HOW TO SHINE THE LIGHT

The coming of Jesus fulfilled many things. Speaking of the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God had said, “²⁶ There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: ²⁷ for this is My covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins” (Rom 11:26-27).

The Deliver, Jesus, shall take away their sins. That was prophesied by Isaiah long before: “And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD” (Isa 59:20). Jesus, the Redeemer/Deliverer fulfilled that prophecy. It was the fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant as well, to wit: 

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, “And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.” (Gal 3:16)

 “Seed” therein is “sperma” in the Greek, meaning “virile semen” (Strong 1890). As it turns out, Jesus is the Virile Semen of God the Father, and His supposed genealogy is traced from Abraham in Matthew chapter one. Virility is the strength and power of the man. Jesus is of the virile semen of God and the Holy Ghost is that Power. The Holy Ghost of the man, Jesus, provides the virtue, or dynamics, of Jesus.

Thus, Jesus fulfilled, not only the Law, but the Abrahamic Covenant as the Law kept the Israelites safe from destruction until the coming of Jesus.

Jesus said to the blessed: 

KEY VERSES: ¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. ¹⁷ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. (Mat 5:16-17)

 Their “light” is phos in the Greek. Phos is to “glorify (doxazo) the Father in heaven” — to magnify the Light of God.

Think of a magnifying glass. It not only enlarges but can concentrate light as well. It demagnifies the Sun and the heat generated intensifies the heat. One little magnifier can share the immensity of God unto the world. To glorify God all that it takes is to magnify His intense Power by sharing it with the world!

We are to be the “magnifiers” for the brilliance of God, and as such, Christians are not to cover the magnificence with anything but to share it with the world.

Next in the key verse is that Jesus came to fulfill the Law. Him, and Him alone, is the “Light Bringer,” not Lucifer whose name means just that. Lucifer is the false “bringer of light” and such darkness should be covered to prevent its spread. Lucifer is the “phosphorus,” the false light shiner; not that he brings Light as truth, but light as deception.

Lucifer’s M.O. is to shine His light through the “magnifiers” to cover the intensity of the Truth of God.

In the beginning, Lucifer — the light from the shadow — the Serpent — was intensified. Lucifer brought intense darkness (sin) onto mankind with him parading as the All-Knowing One.

Neither had Jesus come to deny the prophets. Isaiah saw Jesus coming hundreds of years before. He implied that He was the One who validated Isaiah and the others. He fulfilled their prophecies. Nobody else ever did that because Jesus is one of a kind… a new, glorious kind, full of grace and truth unlike the “children” of the Wicked One who were empty of grace and truth.

Because Jesus was the seed, or sperma, of God the Father, He was the progeny of Him. God was Light and it was passed down to Jesus. When Jesus was glorified (John 7:39; KJV only) the Spirit of God was transformed into the Holy Ghost of Jesus. Jesus was the Son of God, or of the gens of God, but it was through the Spirit and not His flesh; it was the son, or gens, of man (Adam).

Therefore, Jesus not only fulfilled the Law, but He fulfilled God. Nobody could thenceforth could see the face of God and  live (John 1:18) but when they saw Jesus, they saw the very Face of God and live came to those who saw Him (John 14:9).

The Law was the Truth. We are told to believe the truth; that there is one God — Jesus; that we are to honor Him, and not take the Name — Jesus — with vanity. The Law is how we all should glorify God; to magnify Him by honoring the Law.

Who wrote the Law to begin with? Was it Moses? Not so; Moses shined the Light of the Law (Exod 34:29-35). He did not return to the Israelites with his face covered, but his Face shined the glory of God. Moses was doing what Christians should do as presented in the key verses; we are to let the light of the Law shine unto the world, and even magnify it by obedience to the Law; “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15).

Obedience to the commandments is sharing the Light of God. How better to shine Jesus than by shining His Sayings. Moses wrote, “God spake all these words (in the commandments), saying…” (Exod 20:1).

Jesus — God in the flesh — was the Word (John 1:1-14) that said those Words. The Law was fulfilled when the Ten Tablets of Stone became alive! Jesus breathed life into the Law and the Law became a walking, talking testament named “Jesus” — a “New Testament.” In other words, the Law shined the glory of Jesus long before Jesus was glorified at the crucifixion.

So, what is glorification? The Substance of Jesus was altered. He was no longer the son of man nor the Son of God, but God manifested. His words became animate. Jesus walked and taught the Law, and rather than it being the Way, Jesus is the Way.

The gospels are the Law animated and it was Jesus who brought the Law to life. Still, many Christians despise the Law as works when none of the “Ten Sayings” say anything that would require ergo work!

The Ten Commandments are therefore ergonomic, having no value added to them by effort. How hard must anyone work to trust in one true God? How much work is it to honor your parents? How much work to speak the truth? Can you not see that? the Ten Commandments are not hard work but nothing more than ten new natures that come naturally to those who are Illuminated by God! The Ten Commandments are the Way Jesus is magnified and how you shine the Light of Glory.