John opens His gospel with one of the most profound statements about Jesus found in the entire Bible – “In the beginning was the Word…” John develops this idea of Jesus being “the Word” over the first 18 verses and gives us some of the most important truths about Jesus.
The term John used for “word” in the original Greek is “logos” and it means “the expression of thought… as embodying a conception or idea.” So when John calls Jesus “the Word” he is declaring that Jesus is the very embodiment and personal manifestation of God Himself.
Jesus makes God real, tangible, and knowable for us.
Now John wasn’t content to start his gospel at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry like Mark, or His birth like Luke or even His genealogy back to Abraham like Matthew. Instead, John takes us all the way back to the beginning, before creation, “In the beginning was the Word.”
In doing this, John depicts Jesus as eternal and preexisting everything. But John doesn’t stop there. He goes on to declare, “The Word was with God, and the Word was God.” In doing so, John affirms that Jesus is the eternal, divine second person of the Trinity, in intimate communion and perfect harmony with the Father and the Spirit.
John goes on to tell us that, “All things were made through Him.” Jesus didn’t just exist before creation, He is the Creator of everything. As the Creator, Jesus is both the source of all things and the source of all life, “In Him was life.”
It is crucial to understand that apart from Jesus we have no life. But when we come into a personal relationship with Jesus we enter into His eternal life where we can experience the reality and fullness of God personally.
So in conclusion, Jesus, as the Word, makes it possible for us to know God in a real and personal way, which is what we were created for and is the very essence of life!
The term John used for “word” in the original Greek is “logos” and it means “the expression of thought… as embodying a conception or idea.” So when John calls Jesus “the Word” he is declaring that Jesus is the very embodiment and personal manifestation of God Himself.
Jesus makes God real, tangible, and knowable for us.
Now John wasn’t content to start his gospel at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry like Mark, or His birth like Luke or even His genealogy back to Abraham like Matthew. Instead, John takes us all the way back to the beginning, before creation, “In the beginning was the Word.”
In doing this, John depicts Jesus as eternal and preexisting everything. But John doesn’t stop there. He goes on to declare, “The Word was with God, and the Word was God.” In doing so, John affirms that Jesus is the eternal, divine second person of the Trinity, in intimate communion and perfect harmony with the Father and the Spirit.
John goes on to tell us that, “All things were made through Him.” Jesus didn’t just exist before creation, He is the Creator of everything. As the Creator, Jesus is both the source of all things and the source of all life, “In Him was life.”
It is crucial to understand that apart from Jesus we have no life. But when we come into a personal relationship with Jesus we enter into His eternal life where we can experience the reality and fullness of God personally.
So in conclusion, Jesus, as the Word, makes it possible for us to know God in a real and personal way, which is what we were created for and is the very essence of life!
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