Light is truth

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Week 4 – 1 John 2:7-10 Main Ingredient: Light

Personal Daily Readings Monday – Matthew 5:1-16 What should be the result of your good deeds (your light)? What other motives sometimes creep in? Tuesday – Psalms 119:97-106 & Proverbs 6:20-23 In what different ways does God’s Word provide “light” for us? Wednesday – 1 John 1:5 & James 1:13-18 Do these passages change your view of God at all? How should we accurately reflect the “Light” in our daily morality? Thursday – John 1:1-14 Darkness can’t compete with light. In fact, the darker the world gets the brighter the lights seem to shine. How can this change your perspective when viewing life’s events that may seem so dark? Friday – John 3:16-21 What type of person is eager to come to the Light? Is there an area of your life where you would rather not have any light shining? Preparation for Group: 1. What are some of the many physical characteristics of light? Which of these would correspond to spiritual properties of light? How? In a biblical sense, what would you say that “light” represents? What would darkness entail? 2. Which people in your life are challenging to love -- what is it about them that makes it so difficult for you? What is it about you that keeps you from loving them better? Was anything helpful from this message? 3. Read Luke 6:27-36. Which of these instructions would be possible to accomplish without Jesus? If you were not saved, would you have any desire to accomplish these things? Which of them is easier for you?

Light is truth. Truthful ___________

Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world.



John 8:12b I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

Truthful ________

Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

The ___________ of people who live their lives according to that truth

Matthew 5:16 Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

In an oikos, we can be “partnered” with people who provide: 3 1

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Focus on your: 1. _______________ 2. _______________ Matthew 6:22-23

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a ______________ partnership: ___-___% of the people in your life

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a ______________ partnership: ___-___% of the people in your life

Ephesians 3:17b-18

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• “He’s unfair.” • “She’s weird.” • “They’re unfriendly.”

1 Peter 4:8 T he word translated “new” is not neos (“new in time”) but kainos (“new in __________”)

a _________________ partnership: <___% of the people in your life

Romans 14:19, Ephesians 4:3, Hebrews 12:14

1 John 2:7-11

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. (8) Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining. (9) Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. (10) Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. (11) But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.

(Agape) means that no matter what a man may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation we will never seek anything else but his highest good. It describes the deliberate effort- which we can make only with the help of God- never to seek anything but the best even for those who seek the worst for us. - William Barclay Anywhere love _______, hatred _________. 2 Corinthians 5:14, Matthew 18:21-22, Luke 17:4-5

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