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Read the first eighteen verse of the gospel of John. Do you at all get the idea that John believed Jesus was nothing more than a good man, a wise teacher, a moral example for all mankind? Do you see Jesus as being but one of many equals in a pantheon of saviors? Do you sense that following Jesus is a good idea; but you’re free to find God any way that you will?
John 1:1-18
- Danny Glover’s son in the Lethal Weapon movie helped to popularize use of “word” as a greeting among friends. Plato used it to describe divine wisdom and logic. John uses the morpheme to glorify Jesus as the Son of God (v. 1, 14).
- Not only was this Son of God, the Word, with God even in the beginning (remember Genesis 1:1), this Son of God WAS God (v. 1-2).
- This divine Word as the creator of all that was created (v. 3). Therefore one can conclude that He was not created.
- As Creator He is the source of both life and light in men (v. 4-9).
- No, not everyone acknowledges Christ as the divine Son of God. Their failure to comprehend or submit to truth does not, however, negate the truth (v. 10-11).
- Some did receive Jesus the Messiah in faith. These are the children of God (v. 12).
- Remember that they are God’s children not because of anything they or their parents have done, but because of what God has done (v. 13).
- The divine and eternal Word became flesh (v. 14). Incarnation. God in flesh.
- John the Baptist never claimed to be the Messiah. Instead he pointed men to Christ (v. 15).
- Moses will be remembered for the 10 commandments; Jesus Christ brought grace and truth into the world (v. 16-17).
- Jesus Christ, the Word, the only begotten Son of God, has revealed God to man (v. 18).
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John 1:1-18
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2The same was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
15John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Genesis 1:1
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.