Light Rejected! Light Neglected! Light Reflected! — Keith Daniel

Light Rejected, Neglected, and Reflected

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Jesus Christ, the Light of the World

These messages are offered to all without charge by the freewill offerings of God's people. A special thank you to all who support this ministry. In John 8, verse 12, Jesus said, I am, I am, I am the light, the light of the world.

I am the light of the world. He that followeth me, he that followeth me, shall not walk in darkness. He that followeth me, shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. But shall have the light of life.

Now a light, a light is only needed, a light is only needed where there is darkness. That's why Jesus said, I am the light of the world. I am the light of the world. We read in Genesis chapter 1, verse 1, In the beginning, in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light. And there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night.

Here, here the Holy Spirit moved a man. Here the Holy Spirit moved a man to record that moment of time when God created physical light in a world that was covered by physical darkness. Here the Holy Spirit moved a man to record that moment of time when God created physical light in a world that was covered by physical darkness.

But as we move to the pages of the New Testament, as we move to the pages of the New Testament of men who heard Jesus say, I am the light of the world, we find the Holy Spirit moved those men to record that moment of time when God sent forth spiritual light into a world that was full of spiritual darkness.

Yes, and we read in John chapter one from verse one, In the beginning, in the beginning was the word, speaking of Jesus, and the word was with God and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shineth in darkness. The light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.

There was a man sent from God whose name was John. The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light that all men through him might believe. He was not that light but was sent to bear witness of that light.

That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not.

He came unto his own and his own received him not but as many as received him. To them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God and the word was made flesh.

The word was made flesh and dwelt among us and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory. The glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth and as we page through the New Testament we find to our amazement this statement that Christ made that he was the light of the world and that anyone who followed him would not walk in darkness but would have the light of life.

We find the statement of his is expounded, expounded page upon page upon page into the practical artworking of the effect of Christ the light of the world upon those whom God revealed his light to. We find the effect written upon page upon page.

Walking in the Light and Cleansed by Christ

One John chapter one from verse one that which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon in our hands of handled of the word of life for the life was manifested and we have seen it and bear witness and so unto you that eternal life which is with the Father and was manifested unto us that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that we also may have fellowship with us and surely our fellowship is with the Father and with his son Jesus Christ and these things rightly unto you that your joy may be full.

This then is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie, we lie and do not the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin if we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness that we say that we have not sinned we make him a liar we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

My little children my little children these things right I unto you that we sin I would like for us tonight I would like for us tonight to look at three things that are done with a light and every single person in this building every single person in this building falls into the category of one of these three things every single person in this building falls into the category of one of these three things that have been done with a light firstly light Light rejected.

Light Rejected and the Judgment of Unbelief

Secondly, light neglected. And thirdly, light reflected. Light rejected, light neglected, and light reflected. Firstly then, light rejected. John, who cries out that Christ declared himself to be the light of the world.

In chapter one, he comes to chapter three, and he tells us of how men rejected the light, and the terrible, terrible consequences of their doing that. In chapter three, verse sixteen, the most renowned verse in the scriptures, for God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

But do you know that the verses that follow that most renowned of verses in the whole scriptures are unheard of in the pulpit of God in this generation? Do you know why? Because they tell of how men rejected that love through Christ, and the judgment of God that will come upon everyone who does that.

The next verse says, for God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. Verse nineteen, and this is the condemnation. This is the only reason God will ever condemn you or me.

This is the condemnation, that light is coming to the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved, lest he's going to give up his sin.

But, the next verse says, he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God, that your life can be an open book by the grace of God, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.

All things are passed away, behold, all things have become new. Oh, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Light rejected is a tragic thing. This is the condemnation, that light is come, light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light.

There was a personal choice here, a personal calculated decision. They chose darkness in their heart, and they rejected light. This is the only reason God would ever condemn. This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved.

Oh, that's hard to perceive. When God reveals his love, men loved. No wonder there's a hell. There was a way of escape from sin. But even if it meant hell, men wouldn't turn from it. They so loved darkness rather than light.

