OUR FATHER WHOSE SON IS OUR CREATOR AND OUR SAVIOUR

To begin our study of the book of the Gospel of John, letˋs start with the first five verses in chapter 1 within which the maginifcent declaration of the eternal and divine status of the Lord Jesus Christ and His covert mission to the earth to rescue men out of the clutches of the kingdom of darkness.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

The first verse defines an entity named the ˋWordˋ who was at the beginning of the creation of eveything and who was with the supreme deity and who was the supreme deity.

The second verse gives this deity a singular masculine pronoun and tells us that He was alongside the supreme deity at the creation of everything.

The third verse tells us that everything that was created was made through Him (by His agency)  and nothing in existence came to be without Him.

The fourth verse tells us that this divine being was life itself and it was this life that was a beacon for mankind who sat in darkness. 

The fifth verse then tells us that into the realm which men inhabit, the deity shines as a beacon to summon men out of darkness and into His marvelous light (1 Peter chapter 2 verse 9 ) and light was smuggled into the world in such a way that the kingdom of darkness could not understand or inteprete what was going on in order to prevent the light from plundering the darkness.

The gospel of John, in telling us the story of the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus, reveals to us how the One who was life itself dwelt among us on the earth and launched an outpost of the kingdom of light in the midst of darkness.

Amen.

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