Jesus christ is the light and hope

Lesson 27: Jesus Christ
Is the Light, Life, and Hope of
the World
Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel Teacher Manual, 2015

• (“The Living Christ: The Testimony of the
Apostles,” Ensign or Liahona, Apr. 2000, 3).
Jesus Christ “is
the light, the
life, and the
hope of the
world”

Jesus Christ is the light of the World…
• Divine energy, power, or influence that proceeds from God through
Christ and gives life and light to all things. It is the law by which all
things are governed in heaven and on earth (D&C 88:6–13). It also
helps people understand gospel truths and helps to put them on that
gospel path which leads to salvation (John 3:19–21; 12:46; Alma
26:15;32:35; D&C 93:28–29, 31–32, 40, 42).

The Light of Christ
• The light of Christ should not be confused with the Holy Ghost. The
light of Christ is not a person. It is an influence that comes from God
and prepares a person to receive the Holy Ghost. It is an influence for
good in the lives of all people (John 1:9; D&C 84:46–47).
• One manifestation of the light of Christ is conscience, which helps a
person choose between right and wrong (Moro. 7:16). As people
learn more about the gospel, their consciences become more
sensitive (Moro. 7:12–19). People who hearken to the light of Christ
are led to the gospel of Jesus Christ (D&C 84:46–48).

• This light manifests itself in different
ways and degrees. In its less refined
existence, wrote Parley P. Pratt, it is
visible as sunlight. It is also the
“refined intellectual light of our
inward and spiritual organs, by which
we reason, discern, judge, compare
and comprehend, and remember the
subjects within our reach.” It is
revealed as instinct in animals, reason
in man, and vision in prophets.
• (Key to the Science of Theology,
Parley P. Pratt. p.25; Hel. 12:7-17,
D&C 130:20,21; D&C 93:29-
33;Moroni 7:16-19; D&C 88:6-13; Abr.
2:8-11 )

Light
Light, or visible light, is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that is
visible to the human eye (about 400–700 nm), or up to 380–750 nm.[1] In
the broader field of physics, light is sometimes used to refer to
electromagnetic radiation of all wavelengths, whether visible or not.
Three primary properties of light are:
Intensity
Frequency or wavelength
Polarization
Light can exhibit properties of both waves and particles (photons). This
property is referred to as wave–particle duality.

Light and Truth …Intelligence…
Abraham 3

Electromagnetic radiation
• Electromagnetic radiation (sometimes abbreviated EMR) takes the
form of self-propagating waves in a vacuum or in matter. EM radiation
has an electric and magnetic field component which oscillate in phase
perpendicular to each other and to the direction of energy
propagation.

• Electromagnetic radiation is classified into types according to the
frequency of the wave; these types include (in order of increasing
frequency): radio waves, microwaves, terahertz radiation, infrared
radiation, visible light, ultraviolet radiation, X-rays and gamma rays. Of
these, radio waves have the longest wavelengths and Gamma rays
have the shortest. A small window of frequencies, called visible
spectrum or light, is sensed by the eye of various organisms, with
variations on the limits of this narrow spectrum.

• EM radiation carries energy and momentum that may be imparted to
matter with which it interacts.

This is the light of Christ
• 6 He that ascended up on high, as also he descended below all things,
in that he comprehended all things, that he might be in all and through
all things, the light of truth;
• 7 Which truth shineth. This is the light of Christ. As also he is in the
sun, and the light of the sun, and the power thereof by which it was
made.
• 8 As also he is in the moon, and is the light of the moon, and the power
thereof by which it was made;
• 9 As also the light of the stars, and the power thereof by which they
were made;
• 10 And the earth also, and the power thereof, even the earth upon
which you stand.

The Sun
 The sun of our solar system is powered by the Son. It
is difficult for us to comprehend the amount of heat,
energy, and light that emanate from this one celestial
orb. Science tells us that the temperature at the surface
of the sun is 5800 degrees Kelvin, while the core of the
sun measures 15,600,000 degrees Kelvin.

