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Drives the devils away

By brokencode ⋅ February 2, 2007 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

“If not the Scriptures, then I have nothing to say”.
I said that before. If the subject statement pleases you, read on;
If it does not edify, then cast it out, throw away the blessings.

Gospel of John, chapter 1 : 1 to 5 signifies that The WORD is in the Eternity and the Time
1:1 ; ” In the beginning was the Word “What was the WORD, WHO was HE ?

HE did not have a beginning. Because HE existed from all Eternity.
As far as the human mind mind can go back, our LORD JESUS was there!
HE never was created. HE has no beginning; a genealogy would be out of place in this Gospel of the Son of God.
The Word was with God. HE has a seperate, distinct personality.
HE is not an idea, not a thought, or some vague example, but a Real Person Who live with God. The WORD was GOD. HE not only dwelt with God, HE is GOD Himself.
The Bible teaches that there is One God and that there are three Persons in the Godhead : The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. All these three Persons are God! JESUS CHRIST is GOD. And it is not enough to say that HE is “a god”, that HE is godlike or that HE is Divine. The TRUTH is HE IS GOD!

1:2 Verse 2 is what may appears to be a mere repitition of what has been said
but IT IS NOT. This verse teaches us that CHRIST’s Personality and Deity were without beginning. HE did not become a Person for the first time as the Babe of Bethlehem. Nor HE somehow become a God after His resurrection, as some teaches today. The Truth is HE is GOD from all eternity.

1:3 All things are made through HIM. HE Himself was not a created being. Rather HE IS the CREATOR of all things This includes mankind, the animals, the heavenly planets, the angels, in short; All Things visitble and invisible!

Without Him nothing was made that was made. There are no possible exception. If a thing was made, HE made it.
As CREATOR, HE is of course, superior to anything HE has created.
All three Persons of the Godhead were involved in the work of creation: “GOD created the heavens and the earth” (Gen.1:1) “The Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters” (Gen.1:2) “All things were created through HIM (CHRIST) and for HIM (Col. 1:16b)
1:4 In Him was Life. This does not means HE possesses life.HE was and is the Source of Life. The word here includes both physical and Spiritual life.When we were born, we received the physical life but when we are born again, we receive the Spiritual life! Both come from HIM.
The life was the light of man. The same ONE Who supplied us with life is also the light of men. HE provides the guidance and direction necessary for man. It is one thing to exist, but quite another to know how to live, to know the true purpose of life, and to know trhe way to heaven! The same ONE Who gave us life is the ONE Who provides us with the light for the pathway we travel.

There seven wonderful titles of our LORD JESUS CHRIST in this opening chapter of the Gospel of John. HE is called:-
1) The WORD (v.v.. 1; 14)
2) The LIGHT (v v. 5, 7)
3) The Lamb of God (v.v. 29, 36)
4) The Son of God (v.v. 34, 49)
5) The CHRIST - Messiah (v. 41)
6) The King of Israel (v. 49)
7) The Son of Man (v. 51)
The first four titles , each of which is mentioned at least twice, is universal in application. The last three titles, each of which is mentioned only once, has their first application to Israel, God’s ancient people.

1:5 The Light shines in darkness.
The entrance to sin brought darkness to the minds of men.
It plunged the world into darkness in the sense that men in general knew nothing a bout God and rejected God. Nor wanted to know Him.
So, into this darkness our LORD JESUS came - the LIGHT shining in world’s dark places.
The darkness did not comprehend the Light of God.
This may mean that the darkness did not understand our LORD JESUS CHRIST when HE came into this world.
Men did not realise WHO He was!
Or why HE came. Another meaning however, is clearly given in the NKJV margin : the darkness did not overcome it.Then the thought wouild be that man’s rejection and enmity did not prevent the TRUE LIGHT from SHINING.

End of my sharing.

May the True Light of CHRIST JESUS now SHINE upon you all.

Praise the LORD.

i am, james yap
in CHRIST and for CHRIST
serving HIM in HPc USA

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