I am so amazed by the precision the Apostle John has used in presenting the nature and mission of Jesus Christ in this prologue. What can we conclude? The Word: existed from before the creation of the world. The Word: is in the presence of God, is the essential composition of God, and yet is distinct in God. The Word: is God. The Word: has a masculine gender. The Word: created all things and gives life to all things, including mankind and us.
Today we will discover that the Word also has existed as long as God the Father has existed - eternally - and that the Word, though God, came into the world and "boothed" or "tabernacled" with the human man Jesus of Nazareth in order to accomplish the fullness of God's eternal plan of redemption. Getting this all right is critical to the message of redemption that we are commissioned to preach to the world. Let us take both the interest and the time to get it right.
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July 28, 2013 | John Bayles | The Prologue of John: The God-Man of Grace and Truth (John 1:15-18)
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