"Children of Night and Children of Light"

MF Blume
MARCH 15, 1999 pm

Gene 1:1-7  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so.
Gene 1:10  And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.

1The 5:2-8  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.



We read in Genesis that all was darkness. Darkness was upon the face of the deep, but something else moved for the first time upon the face of the waters, also.
GOD'S SPIRIT. The New Testament, 1 Thessalonians 5, speaks of children of the night and children of the day. Thank God for the LIGHT.

All the world was one kind of people.

The Gospel of John begins so much like the Book of Genesis. As Genesis shows all the world in darkness, and light is introduced to that darkness, John told us that the LIGHT shined in darkness. Some comprehended it not, but others received Him.

Notice that we read the WORD had LIFE in it which was the LIGHT OF MEN.

There was only darkness, and there was only salt water before the light came. Darkness was upon the face of the waters. In the early church days, after Jesus came, The Jews did not accept Jesus and they remained veiled and their hearts were not opened up.
2Cor 3:14-16  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
But at the same time as people, to that day, were veiled, others were unveiled for they turned to Jesus.
2Cor 3:18  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Some stayed the way they were. Since Jesus came, some have turned to Him and saw a veil removed, and allowed His light to shine in their open faces. John said that the ones who received Him received power to become the children of God.
John 1:12  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
These children of darkness have the opportunity of becoming children of another realm. This birth is easily understood. He begets us with His Word. Notice the difference between two people in these verses:
 
John 1:4  In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
In THE WORD was LIFE, and that life was LIGHT for men. Those who are in darkness could not lay hold on Jesus, but when the Word came, the life within Jesus shined out and WE, who are of the DAY, BEHELD HIS GLORY. Something had to occur before what was inside Him could be received by me. Where some are blinded...
2Cor 4:3-4  But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Yet some are not blinded but are opened to the Light.
2Cor 4:6-7  For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
So now there are people of the night and people of the day. But in the end of this world, we read of THE DAY OF THE LORD COMING. At NIGHT, people sleep or enjoy pleasures, for the DAY speaks of WORK and being SOBER. To those who are in sin, the Bible says this:
Amos 5:18  Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
But to the children of light, we read this:
Zech 14:1  Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zech 14:6-9  And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the light shall not be clear, [nor] dark: But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, [that] at evening time it shall be light. And it shall be in that day, [that] living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.  And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
The day of the Lord will be one continuous daytime for the people of God. And the lower waters, called seas, which represent those who were not drawn up into the clouds by the light, but remained below in the world, will be no more.

In Genesis, all there was was salt water and darkness at the first.

Reve 21:1  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
This means there are no more people of the world, and no more darkness. And there will be ONE RIVER of water, God's River, flowing from His throne.
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