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Opening Prayer
Reading of the Text
John 1:
Invitation is For All
Featured Passage: The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
Some translations like the CSB, NIV and NLT use the translated word "recognize" in verse 10.
However, the ESV, NASB and KJV version use the more accurate translation that says the world did not "know" or "knew" Him.
Knowing is a relational idea in this Gospel.
This may be illustrated from ,
where it states (literally) that Adam “knew” his wife, and that kind of knowledge resulted in children.
That knowledge obviously was not primarily intellectual!
In this gospel, “truth” and “true” are often employed to signify what is everlasting or heavenly, as opposed to the merely temporal or earthly.
This light ‘ “shines upon every man” (whether he sees it or not)’
God did provide the light for all humanity in Jesus’ incarnation, just as in Jewish tradition he provided the light of Torah to all nations at Sinai.
But just as the nations rejected Torah, so the world rejected God’s Word made flesh.
The world missed its great opportunity.
It did not come to know the Word when the Word was in its very midst.
The world did not know him.
The world never does.
The world’s characteristic reaction to the Word is one of indifference.
What is proper to this world is utterly repugnant to God ().
The light comes into the world, it is because the proper abode of life is quite outside it; it does not belong to this world, which is characterized by darkness.
Did not recognize him” refers to more than intellectual knowledge.
There is also the thought of the failure to know intimately, to know and love as a friend, to be in right relation.
Despite the World’s rejection, we must be Christ’s ambassadors and evangelize the Gospel to the ends of the World.
In fact, the ‘world’ in John’s usage comprises no believers at all.
Those who come to faith are no longer of this world; they have been chosen out of this world.
Evangelism Illustration - Consider This:
DURING election time there are fierce battles waged to win the votes of Americans.
Both Democrats and Republicans blitz the media, attempting to get people to vote for their respective party.
Spinmeisters and pundits alike do everything they can to let voters know where they stand.
Signs, posters, and bumper stickers serve to plaster candidate names in plain view of as many eyes as possible.
Whether in the barbershop or in the foyer of the church, the discussion is thick about the pros and cons of each person.
There is commitment to a party, to a man, and to a philosophy that is visible by the intent of efforts to persuade people to one side or the other.
As important as the American political process is, it pales in comparison to the spiritual conflict in which we are engaged.
Here there are two opposing positions—two opposing kingdoms.
Christians are called to be unashamed of our representative, our spokesperson, Jesus Christ.
Your vote should be clear and there ought not be any ambiguity over who has it.
If you name the name of Jesus Christ, somebody else, other than yourself, ought to know it.
God has called each one of His children to be public spokespersons for the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and for His kingdom, with the goal of winning folks over.
We should be definitive in our purpose of calling people out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light.
This process is called evangelism or missions.
Has your voice been heard?
Invitation Will Divide
Featured Passage: He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
Majority of the translations say that His own did not "receive" Him but the NLT, which is more thought for thought uses the word "rejected."
His own even more emphatically or deliberately rejected him; the word for “received” probably bears the same sense as its more usual Johannine cognate, used by negation to imply deliberate rejection.
The world would reject those who did not belong to and stem from it ().
Jesus was in the world he had made, but the world as humanity alienated from God could not know him and remain the world.
Jesus’ public ministry was one of rejection by “his own people”, so the gospel’s first main section () closes with quotations from and that sum up the blind unbelief of the covenant people as a whole ().
World’s Reaction to Truth Illustration - Consider This:
the Word that had been forever “with God” (1:1–2) became “flesh” (1:14) so others could be born not from flesh but from God (1:13; cf.
3:6).
JESUS was the only preacher who made His congregations smaller with His sermons.
He would have big crowds following Him and then He would come up with a line like “Unless you deny your mother and father, yea, your own life, you cannot be My disciple.”
The Bible says those people left.
Why?
Because He never let the crowd control the truth.
World’s Reaction to Truth Illustration 2 - Consider This:
AN OLDER gentleman had some health problems.
He went to visit his doctor and was told to change his diet.
The physician lectured the man on the importance of eating well, and gave him a long list of things to eat and not eat.
The gentleman called his sons to let them know about his declining health as he knew his son would be concerned.
He explained the doctor’s prognosis and his prescription for restoring good health.
A couple of weeks later, one of the aged man’s sons called to check on him.
“OK, Dad, the doctor gave you some instructions awhile back.
How is the regimen going?”
The old man replied, “I’ve changed doctors.”
Sometimes our response to the truth is not the best response
Invitation Requires One to Be Born Again
Featured Passage: But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Closing Thoughts
John softens the sweeping rejection of Messiah by stressing a believing remnant
This previews the book since the first 12 chapters stress the rejection of Christ, while chaps.
13–21 focus on the believing remnant who received Him.
“Believed in” (Gk.
pisteuō eis) implies personal trust.
NLT also presents verse 13 alternatively in this manner: "They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God."
We must ask ourselves, “How was it possible for humans to be born from God” for this was unbridgeable from the human side?
Crossing the boundary from the world’s realm to God’s realm is possible only by divine agency.
The piling up of these expressions is to be understood in the light of Jewish pride of race.
The Jews held that because of the “Fathers,” that is their great ancestors, God would be favorable to them.
John emphatically repudiates any such idea.
Nothing human, however great or excellent, can bring about the birth of which he speaks.
The new birth is always sheer miracle.
All human initiative is ruled out.
People are born “of God”; they can be born into the heavenly family in no other way.
‘Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.’
Being born into the family of God is quite different from being born into a human family.
God’s will is a major emphasis in this Gospel, and is implicitly contrasted with human will.
The Word that had been forever “with God” () became “flesh” () so others could be born not from flesh but from God (; ).
Identity in Christ Illustration - Consider This:
WHO is Michael Jordan?
Most would probably say the greatest basketball player that has ever played the game.
Who is Sylvester Stallone?
Most would probably say a great actor depending on the movie.
Who is Diana Ross?
Most would probably say one of the greatest singers of this generation.
If you would say Michael Jordan is a basketball player, Sylvester Stallone is an actor, and Diana Ross a singer, you would be absolutely wrong for I would not have just described to you who they were.
I would have only told you what they do.
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