The Word Became Flesh

My first thoughts:

My bag is to big

The beach is beautiful

So many houses with tarps on the roof

Electric poles down on the road

Horses tied up on the road

Electric out in many homes

Roster alarm clock

Every other house looks totaled

The church purchased the bar next door where a war 13 was killed and the neighborhood members retaliated and killed 6

Prayer

Beatrice and June

God is teaching me that at time I need to learn how to run on island time.

1 These Reminder is to constantly remember those in need in prayer.

Papo is serving his community and his church.

Moms fighting almost to the point of killing.

Renovation

Atlanta

1Thes 2:5

For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness—

Flattery speech is usually connected with an agenda.

A key member in the community is a squatter who works on cars.

A.W. Tozer said: listen to no man who hasn’t listened to God

Performance tied to greediness.

2:5 greediness The Greek word used here, pleonexia, refers to the desire to possess more than others, regardless of actual need. Paul and his companions were not greedy, nor did not they use any pretext to disguise greediness—a common practice among traveling philosophers.

God is the witness Paul calls God as his witness because only God can fully know the motives behind his missionary efforts.

God is watching

It Shouldnt be like THis....

In the Beginning

John 1:14 The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 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 All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. 4 In him was life,, and that life was the light of men. 5 That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it.

1:1 John begins by quoting the opening words of Genesis in Greek (Gen 1:1). He uses Genesis 1:1–5 to establish the “Word” as a preexistent agent of creation present with Yahweh from the beginning. This first section of the prologue (John 1:1–5) functions as an interpretation of Gen 1:1–5 read through the framework of Prov 8:22–31 (see note on Prov 8:22). This exegetical technique resembles a method of Jewish exegesis called midrash. A midrashic interpretation typically begins with a text from the Pentateuch and explains it through allusions to a text from the Prophets or the Writings. John begins with a quotation that invokes the context of Gen 1:1–5 with its imagery of creation by divine word and opposition between light and darkness.

God’s Son isn’t an act of creation, but the means of it (compare Col 1:15–23; Heb 1:1–4). It is all the more dramatic, therefore, that the one through whom all of creation came to be has become part of the creation.

John’s Gospel takes a different turn than the other three Gospel accounts. He seems to have no concern with genealogies or the manger narrative that we love to review during the Christmas season. John is preoccupied with highlighting the deity of Jesus and the significance of him coming in the flesh.

Now, John tells us, God’s Word, his Self-expression, His message, His sermon

‘In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son’ (Heb. 1:1–2)

We need Jesus

People that have it all together need Jesus.

People that hate Jesus needs Jesus.

My short list of people that don’t need Jesus…..…

I’m a mess

Check the record

Adam failed at marrage and eve (Blamed God and Eve) He invented Under the bus

Abram (she my sister)

David (clasic Skywalker)

Peter

Paul

Mary

He was who they said he was

1. Genesis 3:15

“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

2. Genesis 12:3

“I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

3. Isaiah 7:14

“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.”

4. Micah 5:2

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”

5. Hosea 11:1

“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.”

9. Isaiah 53:5

“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”

10. Isaiah 53:7

“He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.”

11. Isaiah 53:9

“He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.”

Among Us

The Word, God’s very Self-expression, who was both with God and who was God, became flesh: he donned our humanity, save only our sin. God chose to make himself known, finally and ultimately, in a real, historical man: ‘when “the Word became flesh”, God became man’ (Bruce, p. 40).2014 The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

The tent of Meeting

God Has come down to see about us

“I have heard the cry of my people”

The Word made his dwelling among us. More literally translated, the Greek verb skēnoō means that the Word pitched his tabernacle, or lived in his tent, amongst us.

God is on my block

•He pulled up on us

He moved in ( I live with her, I can put you on)

The (us) we all got access

A few thing that characterize Jesus presents

Celebration

Correction

Feeding

Care

Protection

Fussing

-Jesus is the ultimate peace keeper

-Captain of the ship Someone that knows where we should be he knows what we should avoid He knows how to get us there

Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us, keeping our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy that lay before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

He entered into the (Story)