![]() ![]() The glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” “The Word,” verse 14, “became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory. In the opening eighteen verses that some call the prologue, John gives his own testimony that the Word, who is Jesus Christ, is God, with God, created everything, is the Light, is the life, all of those things are part of that. There is the first eighteen verses, which is the testimony of John the apostle himself. We already know that from our experience in chapter 1. The whole purpose of this gospel is just to line up supporting proofs for the deity of Jesus Christ. John’s gospel is a collection of evidences, of evidences concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, to prove His deity and His humanity. So we’ve been saying he has an apologetic purpose to give evidence that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and he has an evangelistic purpose that you might believe that, and then believing have eternal life in His name. John writes to give evidence for the fact that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah and is the Son of God, that you may believe that, and that believing you may have life, eternal life, in His name. These have been written, he says-the words of this gospel-that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. And I have reminded you and will remind you again that John has written his gospel for one purpose, really. ![]() So be with us at six o’clock tonight as we continue to learn about the Messiah.įor now, it’s John chapter 2, John chapter 2. We all know that Jesus is the Messiah, but do we know what that means? Last week we looked at the office of Messiah, tonight we’re going to look at the person and the ministry of Messiah in what I think is one of the most fascinating and sort of overview perspectives that help us to understand the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. I do want to mention to you that tonight we’re going to continue a brief series on the idea of the Messiah. ![]()
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