In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
And
the Word
was God.
HE
was with God in the beginning.
Through
him all things were made;
With
out HIM nothing was made that has been made.
In
HIM was LIFE, and that LIFE was the Light of men.
The
Light shines in the darkness,
But
the darkness has not understood it. (John 1:1-5 NIV)
[Christ
Jesus is the Word of God and existed eternally with God;
The
Word that spoke creation into existence, who was and is God.
God
is LIFE, that is the only self-existent LIFE;
The
LIFE from which all other life (natural life) comes.
He
not only is LIFE, but He continually sustains all life.
God
is the Light of men as He is the Way, the Truth;
The
only Way and the only Truth that leads to Eternal LIFE.
After
the fall of Adam and Eve, men were born into sin (darkness);
The
only way out of that darkness
Is
to receive the Light; His Way, His Truth, and His LIFE;
To
receive the forgiveness purchased by the blood of Christ Jesus.]
John
The Baptist
There
came a man who was sent from God; his name was John
He
came as a witness to testify concerning the Light,
So
that through him all men might believe.
He
himself was not the Light;
He
came only as a witness to the Light.
The
true Light that gives Light to every man was coming into the
world.
(John
1:6-9 NIV)
[John the Baptist was
sent by God to be a witness
To the fact that Jesus
was the Christ of God
And to testify about
that fact, so that all men might believe.
He was not the Light
(Christ), but only a witness to the Light.
Christ Jesus is the
True Light
And the only True Light given by God to the world.
Christ Jesus is the
perfect image (representative) of God who is a Spirit
And cannot be seen; God
in the flesh.]
HE
was in the world, and though the world was made through
HIM,
The
world did not recognize HIM.
HE
came to that which was HIS own, but his own did not receive HIM.
Yet
to all who received HIM, to those who believed in HIS name,
HE
gave the right to become the children of God--
Children
born not of natural decent,
Nor of human decision or a husband’s
will,
But
born of God. (John
1:10-13 NIV)
[The
Christ came, and though the world was made through Him,
The
world did not recognize Him, because they were blinded by the devil.
He
came to the nation of Israel, to the Jews, to His own,
And
He was not recognized as the Messiah,
The Christ that they were
waiting for.
Yet,
to those who believed that He was the Christ
And received Him as the
Christ,
He
gave them the right to become the children of God;
Born
again, not of natural decent, nor human decision or a husband's will
But
born anew of the Spirit of the Living God;
The
Spirit living in and through them,
By
their faith in the Christ of God.]
The
Word became flesh and lived for a while among us.
We
have seen HIS glory, the glory of the One and only Son,
Who
came from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John
1:14 NIV)
[The
Word, the Christ of God, became flesh
And
mistered for approximately three and one-half years among the Jews.
He
displayed His Glory with signs and wonders,
Healing
the sick and raising the dead,
And
was full of grace and truth in all He did and said.]
John
testifies concerning him.
He
cries out, saying, 'This was HE of whom I said,
HE
who comes after me has surpassed me because HE was before me.'
From
the fullness of HIS grace
We have all received one blessing after
another.
For
the law was given through Moses;
Grace
and truth came through Jesus Christ.
No
one has ever seen God, but God the only Son,
Who
is at the Father’s side has made Him known. (John 1:15-18 NIV)
[John declares that
Christ Jesus was before him,
That is, Christ Jesus is eternal
With no beginning and
no end.
Christ Jesus embodied
the fullness of the grace of God,
His forgiveness, mercy
and love;
Moses came with
commandments,
But Christ Jesus was
the embodiment of those commandments;
He is the Way, the
Truth, and the LIFE; The fullness of God's grace
For all who will
believe.
Christ Jesus made God
known because He is God in flesh.]
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