Overcoming the Dark | Acts 14:8-20 | Manny Pereira

The light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ shines forth to penetrate the dark and overcome it in grace and truth. This is the first scene in Acts where the light of the gospel shines forth into a completely pagan setting—no synagogue, no Scripture, no God-fearers. Yet the powers of darkness cannot extinguish the light of Christ. His restoring power reaches into the ruin of the fall, His truth exposes false worship, and His grace sustains His witnesses when faithfulness results in affliction. Christ is the light to the nations, and He is worth trusting, worth turning toward, and worth suffering for, come what may. The darkness is formidable. The glory of the gospel is greater.