The True Light
God has placed in our hands as a Church “the word and the ministry of reconciliation”. We are charged with the responsibility to “take the gospel to every kindred, tongue, people, and nation”. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19; (Revelation 5:9).
Thrust into the dank, dark cell of the inner prison at Philippi, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God at midnight.
Even though their clothes had been torn from them and their backs oozing with blood, their feet locked in the stocks, tired from a long day of activity, with pains from the lashes of a whip, uncertain of the trial before the magistrate at the rising of the sun, there was not much room for gladness and rejoicing. Yet they worshipped.
In the midst of their worship, God intervened with an earthquake. Their feet were released and made their agony of plight worthwhile. In the dying tremors of the earthquake miracle, the jailer drew his sword to commit suicide, but the voice of Paul stopped him. Hope came to him, and in the awfulness in his inner darkness of sin, he called for light, but Paul and Silas gave him the true light.
In the dark world of our sinful generation, the tide of skepticism and infidelity continue to advance and constitute such a solemn threat to mankind. The Infidel would take from you the Bible, scout the idea of a personal Creator, despise the Lord.
However, the answer to this generation is the gospel. Like the jailer, life had lost its value, he needed more than a physical light that would not only illuminate the prison cell, but an inner light which illuminates and help opens into eternal life. We have the light as an institution, for Jesus has made us the lights of the world.
Any prospect who comes to our Bible School will identify and possess the truth, practise it, preserve it and also proclaim it. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth (2 Corinthians 13 : 8).