John 1:1-5 Series

John 1

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

+Our First revelation is

1. The Pre-Existence of Christ:

“In the beginning was the Word…”

John says something staggering:

when the beginning began…Christ was already there.

Not created—was.

Not became—was.

The Word, Jesus, was already existing before time began.

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There has never been a time when the Son of God was not.

He did not come into being—He simply is.

Jesus didn’t begin in Bethlehem.

That was His incarnation, not His origin.

He existed before time, before space, before anything.

before Adam and Eve —He was.

Micah 5:2 prophesied this truth: “But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah… from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.” Micah 5:2

The Messiah was not to be a newly created being

but One who has existed.

Jesus speaks to this in John 8:58, “Before Abraham was, I am.” John 8:58

That phrase “I am”

it’s a claim to deity.

It’s a reference to the divine name revealed in Exodus 3:14 “God said to Moses, “I am who I am.”.

The eternal present tense—“I AM”—belongs only to God.

John does not introduce a new idea.

He reveals what has always been true—

Jesus Christ, the Word, is eternal.

Time began with creation, but the Word was already existing.

As Revelation 1:8 states “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”,

This is not on the slides, but could this passage in proverbs 8 be a the testimony of Christ during creation?

“The Lord possessed[b] me at the beginning of his work,[c]

    the first of his acts of old.

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Ages ago I was set up,

    at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

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When there were no depths I was brought forth,

    when there were no springs abounding with water.

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Before the mountains had been shaped,

    before the hills, I was brought forth,

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before he had made the earth with its fields,

    or the first of the dust of the world.

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When he established the heavens, I was there;

    when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

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when he made firm the skies above,

    when he established[d] the fountains of the deep,

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when he assigned to the sea its limit,

    so that the waters might not transgress his command,

when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

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    then I was beside him, like a master workman,

and I was daily his[e] delight,

    rejoicing before him always,

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rejoicing in his inhabited world

    and delighting in the children of man.

There is profound significance in the fact that the Word…

Existed before the world.

It means that the foundation of reality is

a Person.

An eternal

divine Person.

+Our Second Revelation about the Son of God…

2. The Co-Existence of Christ:

“…and the Word was with God…”

This text affirms not only that the Word existed from eternity

but that He existed in a unique relationship:

He was with God.

This speaks of intimate

face-to-face communion.

This is a relationship.

it is eternal fellowship.

It is personal

It is active communion between the Son and the Father.

The Godhead has always been in perfect joyful relationship

Father, Son, and Spirit

Jesus did not merely appear to be in fellowship with God;

He existed eternally in perfect relationship with the Father.

This is a clear reference to the doctrine of the Trinity—

one God in three distinct persons:

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

John 17:5 records Jesus praying, “And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.” John 17:5

Christ affirms that He shared divine glory with the Father from eternity.

but more than that, His divine fellowship.

This is necessary truth.

If Jesus is not eternally with God, then He is not truly God.

If He came later, He is lesser.

But John makes it unmistakable:

He was with God in the beginning.

Verse 2 restates the truth: “He was in the beginning with God.”

Why does John repeat this?

Because it reinforces the eternal co-existence of the Son with the Father.

This truth must be established before anything else can be said

about Jesus mission or Jesus works.

+Our Third Revelation of The Son of God.

The Self-Existence and Deity of Christ

“…and the Word was God.”

This is the most profound statement in the entire opening.

Not only was the Word in the beginning