The Word Was God

John 1:1-5

Message No. 0764 | Twitter @GodandUs | www.wisdom-speaks.ca

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Hello friends and Happy Mother’s Day to our North American moms! This week, we will consider one of the subjects of doubt among billions of people – was Jesus Christ the Son of God? Was He God? How could this be? We will examine what the Bible says about this subject and urge those who are yet to give their lives to Christ to do so without further delays. God bless you as you read!

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Throughout history, God has appeared to man in three dispensations – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In the Old Testament, we see the Father performing the work of creation. He created everything in systematic fashion. In Genesis 1:26, He introduced us to the knowledge of the Trinity when He said, “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.” In the following verse, He returned to His creation work, because the scripture says that God created man in His own image, and in the image of God He created him.

The brief introduction to the Trinity only started to become clearer when Jesus came to the earth to deliver us from our self-inflicted burden. If anyone was in doubt whom Jesus was, John removed that doubt in his writing. In John 1:1-5, he wrote:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

If anyone was still in doubt as to what John meant by the Word, he went ahead to clarify in verse 14:

And the Word became 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.

This shows that it was apparent lack of knowledge for anyone to have referred to Jesus Christ as the son of Joseph. We also see a display of complete ignorance when the Jews wanted to stone Him for daring to say that He had been in existence before Abraham (John 8:58-59), and when He proclaimed that He was the Son of God, and therefore the same as God (John 10:30), for the Jews, that was enough already. However, what was undeniable was the power behind Jesus’ ministry, and the effortless ease with which He did things. This was so amazingly clear that at some point He was accused of having a demon.

Notwithstanding the abundance of evidence before the Jews, their rulers never accepted that Jesus was God and that He had come to set them free. What a lost opportunity! They accused Jesus and requested their Roman masters to crucify Him. This denial of an apparent truth still hunts Israel till date, as most of them do not believe that Jesus was the Son of God, nor do they believe that He is their savior. While some countries of the world have more than 90% Christian population, Israel has 1.9%, of which Arab Christians make up the majority.

We could easily classify this outcome as a disaster; however, Jesus did not come in vain. He raised up Paul to serve as an apostle to the gentiles, from whose ministry non-Jews were preached to, and accepted Jesus Christ as their savior. Jesus’ ministry was the second dispensation. This was when God appeared to us in the form of a man, suffering what we suffer and displaying full understanding of our plights. When He died, resurrected and ascended to heaven, this dispensation ended, but Jesus Christ had promised the Holy Spirit, the dispensation we currently are in now.

It is very hard to live in denial of the evidence, which is so clear around us, but if you are yet to surrender your life to Jesus, you are delaying your salvation and living in immeasurable risk. For, in Hebrews chapter 2 verses 2-4, the Bible says:

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

The risk you are carrying is completely unnecessary, because all it will take you to avoid eternal agony is to surrender your life by asking Jesus to forgive you of your sins and take over your life from this moment on. Salvation is free, because Jesus already paid the price. How could anyone ignore a gift so precious? This is the right moment to act, because every minute of delay is potentially a trigger to an irrecoverably lost chance.

What to Do?

Surrender your life to Christ today. This is not the kind of thing to joke with.