⁵ Christ is the light that enlightens every man who comes into the world, given to every man so that he might believe the truth. Christ is the word of God; the light is the light of the word, also Christ. This light is what convicts us when we lie or steal. This light is what gently and anonymously reasons with us in our lifetime to depart from our evil, selfish ways. And if we listen to the light, and obey the light's convictions, we love the light; we love Christ, and the light or life of God will increase in us. But if we love our lifestyle and hate the charges of the light against our selfish actions, we hate the light; we hate Christ. Christ, the light has come into the world [every man], but men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil [sin] hates the light [so hates Christ], and does not come to the light for fear his deeds will be exposed and reproved. But he who practices truth comes to the light, so that his deeds may be shown to have been produced [formed and powered] through God. John 3:19-21. Christ in the flesh told us to believe in the Light, the Christ within you: "While you have light, believe in [depend on, trust and obey] the light, that you may be the children of light." John 12:36. (God is light; to become children of the light, is to become a son of God.)

God is light, 1 John 1:5. From the Word of the Lord within:

• "Light does not come from outside the heart.
• In every heart is heart-and-soul purifying grace.
• There is a presence within you, which is the same as God; the light in you is the same from which it originated.
• The light was given plentifully to every man; it is sufficient to guide you.
• Heed the light, which is to assent to truth.
• The light shows us our image, however fanciful we have become; neither is it pleasant what the light exposes.
• Blessed is he who holds that the light is true.
• The work of the cross is to sit in the light and look at your will.
• Those who listen in the light, I would have walk in my life.
• Heed the light that you may be children of the light.
• And to those who obey, he will appear like a magnificent star in your heart.
• He who is walking according to these facts, I admire in my pleasure.
• One sees the light of Christ.
• First the light arises, then the kingdom.
• The arising of the light will be unmistakable; it is an ego-shattering experience.
• Walking in the light is to be guided through life by God; walking in darkness is making your own decisions as to what to do and say; all sin is darkness.
• Light comes from faith in the voice."

Faith in the voice is evidenced by your obedience to what you hear the Lord speak to you as you wait on Him and listen in humble silence; to follow is to obey what you hear — that is operational faith that is alive, not dead.

In the beginning of the journey to find God, all men sit in darkness and walk in darkness; the light periodically shines in that darkness to reveal the secret sins in our heart. When you have shown obedience to this light, you will receive a further measure of light, (the Holy Spirit): the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him, Acts 5:32. If we ignore and forget the light's gentle, anonymous pleading with us to turn from evil, at death we will remember the words we heard; and to our shame we will be judged by those words. John 12:47-48. God is fair, God is just, God is pure; and he pleads with every man, wishing that all would be saved. Also the grace of God, which brings salvation, has appeared to all men Tit 2:11; grace appears to all, but each man must choose to respond to the grace to receive salvation. Further, the Spirit of God was poured out on all mankind at Pentecost, Acts 2:14-18, and a measure of Spirit is given to every man, 1 Cor 12:7; so there are no men excluded from the pleadings of the Spirit. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Rev 3:20. To hear him, in prayer we must stop telling him all the things we want him to do for us, and listen for him to tell us what he wants us to do. God is not there to serve our wishes and wants; but if we seek to hear his convictions, we can become his servant to serve His desires and commands; doing his will on earth as it is done in heaven. We must wait on him, in humble silence, watching, and listening, so that we can hear him and see what he wants to show us about the secrets in our heart; which if we do not deny, he then cleanses our hearts of that revealed sin. By his grace, he shows us our sins and then removes them from our heart, until with persistence to the end, he redeems us from all sin and purifies us to become for himself a people who are his very own, zealous for good works. Tit 2:11-14.

There are some who say that Christ cannot be in a man because He is in the heavens sitting at the right hand of the Father. George Whitehead's writing addresses this concern:

That is the Word or Son of God, was life; and the same life was the light of men; and that He was the true Light which enlightens every man coming into the world. And therefore that men are to "believe in the Light, that they may become children of the Light." Hereby we believe in Christ the Son of God, as He is the light and life within us; and in which we need to have sincere respect and honor, and belief in Christ, as in his own unapproachable and incomprehensible glory and fullness, as He is the Fountain of life and light, and giver unto us; Christ, as in himself and as in us, being not divided. That as man, Christ died for our sins, rose again, and was received up into glory in the heavens; he having, in his dying for all, been that one great universal offering and sacrifice for peace, atonement, and reconciliation between God and man. And He is the propitiation, not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole world. We were reconciled by his death, but saved by his life, [which life is the light of men, given to all men so that they might believe — believe what the light reveals in them.]

