Main Idea: The Lord promises to send His Messiah to deliver his people out of darkness and into His light.

The Darkness and Gloom of Disobedience and Separation – 1a

• Isaiah 8:11–22
• John 3:19, 20
• Isaiah 50:10

The Glorious Light of The Promised Messiah – 1b,2

• 1b but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
  • Matthew 4:12–16
• 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.
  • John 1:1–5, 9
  • 2 Corinthians 4:5, 6
  • 1 Peter 2:9

So What?

• Our only hope out of the darkness is to trust in the light of Christ and then walk in Him.
  • Acts 26:16–18
  • Colossians 1:13, 14
  • 1 John 1:5–7
  • Ephesians 5:7–11