Psalm 36:9  For with thee (Lord) is the Fountain Of Life: (only) In Thy Light Shall We See Light.

Jesus Christ is God as "the light of the world" (Jn 1:5). LIGHT is the Key to all LIFE, physical & spiritual.

Consider the "Seed" (1Pet 1:23, Gal 3:16). Jesus is the "Seed," "the water of life" and "the light of life.")

• Organically, having light but no water … a Seed survives, preserved.
• Seeds with water, but no light, after a time will rot and die.
• Seeds with water and light grow to... express the life within the seed.

In the Genesis recreation account God as Light banished the darkness to bring forth Life.

As of Gen 1:2 Darkness & Death covered the earth, under the flood waters of an earlier judgment.

Genesis 1:2-5 ...the earth was without form (Hebrew, desolation), and void (Hebrew, ruin); and darkness was upon the face of the deep (waters). And the Spirit of God moved (brooded, as a hen that was about to hatch life) upon the face of the waters.

a)  The First Day Light of was of God's presence. He brought "Day and Night" and the Earth was dark in part and light in part. Christ as the "Sun" (Mal 4:2) "will come out of the east" Matt 24:27

b) The Second Day God created "the firmament" (visible sky, heavens). The earth was covered by water and the light brought evaporation and the oxygen atmosphere that would sustain life.

c) The Third Day God made "dry land" appear to restart life on planet earth. The "earth 'brought forth" (not created) ... grass, herbs and fruit trees" and all vegetation.

            NOTE: Christ Himself rose on "the third day" as the source of resurrection life for man.

d) The Forth Day the sun and moon were created, producing the sea tides to carry the tempering winds. The temperate seasons came for flowers to bloom and the trees to bear their fruits.

Why didn't God make the sun and moon for the "third day" vegetation? Perhaps, God wanted us to know that it's not really the sun that sustains life, but rather God Himself as the Creator of the Sun. Many say if there is no sun, there cannot be life. But the truth is if there's no God, there is no life.

The First Day Light of God came to the earth by His Word, which is Light (Psalm 119:105).

"Thy WORD is a lamp (light) unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105 (KJV)

3And "GOD SAID, Let There Be Light": and there was light. 4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness (by earth's rotation). 5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the First day.

Note above that it was His Words that brought forth the First Day Light. Its purpose was to create day and night, as the ticking beat of life on earth, making it neither too hot or too cold.

A FACT to be seen: The DEGREE OF LIFE … is according to the DEGREE OF LIGHT.

First Day Light brought the lower forms of life; e.g., The life of unconscious seeds germinated into plants on the Third day. This symbolizes the initial stage of God's intervention to create life. The earth received light and life to be reborn. We received light to kindle our spiritual rebirth. At first we may be without consciousness of what's happening when God intervenes in our human to bring us to "life" spiritually.

The Fourth Day Light brought higher conscious life; e.g., animals and man created on the 5th and 6th days. The Fourth Day Lights were "For signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years."(Genesis 1:14) There was no "time" till then. This resulted in the rhythm of creation for conscious life.

Genesis 1:14-18 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven (the visible sky) to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light (the Sun) to rule the day, and the lesser light (the Sun's reflection off the Moon) to rule the night: he made the stars also. ... And the evening and the morning were the Fourth Day.

God gave man opportunity to take into himself the fruit of the "TREE OF LIFE," which is a prefigure of man gaining Christ's life and nature to be within him as his new life and nature.

Gen 2:9 ...the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the TREE OF LIFE also in the midst (center) of the garden, and the Tree Of Knowledge Of Good And Evil.

• God' Life initially comes as "light of life" (the first day light & the fourth day lights).
• "The Tree of Life" and its "seeded fruit," speak of …God… as the "LIFE-giver" to be in man.

We see God's "Vine-Tree" in John 15:1 & Revelation 22:2, 14. Christ is to be the Life IN the believers.

John 15:5 I (Jesus) am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

John 1:4- In him was life; and the life was the light of men. (His life is the light.)

John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 3:3 Jesus answered... Except a man be born again, he cannot see (Gk., eido, know) the kingdom of God.

