Gospel According to John 1: 1-28 Pray, Read, Discuss! скачать в хорошем качестве

Gospel According to John 1: 1-28 Pray, Read, Discuss!

Praise God! John 1: 1-28 The Eternal Word. Word translates as the ancient Greek word Logos. The idea of the logos had deep and rich roots in both Jewish and Greek thinking…. They (the ancient Jews) spoke of God Himself as “the Word of God.” For example, ancient Hebrew editions of the Old Testament change Exodus 19:17 from Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God to Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet the Word of God. The Greek philosophers saw the logos as the power that puts sense into the world, making the world orderly instead of chaotic. The logos was the power that set the world in perfect order and kept it going in perfect order. They saw the logos as the ultimate reason that controlled all things (Dods, Morris, Barclay, Bruce, and others). “The word being thus already in use and aiding thoughtful men in their efforts to conceive God’s connection with the world, John takes it and uses us to denote the Revealer of the incomprehensible and invisible God.” (Dods) John 1:1 sets forth one of the most basic foundations of our faith—the Trinity. This Being is God because He is plainly called God (the Word was God). At the same time, this Being does not encompass all that God is. God the Father is a distinct person from the Word (the Word was with God). So, the Father and the Son (the Son is known here as the Word) are equally God, yet distinct in their person. The Father is not the Son, and the Son is not the Father. Yet they are equally God, with God the Holy Spirit making one God in three persons. John’s Witness: The True Light. John the Baptist. The voice in the wilderness. The forerunner to Christ making way for Him after hundreds of years of silence. He was NOT the light- simply the man to bear witness to the Light. Why? Because Jesus came home and we (humans, the Jews,) didn’t know Him because of our spiritual blindness. Jesus came home where the people SHOULD have known Him but didn’t. But, when we DID know Him we became children of God because of Him and His will. The Word Becomes Flesh. John proclaimed not himself as the One but “He who comes after me.” Why? He also came BEFORE him. So, Jesus, the Word, always was, is, and always will be. The law came from Moses but grace and truth through Jesus! A Voice In the Wilderness. When confronted by the Pharisees- John confesses he is neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet. He was, however, the one foretold by Isaiah, the voice crying out in the wilderness making way for Jesus. He baptizes with water to prepare men’s hearts for the One whose sandalstraps he was not worthy to loose. And this was the lowest form of slavery- no one would do this for another person so to be below THIS was speaking to the Pharisees who could be very abusive in their relationships with their underlings. He also baptized Jews and Gentiles alike and this befuddled the Pharisees because baptism was more for converts. Imagine how confounded and confronted the Pharisees must have been? And then to witness Jesus after this- I cannot imagine how they could not have made the connection to the Truth. I guess it is true, though, there is none so blind as those who will not see. It is a deliberate choice to NOT see. #biblereading #dailybibleverse #gospelofjohn There has never been a better time to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Join me in reading the Bible every day. I started with the Gospel according to Matthew, then Mark and Luke, and I am now on John! I am reading from the NKJV but feel free to use what you have.