For every one that doeth evil, hateth the light. Do you know what that means, literally? Every one that continues in an unrepented state of sin, unrepentant, once he's heard the gospel of Christ, hates Christ.

That is what God is saying. Hates God after what he did to reach you. If you carry on in your sin, once he's revealed his love to save you, to repent and deliver you, he will set you free. If you carry on of your own choice, you hate Christ.

In God's eyes, you hate Christ. Once you walk away from the gospel, every one that doeth evil, hateth the light, God says. Neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved, lest he's going to give up his sin.

It's all to do with sin, you see, that God sees you as hating Jesus Christ when he died for that sin, and you still reject his offering and his sacrifice. You hate him, God says. Light rejected is a terrifying thing.

It is a terrifying, terrifying thing in a man or child, once God has revealed the light to you. This holy book, this holy book speaks to us of him who had called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

In 1 Peter 2, verse 9, it speaks to us of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. From the moment that Jesus Christ came into this world and died upon the cross, God has called out through him to all mankind to come out of darkness, come out of darkness, come out of darkness, come out of darkness into his marvelous light.

But they would not come, Jesus said. They would not come, Jesus said in Matthew chapter 22. We read in verse 1, and Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables and said, The kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son.

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son and sent forth his servants. He sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden, that were invited to the wedding.

And they would not come again. He sent forth other servants saying, Tell them which are bidden. Behold, I have prepared my dinner. I have prepared my dinner, my and my fatlings are killed and all things are ready.

All things are ready. Come unto the marriage. But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise. And the remnant took his servants and entreated them spitefully and slew them.

But when the king heard their rob, he was wroth, and he sent forth his armies and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city. Then saith he to the servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all, as many as they found, both bad and good. And the wedding was furnished with guests.

The wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in, when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment. And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a wedding garment?

And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him, hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness. There shall be weeping, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

For many are called, many are called, many are called, many are called, but few are chosen, but few are chosen. My wife wrote these words concerning this statement in this parable. How sad that few are chosen.

Though the master cried to all, but they would not seek his pardon, and they would not heed his call. They would not come, they would not come. He sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden, that were invited by God, but they would not come.

God did not give up. He sent forth other servants again and again, urgently, all things are ready, come, come, come to the marriage. And those people again and again, they took his servants and treated them spitefully, and slew them.

This is speaking of the Jew, who God so, so wanted to be ready. Oh, this is speaking of the Jew. John, John tells us the first to reject light is the Jew. In chapter 1 verse 10, he was in the world. The world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

He came unto his own, the Jew, and his own received him not. His own received him not. The Jew, oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem thou that killest the prophets. They took his servants and treated them spitefully, and slew them.

Thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which were sent unto thee. How oft would I have gathered thee, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not, I would, but ye would not, ye would not, they would not come in grief, in grief.

Prophets and stonest them which were sent unto thee. Oh, they took his servants, they treated them spitefully, and they slew them. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth. There was a point, the cup of God's wrath was against the Jew.

Oh, it's a terrible moment when that happens. There came a point, the cup of God's wrath was full. It was enough, no more now, no more now. When the king heard thereof, he was wroth, and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

In A .D. 67, Rome marched against Jerusalem, and razed every building to the ground. Their city was destroyed, the temple. There was not one building left standing, with one stone upon another. It was razed to the ground by Rome.

And the Jew, the Jew, the Jew became a stranger, and didn't have a land for two thousand years. They were hated in every land they went. No doubt, they were despised, they were undermined, to some point and degree that they were butchered, and murdered, and gassed.

Oh, for two thousand years. When the king heard thereof, he was wroth, and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then said he to the servants, the wedding is ready.

But they which were bidden were not worthy. They which were invited were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find bid to the marriage.

The Gospel Sent to Every Nation

Go ye therefore into the whole world, Jesus said, and preach the gospel to every creature. As many as ye shall find, hallelujah, bid to the marriage, invite. Oh, now God revealed his heart from the foundations of the world.

It wasn't just the Jew that I came to, that I had to come step by step to be able to manifest myself and die. It was the whole world on my heart. Now it's the whole world I'm gonna reach. Enough with the Jew now.

