- Pray
- Text – John 1:1-14
The Word Became Flesh
1) In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2) He
was with God in the beginning.
3) Through
him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
4) In
him was life, and that life was the light of men.
5) The
light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood[a]
it.
6) There
came a man who was sent from God; his name was John.
7) He
came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men
might believe.
8) He
himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
9) The
true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.[b]
10) He
was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not
recognize him.
11) He
came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
12) Yet
to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right
to become children of God—
13) Children
born not of natural descent,[c]
nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
14) The
Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the
glory of the One and Only,[d]
who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
This time of year, we celebrate the coming of Jesus in the flesh, fully God and at the time of His coming and fully man. We celebrate Emmanuel - God with us. We should celebrate. Jesus is with us not only in the spirit world we can't see, but also in the physical, the touch and feel world you and I call reality. He's with us now as surely as He was that night in Bethlehem or that day at Golgotha or when He walked out of that tomb three days later!
John vs.1-14 tells us Jesus is God and the next verses tell us that He came to earth. Think about that...GOD CAME TO EARTH. God came to earth to fix a broken relationship with man. To re-establish His Kingdom on earth. To conquer sin and death - so that you and I, by trusting Emmanuel - God With Us as our Lord and Savior could have right standing with God.
When we consider that Jesus IS God and IS the Word, we know that we have access, through His Word - the Bible, - to The God Of The Universe. Through reading the Bible, thinking about what we read and prayer, Jesus will literally speak life changing wisdom into your life.
Takes more faith to believe than not to believe when you consider:
1. Word of God 66 books written by 40 people. 2 Timothy 3:16 tells us all Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching,
rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness – The Bible agrees with itself – from cover to cover
·
In
this day and age with fax and email I doubt if we could get 20 of our friends
to totally agree on any one point let alone hundreds.
2. The odds of the prophesy in The Bible
that have been fulfilled the are about 17,000,000 to 1.The
odds of unfulfilled prophesy in The Bible coming true are exponentially higher.
3. History has proven – Hittite Empire -
(mentioned only in Bible) A Hittite city has been uncovered by archeologist.
4. Countless ruins and archeological
discoveries confirm places and events mentioned in Bible. With these discoveries we confirm much of what is contained in the Bible. We have enough solid evidence that it becomes easy to accept by faith things we don't understand yet.
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