 "The Sun's energy output (3.86e33 ergs/second or 386
billion billion megawatts) is produced by nuclear fusion
reactions. Each second about 700,000,000 tons of hydrogen
are converted to about 695,000,000 tons of helium and
5,000,000 tons (=3.86e33 ergs) of energy in the form of
gamma rays." (http://www.nineplanets.org/sol.html)The
Sun is like a giant nuclear engine. It gives off more energy
in a single second than mankind has produced since the
Creation. It converts 8 million tons of matter into energy
every single second, and has an interior temperature of
more than 20 million degrees Celsius (see Lawton, 1981

Teleological Argument
Sun and Moon …earth orbit varies 1/9th of an inch every 18
miles…
 The Earth is rotating on its axis at 1,000
miles per hour at the equator, and moving
around the Sun at 70,000 miles per hour
(approximately 19 miles per second),
while the Sun and its solar system are
moving through space at 600,000 miles
per hour in an orbit so large it would take
over 220 million years just to complete a
single orbit. Interestingly, however, as the
Earth moves in its orbit around the Sun, it
departs from a straight line by only one-
ninth of an inch every eighteen miles. If it
departed by one-eighth of an inch, we
would come so close to the Sun that we
would be incinerated; if it departed by
one-tenth of an inch, we would find
ourselves so far from the Sun that we
would all freeze to death
 (Science Digest, 1981, 89[1]:124).

Teleological Argument
Sun and Moon
 The Earth is poised some
240,000 miles from the Moon,
whose gravitational pull
produces ocean tides. If the
Moon were moved closer to
the Earth by just a fifth, the
tides would be so enormous
that twice a day they would
reach 35-50 feet high over

This is the light of Christ
• 11 And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him
who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth
your understandings;
• 12 Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the
immensity of space—
• 13 The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which
is the law by which all things are governed, even the power of God who
sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the
midst of all things.
• (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:6 - 13)

Pure Energy
• Scientific experiments in Quantum Physics and particularly those at
the European Organization for Nuclear Research — CERN — at the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland, continue to
demonstrate that once we break everything down to its core, pure
energy is behind everything. When we go down to the sub-atomic
level we do not find matter, but pure energy. Some call this the
unified field or the matrix. Others talk about pure potentiality: all
being energy.

Viberating Field
• This pure energy vibrates a field around it. A vibrating field of energy,
which attracts — like a magnet — and attaches to energy of the same
vibrating frequency. The more vibrating energy that is compressed
into this field of energy, the more intense the vibration gets within
that field. Eventually the energy field manifests into matter: particle-
by-particle. As the father of Quantum Physics, Max Planck, once said,
“All the physical matters are composed of vibration.”

• Every object in the Universe moves and vibrates — everything is
vibrating at one speed or another. Nothing rests. Everything we see
around ourselves is vibrating at one frequency or another and so are
we. However, our frequency is different from other entities in the
universe, hence it seems like we are separated from what we see
around ourselves — people, animals, plants, trees and so on. But we
are not separated — we are in fact all living in a continuous ocean of
energy. We are all connected at the highest level: the unified field.

• At the very leading edge of biophysics today, scientists are
recognizing that the molecules in our bodies are actually controlled
by these frequencies. In 1974, Dr Colin W F McClare, an Oxford
University Bio-Physicist, discovered that frequencies of vibrating
• energy are roughly one-hundred times more efficient in relaying
information within a biological system than physical signals, such as
hormones, neurotransmitters, other growth factors and chemicals.

• What’s most interesting is that, if a frequency is vibrating fast enough,
it’s emitted as a Sound and if it is vibrating much faster, it is emitted
as a colour of Light. If we wanted to convert Sound to Light, we
would simply raise its frequency by forty octaves. This results in a
vibration in the trillions of cycles per second.
• So, if a pianist could press a key way above the eighty-eight keys that
exist on a piano, that key would produce Light. This could create a
chord of Light in the same way they can create a chord of sound. And
it would be seen as colours of Light because it would be moving at the

Who are you attracted to?
• 40 For intelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; wisdom receiveth
wisdom; truth embraceth truth; virtue loveth virtue; light cleaveth
unto light; mercy hath compassion on mercy and claimeth her own;
• (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:40)

John 1
• 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God.
• 2 The same was in the beginning with God.
• 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing
made that was made.
• 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
• 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the
darknesscomprehended it not.
• 6 ¶There was a man sent from God, whose name wasJohn.
• 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that
all men through him might believe.
• 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
• 9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world.

