True Light and False Light

“Because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.” 1 John 2:8.

As certainly as there is a true light, there is also a false light. The main difference between these two types of light is that the true light drives away the darkness, while the false light permits the darkness to remain. The false light wants to lay hold of all the glory without driving out the darkness. In order to drive away the darkness, you must experience fellowship with Christ in His sufferings, and the false light wants no part of that.

False light teaches that man was created only to enjoy life. It causes a person, with their body, soul, and spirit, to be drawn up from the earth to heaven, where they are then free from all tribulations and sufferings—as if the resurrection had already occurred. God in eternity does not suffer; neither does Christ suffer in His glory. They are not tempted, and the false light teaches that we should be like Them.

On the other hand, the true light brings your body back down to the earth. It teaches us that as long as we are at home in the body, we are in exile, absent from the Lord. 2 Cor. 5:6. It also teaches us that we are to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and present our body—not for enjoyment, but as a living sacrifice, acceptable to God.

Jesus said about Himself: “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” Jesus said this in the days of His flesh when the light was breaking through and driving darkness out of His body with such powerful judgment that He offered up prayers and supplications with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death. This is how the true light opened the way through the body of Christ, so that we also in our body can give the light and judgment free rein, forcing darkness to depart.

The true light has a body to sacrifice, while the false light has a body for pleasure.

False light claims to be saved and free from all sufferings. This shows that it is not driving darkness away, but rather living in harmony with darkness. That is why Jesus also said, “If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” Matt. 6:23.

Our earthly body is a member of Christ’s earthly body and must walk on the way of obedience and humiliation if we are to partake in His resurrection and be a member of His glorified body. First the natural, then the spiritual; there is an earthly body, and there is a heavenly body.

The light is in the Spirit. The Spirit of Christ led Him into death according to the flesh. After the Spirit had completed this work in Christ, God sent It to earth in order to lead us on the same way.

True light demands sacrifice—water and blood. False light demands pleasure.

The instruction that comes from true light leads to greater godly fear. False light is the devil’s lighthouse on the edge of the city of corruption.

People who receive false light become lawless, and their conscience no longer restrains them; they can do whatever they want. Jude said it well when he called them “spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.”