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Jesus The Eternal Word
by Miles McKee
by Miles McKee
John’s Gospel is a marvelous place to see the Deity of Christ. He begins by informing us,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” (Jn1:1-3).
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” (Jn1:1-
He then goes on to say in Jn.1:14,
“And the Word was made flesh (became human), and dwelt among us,”
“And the Word was made flesh (became human), and dwelt among us,”
Notice how the Word who was in the beginning became human and this same Word was God. This Word who was from all eternity is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.
Since John identifies the Word as being the Lord Jesus we should, as an experiment, try reading the first verses replacing the term ‘Word’ with ‘The Lord Jesus Christ’. It reads then as follows, “In the beginning was the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord Jesus Christ was with God and The Lord Jesus Christ was God.” The Lord Jesus Christ was God!!! Need we say any more?
Remember when we are dealing with the Lord Jesus we are dealing with He who is both God and man. John Owen writes,
Since John identifies the Word as being the Lord Jesus we should, as an experiment, try reading the first verses replacing the term ‘Word’ with ‘The Lord Jesus Christ’. It reads then as follows, “In the beginning was the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord Jesus Christ was with God and The Lord Jesus Christ was God.” The Lord Jesus Christ was God!!! Need we say any more?
Remember when we are dealing with the Lord Jesus we are dealing with He who is both God and man. John Owen writes,
“The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” But what Word was this? That which was in the beginning which was with God which was God by whom all things were made and without whom was not anything made that was made; who was light and life. This Word was made flesh not by any change of His own nature or essence, not by a transubstantiation of the divine nature into the human, not by ceasing to be what he was but by becoming what he was not, in taking our nature to his own, to be his own, whereby he dwelt among us.” (Owens Works: Vol. 1 p 46-
“The Word became flesh”. Spurgeon gives us some heartwarming insight into this truth when he says,
“The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” Note that word “flesh.” It does not say, “The Word was made man”: it means that, but the use of the word “flesh” brings the Lord Jesus still closer to us, and shows that He took on Him the very nature and substance of manhood: He did not merely assume the name and notion, and appearance, of manhood, but the reality: the weakness, the suffering, the mortality of our manhood He actually took into union with Himself. He was no phantom, or apparition, but He had a human body and a human soul. “The Word was made flesh.” When the Lord became bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, His incarnation in a human body brought Him far nearer to man than when He only abode within curtains, and occupied a tent in the midst of Israel.”
“Ere the blue heav’ns were stretched abroad,
From everlasting was the Word:
With God he was; the Word was God,
And must divinely be adored”
From everlasting was the Word:
With God he was; the Word was God,
And must divinely be adored”
Isaac Watts
The Eternal Word….that means He is God!
Quote of the Day
“Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.”
Phillips Brooks
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