Those Who Rebel Against The Light

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“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;​

They do not want to know its ways​

Nor abide in its paths.​

The murderer arises at dawn;​

He kills the poor and the needy,​

And at night he is as a thief.​

The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,​

Saying, ‘No eye will see me.’​

And he disguises his face.​

In the dark they dig into houses,​

They shut themselves up by day;​

They do not know the light.​

For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness,​

For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.” (Job 24:13-17 NASB1995)​

This was Job speaking. He was concerned over the wicked who practice evil deeds. They are those who rebel against the light. And what is the light? Biblically it is Jesus Christ, and it is truth, righteousness, and the gospel of our salvation. And this light teaches us that, by God-honoring and God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, we must die with Christ to sin and live to him and to his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands, by his grace.

And what does it mean to rebel? It means to protest, to defy, to resist, and to fight against. So if someone rebels against the light, he defies and he fights against the Lord Jesus and his gospel message and the idea of having to die to (forsake, repent of) his sins and of having to obey our Lord’s commands. For he wants the blessings of God without the conditions, for he wants to live for self and for his own good pleasure, and not for God.

So, what do these rebels then do? Some of them become murderers who kill at will whomever they wish, or just those who rub them the wrong way, or just those who they believe don’t have a right to exist, who they regard as worthless and of no value to them. And murder doesn’t have to be just killing someone physically, but you can kill (defeat, shoot down, destroy) people with your words, and with how you treat them, too.

The rebels also willfully, deliberately, and habitually commit adultery against their spouses who they professed to love and to cherish and to be faithful to when they took their marriage vows. And adultery is not just having physical sexual relations with another person, but it can be to willfully look lustfully at another person, or to be addicted to pornography and to self-gratification, or to be in an extramarital romantic relationship, cheating on one’s spouse.

And those who do such things as these usually do them in secret when they think no one else can see what they are doing. And then they lie to cover up for their sins, either before or after the sinful act. And they will put on a performance to try to appear the opposite of what they are doing in secret, hoping to fool their spouses into not being suspicious about their actions. But a wise spouse should know the spouse’s addictive behaviors.

And this brings to mind John 3:19-21 NASB1995:

“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”​

So, we can’t love God and love sin, too. This is not saying we will be perfect people in every respect, or that we will never sin again (1 John 2:1-2), but the Scriptures continually make a distinction between those who make sin their practice, and those who make righteousness their practice, and between those who make disobedience to God their practice, and those who obey the Lord and his commands willfully, in practice, by God’s grace.

And Jesus Christ and his New Testament apostles taught that if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to our Lord’s commandments, that we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not inherit eternal life with God. For those who love their sin, which is evident by what they practice, cannot love God. For love for God is obedience to his commands, and it is putting sin to death in our lives, by the Spirit. So we need to take this to heart!

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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Those Who Rebel Against The Light
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