2. The Word &… God
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. He was with God
in the beginning.
1:1-2
‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth’.
Genesis 1:1
3. The Word &… God
God is eternal in his very nature
he has no beginning or end.
‘‘There was never a time when the Word was not.’
Athanasius
4. The Word &… God
“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in
bodily form…”
Colossians 2:9
Evidence of Jesus Deity:
miracles, authority to forgive sins, He was
worshipped and encouraged this
5. The Word &… Creation
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 men. 5
The light
shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not
understood it.
1:3-5
6. The Word &… Creation
It was his voice that said ‘let there be light’
It was his hand that formed the searing hot sun
It was his command that drove turbulent waters from
the land into the ocean depths he had also formed.
It was Jesus who made humanity in the reflection of
his own image.
7. The Word &… Creation
The Word is the Life –Giver
“…for in him we live and move and have our being!”
Acts 17:28
8. The Word &… Creation
The Word is the Light –Giver
“…the people living in darkness have seen a great
light.”
4:16
“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’
made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of
the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”
2 Corinthians 4:6
9. The Word &… Creation
“He is before all things and in him all things
hold together.”
Colossians 1:17
10. The Word &… Humanity
The Word Revealed
“
The Word became flesh and made his
dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,
the glory of the One and Only, who came from
the Father, full of grace and truth.”
1:14
11. The Word &… Humanity
The Word Revealed
“… (JESUS) made himself nothing, taking on
the very nature of a servant, being made in
human likeness.”
Philippians 2:7
12. The Word &… Humanity
The Word Revealed
“The Creator God assumed the frailty of his own
creation in becoming a human… The eternal one
entered time… The all-powerful made himself
vulnerable… The all-holy exposed himself to
temptation… and in the end, the immortal died!”
13. The Word &… Humanity
The Word Revealed
"Behold the dwelling (tent!) of God is with men.
He will dwell (pitch his tent!) with them, and
they shall be his people."
Revelation 21:3
14. The Word &… Humanity
The Word Rejected
“”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.”
1:10-11
“He was despised and rejected by men, a
man of sorrows, and familiar with
suffering. Like one from whom men hide
their faces he was despised, and we
esteemed him not.”
Isaiah 53:3
15. The Word &… Humanity
The Word Rejected
“”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.”
1:10-11
“He was despised and rejected by men, a
man of sorrows, and familiar with
suffering. Like one from whom men hide
their faces he was despised, and we
esteemed him not.”
Isaiah 53:3
16. The Word &… Humanity
The Word Received
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in
his name, he gave the right to become children of
God— children born not of natural descent, nor of
human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
1:12-13
