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Psalm of the Day: Psalm 100
Scripture Reading: Advent 1 (Triano)
Sermon:
GMC!
I was Glad when they said to em let us go and worship in he hose of the Lord!
Well Thanksgiving has passed and you can probably tell from the lighting of the first candle earlier that we are officially in Advent.
And with starting Advent comes the starting of an advent Series.
Each time we start a large series, Go through a book of the Bible, I take two options to the elders and let them vote.
So before We studied Isaiah I took to them Job and Isaiah, and what they voted on, well that should be obvious.
And before we started Matthew I told them I want to do a Gospel, so we voted between Matthew and John.
But what I knew all along is that whichever one we did not do would become our advent series this year.
SO if we had voted for John then we would be looking at the birth narratives in Matthew.
But since we have already done that we are instead going to be spending the next four weeks looking at Johns prologue.
Possibly the most intricate and technical and in all honesty important passages in all Scripture.
For john develops what we would call a “high Christology” a high view of who Jesus was, what his work was and what it meant.
And all this is couched in his thought of Jesus being “The Word”
We will be looking in detail at different facets and thoughts here, But I would like to begin today, and really begin the whole series, by reading all that we will be looking at.
These are the words of the Lord for us this morning, lets begin with a word of PRAYER
PRAY
John 1:1 opens, very intentionally, the exact same way as the book of Genesis, with the same words, what we read in our English translations as “In the Beginning”.
So just to give us some Biblical context some really big picture Context, for those of you who don’t know Genesis 1:1 starts with: IN THE BEGINNING GOD.
Famously people have said if you can believe all that is contained in those four words you can believe anything else in the bible.
For it starts with a thought: there was a beginning, and not only did Go cause it, he was there before it.
and even this you have to start with this belief, that there is a God.
Genesis 1:1 tells us some important theological truths.
Well so does John 1:1.
again the same first three words: In the beginning.
But interestingly in John The word “God” is replaced with “was the Word”.
Not technically speaking “the word” is LOGOS greek, Logic, but more importantly here it is a name.
It is the name that John has gioven Jesus.
If you look in your bible the word “word” is capitalized as all proper names should be.
but john starts by saying “in the beginning was the word and by replacing “God with “the word, John is telling us something really important about Jesus.
Shows us Christ’s DIVINITY
Our Hope in this Advent season is then that:
He is eternally BEFORE …
… and eternally AFTER
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