Now the whole world that I had in my heart in the beginning by coming to the Jew in the first place, now I reach the whole world. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find bid, bid, invite to the marriage.

Go ye therefore into the whole world, hallelujah, and preach the gospel to every creature, hallelujah. Oh, John chapter 1 verse 9, that was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Beloved God so loved the world, don't doubt that, when he gave his Son every man, he tasted death for every man. John said he is the propitiation for our sins as Christians.

He is the mercy seat literally on the altar, coming to God for mercy as Christians if we fail for sin, in sin. He is the propitiation, the way to God for mercy for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

It's not the will of God that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance through Christ Jesus our Lord, hallelujah, from my heart, hallelujah. That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. God now commandeth all men everywhere, all men everywhere to repent, because he tasted death for every man, friend. Don't you doubt that. Oh for God's sake, don't you doubt that.

Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, God wants you to try and reach theologians, as many as ye shall find. Go ye into the whole world, preach the gospel to every creature. I hope your theology doesn't stop you from that, sir.

Repent ye therefore, and be ye converted that your sins may be blotted out. They will, they will, whoso confesses and forsaketh his sins, the same shall have mercy. There's this great word, repent, attached now, you know, from sin.

The one word that's missing from the pulpits of the evangelical church throughout the world today, which gives men and their millions the right to have a testimony while they go to hell, because they didn't hear one word.

Repent, ye therefore, and be ye converted that your sins may be blotted out by grace through faith in the blood of Jesus. So those servants went out and gathered together all, as many as they found, both bad and good.

Hallelujah, not just the good that you find, but as Moody did, kneeling in the gutters, walking away from the president of the United States of America. Moody forgot he was the president when he saw a body lying in drunkenness in the gutters.

He knelt and wept and never ever walked to the president again, because it isn't just the good. And the closer you are to God's heart, the more you realize even a president is no better than a drunk. In God's eyes, he died for both.

And you, if you have anything of the love God shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost, will walk away from a president that you see a drunk. He couldn't pass a drunk. Oh, they servants went out into the highways and gathered together all, as many as they found, both bad and good.

The Wedding Garment and Final Judgment

Hallelujah. And the wedding was furnished with guests. The wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in, when the king came in to see the guests, that moment when God stepped back into time, what a moment that's going to be.

You've never known fear. No one has ever tasted fear. If they're not right with God, when that moment happens, no one has ever even been able to comprehend what fear is until that moment. When the king came in, that moment when God stepped back into time as a thief in the night, no one knew, no one, not even the angels knew the father.

When the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment. This is the whole point of the parable now. Trust me. As you read parable upon parable, one verse is what thrusts the whole parable into existence in the heart of God.

This is that verse. When the king came in to see the guests, he saw there with the guests, not in the flesh parts of the world, but where a man would be expected to be judged by God and sent to hell. He saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment, standing out like a sore thumb in the eyes of God, who only sees the blood of Jesus Christ.

He saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment, and you know God was shaken. He said, friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? How is it possible you are here and not saved?

You're not out there in the flesh parts of the world. You separated yourself from the world into religion. You're standing here. You don't go to these places where the world would go. You're here as if you're part of my bridegroom.

How is it possible you're here and yet you haven't prepared to meet with God? How camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment, not having your robes washed in the blood of the Lamb by grace through faith in the blood of Christ?

How is it possible? What is it all about? Why? What is this all about, that a man could spend his life in religion with God's people and know in his heart he's never ever prepared himself to meet with God?

How is it possible? How camest thou in hither? What are you doing here unsaved? How is it possible you remain unsaved here with these people who've all prepared to meet with God? You heard the message.

You knew the way. How is it possible? Why? What is it about? Is it possible that a deeply religious man can go to hell speechless? Let me tell you something. That statement cries out from God's heart something amazing.

If there was any defense that man could have, he would cry out from the depth of his soul on his knees with that defense. I never heard. I never heard the truth. He couldn't say that. He had nothing to argue.

