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THE WORD WAS GOD
APRIL 7, 2013
SESSION I
DISCIPLINES TO BE LEARNED
I. THE WORD WAS PRESENT IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD
II. THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS
III. JOHN CAME AS A WITNESS TO THE LIGHT
TRAINING SESSION
In this quarter of study, we will turn our attention to the teachings of the Gospel of John. At once, we will see that this Gospel presents us with a markedly different picture of Jesus than that found in the three Synoptic Gospels – Matthew, Mark, and Luke. That difference begins with John’s portrait of the preexistent Word, the Word who was with God in the beginning
(John 1:2, NIV). In the lessons for this week and next week, we will consider the Prologue of John’s Gospel and its elegant statement of Jesus’ eternity and deity. We will see that Jesus was and is God, that He is the Light that shines in the spiritual darkness of this world, and that God has always sent witnesses to the Light to dwell among men and women and point them to the Light.
I. THE WORD WAS PRESENT IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD
Unlike the other Gospels, John takes a different starting point. Matthew’s Gospel begins, after a brief genealogy, with the birth of Jesus. Mark begins with the ministry of John the Baptist. Luke begins with an account of the circumstances surrounding the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus. John, however, begins in the beginning
(v. 1, NIV). But what does he mean by that? First of all, John intends to evoke the opening phrases of the book of Genesis. As Leon Morris observes, Genesis 1 described God’s first creation; John’s theme is God’s new creation
(The Gospel According to John, Revised Edition [Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995], 65). The Word was present at creation and before creation. There has never been a time, in other words, when the Word was not.
But there is likely more to this phrase than that. John is fond of playing on the multiple meanings of words. In this case, the word translated beginning
(Grk. arch ) can also mean origin
or source.
This would imply that the Word is at the foundation or the root of the universe. The Word, in other words, is the source of all of creation and infuses all of creation. The Word, we might say, is the organizing principle behind all of creation. But John goes still further. The Word is much more than even that: The Word,
we are told, was God
(v. 1, NIV). There is no suggestion that the Word was a subordinate principle or person. The Word was fully God along with the Father and the Holy Spirit. It is possible, as some commentators have suggested, that John emphasizes this because the question of the nature of Christ was already being discussed at the time he wrote this Gospel (ca. A.D. 90). More likely, though, is the fact that John was writing to churches that would have been made up of many Jewish Christians. In light of the strong emphasis on the oneness of God in the Law, he would have needed to put considerable emphasis on Jesus’ deity, lest they be overcome by the temptation to see Jesus as subordinate to the Father or, perhaps, created by the Father.
II. THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS
Having established the place of Christ at creation and before creation, John then turns to discuss the effects of His entrance into the world, in human history, in the incarnation. He talks about that entrance in terms of life
and light
(v. 4, NIV). These are concepts that will recur again and again in John’s Gospel. They appear here as a way of explaining Jesus’ meaning for the world. John