The Tupelo journal., 1908-01-03
THE WORD
MADE FLESH
Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 5. 1908
Specially Arranged for This Paper

Verse. 3.
GOLDEN TExT.-"The Word was
made flesh, and dwelt among us.''--John
liza.
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES. - The
Divine Christ.-Heb 1:1-l0: John 3:16. IS:
Col. LIE. II; lisa. SO: Phil. 2:5-11; Rev. 1:S.
12-16. TIL Word Made Flesh. Study what
new light is thrown upon this statement
by the accounts of the virgin birth in
Luke and in Matthew: by John 3:16;
\ Heb. IL, Q: Rom. S:3: Phil. 81: Heb. 80; I
lJohn IL, 2.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
He Is the Word Of God. And the
Word Was God. 1. "In the beginning"
as In Genesis /. Back Of all manifesto
tons of God was the word which pro.
ceeded from him. '"rhe Word" is 1.-The
revealer of the incomprehensible and
Invisible God" Exp. Greek Test. Words
are the expression of what is in the
soul-reason. conscience. will, purpose.
THE word was with God" The Greek
proposition expresses not merely be.
ing beside. but a living union and
communion, implying the active no.
ton of intercourse. The divine word
no only abode with the father from
all eternity, but was in the living, &C,
tive relation of communion with him."
M. r. Vincent. THE word was God"
There is only n God, and this state
ment guards against the error which
the phrase with God" might suggest,
that there is more than me No one
can more emphatically assert the abso-
lutte unity of God than both the Old
and the New Testaments, and the
whole Christian church.
V. 8. "All things were made by Him."
Whatever God does, the Word does.
In Col. lis, 16 We are told that
Jesus
rs the image Of the invisible God,
the first-born of every creature.
For by him were all things created
that are in Heaven, and that are in
earth, visible and invisible, whether
they be thrones, or dominions, or
principalities, or powers; all things
were created by Him, and for Him."
And in Heb. 1:13:
Who being the brightness of His
glory, and the express image of His
person, and upholding all things by
the word of His power, when He had
by Himself purged cur sins, sat down
on the right hand of the Majesty on
high"
See John 3:16-1S; Phil. 2:5-11; Rev.
is, 1916; lisa. 90.
He is the source Of life. V. 4. 'In
Him was life" THAT power which
creates life and maintains all else in
existence was in the Word" He was
the fountain of existence to all things,
including every form and degree and
kind of life, natural and spiritual. So
Exp. Greek Test. For as the Father
raiseth the dead, and quickeneth them,
even SO the Son q%uickeneth whom He
will" John 5:21-26; 6:47-5S). In the
first chapters of Genesis the word Gre
ate (whose meaning is interpreted by
v. 3 of this chapter, Ito cause to come
into being") is used only three times,
% of matter, ca of life, 60 of the
soul of man; and at each of these
points the efforts of men to produce
either of these by the forces of nature
have proved a complete failure. Life
must come from life. 1t includes in
tellectual life, based on the physical
life, and spiritual life based on the in
tellectual.
He is the source of light. v. 4. "And
the life was the light of men," For
not only was the first effect of life on
matter to produce light, but the first
condition of seeing the light is life. All
the light in the universe cannot make
dead things see. Dead minds cannot
know.
And mere life without light is OF
little avail. 1t is difficult for us to
realize what a light does for us.
Jesus Christ is the revelation of the
Father. V. 1918. The witness.
The testimony of experience. v. 16.
"Of His fulness," His inexhaustible
store of grace and truth, which belong
to the Son of God; a fountain forever
flowing; a sun forever shining. Have
all we received" We know what these
are by experience; we have felt His
love, His %forgiving love; we have re-
ceived His grace in our hearts; we
have seen His loving deeds; we have
heard His gracious words; we received
His gift of Pentecost; His graces have
begun to grow in our hearts; we have
been transformed by Him.
Illustrations. Jesus is the mex
haustible source of grace and truth.
In the Morse legends, Thor was
given a drinking-horn, which he vainly
tried to drink dry. He afterward
learned that it was connected with the
ocean, and he would have had to drink
all the water of the world before he
could have emptied the cup.
An eastern king was showing his
treasure-chest to the ambassador of
the king of Spain, after their discovery
of the mines in America. The ambas-
sador put his hand to the bottom of
the kings chest, and said, II can
reach the bottom Of your treasures;
but there is no bottom, no end, to the
treasures of my Master"
Points Of Contact with Modern Life.
/. Here we find exactly the Saviour
we need.
O.. Our first duty and privilege is.
therefore. to receive Him.
8. The Saviour we need is the
Saviour for the whole world.
1. Therefore we should make Him
known everywhere, far and near. II
we really believe In this Saviour we