He knew the way. He knew the way. He knew others were born of God. He knew he wasn't. He never prepared himself in truth earnestly by God's grace while he had time. He was not born of God. He was speechless.

He had no argument, no defense, because that was the last moment in eternity that he could say anything to save him from his eternal plight. He had nothing to show God as to why he was not saved. He was speechless.

Then said the king to the servants, bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Cast is a terrible word for God to say. That's when there's no further hope for eternity.

No matter what you do, no matter how you plead, no matter how you weep, no matter how you mourn over your sins, there is never going to be another moment. God will ever consider you for eternity. There's no hope for eternity.

Eternity. Eternity. Eternity. Eternity. No matter what you cry, no matter how you beg. Cast is a terrible word, you know. It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God. The same hands that will bear the marks for all eternity that they died for you.

For he tastes the death for every man. Don't ever doubt that. Stop preaching if you doubt it, or start tearing pages out your Bible and admit it before you carry a Bible pulled apart. He tasted death for every man.

Those hands that will bear the marks for all eternity of the cost of what it was to be able to say to all men, repent. Please turn now. Don't make light of it anymore. Hands that will bear the marks for all eternity, those marks will be in those hands to bear witness that he tasted death for every man in spite of their payment and that love of God.

It's a fearful thing to fall into those hands of the living God if you have not prepared to meet with God when you die. There's nothing more fearful in all eternity than that moment, sir, because when God's hands cast, there's never again grace, though he died for you and made it possible for you to be forgiven that no punishment would ever come upon you.

There's never to be another moment of mercy, sir, when those hands cast for eternity. Oh, 1 Thessalonians 2 verse 9, he will return in flaming fire. He will return. He will return in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power.

It's everlasting. A man held out a Bible and said to me, tell me how a God of love can send a man to everlasting damnation. You don't know your Greek or your Hebrew, boy. Show me anywhere in the Bible where it's everlasting.

I said, before I do, get a pair of scissors and I want you to cut out each verse I quote. I don't want you to ever go back in the pulpit, sir, with a Bible you don't believe. So get the scissors now and start cutting.

The smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever. They have no peace day or night speaking to the place prepared for the devil and his angels and all those whose names are not written in the book of life, according to Revelation 10, 20 verse 10 onwards.

It never ceases. This God of love, he was loved. Don't doubt that. That love will be there for eternity in case anyone ever checks. It will be there. No one can come from there. To us, there's a gulf fixed for eternity.

Oh, send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and touch my tongue for I am tormented in the flame. Oh, you're dead. But the great shock of death is you still can feel. You still can see.

You can see what you've missed. There must be more pain in the flame. You can think. You can speak. You can weep. Eternity. No one can ever come from there. No one can ever come from there to you. No one.

Jesus said, this God of love, sir, it is eternal, eternal. Death and hell recast into the lake of fire. Just the continuation. Once the great white throne, smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever and have no peace day or night, sir.

You say it's unloving to pre-tell, sir. I'll tell you something. You don't love anyone unless you preach. You love yourself. You're too scared to offend a man and you'll let him go to hell and you won't warn him.

You have no love for anyone but yourself. If you reject what God says in this book, get out of the pulpit for God's sake. What are you doing in the pulpit? You men who don't preach what God says will happen.

Their blood will be in your hands, you blind leaders of the blind. Everyone will fall in the dips as far as you get out. If you don't believe every word in this book, don't carry this book, carry some other book, but don't tell them it's the word of God you represent.

When you deny what God has in this book, you will be judged with such judgment I cannot comprehend how God is going to judge you men. Be careful if you tell men you are a servant of God. If you don't proclaim what God says and the God of love cries out in multitudes of verses into war with all his love, on judgment to those who will not obey the gospel of Jesus, you shall be punished with everlasting destruction, Jesus said.

From the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power, light rejected. What shakes me is that he was sitting there like you're sitting here tonight. You know the way and yet you're still in your sin and you know it.

Perhaps tonight God is saying to you clearly, how is it possible you've been here let alone when I come back, that you survived all this religion and religious fellowship and messages where no compromise was made from the pulpit and my love was revealed to you and I cry, how is it possible you came this far and you sit here tonight without a wedding garment.

