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Subject: Hanukkah: Let Your Light Shine !!!
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From: Eddie Chumney
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Subject: Hanukkah: Let your Light Shine
Taken from the Book
Hanukkah: The Light is Messiah
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Hanukkah: The Light is Messiah
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HANUKKAH: LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE !!!
By Eddie Chumney
(Author of The Seven Festivals of the Messiah and
Who is the Bride of Christ?)
Hanukkah is the story of the struggle of the Jewish people to resist
the pressure to assimilate and conform to the world's ways and the
world's system and choose instead to remain loyal to the ways of the
God of Israel. Today, there are many lessons to be learned from this
struggle for believers in Yeshua/Jesus as Messiah. We also struggle
with resisting the desires of our flesh and conforming to the world's
ways and the world's system. The ruler of the world's system is
HaSatan. When we walk in the world's ways, we walk in darkness. When
we remain loyal to the ways of the God of Israel, we walk in light.
Hanukkah is called the Festival of lights. Our light is Messiah. When
we choose to follow Messiah and walk in the ways of the Kingdom of
God, we are able to resist conforming to the ways of the world. Just
as the Maccabee's were able to overcome the forces to conform to the
Greco world with the supernatural help of God, when we resist to
conform to the ways of the world God will also give us the power to
overcome so that our lights will shine for Messiah!
YESHUA IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
In John 8:12, it is written: "Then spake Jesus again unto them,
saying, I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not
walk in darkness but shall have the light of life."
BELIEVERS ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
In Matthew 5:14-16, Yeshua said these words: "You are the light of the
world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men
light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it
gives light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine
before me that they may see your good works and glorify your Father
which is in heaven."
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO WALK IN DARKNESS?
Walking in darkness means that you are living a carnal Christian life.
Walking in darkness means that while you may be saved by accepting
Jesus into your heart and life, you are still influenced by the ways
of the world and are dominated by the desires of your flesh. Walking
in darkness will result in walking in spiritual ignorance to the ways
of God and blind your understanding to the deeper spiritual truths in
God's Word. Below is a list of scriptures which explains these things.
Walking in darkness will keep us from comprehending God
(John 1:5)
Walking in darkness will blind our spiritual eyes (I John
2:11)
a) God is light and in Him is no darkness (I John 1:5)
b) Followers of God will not walk in darkness (I John 1:6)
c) Walking in the truth of God's Word will keep us from walking in
darkness
(Psalm 119:105, John 3:21, John 17:17, I John 1:6)
Walking in darkness will produce the WORKS OF DARKNESS which
is the manifestation of the desires of the flesh. The works
of the flesh = Unfruitful Works of darkness (John 3:20,
Ephesians 5:11)
a) The believers are to cast off the works of darkness and
put on the armor of light (Romans 13:12)
WHAT ARE THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS?
1.ROMANS 13:13
a) Rioting b) Drunkenness c) Chambering d) Wantonness e) Strife f)
Envying
The unfruitful works of righteousness = Works of the flesh (Romans
13:14)
2.GALATIONS 5:19-21
a) Adultery b) Fornication c) Uncleanness d) Lasciviousness e)
Idolatry f) Witchcraft
g) Hatred h) Variance i) Emulations j) Wrath k) Strife l) Seditions m)
Heresies n) Envyings
o) Murders p) Drunkenness q) Revellings
3. 1 CORINTHIANS 5:9-11
a) Fornicators b) Covetous c) Extortioners d) Idolaters e) Railers f)
Drunkards
4. 2 CORINTHIANS 12:20-21
a) Debates b) Envyings c) Wraths d) Strifes e) Backbitings f)
Whisperings g) Swellings
h) Tumults i) Uncleanness j) Fornication k) lasciviousness
5.EPHESIANS 4:17-18
Walking in Darkness and producing the unfruitful works of darkness by
living according to the desires of the flesh is walking in the vanity
of your mind (Ephesians 4:17)
Walking in Darkness: (Ephesians 4:18)
a) Darkens our understanding of God
b) Blinds our hearts
c) Alienates us from the life of God
6.COLOSSIANS 3:5-9
a) Fornicators b) Uncleanness c) Inordinate affections d) Evil
Concupiscence
e) Covetousness f) Idolatry g) Anger h) Wrath i) Malice j) Blasphemy
k) Filthy Communication l) Lying
BELIEVERS WHO WALK IN THE LIGHT OF MESSIAH
WILL DO GOOD WORKS
Believers who walk in light do good works unto God. Doing good works
does not save you. We are saved by the grace of God through faith and
not by our good works (Ephesians 2:8-9). Yet, after we are saved, God
requires us to walk in light and perform good works which is our
reasonable service unto Him. After explaining in Ephesians 2:8-9 that
we are not saved by good works, it explains in Ephesians 2:10 that
after we are saved, we are required by God to do good works of service
for the Kingdom of God as it is written: "For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in them.''
These truths can be see in the following scriptures:
1. Yeshua did the GOOD WORKS of God (John 10:32, Acts 10:38)
2. The believers were created before the foundation of the world to do
good works (Ephesians 2:10)
3. By walking in the LIGHT of the life, the world will be able to see
our GOOD WORKS and give glory to God (Matthew 5:16)
4. The believers are commanded by God to do the good works of Messiah
(John 14:12, 1 Timothy 6:17-18, 2 Timothy 3:17, Titus 1:16, 2:14, 1
Peter 2:12)
BELIEVERS IN MESSIAH WILL WALK IN LIGHT AND
NOT IN DARKNESS
Believers in Messiah are instructed to: (Romans 13:12)
1.Cast off the works of darkness
2.Put on the armor of light
a) We are to turn from darkness to light (Acts 26:18)
b) We have been delivered from darkness into the kingdom of God
(Colossians 1:13)
3.We are the children of light and not of darkness (I Thessalonians
5:5)
4.We were in darkness but now are children of light (John 12:36,
Ephesians 5:8)
5.God has commanded the light to shine out of the darkness (II
Corinthians 4:6).
We have this treasure in earthen vessels (II Corinthians 4:7)
When the Maccabee's resisted conforming to darkness and the ways of
the world but chose to remain loyal to the ways of the God of Israel,
God allowed their light to shine before men and their story remains
with us to this day. Our light is Messiah (John 8:12). Therefore, let
your faith and love for Messiah shine before men so that they may see
your good works and give glory to God (Matthew 5:14-16). This is the
spiritual message of Hanukkah. So, let your light shine!!!!!
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