THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
the greatest among man, by nature was not light,
SONG 1:
SONG 2:
I think it was my second sermon here which was called THE
SALT OF THE WORLD, and today the topic is almost the
same, except, instead of the word salt we have now the
word light.
It means of course, that today we want to find out, what did
Jesus mean when he said that we are the LIGHT OF THE
WORLD.
Matthew 5: 14 – 16:
“You are the light of the world. A city on a
hill cannot be hidden.
Neither do people light a lamp and put it
under a bowl. Instead they put it on its
stand, and it gives light to everyone in the
house.
In the same way, let your light shine
before men, that they may see your good
deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”
According to Jesus we are the light of the world,
but how it is possible, all the more since we know
that by nature we are “darkness” rather than light.
I have noticed that for some, especially “good
people”, this truth that they are darkness is hard
to swallow. But according to the Bible, we can’t
become light, unless we don’t agree that by
nature we are darkness.
Even John the Baptist who according to Jesus was
and this is what the Bible tells us
about him:
John 1: 8:
“He himself was not the light; he came
only as a witness to the light.”
So, if we all (including John who was the greatest
among sinners), if we all are not light but rather
darkness, how than we can become light?
I have a lamp here and let’s say I am trying to turn it on
but it doesn’t work. If there is no light I must assume that the lamp is sinful
and it is darkness. The bulb which represents our mind is damaged (is
dead). Because of this, first of all I have to exchange the bulb or convert it
“metanoia” with it, which in Greek means “change
and do a
of mind”, and is always used with reference to
true repentance and conversion. In this way the lamp has a
new bulb or a new mind.
Then, I have to make sure that the plug of the lamp is in the
socket and finally I must turn the lamp on in order to connect it to the
source of electricity or power. And what is the source of the power in this
case? It is the power station of course.
Now, was this damaged lamp able to
produce light by itself? No.
And, likewise, we can’t produce light by our own
effort.
First of all, our “bulbs” must be changed, and
than, we have to connect our converted or
“metanoia” type bulbs (our minds) to the source
of spiritual power.
Who is the source?

John 15: 5:
Jesus is talking here to you and me:
“I am the vine; you are the branches (I
am the power station and you are
the lamps). If a man remains in me and I
in him, he will bear much fruit (he will
give much light); apart from me you can
do nothing (you can’t shine apart from
me).”
Let’s say that I have a piece of metal, a is represented by fire:
piece of iron, and I want it to shine to emit light.
Can this piece of metal produce light by itself? No.
What should I do than in order to
make it shine? I have to put it first into the
source of energy, which is fire. And what happens
with atoms inside the piece of iron when it is in the
fire.
The electrons that circulate around the
nucleus speed up going faster and
faster and eventually they move to a
higher orbit, but they always have the
tendency to come back to the original orbit. So,
when those electrons speed up and change the
orbit eventually they produce photons - the
light particles. And because of that the piece
of iron becomes red and starts to shine.
However, it is very interesting that the
weight of this piece of iron after
burning, after it gets red is exactly the same as
before. What does it mean? It means that because
the iron after burning process doesn’t loose any
mass, the true source of light (energy) in this case
was not the iron itself but what? The fire.
And exactly the same is with our spiritual life.
Like the cold piece of metal, by nature we
can’t be hot and shine.
So to be able to produce light we have to be
heated up by the fire of love energy
Holy Spirit transfers into us.
And this is the reason why in the Bible God’s love
Song of Solomon 8: 6 - 7:
6 … for love is as strong as death, ... It
burns like blazing fire, like a mighty
flame.
7. Many waters cannot quench (kłencz)
love; rivers cannot wash it away…
We all know that our body is made out of billions
of tiny bricks called cells. But do you know
that all cells in our body can communicate (talk)
with each other?
Here is a quotation from the “Fresh
Science” magazine which deals with this
problem:
 “The cells in our bodies talk with each found out that the healthy cells in our body shine or emit
other. (Isn’t it amazing?) Like ourselves, photons - particles of light, but the cancer
each cell in our body needs to cells which are selfish and have no love don’t produce any light they
communicate with its neighbors. We have are like small Dark Vaders in our body.

