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Introduction
Humanity is drawn to light and humanity is drawn to life.
In fact as I was preparing for this week I became curious and googled the top 10 fears people have and in different lists both of these popped up.
The fear of death and the fear of darkness or the dark.
I mean if we look at the behavior of people we see that they will do everything they can in their physical power to prolong life.
They will spend countless amounts of money, time, and energy attempting to extend their life.
People even freeze themselves hoping that they will be able to wake up in the future to different cures or times.
Today I believe I have an answer to why humanity struggles with these issues.
It is amazing to think at the way John started this book.
He is giving constant allusions to the old testament writings about Jesus.
Reminding people what was written and to show the who this Jesus was.
This whole portion was an introduction to his writing.
I could only imagine him sitting there fumbling with his thoughts and ideas of what just happened.
Who this person was that he was going to write about.
How was he going to impress on his readers the magnitude and importance of what just happened.
And so he started like this.
Jesus is God
John makes this emphasis clear when He says
John wants all of his readers to understand the importance of this.
He was saying you know that guy that came and died and went back up to heaven.
That guy who was crucified, that guy who taught all of those wonderful, amazing things.
Well yeah that guy Jesus was God.
John’s interpretation centers on the Word as Creator and holder of divine light.
and
His interpretation centers on the Word as Creator and bearer of divine light.
and both use the Hebrew word reshith (usually translated “beginning”), and the larger context of both passages is God’s creation of the universe.
Proverbs
both use the Hebrew word reshith (usually translated “beginning”), and the larger context of both passages is God’s creation of the universe.
both use the Hebrew word reshith (usually translated “beginning”), and the larger context of both passages is God’s creation of the universe.
and both use the Hebrew word reshith (usually translated “beginning”), and the larger context of both passages is God’s creation of the universe.
both use the Hebrew word reshith (usually translated “beginning”), and the larger context of both passages is God’s creation of the universe.
both use the Hebrew word reshith (usually translated “beginning”), and the larger context of both passages is God’s creation of the universe.
both use the Hebrew word reshith (usually translated “beginning”), and the larger context of both passages is God’s creation of the universe.
When John makes this connection, John states that Jesus existed before the first acts of creation.
God’s Son Jesus isn’t an act of creation, but the reason for it.
It makes it much more dramatic then that the one responsible for all of creation would come down into creation and become a part of it.
The all powerful creator as a man?
Side Note
I love what the NLT says.
It is very interesting what the word “was” or “eimi” actually means in the original language.
John isn’t speaking about about a past tense God.
The word “eimi” means to be, to exist, or to have an existence.
It is an active happening.
Explain with “was God”, “was life”, “was light”.
Jesus is life
I want to focus on the first portion of this verse.
In Him was life.
In Jesus was life.
Now remember what we just talked about.
John wasn’t just saying that Jesus was life.
He wasn’t just saying that Jesus created physical life, but in Him “eimi” life.
In Him existed life, in Him exists life, in Him will always exist life.
In him constantly exists life.
I think that is so absolutely powerful.
Notice this because I think it is very important to be understood.
Life is found in Jesus.
It is not from His presence, it is not from His word.
It is In Him and through Him.
So much of the world has “experienced” God but never come to life because they fail to be in Jesus.
The desire of Jesus heart is expressed in
Jesus is the light
Jesus is the light
Again John is saying this.
In Jesus exists life and that life is the light of all humanity.
It keeps shining in the darkness and the darkness can not defeat it nor will it ever defeat it.
Physically, light and darkness exist in metaphysical opposition.
Light as an energy source provides illumination, leading to the ability to make visual distinctions among colors and physical objects.
Darkness is the absence of light and color, whether as a place or condition, which results in disorientation, distortion, and confusion.
Darkness is not just something that combats against light, but it is the complete absence of light.
What John is saying is that the darkness cannot understand the light because it has never been there or will ever be there when the light is present.
It can’t comprehend it.
What is this?
How comforting is this idea?
The light cannot be defeated by the darkness.
In Jesus is this life which is the light of all humanity.
Although you were once in darkness Jesus pulled you out and He isn’t done pulling people out of darkness because He is the existent life and He is the existent light.
Science tells us that light is constituted of three rays, or groups of wavelengths, distinct from each other, no one of which without the others would be light.
Each ray has its own separate function.
The first originates, the second formulates, illuminates or manifests, and the third consummates.
The first ray, often called invisible light, is neither seen nor felt.
The second is both seen and felt.
The third is not seen but is felt as heat
Side Note
Side Note
John was so intent on making this point very clear before he continued writing.
The other synoptic gospels start with either John the baptist or the birth of Jesus.
John is starting with this point because He is saying if this isn’t who Jesus was then the rest of this doesn’t matter.
Science tells us that light is constituted of three rays, or groups of wavelengths, distinct from each other, no one of which without the others would be light.
Each ray has its own separate function.
The first originates, the second formulates, illuminates or manifests, and the third consummates.
The first ray, often called invisible light, is neither seen nor felt.
The second is both seen and felt.
The third is not seen but is felt as heat
You are the continual light
Jesus offers us in and through Him light and life, but not only that Jesus offers us adoption into the family of God because we come to believe in Him.
Is that not the most miraculous thing you will ever here?
John was called John the evangelist for a reason.
He dropped some radical truth here and hope that it would radically change lives and the truth of it is that it did and continues to do so.
Candle light portion
In making this connection, John states that Jesus existed prior to the first acts of creation.
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