Christ the Divine (John 1: 1-5)

Let us begin our journey by walking through and with the Bible.  Our first stop, the Gospel according to John. 

It is believe that the author John is the same Apostle often described as the Disciple whom Jesus loved.  According to Bible Commentary by Matthew Henry, the Gospel and Epistles of John were written in Ephesus about 97A.D.  Therefore, putting it much later than the time John wrote the Revelation, while he was exiled in the island of Patmos. 

We picked John, as suggested by many Bible scholars, for us to have a glimpse of understanding of the true nature of Jesus before we proceed to other books in the Bible. 

† In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

John 1:1-5:

“In the beginning the Word already existed.  He was with God, and He was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  He created everything there is.  Nothing exists that He didn't make.  Life itself was in Him, and this life gives light to everyone.  The light shines through the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it. (NLT)”

In his commentary, Henry said that “the plainest reason why the Son of God is called the Word, seems to be, that as our words explain our minds to others, so was the Son of God sent in order to reveal His Father’s mind to the world.”

So what’s in God’s thought that He wants us to know?

Clearly, we can see that Jesus did not just exist some 2,000 years ago, but even before the beginning of time.  Jesus, we know is a Man because we know that He lived as a man and died as a man.  But this passage shows that He is God even before He became man.  If we will go back to the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, we will learn that God created everything.  But in here, we are given a different version of that story – that “nothing exists that He (the Word, referring to Jesus) didn't make” and that “He created everything there is.”  Therefore, if we follow a simple logic, then the Word who created everything and who was with God before the beginning and at the same time is also a God, must be the same God of Genesis. 

John, and in relation with Genesis alone, solves the mystery of the Trinity, or at least the Father and the Son being One.  If the Son is God and the Father is God, then there are two Gods – “He was with God, and He was God.”  But the entire Bible tells us that there is only ONE TRUE GOD, even Jesus said this.  How can, then, a God be with “another” God at the time of creation?  Must be, God the Son is in God the Father.  That’s “two person” being One at the same time.  The unity of the Father and the Son – both God, both Creator. 

It is very difficult to comprehend because we are trying to picture out God in the image of man and within the bounds of the physical realm.  Physics, we know, rules that a matter can only occupy one place at a particular time.  Therefore, in the physical world, which we try to use to understand the nature of God, it will be impossible to have two God in One Being.  But God is, and forever will be, outside the boundary of the physical world, which in the first place, He created.  How can you fit the Creator in His creation?  How can you limit the Creator within the properties of His creations.  If the nature of God will be too small to “fit” into our understanding, then, how was He able to formulate and maintain the entire creation as it was, as it is today, and as it is in the future?

By the moment we realize that Jesus, the bringer of Good News, is the same God who created everything, wouldn't we be grateful to know of His awesome power?  Wouldn't you put your trust in Him?

Jesus, the One who holds Life in Him, came into the world and every moment knocks on our doors to share the Life that gives light to everyone.  When are we going to open that door for Him?  If you know that someone is at your doorstep, willing to give you this kind of Light that no darkness can ever extinguish, will you not let Him in?  How long will we stay in darkness if we know that Jesus holds the life that gives light to everyone?

Jesus - God, Creator, Bringer of Life and Inextinguishable Light – is standing at the doorsteps of our hearts, knocking, will we let Him in? 

Amen! Lord Jesus, come in to our lives. 

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. Amen. †