Jesus is the Life of the World…
• :3 Ne. 9:18; ( Mosiah 16:9; 3 Ne. 11:11; Ether 4:12;

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
• I have a cherished painting in my office that is titled Entrance to
Enlightenment. It was created by a friend of mine, the Danish artist
Johan Benthin, who was the first stake president in Copenhagen,
Denmark.
• “The painting shows a dark room with an open door from which light
is shining. It is interesting to me that the light coming through the
door does not illuminate the entire room—only the space
immediately in front of the door.

• “To me, the darkness and light in this painting are a metaphor for life.
It is part of our condition as mortal beings to sometimes feel as
though we are surrounded by darkness. We might have lost a loved
one; a child might have strayed; we might have received a troubling
medical diagnosis; we might have employment challenges and be
burdened by doubts or fears; or we might feel alone or unloved.
• “But even though we may feel lost in the midst of our current
circumstances, God promises the hope of His light—He promises to
illuminate the way before us and show us the way out of darkness”
(“The Hope of God’s Light,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2013, 70).

Leonardo Fibonacci discovered the series which converges on phi
 In the 12th century, Leonardo Fibonacci discovered a simple numerical series
that is the foundation for an incredible mathematical relationship behind phi.
 Starting with 0 and 1, each new number in the series is simply the sum of the
two before it.
 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, . . .
 The ratio of each successive pair of numbers in the series approximates phi
(1.618. . .) , as 5 divided by 3 is 1.666..., and 8 divided by 5 is 1.60.
 1.618033988749895

Fibonacci numbers in plant branching

Elder Boyd K. Packer:
The Law and the Light-The Golden Segment
 If a simple rectangle is formed so that the short side has the
same proportional relationship to the long side as the long
side does to both sides put together, it has a precise
mathematical ratio of 1.618.

 The relationship of those two segments to one another was
known anciently as the golden segment, and is referred to
in literature as the "divine proportion," for it embodies
qualities of both precision and beauty.

 It is an infinite proportional relationship, which continues
forever, much as the mirrors in the sealing room of the
temple form a corridor of diminishing images which goes
out of sight and on into infinity.

Spirals
 The logarithmic spiral is found every where
in nature. It appears in seashells. It allows
the horns of animals to grow, each horn
spiraling in an opposite direction. It appears
in the arrangement of seeds in flowers, in
the arrangement of limbs on trees, in their
height from one another, and in the way
they are arranged on the stem at just the
right angle to catch the most light. Spirals of
one kind or another are found from the
smallest virus to the largest galaxy. Where
living things must change size and maintain
shape the logarithmic spiral appears.

 Scribe an arc through the
square formed inside the
rectangle, continue it in the
next smaller one and the next
and you form a spiral, a
logarithmic spiral with
precise mathematical
proportions of the golden
segment and quite
remarkable properties. The
logarithmic spiral is found
everywhere in nature.

 It appears in sea shells. It
allows the horns of animals to
grow, each horn spiraling in an
opposite direction. It appears in
the arrangement of seeds on
flowers, in the arrangement of
limbs on a tree, in their height
from one another, and in the
way they are arranged on the
stem at just the right angle to
catch the most light. Spirals of
one kind or another are found
from the smallest virus to the
largest galaxy. Where living
things must change size but
maintain the same shape, the
logarithmic spiral appears.

 There is a testament to
law right under our feet.
The very mud upon
which we walk, when
dried, cracks into three
angles-each 120 degrees.
Together that adds up to
360 degrees-a perfect
circle, a compass.

 The examples are everywhere,
some as small as the double
helix of DNA, others as large
as the orbits of celestial
bodies.
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The Koch Curve: Forming of a Fractal

Fractals
■ Many objects in nature aren’t formed of squares or
triangles, but of more complicated geometric figures. Trees,
ferns, clouds, and mountains are shaped like fractals. Other
examples include snowflakes, crystals, lightning, river
networks, cauliflower or broccoli, and systems of blood
vessels and pulmonary vessels. Coastlines may also be
■ considered as fractals in nature. As fractals are self-similar
patterns that reveal greater complexity as it is enlarged, they
portray the notion of within worlds. Trees and ferns are
fractals in nature. They can be modeled on a computer by
using a recursive algorithm:
54

