{"id":34879,"date":"2024-06-10T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/light-that-always-overcomes\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T10:32:00","slug":"light-that-always-overcomes","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/light-that-always-overcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light that Always Overcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darkness captivates, baffles, and appalls us. It&#39;s a shifty thing of many textures, many moods, a state of fascination and of horror, an absence and a presence, solace and threat, a beginning and an end.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you have ever been down a mine and been told by a guide to switch off your lamp you may feel like you have experienced it. But quantum physics has found that you are in fact surrounded by light you cannot see, for true darkness &ldquo;does not exist.&rdquo; Light particles&mdash;photons&mdash;exist throughout the known universe and beyond it.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">Possible Preaching Angle:<\/h2>\n\n<p><em>Darkness is no impediment to our all-seeing God (Heb. 4:13). The One who created light (Gen. 1:3), sees all things (Prov. 15:3), nothing can conceal us from God, not even the deepest cave. 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