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The True Light

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Well, thats not good!
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A Little History
323 BC
301 BC
198 BC
167 BC
Greeks Alexander
Seleucus (Syria)
Ptolemy (Egypt)
Antiochus
Antiochus
Babylon
Jerusalem
Mattathias Maccabees
Hasmonieans
Pro-Hellenized groups
Anti-Hellenized groups -Zealots -Essenes
Hanukkah
Roman Empire
Pompey
63 BC
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Question

• What is the purpose of the New Testament?

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C.S. Lewis

• I am here to prevent anyone saying the really
  foolish thing that people often say about Him
  Im ready to accept Jesus as a great moral
  teacher, but I dont accept His claim to be
  God.
• That is the one thing we must not say. A man who
  was merely a man and said the sort of things
  Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He
  either be a lunaticon a level with the man who
  says he is a poached eggor else he would be the
  Devil of Hell.
• You must make your choice. Either this man was,
  and is, the Son of God or else a madman or
  something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool,
  you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon or
  you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and
  God.
• But, let us not come with any patronizing
  nonsense about His being a great human teacher.
  He has not left that open to us. He did not
  intend to.
• Mere Christianity, p. 41

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Johns Witness

• John 19
• The Savior is the true light, which lighteth
  every man that cometh into the world

Question How would you define a false light?
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False Lights
Darkness
True Light
Light
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George Q. Cannon

• if any of you have felt in your hearts that
  you would follow what I call false gods, false
  lights, false teachers if any of you have
  felt to weaken in your attachment to the work of
  God and to entertain doubts concerning its
  validityI ask you this afternoon to repent truly
  and sincerely of that, and turn to God with full
  purpose of heart and with a determination to
  serve Him all the rest of your days.
• I say to you that Satan would tell you nineteen
  truths and would perform nineteen miracles to get
  you to accept one untruth and to take a wrong
  step. That is the kind of power he exercises. Do
  not be deceived, my brethren and sisters. Try the
  spirits, and see whether they are of God or not.
  Cling to the authority of the Priesthood, which
  God sent His messengers to bestow upon man. If
  you do so, I will assure you, as a servant of
  God, you will be led back into the presence of
  God and the Lamb
• (Brian H. Stuy, ed., Collected Discourses, 5
  vols. Burbank, Calif., and Woodland Hills, Ut.
  B.H.S. Publishing, 1987-1992, 3 .)

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Isaiah 61Works of a True Light

• The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because
  the Lord hath anointed me to
• preach good tidings unto the meek
• he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
• to proclaim liberty to the captives,
• and the opening of the prison to them that are
  bound?
• To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and
  the day of vengeance of our God
• to comfort all that mourn
• To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion the oil
  of joy for mourning,
• the garment of praise for the spirit of
  heaviness
• that they might be called trees of righteousness,