John 1:2-5
Who Is Jesus?
John was most likely the last gospel written and it is a totally
different kind of gospel. It is a gospel of declarations, of amazing
statements. Let’s continue noting some of those declarations.
I. Jesus is the Word.
A. We spent last week identifying the Word.
1. John never gives us the specific identity of the
Word, but he does give us some clues.
2. Those clues point unmistakably to Jesus Christ.
B. And why does God refer to Jesus as "the Word?"
1. To identify the Word of God as divine.
a. First there was the spoken word.
(1) "Thus saith the Lord"
(2) "The word of the Lord came to"
b. Then there was the written Word - divinely given,
divinely kept.
c. That Word is divine. It is of God.
(1) We do not worship the Word.
(2) But we do respect it.
i. We believe it.
ii. We will obey it.
iii. We will defend it.
2. The word "WORD" means logos.
a. It is the word we get logic from.
b. In the beginning was intelligence, reasoning,
knowledge.
c. The cosmos did not just happen.
(1) It was not a accident, incident, or a fluke.
(2) It was a deliberate, calculated, designed
event.
3. Because all that is was created with nothing but a
Word.
a. In the beginning, there was just God.
(1) There was no man, no planet, no water, no
sun or stars, no matter, no energy, no
space… no nothing!
(2) People who deny creation for some fanciful
evolutionary tale must always start with
something.
i. There was a big bang, they say.
ii. What blew up? There was nothing there.
b. And then God spoke.
(1) 10 times in Genesis 1, the Bible records
"God said."
(2) Eight of those times, something appeared.
c. God wanted to show us how powerful His word is.
(1) When God says something, it is the word of
the Almighty and all of His power and
character backs it up.
(2) Have you ever considered that God did not
have to speak creation into existence?
(3) He did it for a reason… to show how
powerful His Word is.
(4) The only thing that can bind God is His
word!
II. Jesus is God.
A. It says in \\#1\\ that the Word was God.
1. If Jesus is the Word then Jesus is God.
2. It does not say that Jesus BECAME God.
a. It says that Jesus WAS God.
b. Remember that the tense of the word WAS means
a past, continuous action.
B. Is it not interesting that no where in the Old Testament
does God ever tell us that He is a trinity?
1. The Old Testament speaks of the Holy Spirit but makes
Him sound like an extension of God.
2. The Bible does mention the suffering Servant, the
Rose of Sharon, the Captain of the Lord’s Hosts,
Emmanuel, and many other names or titles of Jesus;
but it never speaks directly of Jesus as being a
member of the Godhead or that there is even a God-
head.
a. Did God change?
b. Are there three gods?
c. No and no.
3. We need to understand that just because something is
not revealed in the Old Testament does not mean it
isn’t true.
a. Throughout the Bible, God continues to reveal
truth.
b. If every truth had to be revealed at the first,
Genesis 1:1 would be very, very long.
c. We still do not have all the truth. There is
much more to be revealed.
(1) I don’t know whether God will put it into
the Bible or not, but consider that the
half is not known yet!
(2) No doubt, God has truth to give to the
Tribulational saints, through the
millennial, and throughout all eternity.
C. So John wrote a new gospel, a different kind of a gospel,
one to help us to understand that Jesus is God.
III. \\#3\\ Jesus was the Creator.
A. Again, all things were made by the Word. If Jesus is the
Word, all things were made by Jesus.
B. Marvelous statement and a new truth.
1. From reading the Old Testament, we would have thought
that the Father was the Creator.
2. No, the Son was.
3. In fact, here is where we get the truth that there was
absolutely nothing until Jesus started speaking it
into existence.
a. There weren’t even two atoms to rub together
until Jesus started speaking them into existence.
b. I think Jesus even had to make the space to put
the galaxy in.
IV. \\#4\\ Jesus was life.
A. Herein is the answer to the greatest mystery of the man’s
existence. Where did life come from?
1. There is something different about human life.
2. There is plant life and animal life and some even
want to call what germs, bacteria, and amoebas
are life.
3. But there is something unique about the human being.
4. He is on a scale of life different from all others.
5. Why?
B. Because our life is a part of the Almighty God being
imparted to us.
Ge 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
1. Somehow, Jesus bend over the balcony of heaven and
breathed into us a spark of Himself.
2. That is what gives us our unique existence, our life.
3. Hence, life is not only a gift from God, it is a part
of God abiding within us.
4. It is what made us an eternal soul.
5. And when we physically die, that spark goes back to
God.
Ecc 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the
earth as it was: and the spirit shall return
unto God who gave it.
6. People, love your pets and plants, but don’t confuse
human life with any other.
C. While we are talking about the greatest mystery, let me
mention what may well be the greatest blasphemy. It is
when those who would not exist without a spark of God
deny the existence of the very God who gave them that
spark.
D. And the greatest irony. It is that Jesus who is life
dying for us.
V. Jesus was the Light of men.
A. Jesus, who is the Word and so is Life is also the Light.
1. I don’t think this is referring so much to what Jesus
was as to what He came to do.
2. Jesus came to be our Light out of darkness.
B. Darkness speaks of sin and all that goes with it.
1. It is the solitude, the loneness, the desperation, the
confusion, the hatred, the hurt, the blindness, the
separation, and everything else.
2. Greatest Wonder - God took pity upon us.
a. God saw us in darkness and wanted to bring us
out!
b. So Jesus gave up His place (not His person) to
become one like us, except without sin, and to
walk among us!
VI. \\#5, 10\\ There is one more phenomenal statement. Jesus was not
recognized nor received.
A. We might call that the greatest stupidity.
B. Thank God that is not a blanket statement.
C. Any individual can recognize Jesus and receive Him.
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