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Welcome.
We have been walking through the Bible in Chronological order, and today we have turned the page into the New Testament.
Since the start of the year, we have been working through God’s Story revealed to us in pages of the Bible - and we have seen His plan unfolding through the lives of others.
Today we step from AD to BC.
We take a 400 year leap from the Prophets and Priests to Jesus and the Apostles.
And as we approach John 1 together this morning, I need to say one thing - MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I. God was revealed through The Word.
A. The Word, who is God, was revealed in Jesus Christ
(John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:15-16, 19)
1. John 1:1 “In the beginning…” is an echo or return to Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created…”
2. God created by words, by speech, “Let there be…and there was…”
3. The voice is the voice of Jesus who appears in the Old Testament—to Jacob at the brook Jabbok; to Joseph as the Commander of God’s Armies; to Abraham as Melchizedek; as the 4th person in the fiery furnace with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
4. This Jesus is the one who was made flesh, with teeth and toenails and two kidneys, not part man and part God, but fully human and fully God.
If you want to begin to understand the nature and goodness of God, study the life of Christ.
Why? - Because He is the:
Not only did God reveal Himself, but He revealed himself by dwelling among us...
B. The Word dwelt among us
(John 1:14; Matthew 1:23)
Look with me there in John 1 14
1.
The Word, who was God, was made flesh.
John 1:1 and 14.
2. “Word” is from the Greek logos from which we get logic, reason.
3. Heraklitus, a philosopher who lived in Ephesus and who observed that you never step in the same river twice (it’s never the same water), said that logos is omnipotent wisdom that steers everything.
4. Plato offered the possibility that a Word (logos) may one day usher forth from God.
C. The Word, Jesus, was turned away by many
(John 1:10-11)
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The innkeeper was not the only one to turn Jesus away.
We can only imagine what went through his head as he rejected Jesus, claiming it was too crowded to have a pregnant woman give birth in his inn.
2. The world is always “too crowded” to receive Jesus—crowded with deadlines and headlines, phone lines and long lines, full itineraries, full schedules, jam-packed lives.
Illustration: Yesterday at Dollar General - gentleman who said he wished he could pause time - James 4
The bible is clear, God is revealed to us through Creation, through the person of Jesus, and His plan is for Him to be revealed...
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God is revealed through you.
A. God calls His own to proclaim who He is
(2 Corinthians 5:12-21)
B. Those who proclaim Him can expect opposition too
(John 15:18-20)
The Creator of the universe has boldly revealed Himself to us through His created order, through the person of Jesus, and has called you to be bold in proclaiming Him too.
Every kind deed
Every opportunity to forgive
Every time you meet a need
Every child you help in our FellowshipKids program (nursery, Sunday School, Jr. Church, AWANA)
Every selfless act at home or at work
You are revealing God.
You have been given the greatest gift of all - the revelation of God through Christ.
Will you accept it?
Will you share it?
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