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Genesis 1:1-4, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.

1. Light and darkness. At creation God separated the light from darkness, establishing a distinction between the two.
2. According to God’s Word, light represents God and all that is of God because His presence is glorious, His character is holy, and His deeds are righteous.
3. According to the Bible, darkness represents evil, all that is opposed to God, all that is not holy, all that is not righteous.
4. And ever since Lucifer rebelled against God and took one-third of the angels with him, there has been a battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.
5. Which will prevail, light or darkness?
6. As students of God’s Word and disciples of Jesus Christ, we know light will ultimately triumph over darkness because the Bible tells us so.
7. But tonight, we will not focus on the epic, cosmic battle between light and darkness.
8. Rather, we will look inward, to the battle within.
9. Luke 14:1-24 reveals important principles for Walking in the Light so that light may prevail over darkness in our lives.

Luke 14:1-24

Transition – The first principle for walking in the light is to. . .

I. Ask God to Search Your Heart

• That was David’s prayer request after he reflected on God’s awe-inspiring nature.

Psalm 139:23-24, Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

• Why should we ask God to search our hearts?
• So that He may reveal to us if there is any hurtful way in us.
o Hurtful towards others.
o Hurtful towards ourselves.

Transition – For example, verses 1-6 reveal why it is important to. . .

A. Ask God to reveal any hypocrisy
1. The context of Luke 14 is important to remember; it’s the Sabbath.
a. A day that God appointed as a day of devotion and worship.
b. A day that God appointed as a day to rest and be refreshed.
c. A day that God appointed as a day to draw near to God and glorify Him with our every thought, word, and deed.

Exodus 20:8-11, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

2. On this Sabbath day, a leader of the Pharisees invited Jesus to his home for a meal along with other distinguished Pharisees and experts in the Mosaic Law.
3. Likely, this group had just left the local synagogue where they had listened to readings from the Law and the Prophets followed by a teaching from a portion of those divinely inspired texts.
4. The end of verse one reveals the real motive behind the host’s invitation for Jesus to dine with him and Israel’s esteemed religious leaders on that Sabbath day, “they were watching Him closely.”
a. The Greek word for “watching closely” means “to lurk or to carefully observe.”
b. This word paints a graphic picture of just how dark the darkness was in the hearts of the Pharisees and lawyers.
c. You see the whole meal was a setup, a trap to snare Jesus and find grounds to accuse, convict, and condemn Him.
5. What was the trap? A man suffering from “dropsy” was also invited to the meal.
a. Dropsy is a painful disease where the body tissues fill with fluid often due to kidney or heart issues, or even cancer.
b. Now in Jesus’ day some rabbis thought if someone had dropsy it was a consequence of their immoral lifestyle.

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