The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-03
THE WORD
MADE FLESH
Sunday School Lesson for Jan. S, 1908
Specially Arranged for This Paper

| Verse, 3.
GOLDEN TEXT.-"The Word was
made flesh, and dwelt among us."-John
| 1H
| SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES. - The
| Divine Christ.-Heb. 1:1-l0: John 3:l6, IS;
| Col. lie II; lisa 9:6; Phil 2:5-l1; Rev. 18,
12-16 The 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 BIG;
Heb IL, 2; Rom S;3; Phil. 2:7; Heb. 2:s;
| John IL, ..
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
He Is the Word of God. And the
Word Was God l. 'In the beginning"
as in Genesis l. Back of all manifesto
lions of God was the word which pro-
ceeded from him. THE Word is 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 Cod The Greek
proposition expresses not merely be-
ing beside, but living union and
communion, implying the active no.
ton of intercourse. The divine word
not only abode with the father from
all eternity, but was in the living. ac-
tive relation of communion with him."
M R. Vincent. THE word was God"
There is only one Cod and this state
ment guards against the error which
the phrase with God" might suggest,
that there is more than one 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. g. All things were made by Him."
Whatever God does, the Word does.
In Col. lis, 16 we are told that
Jesus
is the image of the invisible God,
the f1rst-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. lib:
"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 our sins, sat down
on the right hand of the Majesty on
high"
See John 3:16-1S; Phil. 2:5-11; Rev.
LIS, 1916; lisa. 9:6.
He is the source of life. V. 4. I'm
Him was life" THAT power which
creates life and maintains all else in
tn L.
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 Quickeneth 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. 8 of this chapter, ito cause to come
into being'') is used only three times,
Cd of matter, (2) 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 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
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 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; fountain forever
lowing; a sun forever shining. Have
all we received" We know what these
are by experience; we have felt His
owe, His forgiving love; we have re-
ceived His grace in our hearts; we
nave 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
,een transformed by Him.
Illustrations. Jesus is the mex
source of grace and truth.
In the Morse legends, Thor was
,iven drinking-horn, which he vainly
ried to drink dry. He afterward
earned that it was connected with the
'cean, and he would have had to drink
IL the water of the world before he
ould have emptied the cup.
An eastern king was showing his
to the ambassador of
be king of Spain, after their discovery
( the mines in America. The ambas-
ador put his hand to the bottom of
he kings chest, and said, 81 can
each the bottom of your treasures;
ut there is no bottom. no end, to the
of my Master"
olnts of Contact with Modern Life.
l. Here we find exactly the Saviour
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