Reality 101--The Ultimate Revelation Of God Series

Wow! What an incredible privilege. You not only have a relationship with God the Father, you become His child, loved just as much as the God the Father loves God the Son—Jesus.

And you know something else this implies. That you are also an heir, right along with Jesus, of all the belongs to the Father. You become an heir of the eternal Kingdom of God right along with Jesus. Oh yes, this Jesus becomes king of that kingdom, but you inherit that Kingdom right along with your “elder” brother, to enjoy it’s blessing forever.

Wow! All that for just simply overcoming the darkness and actually coming to the Light. Receiving the light and the life—the eternal life—that Jesus himself freely offers. You have the very love of the Father even as Jesus does for the rest of your eternal and blessed life.

All it takes is receiving Jesus for whom He claims to be: God in the flesh, the Messiah, the Savior, the Creator, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lord, and the sacrifice for your sins.

Oh, this morning if you’ve been in the darkness and you haven’t know the truth—the Light—the Ultimate Revelation of God, of his existence, his nature, and his blessed desire for us, won’t you receive Him, won’t you even believe and trust on his saving name—Jesus, the Savior, Christ, the anointed one, the Messiah, as your Messiah, trust Him this morning.

And John is very careful, here, to make it known, that this is the work of God, not the work of man, not something that comes to pass for anyone on the basis of his ancestry, or the will and work of men. For this is what the Jews commonly thought. They thought that on the basis of the fact that they were merely descendants of Abraham that they qualified for the Kingdom. NO, that wasn’t, you instead, must be born of God, it must be work of God, to become a child of God. And so he says in verse 13, tha those who believe in Christ’s name, who trust in Him as their Light and the Life, it this those who are born of God, not those who were born of the blood of Abraham, or the will of the flesh, or of the Will of man. This new birth, this being born of God is the work of God that happens when men believe in the God-man, Jesus, as their savior.

How does John know all this? Not just from John the Baptist, whom He followed and knew well, who pointed Him to Jesus. But it was from knowing Jesus, the Word, the All-encompassing mind that controls the Universe who became a man. John the Apostle, in fact, knew Jesus for 3 ½ years. He himself stopped following John the Baptist at John’s urging and started following Jesus as early as any of Apostles did. And this is what He learned from gazing at Jesus, wondering at his true nature, becoming lost but found in Jesus’ Glory. And He himself now testifies and John the Baptist once did—that the Word, God Himself, Second person of the Trinity, Jesus, became man. “And the Word became Flesh.” In other words, God saw man drowning in his own sin, and he did not stand idly by. He did not merely send someone to save us. Nor did he merely throw a life-ring into the muddy and dark waters of this world of sin. Rather He jumped in him those dark and harrowing waters himself, and at the risk, no even the expense of his own life, he saved us.