{"id":5251,"date":"2022-01-24T01:59:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T01:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/?p=5251"},"modified":"2022-02-09T22:49:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T22:49:34","slug":"i-am-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/?p=5251","title":{"rendered":"I Am &#8211; Light (what it means for Jesus to be light)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus said in John 8:12 that He was the &#8220;light of the world.&#8221; What a unique and telling statement.   What does it mean for Jesus to be light?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this study we look at three things Jesus was revealing about Himself when he used this metaphor.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He revealed that He fully understands the nature of darkness!<\/li><li>He shows that by being light He illuminates the true realities of all situations in life!<\/li><li>He also demonstrates that He alone is the perfect source of light!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Am Light - means I Am...\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fxauu2gN6nU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus said in John 8:12 that He was the &#8220;light of the world.&#8221; What a unique and telling statement. What<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5274,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions\/5274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnchurchofchristnebraska.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}