Jesus is God

 John 1:1-3

 Introduction: John the apostle is the writer of this book as we can see from these texts. John 13:23, 19:26, 20:2, 21:20 where he writes that the apostle whom Jesus loved. Further in John 21:24 he says that the disciple whom Jesus loved was also an eye witness and he is the one who wrote these things down. The   purpose of this book is seen in John 20:30-31. Therefore he wrote this so that we may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God and by believing we may have life in his name. He therefore wrote these characteristics of Jesus to make the reader know whom Jesus is.

Jesus is the Word: Verse1

In the beginning was the word and in verse 14 of this chapter, John says the word became flesh. John is writing about someone he heard teaching, he moved with Jesus and touched him. He is not writing an imaginary story. Jesus’ mother lived with John in the last part of her life (John 19:26-27)

He wants us to know all about Jesus from his very first verse. The eternal majesty and deity is the creator of the universe. This is what John wants us to capture in order to feel the way they felt at that time.

John wants us to recognize the infinite majesty of Jesus Christ so that we may read this with worship, humility, submissiveness and awe that the man at the wedding party or the man at the well or the man on the mountain is the creator of the universe. John is not making a mistake but wants us to know that this man was with God in the beginning, He was God, he is the one who laid his life for us (John 15:13), and is the creator.

Why call Jesus the Word?

Because he is the truth of God and

His word is truth of God

He came to witness to the truth (John 18:37) and He was the truth (John 14:6)

Rev 19:13 says the one who judges is the word and from Rev 19:15 we get that from his mouth is a sharp sword. Ephesians 6:17 makes us know that the sword of the spirit is the word of God. So we can now understand why John called Jesus the word.

Jesus existed before creation

In the beginning was the word (ie before creation). Jude also confirms the everlasting nature of Jesus in Jude 1:25. Paul in his second letter to Timothy reiterate that we received grace through Jesus before time began. Therefore, before anytime or matter ever existed there was the word, Jesus Christ, the son of God.

The word was God (Identity of Jesus)

The Jewish Pharisees understood in John 10:33 when they accused him of blasphemy making himself God. He is our savior, our Lord and our God. Jesus is everlasting, he created everything and existed before matter and time were created.

The word was with God

The word, Jesus Christ was with God and he was God. He is God and he is the image of God, a perfect representation of all that God is (The fullness of God). There is just one essence of God but three persons. Two are mentioned here; the father and the son. If you throw away the deity of Jesus Christ, then you throw away your soul. Then what you mean is that Jesus could not accomplish your salvation (Heb 2:14-15).

All things were made through him verses 2-3

He was the father’s agent or word in the creation of all things. But in doing it, he was God. God, the word, created the world. Our savior, Lord, friend and maker

Jesus was not created (made) vs3

“Without him was not anything made that was made”. So Christ was not made since he made everything that was made. Before you exist you can’t bring yourself into being. That is what it means to be God (He was not made). And the word was God.

Unfortunately, some people have not realized the deity of Christ and so cannot submit or worship him. They think Jesus is just like any good teacher and so it suffices for them to find a good moral teacher and all will be well. No! they are living in darkness. They cannot understand the light that has come. They can only realize whom Jesus is if they know the situation of mankind as concerns sin and why man has to be redeemed.

It is not yet late, you can still accept Jesus as you savior, Lord and God. He will restore you. You need to submit to his teachings, the truth about God and who he is.

Shalom!