Message by Mike Laughrun.
(1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) He was in the beginning with God. (3) All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. (4) In him was life, and the life was the light of men. (5) The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:1-5
Big truth:
Jesus is fully God
Big Idea:
Jesus has always existed as God.
(1) In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) He was in the beginning with God.
(56) Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” (57) So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” (58) Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” (59) So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.
John 8:56-59
The coming of the Sovereign Savior means the end of self-rule and a welcome submission to the plans and purposes of One greater.
Paul David Tripp
(3) All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Big Idea:
Jesus created everything and keeps creation alive.
(16) For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities–all things were created through him and for him. (17) And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:16-17
(6) “You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.
Nehemiah 9:6
(3) All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. (4) In him was life, and the life was the light of men. (5) The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:1-5
Big Idea:
Jesus alone is the source of new life and spiritual sight.
(5) Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” (6) Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:5-6
(1) As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. (2) And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” (3) Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.
John 9:1-3
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
John 9:5
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:12
but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
John 20:31