The Eternal City of New Jerusalem on the New Earth will dwell in the fullness of His Light for eternity.

Rev. 21:23 And the city (Jerusalem from above) had No Need Of The Sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for The Glory (radiant expression) of God Did Lighten It, and The Lamb Is The Light thereof.

The "Spirit of Life" 1st comes as God's Light that gives us spiritual sight that is otherwise not possible.

God's Light is the precursor to the kindling His life in man.

Psalm 36:9 with thee is the fountain (flowing source) of Life: in thy Light shall we see Light.

Like the Sun, "God is a consuming fire" (Heb 12:29) and … Light is Fire in its "life-giving" form.

      E.g.: The Sun's is fiery light nourishes life (e.g. vitamin D directly), and plant life for man's food. The earth's axis is on a 23-1/2° tilt and just the right distance from the sun, so as to promote "life."

God is Light & Life, but He comes to us 1st as light. New life in Christ 1st springs out of 1st having received the Light of the truth that springs from... His Word.

Fallen Adamic Man dwells is in soul darkness. Man is the full opposite to God who is The Light.

Darkness must have the intervention of light. Christ's "light of life" intervened in the dark world.

• Darkness can't of itself be transmuted into light. Only Light overcomes darkness.
• Darkness is the perfect opposite of light, the perfect mate, or receptor for light.

Jn 1:9 (Jesus) was the true Light, which lighteth (shines on) every man that cometh into the world.

Jn 1:12 But as many as received him (the light), to them gave he power to become the sons of God,

God's is Life… His life is 1st transmitted as light to be received… to kindle His Life within man.

Christ's Shining Light is "from and with God's Life" to bring God's Children to birth.

John 1:4 In him (Jesus) was life; and the life was the light of men.

Jn 8:12 he that followeth me (Jesus) shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of (His) life.

Light Brings Faith. It's by God's shining into our heart that we 1st saw and then we "believed"!    

When we come to See spiritually by revelation, we then believe!

Ephes. 2:8 ...by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:2 Cor. 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath Shined In Our Hearts, to give the Light Of The Knowledge Of The Glory Of God in the face of Jesus Christ.                                           

Faith is the spontaneous result of His Light on the truth. Believing comes by Spiritual revelation.

Once we are saved, Christ's within us is the substance "of" which our faith consists.

      Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith "of" (from) the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

1) Light comes NOT by the Bible alone. It's by the Spirit of God shining & speaking into man's heart. The Bible's Words must be anointed by the Spirit's light in order to become "life" to us (cf., 2Cor 3:6b).

            Psalm 119:105 Thy Word Is A Lamp unto my feet, and A Light Unto My Path.                                                  

Psalm 119:130 … thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

Christ's SPOKEN Words are "spirit and life" to us when we will receive them into our soul life.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth (gives life); the flesh profiteth nothing: The Words That I Speak Unto You, They Are Spirit, And They Are Life.

To Receive His speaking over our self-preferences is to "receive" Christ's words as Light.

To hear (obey) Him is to allow Him to become expressed through us.

Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble (have fearful regard) at his word (speaking); Let the Lord be glorified (be expressed through you): but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

Personally Walking in Union with Him … results in our enjoying His light & life.

Jn 8:12 Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me (Gk, akoloutheo, walks in union with me) shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light Of Life.

2) Light for the Christian is … known by an Inner sixth Sense they have by His indwelling life.

Christ's Life as Light is within us … to be followed Personally and Individually

1Jn 2:20 ye have an unction (anointing) from the Holy One (Christ), and ye know all things. 1 John 2:27a But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth …

Where exactly do we have His Light of Life? It is by Christ's indwelling "Spirit of truth."

John 1:4 In him (Christ) was life (Zoë, the Eternal Spirit-life); and the Life was the Light of men.

Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the lamp (vessel of the light) of the Lord…

2 Tim. 4:22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.

"The Lord be (is) with your spirit" (1Tim 4:22) because "Now the Lord (Jesus) is that Spirit"

2 Cor. 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

1 Cor. 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is One Spirit.

1Jn 4:13 …know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

3) Consciousness of Christ as Light will regulate our living.