That Jesus Christ who sits at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, is yet our King, High Priest, and Prophet; in his church a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man. He is Intercessor and Advocate with the Father in heaven, and there appearing in the presence of God for us; being touched with the feeling of our infirmities, sufferings, and sorrows; and also by his Spirit in our hearts he makes intercession according to the will of God, crying, Abba, Father.

For any whom God has gifted and called sincerely to preach faith in the same Christ, both as within and without us, cannot be to preach two Christs, but one and the same Lord Jesus Christ; having respect to those degrees of our spiritual knowledge of Christ Jesus in us, and to his own unspeakable fullness and glory, as in himself; in his own entire being; in which Christ himself, and the least measure of his light or life, as in us, or in mankind, are not divided or separable, any more than the sun is from its light. And as He ascended far above all heavens, that he might fill all things, his fullness cannot be comprehended or contained in any finite creature, but is in measure known and experienced in us, as we are capable to receive the same; as of his fullness we have received grace for grace. Christ our Mediator received the Spirit, not by measure, but in fullness; but to everyone of us is given grace, according to the measure of his gift.

The unperfected, blind guides of Christendom know nothing about the light. Neither can they accept this scripture, which shows that Christ, the light, is in every man who comes into the world, John 1:9; given to every man so that he might believe, John 1:7; nor can they accept the following three other scriptures that show the same:

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to benefit all. 1 Cor 12:7
And it shall come to pass in the last days, said God, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all men. Acts 2:14-18
The grace of God, which brings salvation, has appeared to all men. Tit 2:11
(Grace has appeared to all men, but each man must choose to respond to the grace to receive salvation.)

They insist on disbelief of the above scriptures applying to every man. Why? Because if Christ is in every man, then there is no difference between sinners in their sect and sinners outside their sect; they lose their imagined distinction of Christ only being in their believers; which is a necessary imagined distinction to deny the true gospel of being freed from sin and made pure by the grace of God. If every man in the world has the light, and if every man in the world has been given the spirit, then what do the sects have to offer? Nothing except lies! They are only a form of godliness without the power to change a man to become godly, pure, holy, clean, and perfect, while on earth. The sects do not understand how God purifies men, and think purity on the earth is impossible: Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. Dan 12:10. Christendom's lie that one must invite Jesus into their heart, and doing so results in salvation, shows their ignorance of even the basic understanding of God. Heed their blindness and total ignorance; consider that the rest of their teachings are also wrong, because they are. They offer death, no salvation, no heaven, no eternal life in God! From the Word of the Lord within: "the Christian medium itself is conformable to death." But if we believe in the light, (what the light shows us to be true), we can become children of the light. John 12:36

Trying to save face, the ministers of Christendom deny the light being Christ in every man; some calling it a natural light, others denying it is in every man and claiming the light is a metaphor for an external light of knowledge to all, not the Spirit of Jesus in every man:

• Yet the Bible makes a clear distinction between the natural light of the sun and moon, and the light of God or Christ:
  • I saw no temple in the city. For the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
    And the city had no need of the sun nor of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God illuminates it, and the Lamb is its light.
    And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in the light of it; Rev 21:22-24.
  • The sun shall no more be your light by day; nor shall the moon give light to you for brightness; but the LORD will be an everlasting light to you, and your God will be your glory. Isa 60:19.
  • Yes, the darkness does not hide from you, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to you. Psa 139:12
  • Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us; we wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but we walk about in darkness.
    We grope for the wall like the blind, we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noon day as if it were night; among the strong, we are like dead men. Isa 59:9-10
    
• And David speaks of those who have seen natural light, but will never see the light of life, Christ, whom is the life, and in whom is life, the light of men.
  • He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see the light of life. Psa 49:16-19
  • For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light. Psa 36:9
    