Religious Pride and the Need to Be Born Again

I asked you a question just now, can a deeply religious man go to hell? Let me answer that to you. I wonder if more people aren't going to hell through religion than the sinful flesh parts of the world.

Do you know why? Because religion tragically, tragically, if it isn't truth, keeps a man from ever putting himself into the category of a sinner. Luke 18 verse 10, Jesus said two men went up into the temple to pray.

Two men went up into the temple, the ordained religion of God to pray, to speak to God, the one of Pharisees and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed, thus with himself, God I thank thee that I am not as other men are.

I am not as other men are. I am not as other men are. Exhaustion is unjust and heartless. Or even as this publican, I fast, I fast twice in the week, I get tithes of all that I possess. And the publican standing afar would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, Jesus said this man went down to his house justified rather than the other. Here were two men in the house of God, the one deeply religious, the Pharisee, all dressed religiously, separated from the world, wouldn't be seen dead in a worldly place, attended every single, so faithful were the Pharisees that they had the chief seats.

If they missed the service, oh, it was a shock to the community. I mean, they're the fellows of the church, they're so faithful, faithful in everything, religious, you know, broad religious and broad up in religion.

Here he is, the Pharisee, the other publican, not a very religious man, irreligious. To be a publican, you were despised. You couldn't be accepted as someone who feared God, just the profession of publican.

Not a very religious man. Here they are, the religious and the irreligious, the godless virtually, suddenly come to the house of God on the same day. The one looks on at others who are seeking God for mercy.

He looks on at others in that house. They come for God to justify them. They want to be shown mercy and forgiveness of sins. They come for, oh, they come in repentance to God to cleanse them, to forgive them that they may be justified.

He looks on at men who don't care about anybody knowing about their sin. They're crying out to God for justification. He looks on and he becomes unsettled. He wasn't just speaking words for the sake of speaking.

He began to reason with himself. And he said this in his reasoning, God, I thank thee I am not as other men. I am not as other men are. But that was the biggest mistake he ever made in his life. You see, in God's sight, he is as other men are.

Religion doesn't save you. Separation from the world doesn't save you. Dressing religiously doesn't save you. Keeping yourself faithful to every single meeting and giving the chief seat doesn't save you.

Nicodemus, how is it possible you can't comprehend that you must be born again? A religious leader, you, how can a man be born when he's old? Can he get in his mother's womb and come out a second time?

No. Oh, Nicodemus, how is it you can't comprehend that when a man is born, he isn't born a child of God. You're born a child of your father and mother. That's all you are, a child of your mother and father.

You have to become a child of God. You have to be born again. And that is by grace through faith. No child can do that. How is it possible you must be born again, except a man be born again? Nicodemus, he says to the religious teacher, he cannot.

Jesus said, I say to all religious teachers throughout America and the world, you won't see heaven unless you're born again. You weren't born a child of God. No child can by grace be saved through faith.

And how can you be saved unless you know you're lost? There has to be a point, you know, you have judgment. Let me tell you, Pharisee, all your righteousness is as filthy rags in my sight. If you dare to think that your righteousness in religion can justify you in the day of judgment.

No, no, no. Do you know what the first thing God says is rejecting light? The first illustration God uses once he speaks of light is this. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves that truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, one encounter with God, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar. His word is not in us.

You see, God says all have sinned. All have sinned. There's none righteous. No, not one, God says. I hope you agree with him, theologians. I hope you agree with him. All we like sheep have gone astray.

We've turned everyone to his own way. The Lord made on him the iniquity of us all. Beloved, you nailed Jesus to the cross even if you were born in the church. You would never go to hell. You would never go to heaven, sorry.

Though you were raised in a religious family, though you were raised in a church, you never went to the world. You are going to the same hell as the whoremonger and the adulterer and the murderer. No less judgment will they face.

You see, sin is sin. You look at God, what we say is a big sin and a small sin. God says his sin along with the murderers, the adulterers, the sorcerers is all liars. In the same sin you shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death.