Six Basic Truths about the Son of God
Behold the Lamb Series 9
Outline notes from John McArthur Study Bible
John 1:1-18 Monte T. Brown
December 28, 2014 Sunday Evening
Stapp Zoe Baptist
Introduction
There are “Six Basic Truths about the Son of God” and we will cover them this evening. I will be taking my “Six Basic Truths about the Son of God” from John 1:1-18.
Prayer
1. The Eternal Christ verses 1-3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The first verse comes right out with the remarks that the Word was in the beginning.
In the beginning the Word already existed.
In the beginning refers to the beginning of creation and we see here that the Word already existed.
In our minds we must have a beginning and an end.
However when it comes to God, He was before the beginning.
For God does not measure time. God created time for us, for God is forever and forever does not need time.
There was God the Father, Jesus Christ the only begotten Son and the one and only Holy Spirit.
Because God is a triune God, that is to say the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, they all three are God.
We see God as the master creator and His Son is God in the flesh and His Holy Spirit is God living in us.
The same was in the beginning with God.
This verse alone should assure us that Jesus Christ is preexisting.
He was there during the creation of this world.
This also assures us that there is a triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.
Verse three goes on to say that Jesus Christ played a part in creation.
Being part of the triune Godhead, he can say that he created all things.
Because our God is three in one, God the father, Jesus Christ the son, or God that manifested himself into the image of man and the Holy Spirit, which is God living in us.
In reading verse three the first thing that came to my mind was that old song, “Without Him” “Without Him I could do nothing, without him I’d surely fail.”
You see without him I would not be here.
Everything would be gone and there would be no more or before, because you see He is the divine creator.
2. The Incarnate Christ verses 4-5
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Life is a key theme in John’s gospel; it is used thirty-six times.
The word Life brings up many questions, but I would like to focus on one question and that is what the essentials for human life are?
There are at least four basic essentials for human life.
Light – Without the Sun we would all die
Air – Without air we would die
Water – Without water we would die
Food – Without food we would die
Light – Jesus is the light of life John 8:12
Air – Jesus is the breath of life John 20:22; John 3:8
Water – Jesus is the water of life John 4:10; John 4:13-14; John 7:37-39
Food – Jesus is the bread of life John 14:6
He is not only has life and gives life, He is life.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. John 14:6
The darkness can never extinguish the LIGHT!
Jesus Christ is the very fiber of life, the creator of life. Our very existence is a witness of God.
God is the light of men. Without the light there is darkness.
The Bible tells us that because of man’s sin that he is born in darkness.
As we know the darkness is always used to refer to that which is not of God, therefore if it is not of God, then it is of this world.
Therefore Satan controls this world and that makes every person that has not received Jesus Christ as his or her Lord and Savior, a child of Satan.
Every Christian can have their spiritual life dimmed by the darkness of this world, when they get away from the Word of God.
We become a prime target for that spiritual darkness to haunt our lives.
We are the vessel that holds the light of God.
We are to let our light so shine before men, that they may see the good works of God and glorify his name.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Our witness shines into a world of darkness.
The world does not understand God. The world cannot comprehend the very Word of God.
It is our responsibility to convey that Word to a world of darkness.
3. The Forerunner of Christ verses 6-8
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
This verse indicates the personal call of God upon the life of John.
We need to insert our own name in the place of John, and then we can see what God as called us as believers to do
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
John's very purpose in life was to testify of God.
His existence, justice, and grace should be an inspiration to all.
When we become a Christian we should be ready to do the will of God at anytime, being ready to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world.
So as John came so should we bear witness of The Light!
His message was a message of Christ. He preached it so the world might be saved.
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
God has not called us to imitate Him, or impersonate Him, but to bear witness of Him, by letting the light of Jesus Christ shine through us.
4. The Unrecognized Christ verses 9-11
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Jesus Christ is the true light of the world, the light that comes to all mankind.
When we enter into eternity and dwell with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, he will be the light that lights up eternity.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Even though He came to this world, the very world that he created, the world did not know Him. MB
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
He was born into Jewish decent, the very people that God called his own and they did not receive Him.
5. The Omnipotent Christ verses 12-13
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Are we worshipping God today?
Do we really understand the power of God?
Do we really understand the power of prayer?
Do we really understand what John 1:12 really says?
As Christians we must worship him in our hearts all the time. He is not died he is alive!
There are many different kinds of power, automobile, electricity, atomic, wind, natural gas, solar, and etc.
The power that I want us to focus on is the power that is mentioned in verse 12.
There are two actions delineated in verses 12: the action of man and the action of God. Man's action is to receive and to believe.
To receive means to accept for one's self, and to believe means to place one's trust in.
Both of these concepts are a part of salvation. God's action is "to them gave he power to become the sons of God."
The word power (GR exousia) means the right or authority to become the sons of God, a power that enables us to become, supernaturally the sons of God.
Most Christians have no problem with this verse and believing that God used his authority to give us his Son to die for our sins and become our Savior.
However for some reason a lot of Christians have the idea that Jesus can be our Savior and not our Lord.
Just like it takes hydrogen and oxygen to make water, so does it take Jesus as Lord and Savior of our lives to become a Christian?
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Jesus Christ was not born of man.
Yes born of a woman, but not conceived by man, but by the Holy Spirit.
The father determines the blood of a child.
The mother’s blood never mingles with the child’s, so the blood of Jesus Christ was perfect blood, blood from the father.
Jesus Christ coming into this world was not by the plans of man.
Joseph was appointed by God to be earthly father of Jesus Christ.
Better yet the caretaker of the Christ Child, Joseph, did not play any part in the bringing of the Lord into this world.
This was the plan and will of God, the Father.
6. The Glorious Christ verses 14-18
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
The Word (Jesus Christ the Son of God) took on a fleshly body and dwelt among us.
This means that He experienced the daily living we go through.
He knows what we go through;
He knows what it means to live here on earth, because he experienced it.
Knowing all this we were able to see and experience His glory, the glory of the one and only Son of God.
We see that He is full of grace and truth.
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
John acknowledges Jesus to the crowd and lets them know that He is the one that I've been witnessing about.
He is the one who deserves honor, glory, and praise, not me.
He has always been in existences, he knew me before I was even born.
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
As a child of God we benefit from the rich blessing that Christ has brought to us one gracious blessing after another.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
God gave the law through Moses, but God's unfailing love and faithfulness comes through Jesus Christ.
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
No one has ever seen God.
But Jesus Christ the Son of God is God himself.
Jesus Christ is near to the heart of God the Father.
Jesus Christ has come to tell us about the Father, God almighty.
Conclusion/Invitation
We have just seen the “Six Basic Truths about the Son of God.”
1. The Eternal Christ
2. The Incarnate Christ
3. The Forerunner of Christ
4. The Unrecognized Christ
5. The Omnipotent Christ
6. The Glorious Christ
Now we must decide how these “Six Basic Truths about the Son of God” will affect our lives, today, tomorrow, rest of our lives.
