Invisible Light		2/24/07			Ken Kalies

1. Hiding from God
2. Hiding in God
3. The light of the World
4. God hiding from you

Hidden sin, hidden works 1Ti 5:24, 25
Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some {men} they follow after. Likewise also the good works {of some} are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

1. Hiding from God

Those who are ignorant of God - only a little child is ignorant, everyone else is hiding in their ignorance. Isa 28:9-10 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? {them that are} weaned from the milk, {and} drawn from the breasts. For  precept {must be} upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, {and} there a little:

Many hide in willfull ignorance as an excuse for not doing. They hide among others doing the same thing. They feel safe in the forest of ignorance. Adam and Eve were not ignorant but were hiding from God's presence. Gen 3:8 among the trees

God's good ways take time, humility and effort to learn. Isa 28:12-15  To whom he said, This {is} the rest {wherewith} ye may cause the weary to rest; and this {is} the refreshing: yet they would not hear. But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, {and} there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which {is} in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant  with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Like the one sitting in the back, trying to hide their face from the teacher, so we try to hide from God as those did when He came to earth. Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were {our} faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.	
Does God know each person in the shadows, in the small towns and schools?	Luk 8:17,18 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither {any thing} hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. 

Some that hide from God will test you. Nothing is hidden from God. Mat 10:25, 26 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more {shall they call} them of his household? Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. 	How you treat God's children is well known by God.

2. Instead of hiding from God, hide yourself in Him. 

What happens when someone dies?  Sarah died at 127. Gen 23:4 I {am} a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Col 2:6-13 recognizing the body as dead, burying it in Christ and being raised in Him. Did God make us with a dead body 1Ti 5:6? Are we walking corpses? Yes, in sin.

Col 3:1-4 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of  God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, {who is} our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

What is your life? Jam 4:14 Whereas ye know not what {shall be} on the morrow. For what {is} your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.	How long does a cloud last? It goes away like you do. 

Our most zealous affections must be upwards. Why? because it's not proper to have most affection for a dead body. Your life is with Him. Some want to have most affection for (live) for themselves as long as possible before submitting to God - you're taking a terrible chance with your soul by rebelling against God. God didn't intend for you to live mostly for yourself, ever. I know everyone else does, but they're slaves to Satan. Truth sets free. Truth is, this world belongs to God, not Satan. You need to change sides and fight for the winner. There will be a victory celebration at the end when we shall appear with Him in glory. There's also a ceremony for the loser. Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

3. The light of the World

American idols want to be the light of the world. When asked why they are there, it is to be this. But that honor has already been awarded to Christians.

Those that crave the attention, notice, acceptance and admiration of the world are easily detected by those that don't. Jesus knew who they were: Mat 23:5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their  phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,... Mat 6:1,5 public displays to be seen and admired of men

Yet, God's servants dare not crawl under the rocks to hide from the world. Mat 5:14-16 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine  before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

It is not our own worldy talents that make us the light of the world, but God shining through us. We may have an eye and ear for worldly talent, but it is not important to us. Our eye and ear is not on what men want to see and hear, but on what God wants us to be and say. Luk 11:33-36 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth {it} in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when {thine eye} is evil, thy body also {is} full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole body therefore {be} full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.

The light that shines forth from a Christian comes from the Christ living in Him. Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

The light of Christ may still be hid to those that we talk to. The world is easily afflicted with spiritual blindness so that the Gospel light is hid from them. 2Co 4:3-6 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to {give} the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the  excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

There is no way you are going to be hid to this world while being a lamp of God made out of mud. Phi 2:14-16 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Peter heard the voice from heaven on the mount at Christ's transfiguration, but since then, the Word is more complete and sure.	2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that  shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 

4. God hiding from you

There is nothing hid from God, but what about Him hiding from you?  

Would God remove knowledge from your brain so that you couldn't understand how to serve Him? 	Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.

God hides His wisdom.		Maybe you don't understand why you should serve God. Why is that? It may be that God is pleased with your ignorance. Mat 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

Isa 59:1,2 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid {his} face from you, that he will not hear.

Hidden from worldly tribulations Zep 2;3