known for some time that many of the

cell wall proteins act as telephones.
So, believe it or not, but it true that our bodies
When we learn the language used by
can emit physical light. Of course, we can’t see the
our cells we might be able to take light because it is too weak. But, if we only have a very sensitive measuring
better care of them. device, or instrument, (light meter) , than we could measure
(Scientists know that our cells can talk but they can’t the amount of light particles produced by us. And we would see that some
understand the language they use. They only know that it of us shine more than others.
is not English nor Spanish, nor even Japanese. But I think,
Let me ask you a question now. What do you think, what kind of persons
that because scientists can’t understand the language it
And please, don’t say
would produce most amount of light?
must be Polish).
that those who are bold shine more than
After all our cells are doing a mind-
others...
boggling job for us.”
People who are in love and who are loved,
But, that’s not all. Now we also know that the those who are happy emit the greatest amount of photons.
On the other hand, those who don’t love others, who are selfish and
healthy cells in our body not only unhappy, or are afraid, they are like cancer cells and don’t emit (imi’t) light.
communicate with each other but they even They live in darkness.

love each other. When for example one of the cells

doesn’t have enough oxygen or nutrients it sends signals to it’s neighbors
and because they love their poor undernourished sister they absorb less
nutrients so that the weak cell could have more. Isn’t it amazing that those
tiny cells in our body behave like that?
So,there is no doubt, that Jesus
But, unlike the healthy cells, the cancer cells wants us to be like those healthy
for example are very selfish and they can’t love. When they notice that their
neighbors starve and die, they say “I don’t care, it’s not my business”, and cells.
they devour everything they can. And because they are so selfish they have
to die, and they already are sentenced to death by the immune system His greatest desire is that we
which will destroy them because otherwise they would destroy the whole
body. may love each other with an
The same with selfish people.
unselfish “agape” love, and in this way be the light of the world.
And now, the most interesting or even the And this is the reason why before His death He
asked His Father to let Him and His love be in us:
mind-boggling information is that scientists also
John 17: 26:
“I have made you known to them, and will
continue to make you known in order that However, we should always remember, that
the love you have for me may be in
because by nature we all are
them and that I myself may be in
them." darkness, and because the wages
of darkness is death, before we
became light, first we had to die.
And as a matter of fact, we did die, our darkness
was already crucified in Christ two thousand years
In the beginning, when God created Adam ago.
and Eve, they were filled with God’s love so perfectly that they
didn’t need any clothes to wear. They were covered with the Romans 6: 6 - 7:
wonderful garment of fabulous “For we know that our old self (darkness)
light. was crucified with him so that the body of
But, what happened with the garment of light when they sinned. It sin might be done away with, that we
disappeared immediately. Why? What was the cause of it? The light
disappeared because agape love and Holy Spirit, who dwelled in them, now should no longer be slaves to sin because
were gone, and they were left only with the invented by Lucifer self love
which is darkness. anyone who has died has been freed from
sin.”
But thank God, although in Adam we all inherited
that darkness, yet in Christ we are now the light
again. Here is the proof:
The fact that our death was necessary
Ephesians 5 :8: before we could pass from darkness to light, is
“For you were once darkness (you also beautifully demonstrated by God
used to have only the selfish – in nature, and mentioned by Paul:
invented by Lucifer love),
but now you are light in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15: 35 - 36:
Live as children of light.” (Live as “But someone may ask, How are the dead
raised? With what kind of body will they
healthy cells, and not like cancer come?
cells).
 How foolish! What you sow does not “Unless infinite power is exercised day
come to life unless it dies.” and night, the seed will yield no return…
(Why do you think in such a moronic way? Paul is asking with indignation.
Don’t you know that in order to have a beautiful flower, first you have to (And) electricity must be conveyed
put a seed into the soil and wait until it dies? And only after it dies it is
miraculously brought by God to life and becomes a beautiful flower.)
(ke’nve’it) to the buried seed… Every
seed grows, every plant develops
(di’ve’leps), by the power of God.”
(Education,1903, p. 104)

It is extremely interesting that although the “God creates the electricity that gives life
scientists can make an artificial to the seed.” Ms 34, 1898.
seed that in all points is exactly the same as natural one, yet when
they put both those seeds into the soil, both seeds die in the soil but only

the natural one comes to life and

germinates, but the artificial one never.
It is so because for the seed to germinate the electricity must come from
outside and resurrect the dead genes in the seed. But somehow it must be So, there is no doubt, that by saying
an intelligent energy because it seems to know which seed is the false
one and this energy decides to not resurrect it.
“you are the light of the world”, Jesus
meant those who:

