In the Beginning
John 1:1-18
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning."
(John 1:1-2)
John most likely wrote his Gospel some time after the three other writers of the Jesus biography. He profoundly portrays a very clear picture of the divinity and humanity of Jesus. The nature of Christ for the last 2,000 years has been a subject of much debate, many heresies arising from it.
In verse 1, John uses the familiar words from Genesis 1:1, in the beginning. These were well-known words to the Jewish audience, and they immediately set Jesus apart from all other creatures. John plainly and from the beginning tells of Jesus as being with God. In the beginning Jesus was with God, and in fact, He was God.
The Gospel cannot be of any value if Jesus is any less than God. If we deny His deity, then we have denied the Gospel. The uniqueness of Christ is in the fact that He was with God from the very beginning, and therefore He was God. If He was not, then He could not save us from our sins. Do you accept Him as your Lord and God? If not, let a new beginning start for you today.
About the writer:
David Zadok writes to us from his home in Israel where he is the Director for Christian Witness to Israel and is an elder of Grace and Truth Christian Assembly in the city of Rishon LeTsion. He heads the HaGefen Publishing Company, the only international Reformed mission to the Jewish People. Please pray for this ministry work and family life for him, his wife Eti and their three young children.
INSIGHT
The same God that created all things from nothing and by the power of His word is the Word.
READ THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR
Job 41-42
Psalm 62
John 1
John 1:1-18
The Word Became Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, "This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’") 16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and[b] is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
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