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John.9:5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
9:6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, 9:7 and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. 9:8 The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?" 9:9 Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him." He said, "I am he."

There no other light in the world, but Christ, what a profound statement Christ makes here! Think about all the great men, all the teachers, all the wisdom of genius that have changed the whole thinking pattern of this world, not one of them is called the light of this word? Stop, and really give this point some thought? Knowledge is not the light of the world, although, we worship it, and those profound men and woman that has brought us new knowledge which changed everything for mankind, but this is not the light of the world!

1Cor.13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. 13:3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory.

Luke 10:21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight."

Jesus also stated he was in the world, but the world did not know him? Later almost one-hundred years the apostle John spoke to God's anointed by his headship Christ Jesus stating the world did know them either, as it had not known Christ? All of this is very important because if Christ changed the world as other great men and woman have than he would be known by all! So what is the context? Knowing what about Christ? Obviously cannot be just knowledge of him, but actually having him indwell us with his personality. There are lots of great men, and woman, but most of us don't know them intimately, as Christ knew his Father YHWH, and we know the Father, and the Son by Christ indwelling us with God's Holy Spirit.

John 17:25 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

John 17:16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

John 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.

Jesus is the light of our world, in that, he alone of all men was a son of God whom explained to us the Father, no other man could claim such a thing. Many have known God in a limited way, some have speculated as to God as a Father, but only Christ knew his Father most intimately by his Holy Spirit indwelling a perfect man, making him temple of the living God.

John 12:49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

John 14:10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

John 15:9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

God does not put his Holy Spirit into a sinful person, he does not write his laws into a person that he accounts as a unrighteous. Those of Christ, that is, those in Christ as his body members are grafted into Christ like a branch on a tree receiving the life of the tree making them sinless by Christ merit - holy, declared righteous. Hence, God calls them the temple, because they are member of Christ whom is the temple of God. Thus, the apostles and God's children can say they to are the light of this world. Not light from hidden knowledge, end time prophecy, but light into our Father personality in love. While the world search for knowledge like a lust of greed, God's children explain the Father just as he is, as the ultimate Father, the Father of perfect lights with no variation of shadow of sin, or darkness, but perfect unchanging love that cannot fail us.

John 17:21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

John 17:25 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

1 John 5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born of him.

John 3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

1 John 4:19 We love Him, because he first loved us.

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