The good news is that Jesus brings light to this dark world so we can live in the light

What was his Father doing while Jesus was on the cross? The Father, grieving, was turning his face away. He could not look upon his Son, he could not look upon sin, and he forsook his only Son, whom he loved, for on that cross, Jesus became sin. This is the heart of Christianity.

The darkness of Christ's death is the darkness when God the Father turned his face away from the Son so he would never turn his face away from us.

It is not the darkness that holds many people back, but the light. For it is in the light that the truth is revealed.

The good news of Jesus is good news because it turns a person from darkness to light from the power of Satan to God and because of faith, it brings forgiveness of sins and membership in God’s family.

True faith is found in a person who prays alone to God when no one is looking, there is nothing to gain, and no one sees you.

Jesus brought light because people lived in spiritual darkness, bound to false expectations, sin, guilt, shame, prejudice, and the devil.

Paul’s mission after meeting Jesus on the road to Damascus was ‘to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God.'

If we have the light of the world, Jesus, then his light opens our eyes and seeing ourselves clearly, we can see others clearly.

God makes himself known through the good news about Jesus that he is alive, that Jesus died for sin, and that Jesus brings forgiveness.