■ The power of recursion evidently lies in the possibility of
defining an infinite set of objects by a finite statement. In
the same manner, an infinite number of computations can
be described by a finite recursive program, even if this
program contains no explicit repetitions."
55

Fractals
■ Standard examples of single recursion include list traversal,
such as in a linear search, or computing the factorial
function, while standard examples of multiple recursion
include tree traversal, such as in a depth-first search, or
computing the Fibonacci sequence. This recursive nature is
obvious in these examples—a branch from a tree or a frond
from a fern is a miniature replica of the whole: not
identical, but similar in nature. The connection between
fractals and leaves are currently being used to determine
how much carbon is contained in trees. 56

1. How the human heart functions
• Every day, your heart beats about 100,000 times, sending 2,000
gallons of blood surging through your body. Although it’s no bigger
than your fist, your heart has the mighty job of keeping blood
flowing through the 60,000 miles of blood vessels that feed your
organs and tissues. Any damage to the heart or its valves can reduce
that pumping power, forcing the heart to work harder just to keep
up with the body’s demand for blood.

2. Laughter: The good heart medicine
• Health experts now have proof that laughter is good medicine.
• A good belly laugh can send 20% more blood flowing through your entire
body. One study found that when people watched a funny movie, their
blood flow increased. That’s why laughter might just be the perfect
antidote to stress.
• When you laugh, the lining of your blood vessel walls relaxes and expands,
Krasuski says. So have a good giggle. Your heart will thank you.

The prominent parts of an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) are the P wave, a deflection caused by
the current originating in the atrium; the QRS complex, showing the passage of the electrical
activity into the ventricles; and the T wave, as the ventricles reset themselves. The
electrocardiograms (ECG or EKG) of human heartbeats vary considerably depending on a variety of
factors.

The Witnessing of Nature
• Cecil B. DeMille Shared this experience:
• One day as I was lying in a canoe, a big black beetle
...climbed up to the canoe. I watched it idly for
some time. Under the heat of the sun, the beetle
proceeded to die. Then a strange thing happened .
His glistening black shell cracked all the way down
the back. Out of it came a shapeless mass, quickly
transformed into beautifully brilliantly colored
life...There gradually unfolded iridescent wings
from which the sunlight flashed a thousand
colors... the blue green body took shape.

• Before my eyes had occurred a metamorphosis – the
transformation of a hideous beetle into a gorgeous dragon fly... I
had witnessed a miracle. Out of the mud had come a beautiful
new life. And the thought came to me that if the creator works
such wonders with the lowliest of creatures, what may not be in
store for the human spirit.!

• My Testimony today is that through Jesus Christ we can be born
again. We can change. We can change completely. And we can stay
changed. Such complete changes require the power of God. He
gives this promise to his covenant people:

• A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within
you ....and cause you to walk in my statutes....(Ezek. 36:26-27)--
(Elder J. Richard Clark, En. May1993, p.9 )

Photoluminescence
• …by definition is the emission of
light from a molecule or atom
that has absorbed
electromagnetic energy:
examples include fluorescence
and phosphorescence materials.

Photoluminescence
• …is a process in which a substance absorbs photons (electromagnetic
radiation) and then re-radiates photons. Quantum mechanically, this
can be described as an excitation to a higher energy state and then a
return to a lower energy state accompanied by the emission of a
photon. This is one of many forms of luminescence (light emission)
and is distinguished by photoexcitation (excitation by photons), hence
the prefix photo-.[1]

Increasing in Light and Truth…
• 24 That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth light, and
continueth in God, receiveth more light; and that light groweth
brighter and brighter until the perfect day.

Growing in Light and truth…
D&C 50:23-29
The Light of Christ
(Moroni 7:16-19)
The Holy Ghost & Angels…
(2 Nephi 32:3; Moroni 10:3-5)
Helaman 5:25-44,45,46,48
Moroni 7:25; Moses 5:58
The Second Comforter
2 Nephi 32:4-6; John 14:16, 26
DC 93:1; Helaman 5:47

Doctrine and Covenants 88:6-13
• 6 He that ascended up on high, as also he descendedbelow all things,
in that he comprehended all things, that he might be in all and
through all things, the light of truth;

• 7 Which truth shineth. This is the light of Christ. As also he is in the
sun, and the light of the sun, and the power thereof by which it
was made.
• 8 As also he is in the moon, and is the light of the moon, and the
power thereof by which it was made;
• 9 As also the light of the stars, and the power thereof by which they
were made;

• 10 And the earth also, and the power thereof, even the earth upon which
you stand.
• 11 And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who
enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth
your understandings;
• 12 Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the
immensity of space—
• 13 The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is
the law by which all things are governed, even the power of God
who sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the
midst of all things.

