lamp for the light.)
    • The lamp, not the light
    • Cracked to let light out
    • Lamplighter
    • Paul's scrupulosity in saying what comes from him vs. from Jesus
• Is 61:1-4, 8-11
  • Isaiah urges us to recount all that God has done and announce the good news to all who need to hear it.
• Ps 125

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