Source: https://verticalviewer.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/my-confession-of-who-i-believe-jesus-to-be-according-to-scripture-i-believe-he-is-gods-christ/
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 14:15:33+00:00

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1. Who was Jesus? This question has been asked & answered from the time of His days on earth (cf. Matt. 16:13-15).
2. Jesus has been introduced to us in Scripture.
3. John 1:1-18 – John’s Prologue introduces Jesus to the world (20:30-31).
I. JESUS IS DEITY – 1:1-3.
A. He Is Eternal – 1:1a.
1. Before Genesis 1:1 (beginning), the Word already was!
2. Without beginning, uncreated, eternal – Jno. 8:58 (Micah 5:2).
B. He Was With God – 1:1b.
2. Jno. 17:5 – Shared glory of Deity with the Father.
C. He Was God – 1:1c.
D. All Things Were Created Through Him – 1:2-3.
1. v. 2 – The Word was with God in beginning (Gen. 1:26).
-Creation was an expression of the eternal fellowship of God!
2. v. 3 – All things – Col. l:16 (Heb. 1:2; Jno. 1:10).
-Eternal (God) – Personal (with God) – Active (Creator).
II. JESUS WAS GOD INCARNATE – 1:14, 18.
A. God In The Flesh – 1:14.
1. Phil. 2:5-8 – God took the form or fashion of a man.
(His nature: cf. “form of a servant,” Phil. 2:7).
a. Form (morphe) – v. 6: “1) the form by which a person or thing strikes the vision…2) external appearance” (Thayer, 418).
b. Equal with God – v. 6: Possessed all glory with God – Jno. 17:5.
c. Emptied Himself (made Himself of no reputation) – v. 7: Of divine form (glory, appearance) & took on human form – “likeness of men” – 2:7 (flesh & blood, Heb. 2:14; Jno. 1:14).
2. 1:14 – God “tabernacled” (dwelt) among men.
a. Only begotten from the Father – “Unique position, only one of His kind’…God incarnate!
b. 1:14 – Full of grace & truth (cf. Col. 2:9).
4. 1:18 – Here was Deity in the flesh, the manifestation of God in a visible & tangible form (Col. 1:15; Jno. 14:7-10).
1. 1:4-5. 7-9 – Brought life & light to morally dead & dark world (6:35, 63; 8:12 – Bread of life, Light of the world).
2. 1:16-17 – Brought grace & truth (14:6; Col. 2:9-10).
4. 1:41, 45 – The Christ (anointed One) (Psa. 45:7; Isa. 61:1).
5. 1:34, 49 – The Son of God / King (Psa. 2:6-7); Isa. 9:6-7; Lk. 1:32-33.
III. JESUS IS GOD’S AUTHORIZED SPOKESMAN – 1:17.
A. He Is Superior To Moses – cf. Acts 3:22-23 (Matt. 17:3-5); Heb. 3:3.
B. We Must Hear, Believe & Obey His Word (Truth) In Order To Receive Eternal Life (Grace) – Jno. 12:44-50.
1. v. 44-47 – Purpose & result of His work.
2. v. 48 – His word will judge us.
3. v. 49-50 – Obey God’s commands (words of Jesus – Truth) — Eternal life (grace)!
a. Obeying the truth Jesus revealed! – Jno. 8:31-32.
b. Jno. 12:42-43 – Believers are not automatically saved!
5. Gal. 3:26-27 – Faith involves baptism into Christ!
6. Jno. 1:13 – “Born of God”!
1. Jesus is God. He came in the flesh as God’s spokesman of truth & giver of grace. Must believe & obey Him to be saved.
2. What will you do with Jesus?!

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