• 18 Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will
rise with us in the resurrection.
• 19 And if a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life
through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so
much the advantage in the world to come.

Truth and Light is Inteligence…
• 21 And now, verily I say unto you, I was in the beginning with the Father,
and am the Firstborn;
• 22 And all those who are begotten through me are partakers of the glory
of the same, and are the church of the Firstborn.
• 23 Ye were also in the beginning with the Father; that which is Spirit, even
the Spirit of truth;
• 24 And truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as
they are to come;
• 25 And whatsoever is more or less than this is the spirit of that wicked one
who was a liar from the beginning.
• 26 The Spirit of truth is of God. I am the Spirit of truth, and John bore
record of me, saying: He received a fulness of truth, yea, even of all truth;

Truth and Light is Inteligence…
• 27 And no man receiveth a fulness unless he keepeth his commandments.
• 28 He that keepeth his commandments receiveth truth and light, until he is
glorified in truth and knoweth all things.
• 29 Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth,
was not created or made, neither indeed can be.
• 30 All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, to act for
itself, as all intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence.
• 31 Behold, here is the agency of man, and here is the condemnation of man;
because that which was from the beginning is plainly manifest unto them, and
they receive not the light.

The King Follett Sermon
By Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844)
• The mind or the intelligence which man possesses is co-equal [co-
eternal] with God himself.
• Is it logical to say that the intelligence of spirits is immortal, and yet
that it has a beginning? The intelligence of spirits had no beginning,
neither will it have an end. That is good logic. That which has a
beginning may have an end. There never was a time when there were
not spirits; for they are co-equal [co-eternal] with our Father in
heaven.

Intelligence before a child of God
• Man is a divine being, traveling from everlasting to everlasting. He
passes through many phases in his quest for exaltation, gaining
important knowledge in each of these. He is coeternal and coexistent
with God, and existed as an intelligence before becoming a spiritual
offspring of a Heavenly Father. Henry D. Taylor, “Gifts and Talents,”
New Era, Aug 1977, 4

Abraham 2:6-11
• Moses 1:39
• D&C 93:29,36
• Name=Authority, attributes, Character traits…
• Priesthood is seed

….the intelligences that were organized
• 22 Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences
that were organized before the world was; and among all these there
were many of the noble and great ones;
• 23 And God saw these souls that they were good, and he stood in the
midst of them, and he said: These I will make my rulers; for he stood
among those that were spirits, and he saw that they were good; and
he said unto me: Abraham, thou art one of them; thou wast chosen
before thou wast born.
• (Pearl of Great Price | Abraham 3:22 - 23)

In the context of the
gospel of Jesus Christ,
hope is “the confident
expectation of and longing
for the promised blessings
of righteousness”
(Guide to the Scriptures, “Hope”; scriptures.lds.org).
Jesus Christ
“is the light, the
life, and the
hope of the
world”

Jesus Christ is the Hope…
• 2 Ne. 31:20
• Psalm 146:5;
• Romans 5:3–5; 15:13;
• Ether 12:4, 32;
• Moroni 7:3, 40–41
• Heb. 4:15-16
• Lam. 3:20-23

Obedience…Grace…
• 20 For if you keep my commandments you shall receive of his
fulness, and be glorified in me as I am in the Father; therefore, I say
unto you, you shall receive grace for grace.

• “God’s light is real. It is available to all! It gives life to all things
[seeD&C 88:11–13]. It has the power to soften the sting of the
deepest wound. It can be a healing balm for the loneliness and
sickness of our souls. In the furrows of despair, it can plant the seeds
of a brighter hope. It can enlighten the deepest valleys of sorrow. It
can illuminate the path before us and lead us through the darkest
night into the promise of a new dawn.
• “This is ‘the Spirit of Jesus Christ,’ which gives ‘light to every man that
cometh into the world’ [D&C 84:45–46]” (“The Hope of God’s
Light,” Ensign orLiahona, May 2013, 75).

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