• Those who claim the light is external and cannot be in a man, deny the scriptures that tell us of increased light resulting in a finished disciple:
  
  • Is not this the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with hungry, and bring to your house the poor who are cast out? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh? Is it not to share your bread with hungry, and bring to your house the poor who are cast out? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.' If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, And if you extend your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall rise in darkness, and your darkness will be like the noon day. Isaiah 58:5-10
    
  • For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. Eph 5:8
  • But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened you endured a great fight of afflictions; Heb 10:32
  • He who loves his brother abides [lives] in the light, and there is no occasion to stumble. 1 John 2:10
  • The light of the body is the eye [spiritual eye, the eye of the heart]. If therefore your eye is single [clear without specs], your whole body will be full of light. Mat 6:22
  • The morning star [Jesus] rises in your heart. 2 Pet 1:19
  • Through the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dayspring [the morning star, Jesus Christ] from on high will break upon us,
    To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. Luke 1:78-79
  • Every good and perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither is there a shadow cast with his turning. James 1:17
  • You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Mat 5:14
  • Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Mat 5:16
  • The light of the body is the eye [spiritual eye, the eye of the heart]. Therefore when your eye is sound [clear without beams or specs], your whole body also is full of light; but when your eye is evil, your body is full of darkness. Luke 11:34
  • Be careful, therefore, that the light which is in you is not darkness. Luke 11:35
  • If your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be completely illumined as when a lamp illumines you with its rays. Luke 11:36
  • Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death, Psa 13:3
    
  • You will cause my lamp to be lit; the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. Psa 18:28
  • Those who look to him are enlightened; and their faces are never covered with shame. Psa 34:5
  • For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light. Psa 36:9
  • To the righteous, light arises in the darkness of his heart; he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. Psa 112:4
  • Is there any number to His armies? And upon whom does not His light arise? Job 25:3
  • The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. Pro 13:9
• And the scriptures that speak of light being taken away from unrighteous, those who sin, the wicked:
  • For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. Pro 24:20
  • Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
    The light shall be dark in his tabernacle [body], and his candle shall be put out with him. Job 18:5-6
  • How often is the candle of the wicked put out? How often does their destruction come upon them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger? Job 21:17
  • And from the wicked their light is withheld, and their upraised arm shall be broken. Job 38:15
  • The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. Pro 13:9
    
• To deny the light is to deny Christ:
  • All things were made by him; and there was nothing made without him. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. John 1:3-4
    
