Teague Bible Church

ONE MORE LIGHT GONE
While in a building the other day I hear this great song of longing. I have heard it many times since. The song is called “One More Light,” by Linkin Park. The world gives no power to overcome the thing that mocks all our activities and all our achievements. Even if you care, it is not enough.

This world was never enough to satisfy our eternal nature. Only the Word of God can help us to live with power and purpose now, as we face temporal death, then beyond to all we were really intended to be. It is not fair to taste good things only to have them all ripped away by death. This song was written to remember someone lost to cancer. It is especially hard is to lose a loved one.

We may care but who can do anything about it? What the world cannot answer or give, Jesus Christ can give. The power and life of a future kingdom living now in our hearts and making since of this temporal life. Not some wishful hope, but an actual reality proved out in history before us! We will get to that later, but first to the song.

“Should’ve stayed, were there signs, I ignored? Can I help you, not to hurt, anymore? We saw brilliance, when the world, was asleep. There are things that we can have, but can’t keep.

(CHORUS) If they say, who cares if one more light goes out in the sky of a million stars, it flickers, flickers. Who care when someone’s time runs out if a moment is all we are, or quicker, quicker. Who cares if one more light goes out? Well I do.

The reminders, pull the floor from your feet. In the kitchen, one more chair than you need. Oh, your angry, and you should be,
it’s not fair. Just cause you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it, isn’t fair.
CHORUS again.

This song was released a few months after the singer took his own life. He had said he could not end the voices in his head. He was very depressed.

In John 11 we see Lazarus had died. The grief was terrible and it so moved Jesus that he wept. Martha knew Jesus could have prevented the death if he had been there in time. Jesus deliberately delayed his arrival there for a greater purpose. He cared, but unlike others He could do something about it. Besides, what good is done just to delay the inevitable?

John 11: 23-27 “Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother will rise again.’ Martha said to Him,’ I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus said, ‘I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live ( spiritually, and eventually a new body also) even if he dies (physically), and everyone who lives (physically) and believes in Me will never die (spiritually). Do you believe this?
Now that makes since of all the loss and all the pain. Will somebody do something about all this misery? Yes they have. The situation was so desperate that only the bloody cross of Christ could bring a solution. Only the resurrection could infuse a new life in us that fills us with joy, and the power of a message that goes way beyond just caring when others are hurting.

Somehow, I am not sure how, for any who will cry out to Jesus for help, they get that help! They was a guy in the Bible who so willing to do whatever he needed to do to have this changed life, so willing to follow Jesus, yet had so many doubts about it that he cried out,” Please Lord, help my unbelief!”

It is not about how many people have lived and died, but rather about crossing over into eternal life right now, right this moment.
Look, He is either really there are He is not. How willing are you to find out? It is a free gift given but you have to fully grasp it as it is held out to you! Are you for real? He certainly is for real. Do this now and find out. ” All who call upon the Lord will be saved.” Romans 10: 8-13 JWP 12/15/17