We need His Light of Life to for Revelation to transform our soul.

Ephes. 1:17-18 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you (individually) the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge (Gk. ginosko, experiential knowing) of him: 18The eyes (seeing) of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Christ's Light will regulate our living … IF we will yield to that inner sense that guides us.

Maintaining the Conscience to abide in the light …Keeps the consciousness of the sixth sense vibrant.

Hebrews 10:22 (AMP) Let us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water.

• A clean conscience keeps us transparent (no opaqueness to block the Light)
• It permits us to receive the Light of revelation.
• It permits God to gain ground in renewing our soul … that He may shine out through us.

We've all been around people who a are closed to God - they're secretive, in darkness, with deadness.

- Those who are open to God - They are transparent and emanate His Light to others.

4) The True Light Rests with the Mercy of God. We can't demand light. It comes in God's Time as result of His work in us.

Phili 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Acts 9:3-4 he (Paul) came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a Light from heaven: 4…he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Gal 1:15-16 when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

We should not manufacture Pseudo or Counterfeit Light, by our vain imagination.

Isaiah 50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

We also can't adopt another person's light and have it be light to us.

- Christ's shining light must personally touch us, individually, in our heart.

- This often means we must "wait upon the Lord" (Isa. 40:31), trusting Him.

- We must Recognize & Obey that Light (Christ) that we ALREADY have within our spirit.

2 Cor. 4:6 For God, who commanded (past tense) the light to shine out of darkness, hath (past tense) shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Initially, the Born-again child of God is still in Darkness in his corrupted soul's mind and will…

…Until we see ourselves as we really are we don't know we are needy for Him to renew our soul.

We must agree to be Opened to Receive the shining Light on God's terms.

• We must deal with our lives, according to sense of the His inner shining light.

1 John 1:7 But if (since) we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood (life) of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth (removes us from) us from all sin (sense of guiltiness).

• But how much should we deal with? Do we soul search ourselves? NO! We only deal with what is in our "Conscience" under His Light, only until we have life & peace restored within.

Romans 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,

Refusing the Light, we remain as children (Rom 8:16), not growing up to be "sons of God."

Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

The Deception of Darkness: We often fear opening ourselves, being exposed to the Lord's light.

• We're sometimes like rolled up paper. Fearing exposure, we keep God from shining upon us.
• Standing inside in darkness, we can only see others outdoors, not knowing our own condition.

but standing in a bright lighted room you can see yourself as you are, but you can't see others outside.

We must have our heart turned to the Lord, in order to become unveiled (to have light).

2 Cor. 3:16 … when it (the heart) shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

Turning away from Self to Him… is a Denying of Self. Situational suffering, under His "light," is to make us recognize our need of trusting Him.

• His light exposes our neediness, so ultimately, out of recognized need, we turn to Him in our spirit.
• We turn from Self-reliance to trusting Him. Then we find His overcoming life, peace, and rest.

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace (rest). In the world ye shall have tribulation (thlipsis, pressure): but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Again, it is Father's work is to Turn Us, pushing us to let go and trust Him, so the veil can be taken.

Philip. 2:13 …it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

When we are turned to behold Him we can reflect Him in our soul, giving expression to God's life (that expression is His life, His glory).

2Cor. 3:18 we all, with open face beholding (seeing) as in a glass (mirror) the glory of the Lord, are changed (Gk. metamorphoo) into the same image from glory to glory by the Lord's Spirit.

Don't deny or fear His Light, but quickly to embrace the sense of His light within us.

• Rather, we accept, submit to, and deal with our life according to the light we've received. (E.g. If He within us says "drop it, let it go" – then we should let it go.)
• The  Grown up a "sons of God"  - "are led by the Spirit"

Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

We need to continuously trust and live in the Light. 

Psalm 36:9b … in thy light shall we see light. John 12:36 While ye have light, believe (pisteuo, trust in) in the light, that ye may be the Children (Offspring That Grow) Of Light.

Jesus is the light of the world and He is not only in us, He is in us as us in His human form today. Jesus did not say "you have light" but rather "ye are the light of the world" (John 5:14a)