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16 the Gentiles shall come to thy light and kings to the brightness of thy rising."

1. Let us consider for a moment this light as it is in X. We must keep in view that it is God in X. As sinners we can not look upon God directly. His light is too dazzling - we cannot look upon the natural sun without the aid of a mediating glass - His piercing light is destructive to the eye. So God out of X is a consuming fire. We cannot look upon him; for this reason he veiled himself in human nature so that now through X we can look up to God and not be consumed. In X we now have a just conception of God, of his untarnished holiness, of his just dealings with sin, of our condemnation and of the way of escape. Christ said I am the light. He was light itself. He shone with no borrowed lustre.