THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH

PROCLAMATION

“In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that was made.  In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.”  John 1:1-4 (NIV)  “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us …”  John 1:14 (NIV)

 

EXPLANATION

These words are from the gospel, the good news regarding Jesus, The Christ, according to the Apostle John and written under the influence of The Holy Spirit of God.  Here, “The Word” refers to The Lord Jesus, The Christ.  John clearly states that The Word, Jesus, was with God when everything began, and that The Word, meaning Jesus, was God.  To further clarify this he also said that The Word “became flesh” and dwelt among us, referring to the birth of Christ and His life on earth.  John states that “The Word” is God. (John 1:1)  Jesus said, “I and my Father are one.” (John 10:30 and 1 John 5:7)  The Lord Jesus Christ is The Creator and everything that was made was made by Him. (Genesis 1:1 and John 1:3)  The Lord Jesus, The Christ, is the life and the light of all mankind. (John 1:4)  He gave life to mankind (Genesis 2:7) and He is the light of the world. (John 8:12 and 9:5)  He then goes on to say that The Word, The Lord Jesus Christ, put on human flesh and lived among us as a human being. (John 1:14)  The Bible documents in the four gospels the glorious and miraculous things that Christ did as The Son of God while He was here on earth in human flesh.

 

APPLICATION

The gospel according to the Apostle John is an asynoptic gospel.  It  does not record the life of Christ in order as sequential events, but rather it focuses on several miracles which Jesus, The Christ, performed while He was here on earth.  His purpose for writing this Book of The Bible this way was so that all who read it would believe. (John 1:7)  We know that Jesus, The Christ, is The Son of God and that we were created in His image. (Genesis 1:26)  We are alive because He breathed into each of us the breath of life and we became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7)  Our bodies were formed from the dust of the earth and one day to the dust they shall return. (Ecclesiastes 3:20)  Just as Christ put on flesh and dwelt among us in human form, our bodies are just the house where we, our souls, live while we are on earth.  One day, we will leave our house of flesh and our spirit will return to our Creator. (2 Corinthian 5:1)  Our souls are eternal; and believers will spend eternity with Christ. (John 3:16)