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This morning we are going to begin looking at the book of John and in order to do so we need to look at some more names of Christ.
As we see in John 1: God’s Glory is here!God’s glory came in the person of His son.
John’s Gospel is written differently than the other Gospels.
The other Gospels are an account of happenings of Jesus and the disciples.
The book of John goes into the meaning of these events.
The major theme of the book of John is Jesus Christ is the Son of God - commit to him - give your life to Him & eternal life is yours.
There are 7 names I want to take time to highlight today and as we do ask the Lord to use these names to speak to your heart.
Prayer: Holy Spirit ignite the conversation of our spirit right now and show us who Jesus is.
Give a clear and powerful vision of Jesus and a fresh glimpse of new direction in our lives today.
In the first chapter of John he records 7 names and titles of Jesus that identify Him as eternal God.
The Word - John 1:1-3, 14
Jesus Christ is the eternal Word and He existed from the beginning.
He did not have a beginning as a creatire but because He is eternal.
He is God and was with God.
When the earth came into existance Jesus was there.
The Holy Spirit was there.
God was there.
The whole Trinity was present.
Jesus Christ is the creative word.
There is a parallel between:
John 1:1 and Gen. 1:1
The new creation and the old creation.
God created the world through His word.
God created all things through Jesus Christ, which is evidence that Jesus is not a created being He is eternal God.
In John 1:3
In this verse we see the verb “was made” is the perfect tense in the Greek which shows us this was a completed act.
Creation is finished and not an ongoing process.
Creation is not a process it is a finished product.
The incarnate word is another aspect we think about at Christmas.
Jesus was not a phantom spirit when He ministered at work nor was his body an illusion.
The disciples had personal experiences with Jesus which convinced them of the reality of the body of Christ.
John makes clear the diety of Christ though great emphasis but he also made sure we know that Jesus was God in flesh and was subject to being human.
Fully God and fully human.
Throughout the book of John he notes that Jesus was thirtsy, weary, groaned within, in pain, openly wept, bled, and died.
The word was made flesh through the miracle of the virgin birth.
He took on the the form of man and was sinless but He identified with us in every aspect from birth to death.
Jesus Christ came with fullness of grace and truth and this fullness is available to all who trust Him.
The Light - John 1:4-13
Life is a key theme in John’s gospel and is used 36 times.
The essentials for human life is:
Air
Water
Food
Light
Jesus is all of these.
Je is the light of life and the light of the world.
He is the Sun of righteousness!
He gives the breath of life, as well as the water of life.
Jesus is the living bread of life that came down from heaven.
He not only has life, gives life, but He is life!
The recurring themes in John’s gospel is light and darkness.
God is light which satan is the power of darkness.
People either love light or the darkness and this love is controlled by their actions.
Those who believe in Jesus Christ as the sons of light (John 12:35-36)
Just as the first creatoin began with the words “Let there be light!”
so to does the fresh start in giving your heart to Christ begin with the entrance of light into the heart of a new believer.
The coming of Jesus into the world was the dawning of a new day for sinful humanity.
The light of heaven entered the world.
Those who do not know Christ should welcome the light.
But there are those today blind in the darkness of sin and need to realize that they need the light of Jesus Christ.
John points out that there is a spiritual birth from God, not a physical birth that depends on human nature.
Friend this morning please embrace the light of Jesus.
The light is still shining.
Have you personally received the light and become a child of God?
The Son of God - John 1: 15-28, 49
John the baptist is one of the most important persons in the New Testament.
He is mentioned at least 89 times.
John had the special privilege of introducing Jesus to the nation of Israel.
He also had the difficult task of preparing the nation to receive its Messiah.
He called them to repent of their sins and to prove that repentence by being baptized and then living changed lives.
John summarized what John the baptist said about Jesus this way:
1. Jesus is eternal John 1:15
He is referrning to the fact that Jesus existed before being born on the earth.
2. Jesus has fullness of Grace and Truth John 1:16-17
Grace is God’s favor and kindness bestowed on those who do not deserve it and it cannot be earned.
God deals with according to grace and truth - if He dealth with us only by truth we would not survive.
John 1:17 talks about how each sacrifice under the law of Moses was an expression of the grace of God but the law also revealed God’s truth.
But in Jesus Christ grace and truth reach their fullness.
We are saved by Grace:
we also live by grace:
and depend on God’s grace in all that we do.
We can receive one grace after another for He giveth more grace.
John 1:17 John hinted to a who new order that came in that replaced the Mosaic system.
Jesus Christ reveals God to us:
As his essence - God is invisible
Please can see God revealed in nature & might works of History but they cannot see God Himself.
Jesus reveals God to us for He is the image of the invisble God and the express image of his person.
Jesus Christ explains God to us and interprets Him for us.
We simply cannot understand God apart from knowing His Son, Jesus Christ.
Lamb of God - John 1:29-34
The people of Israel were familiar with Lambs for sacrifices.
At Passover each family had to have a lamb and during the year, two lambs a day were sacrificed at the temple altar, plus all the other lambs brought for personal sacrifices.
Those lambs were brought by people to people but here God’s lamb was given by God to humanity.
Those lambs brought by the people could not take away sin, but the lamb of God can take away sin.
This lamb shed His blood for the whole world!
There is an important point to note about John’s baptism and Jesus as the lamb of God.
In the New Testament - baptism was done by immersion.
It is the picutre of death, burial, and resurrection.
When John the baptist baptized Jesus, Jesus and John were picturing the baptism Jesus would endure on the cross when He would die as the sacrificial lamb of God.
It would be through death, burial and resurrection that the lamb of God would fulfill all righteousness.
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