Thursday, June 2, 2016

THE LIVING WORD

THE LIVING WORD


John 1:1-2      In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.

The opening eighteen verses of John’s Gospel is called the Prologue. It is here that he establishes the person of Christ as both divine and human. He lays out his argument in such a way that by the end of this beginning prologue, we know that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God.

The opening verse of this Gospel sounds like the opening verse of Genesis, “In the beginning God created…” (Genesis 1:1). It is for good reason that John draws us back to Genesis, the beginning of creation and of mankind. In Genesis, the world was formless, dark and void. In Jesus’ day, as so today, the lives of sinful men and women places them in darkness and without true meaning for life. They are void of the joy and hope that lies deep within the heart of every Christian. But the dawn of creation, a new creation is on the horizon.

John says that “The Word” existed in the beginning. The pronoun “He” of the second sentence makes clear that “The Word” is a person, not an object, idea or some other creation. In verse fourteen we see that a person, The Word, became flesh and lived among us. He came from God the Father in heaven. In verses 17-18 he says that Jesus Christ is The Word, the deliverer of grace and truth and the one who reveals the true nature of our Father in heaven.

            From beginning to end, and from the end to the beginning, we are told in John’s Gospel that Jesus Christ is the God-Man, the only Son of the Father and the Savior of the world. May His glory and truth bring joy and hope to you.

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