05-04-2020 - Monday with Matt

John 1:6–13 ESV

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. 9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

Bridging the Gap - Crossing the Divide

God Sends Someone - Not a nameless “other person”

The “sent one” bears witness about “the Light”

The Purpose of the witness is that those who hear might BELIEVE

The “sent one” is **not** the LIGHT - only a witness

The TRUE LIGHT (contextually was about to enter the world AND for us is coming again)

He was REJECTED as Messiah by 1st Century Israel

But - Those who RECEIVED (GK: paralambano - to take to one’s self) - who BELIEVED (GK: pisteuo - complete trust / total reliance) He gave the right to become God’s Children