The first scientist who discovered that before the 1. accepted their death in Him,
seed can germinate, a mysterious electricity must
2. were brought to a new life
appear in the seed was Dr. Burr from Yale
(bourn again) by Holy Spirit,
University who in 1959 published the
3. those whose hearts are filled with
most startling at that time statement.
He wrote:
unselfish God’s love.
„The vigor (vi’ge) and growth rate of
plants already can be predicted by
measurements of electricity in seed.” How can we know that the love of God
dwells in our hearts?
It is amazing that Ellen White new about There is a very simple test through which we
electricity in the seed 60 years before Dr. Burr can check it.
wrote about his finding. In 1903 she wrote:
1 John 4: 18:
 “There is no fear in love. But perfect
love drives out fear.” Revelation 18:1
“And after these (di:s) things I saw
another angel come down from heaven,
If our hearts are not filled with the true having great power; and the earth was
(perfect), God’s love we would still be lightened with his glory.”
afraid of:
dying, We know that the “angel” here represents us –
we will be afraid of persecution, the followers of Jesus, but, what is the
of future, meaning of this great light or the glory
we will be afraid of even, for example, sharing which lightens the whole earth?
the good news with others…
In the commentary to this very verse, E. White
wrote, addressing those words to all of us:
By the way, one of our Polish pastors, not long ago
“The fire of God’s love is the greatest
wrote me a quite funny story about two need of their hearts, for it is the love of
young Adventists who are the God which is the light of the world.”
members of his congregation.
Shortly after their baptism, for the first time they were encouraged to go
from home to home, trying to encourage people to read the Bible and books
like Great Controversy, Steps to Christ or the Desire of Ages.
However, in the beginning they were quite scared, and during the first day
of their work they came to a hose of certain woman. With shaking hands Some time ago, certain experienced
they knocked on the door, and when the door was opened by a woman who
looked quite brave and self-confident, they were even more afraid. And Polish pastor told me an amazing story. One
when she asked them what they wanted and who they mixed up the name day together with his 5 years old son they were at the local train station
of the Church and instead of saying SDA Church they said: “we, we, belong waiting for the train to come. And suddenly, he got very scared, when he
to the church of, of seven Adventists…” Fortunately, the woman had a realized that his small son fell down from the platform to the railway track.
sense of humor, and she responded: “Aha, so, I understand that now you And he was even more horrified when he noticed that at the same time the
are looking for the eighth one?” train was coming fast toward his son. Immediately he realized that it was
too late to save the boy, so he only quickly cried out: “Lord, help, please!”
And than, something amazing happened. With his own eyes he saw like
some invisible, force took his son and put him back on the platform saving
his life.

When we carefully study the Word of God we see Later, the same, miraculously saved
that the words light, or glory of God, by God boy, grew up and he decided to
represent God’s love, and exactly the same serve God working as a SDA Pastor. And somehow
meaning those words have in Revelation 18: 1: I had the privilege to participate in the ceremony
of his ordination, and I remember very well,
that he had tears in his eyes when just before the
prayer and his ordination he was reading about
God’s love from the Bible. And I also remember
very well that the text He read is found in the
letter to Ephesians 3:14 - 19:
“For this reason I kneel before the Father,
(and) I pray ... so that Christ may
dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and
established in love, may have power,
together with all the saints, to grasp how
So we need this love more and more every day, but how we can have it more
if we choose to not turn on our lamps through prayer and studying your
Word.
How can we have more of your love if we don’t choose to connect with the
source of power. How can we have more of your love if we prefer to spend
time looking after our own pleasures.
Help us to remember that although we are the light now but we can become
darkness again if we keep on behaving like cancer cells.
We want to be like healthy cells who love each other wit unselfish love and
make us the light not only in Jesus but by faith but also in Spirit and in
every day of our life.
In the name of our Savior who is our only light we pray.
Amen.

wide and long and high and deep is the

love of Christ, and to know this
love that surpasses knowledge —
that you may be filled to the measure of
all the fullness of God.”

Amen.

Dear Father,

We thank you so much for the precious declaration of Your Son, in which
He declared that we are the light in Him.

We thank You, all the more since, we know that in order to create the light in
us, He himself had to become darkness for us.

But, Father, although we are justified from being darkness, we know that we
still have to struggle with it (with our ego). And we understand now that we
can’t overcome it by our own power but only by the light of unselfish love
Holy Spirit can transfer into our hearts.