  • I am the light of the world [every man] and he who follows [obeys] me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life. John 8:12
  • I have come as a light into the world [every man], so that whoever believes [depends on, trusts, obeys] in me should not abide in darkness. John 12:46
• To deny the light, denies how the truly saved walk in the kingdom:
  • I saw no temple in the city. For the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
    And the city had no need of the sun nor of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God illuminates it, and the Lamb is its light.
    And the nations shall walk by the light of it. Rev 21:22-24
• To deny the light, denies the prophecies of the God's covenant, and denies the means to salvation:
  • I the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand; I will keep you and give you for a covenant to the people, for a light to the Gentiles. Isa 42:6
  • It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation to the ends of the earth. Isa 49:6
  • And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Isaiah 60:3
  • That the Christ would suffer, and that he would be the first who would rise from the dead and proclaim light to the [Jewish] people, and to the Gentiles. Acts 26:23
  • A light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel. Luke 2:32
  • The Dayspring [the morning star, Jesus Christ] from on high has visited us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death to guide our feet into the way of peace. Luke 1:78-79
• To deny the light is to deny God,
  • God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5
  • Every good gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither is there a shadow cast with his turning. James 1:17
• To deny the light is to deny any knowledge at all of the true gospel:
  • The god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine in them. 2 Cor 4:4
  • But it is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 2 Timothy 1:10
  • Jesus said to Paul: I [Jesus] now send you, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, release from sin's slavery, and an inheritance among those who are purified by faith in me. Acts 26:17-18
• To deny the light is to deny what reproves [charges with sin] very man :
  • all things that are reproved [sins] are made manifest [revealed] by the light. Eph 5:13
  • For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest [revealed by light]; neither is anything hidden that shall not be known and come out in the open. Luke 8:17
  • And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world [every man], but men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.
    For everyone who does evil deeds [sins] hates the light [so hates Christ, who is the light] and does not come to the light for fear his deeds will be exposed and reproved.
    But he who practices truth comes to the light, so that his deeds may be shown to have been produced [formed and powered] through God. John 3:19-20
  • He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. 1 Cor 4:5
  • You have set our iniquities before you, and our secret sins in the light of your countenance. Psa 90:8
  • Beware the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
    Whatever you have spoken in darkness will be heard in the light, and that which you have whispered in the ear behind closed doors will be proclaimed on the housetops. Luke 12:1-3
  • About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions. And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the pricks of your conscience, And I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' And he said, 'I am Jesus whom you persecute.' Acts 26:13-15
• To deny the light is to deny the spiritual fellowship with the Father and Son, with one another, and the cleansing of all sin:
  • But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:7
  • That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, so that you may also have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 1 John 1:3
• To deny the light is to deny the inheritance of the saints:
  • Giving thanks to the Father, who will make you fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. Col 1:12
• To deny the light is to deny the hope of becoming a child of the light, which is a son of God, for God is light and the Father of lights:
  • While you have light, believe in [depend on, trust and obey] the light, that you may become the children of light." Jesus spoke these thing and then departed to hide himself from them. John 12:36
  • For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. Eph 5:8
  • You are all the children of light, and the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 1 Thes 5:5
  • And his lord commended the dishonest manager because he had dealt shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the children of light. Luke 16:8
• To deny the light is to deny to where we are called:
  • But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; so that you may show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 1 Pet 2:9
• To deny the light is to deny where Christ dwells:
  • the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in the light that no [unregenerated] man can approach; whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen. 1 Timothy 6:15-16
• To deny the light is to be in denial of being lost in spiritual darkness:
  • He who loves his brother abides [lives] in the light, and there is no occasion to stumble. But he who hates his brother is in darkness,
    and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.1 John 2:10-11
  • Then Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the by light of this world. But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles because there is no light in him." John 11:9-10
  • Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overcome you, because he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. John 12:35
  • The light of the body is the eye [the spiritual eye, the eye of the heart]. Therefore when your eye is sound [clear without beams or specks], your whole body also is full of light; but when your eye is evil, your body is full of darkness. Be careful, therefore, that the light which is in you is not darkness. If your whole body therefore is full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light. Luke 11:34-36
    
  • From the Word of the Lord within:
    • "I work with the blind; but if you think you can see, and you are not with me in heaven, I will make you a laughingstock."
    • "The world cannot see, and they are literally stumbling."
• To deny the light, is to deny 100 + scriptures (click to see) that speak of a spiritual, supernatural light.

From the Word of the Lord within: "To charge the light or slam the light is forbidden; to deny the light is sufficient."

If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light of the morning in them. Isa 8:20
I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright morning star. Rev 22:16

You might be thinking: "I don't know anything about this light, but I know God; I read the Bible every day."
But the Bible says God is only known by revelation:

• no man knows the Son but the Father, neither does any man know the Father except the Son,
  and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal him. Mat 11:27, Luke 10:22
• what may be known of God is revealed in them; for God has shown it to them. Rom 1:19

From the Word of the Lord within: "Do you know him or just pretend to know him; to know him is to have met him and listened to him."
God and Jesus are only known by revelation in your heart: Christ, the word within, who is the grace of God, and who explains the ways of God;
and finally by Christ, the light of the word, who shows you the glory of God in the face of Jesus.
Even faith must be authored by Christ, and this must occur by revelation from Christ: But after that when faith has come, 3:25, as faith should afterwards be revealed. Gal 3:23

Do not confuse the light of Christ with the light claimed by Eastern religion's gurus, some who can pass on their light to you just by being in their presence. Their light requires no obedience, never convicts, never cleanses, never purifies, never unites with God, never teaches about Christ, never teaches about righteousness, never judges you, and never brings salvation with the eternal life of God. Their light is a pleasure trip of Satanic origin. See the Footnote to 2 Peter 1:19 for detail of the Satanic, counterfeit light.

There are two detailed writings on the light available on this site for your further understanding: 1) the primer is The Mystery of the Light, and 2) the advanced writing is by George Fox, The Light Explained.

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