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Jesus answered and said, \u201cThis voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes. Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.\u201d But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.<\/p>\n

\tThe crowd then answered Him, \u201cWe have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, \u2018The Son of Man must be lifted up\u2019? Who is this Son of Man?\u201d<\/p>\n

\tSo Jesus said to them, \u201cFor a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes. While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light.\u201d (John 12:30\u201336)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tJesus explained that while his death would bring condemnation upon the ruler of the world, it would bring life and hope\u2014salvation\u2014to its people. By Jesus\u2019 death, Satan was utterly and completely defeated and judged.<\/p>\n

\tThe crowd expressed confusion between what Jesus was saying and what they had been taught to believe about the Messiah. According to the teaching of the time, the Messiah was to endure forever, just as the kingdom he would restore for Israel would be an everlasting kingdom. Jesus\u2019 solved the problem for them by explaining that the Messiah would endure forever because he would rise from the grave. <\/p>\n

\tJesus then told them to believe the light while it was here, so that they could \u201cbecome sons of Light.\u201d The darkness stood for the world without God, while \u201cwalking in the light\u201d meant following God. Jesus alluded to the words of the prophet Isaiah who spoke of the Messiah coming from Galilee: \u201cThe people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness\u2014on them light has shined. (Isaiah 9:2 NRSV). In the famous passage about the suffering and death of the Messiah, Isaiah wrote, \u201cAfter the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied.\u201d (Isaiah 53:11 NIV)<\/p>\n

\tWe now walk in the light, even as he is in the light and even as he himself is the light\u2014our light forevermore.<\/p>\n

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