One God not three:
As we look at the opening statements of John we read, “In the beginning the Word already existed. He was with God, and he was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God.” In these verses John is telling us that God and Christ are the same. The wording on this is so impartment, what John is saying is that Christ was always God, He never stopped being God. Some try to say that Christ didn’t exist until He was born of Mary, while others say He became a god after the resurrection. But John is saying that before time existed so did Christ. This means that Christ is a part of the God Head. “The Bible teaches that there is one God and that there are three Persons in the Godhead—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. All three of these Persons are God. In this verse, two of the Persons of the Godhead are mentioned—God the Father and God the Son. It is the first of many clear statements in this Gospel that Jesus Christ is God. It is not enough to say that He is “a god,” that He is godlike, or that He is divine. The Bible teaches that He is God”. [1]
All Life Comes from Christ:
As we read on John continues telling us that Christ is God but also through Christ we have life. John is not talking about just spiritual life here, but all life. Without Christ there would be no creation, no life at all. Without God then we do not exist, let us not forget it was Gods spoken word that all things were created. God spoke and said “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness”(Gen 1:26). But Christ is also how we receive new a Life in God, through His death on the cross we are able to receive Holy Spirit and have a relationship with God. The Good news John is bringing to us is that Christ is God, that through Christ we can receive the light.
Why?
Why did God come from heaven to earth, why did He come to bring light to earth. Could this not have simply been done in Heaven? Could not God just have said I want a relationship with my creation and just said so be it. The answer we serve a God that is holy, He is love He wants us to choose Him, He doesn’t want to force it on us. In order to restore a relationship with us He needed to come to earth and be that perfect sacrificial lamb. It is through Christ coming to earth and dying on the cross, then being resurrected that we able to come to God and be forgiven. Only through His death and resurrection are we able to have a new spiritual life through Christ.
Other Scripture used in the Morning talk: Colossians 1:6, and Colossians chapter three
[1]MacDonald, W. 1997, c1995. Believer's Bible Commentary : Old and New Testaments (Jn 1:1). Thomas Nelson: Nashville
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