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YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
By
Bertrand L. Comparet
Our God Yahweh has always manifested Himself to us in
light, for this is His nature and He is the source of the light. In I Timothy
6:16, Paul speaks of Him as "dwelling in the light which no man can
approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see." Physically we are lost
in darkness and helpless, only in light can we find our way. Morally,
spiritually, without the true light of Yahweh's word, we are lost and helpless.
Nothing could demonstrate this more clearly than the poor and evil conditions of
life in those nations and races, which lack this light.
Psalm 119:105 speaks truly, "Thy word
is a lamp unto my feet, and a light upon my path." Yahshua used this same
simile, spoken by the prophets before Him, in John 8:12, "I am the
light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall
have the light of life."
This alone is the true spiritual light. As the apostle
John says in John 1:4-5; 3:19, "In Him was life; and the life was
the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness
comprehended it not. And this is the condemnation: that light is come into the
world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were
evil." Spiritual truth is real and eternal. If we ignore it now, we must
still face it eventually. As Yahshua said in John 12:48, "He that
rejecteth Me and receiveth not My words, hath one that judgeth him: the word
that I have spoken, the same will judge him in the last days."
For a little over three years, Yahshua taught His gospel
and was in person the light of the world. As Yahshua said in John 9:5, "As
long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." After His
departure, He left behind Him His representatives, to continue to spread His
teachings in the world. In John 17:6-20 Yahshua remembers Israel in His
great prayer, "I have manifested Thy name unto the men which thou gavest Me
out of the world: Thine they were and Thou gavest them Me; and they have kept
Thy word. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest Me; and they
have received them, and have known surely that I came out from Thee; and they
have believed that Thou didst send Me. I pray for them: I pray not for the
world, but for them which thou hast given Me: for they are Thine. I
have given them Thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of
the world even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy
word is truth. As thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent
them into the world. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which
believe on Me through their word."
In Matthew 5:14 Yahshua told His disciples that
now ye are the light of the world, in His place. They too, lived their
lives and are gone, but the great work must go on. What they did in that first
century, you must do in this twentieth century. You are now and must be, the
light of the world. You, as individuals, must teach our nation and race, so the
nation and race will demonstrate to the world the peace, freedom and prosperity
which are possible only to those who walk in the light of Yahshua's words.
Today all nations, even our own, are being brainwashed by
a satanic propaganda campaign, to give false freedom and equality to people not
ready for it. It is a so-called freedom, which is only savagery and cannibalism
or atheistic darkness and Marxist slavery. Even most of our churches have been
infiltrated and corrupted into following this satanic line. We can be the light
of the world, only if we have Yahshua's light.
Here is where many of today's churches have failed. They
are willing to pay lip service to Yahshua the man, but they want nothing
to do with Yahshua the Christ. Two modern writers have summed it up in
these words. "The reason why the churches are discredited today is not
because they are too bigoted about theology, but because they have run away from
theology. If the church is to make any impression on the modern mind, she will
have to preach Christ and the cross. Of late, she has not succeeded well in
preaching Christ. She has preached Jesus, which is not at all the same
thing." (Creed or Chaos by Dorothy Sayers)
How many popular histories, encyclopedias and school
textbooks have blindfolded Yahshua by an apologetic paragraph on the carpenter
of Nazareth, or the great teacher of Galilee. They read about the seamless robe,
but do not receive new life by the touch of a living faith. They follow the
story of the big fisherman but never made the great confession thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living Yahweh. They listen to "The Greatest Story
Ever Told" on the radio, but do not know the power of Yahshua's
resurrection. They belong to a Christless Christianity. (Rev. Samuel M. Zwemer)
Too many churches are in full retreat these days. They
abandon the only foundation of their faith, that Yahshua is the Christ. All that
oppose this are false. They sacrifice Him on the altar of brotherhood with His
enemies. They won't read from the gospel of John for fear of offending the
Christ hating Jews. Yet, if they only believed the Bible to which they give
hypocritical lip service, they must read Christ's own words recorded in Luke
9:26. "For whomsoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My words, of him
shall the Son of man be ashamed when He shall come in His own glory and in His
Father's and of the holy angels." These are that Laodicean church of whom
Yahshua said in Revelation 3:15-16, "I know thy works, that thou art
neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then, because thou art
lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of My mouth."
There are a lot of candidates for a spittoon in this world today.
To be the light of the world we must have the only true
light, Christianity. We shouldn't have the diluted substitute which passes under
this name today, evading, retreating, giving up principle to find the least
common denominator with paganism and atheism, with yellow, brown and black. We
should take an unflinching stand upon the identity of Christ and upon His gospel
of the kingdom of Yahweh.
Where is the true light of the world today? We look for
it in vain outside the nations of the true Israel, the Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian
and Germanic peoples. In all Asia, India and the dark races of Africa, we do not
find the slightest trace of it. As it has been since ancient times, their course
today is steadily downward. Remember when Yahshua said, "Ye are the
light of the world". This is a duty and a responsibility we must meet.
We must not lower our level to that of the other nations,
we must raise our level to its highest as a light to all who will see. Christ
said, "The glory which thou gavest Me I have given them". This
fulfills Isaiah 60:1-3, 12. "Arise, shine, for thy light is come,
and the glory of Yahweh is risen upon thee. For behold the darkness shall cover
the earth and gross darkness the people: but Yahweh shall arise upon thee and
his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the nations shall come to Thy light, and
kings to the brightness of Thy rising. For the nation and kingdom that will not
serve Thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted." Our
duty is not to drag this glory in the dust where the dark people lie. It is to
raise it triumphantly to the highest mountaintops.
Its enemies will not accept it voluntarily. They say,
"Give us the wealth your God has given you, and become one of us, but we
will have none of your God." This is not the way to truth. The only true
good we can do to these nations is to refuse them our aid until they accept it
on the same terms on which we got it. It is the bounty of our god Yahweh, given
to those who know Him and are loyal to Him. Can we be the light of the world if
the lesson we teach is this, remain savages and you will receive the wealth you
have not earned. Worship devils and you will receive the bounty of Yahweh?
Our light is that which we receive from Yahshua, not from
Buddha, Brahma, or the devil gods of Africa. It is not the wealth extorted from
our plundered taxpayers to be given to strengthen our enemies. We do not spread
the light by harnessing ourselves, like mules, to serve the pagan and the
atheist. We can be the light of the world only by teaching the world that the
material good comes only as the fruit of spiritual good. Matthew 6:33
states, "Seek ye first the kingdom of Yahweh, and His righteousness and all
these things shall be added unto you." There is no other way. |