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Intro: introduce self English and Japanese
Hajimemashite, Hawado Ben tomoshimasu Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu
John is written by the apostle John who also wrote the three letters of 123 John
and the book of Revelation.
He most likely lived longer than any other apostle
because tradition tells us, the Romans tried to kill him for his faith by boiling him
alive but failed and their superstitions would not allow them to try again after he
survived, so he ended up imprisoned on the island of Patmos instead of being
martyred.
John most likely wrote his gospel sometime between 60 and 90 AD when he was
older but not at the end of his life.
It seems he most likely was writing it to
gentile Christians who already had basic understanding and faith in Jesus but
needed that faith reinforced
The book is not really chronologically put together and seems to show that's it's
readers will not have a strong understanding of the Old Testament, hence the
Gentiles.
It is, however, structured in such a way as to show that Jesus was
supernatural in his powers, life, ministry and death and John's one thesis is that
you must believe in this one Son of God, Jesus, who came from the father.
He does this intentionally to prove his point he is making in the book and
purpose he wrote it.
He specifically tells us the purpose of the gospel of John in
John 20:31 “…but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
This is why I have described as the purpose of our study in the book of John as
“knowing and sharing Jesus”.
By really examining the claims John puts forth
about Jesus, we find out who he really is, and when we come to believe in him,
know him, we will want to do what everyone we meet in John does when they
meet Jesus, they tell others about him.
We will start off with the first 5 verses of John today.
Let’s Read John 1:1-5
(READ IT) 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 was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him
was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and
the darkness has not overcome it.
Let’s Pray (PRAY)
The first 18 verses have been described as poetry and as a hymn.
This passage
along with Colossians 1 and Hebrews 1 is one of three great New Testament
passages describing the nature of Jesus Christ.
In this whole passage, John moves us to his culminating thought in verse 14 that
"the word became flesh and dwelled among us and we beheld his glory", and it's
interesting that instead of introducing Christ by starting with John the Baptist like
Mark or the story of his birth like Matthew and Luke he goes back even further
to the beginning.
While the other gospel writers focused the same as we do on a
persons history, background and physical life, John is at the very beginning
making some much bigger claims about this man we know called Jesus.
John in these first 5 verses gives us 6 important truths about Jesus that set the
stage for how we will come to see Jesus in this gospel.
The first three are all in
the first verse.
1. Jesus life existed before birth outside of time and space...in the
beginning.
Verse 1 tells us “1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God”
There is another verse that starts with In the Beginning and that is Genesis 1:1,
“In the Beginning, God created the Heaven’s and the earth.”
Where we are
introduced to the one revealed as the only supreme God and deity in Scripture,
the God who revealed himself to Moses as I AM, meaning that He is everything
and anything that can be, was, or will be.
The same God who said as his first
command in the law that you will have NO other gods before me!
John introduces this person he reveals as the Word, in New Testament Greek,
LOGOS, in Japanese, Gen.
It is used by John in connection with the Old
Testament way that often God is revealed when we see the concept of "the word
of the lord", and instead of viewing it in Greek, Japanese, or English that
meaning in Hebrew is what is mostly being conveyed here.
The Word is how
God reveals himself, and Jesus is going to be revealed as the perfect revelation of
God to mankind.
By opening with "in the beginning" John is clearly tying this Word, revealed later
as Jesus Christ, directly to the same eternal existence as God the Father.
-Jesus the man had a human beginning in a manger
-Jesus the eternal son of God, destined to be our Messiah, existed before being a
baby.
-He is eternal, forever existing, since God is eternal as Scripture tells us.
2.
The Word, Jesus, has a distinct separate identity from God.
Jesus portrayed as the Son of God is not just God found in the Old Testament
taking a different form.
He is a distinct person with personality of his own.
Verse
one makes the first statement that he, the Word, is “with” God.
If you are with
someone you are separate from them.
-with my wife or a friend, means I am not my wife or my friend.
There is a view of God which falsely says that God is one God and that he takes
various forms or modes as the father, the son, or the Holy Spirit, but it seems
pretty clear here that John is conveying that the Word is distinct and separate
from God the Father.
But then so that he is very clear about the nature of this Word, Jesus, John adds
one more truth in this first verse that is really mind blowing, since he just said
God the father was distinct from the Word.
3. Jesus is also God.
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