Friday 2021.10.29
Today is the Sixth Day of the Biblical Week. It is Preparation Day. Let us make preparations to rest for the Seventh Day Sabbath which will begin after sunset this evening.
In the New Testament today, I began reading the Gospel according to John, covering the first two chapters.
The Gospel of John begins with a detailed description of the origin, advent, and purpose of the Word of God. The first eighteen verses of chapter one tells us at least eight things about the Word of God.
(1) The Word was with God in the beginning.
- John 1:1 - 2 ASV American Standard Version
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1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
(2) All things were created through the Word.
- John 1:3 ASV
- 3 All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.
(3) Life and Light was in the Word
- John 1:4 - 5 ASV
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4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.
(4) The Word came into the world but the world did not recognise him. His own people rejected him.
- John 1:9 - 11 ASV
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9 There was the true light, even the light which lighteth every man, coming
into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and they that were his own received him not.
(5) Whoever received him by believing on his name was given the right to become children of God.
- John 1:12 - 13 ASV
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12 But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children
of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
(6) The Word came into this world physically, "in the flesh".
- John 1:14 ASV
- 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
(7) John the Baptist bore witness of the Word and the Grace and Truth of God that came by the Word.
- John 1:15 - 17 ASV
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15 John beareth witness of him, and crieth, saying, This was he of whom I
said, He that cometh after me is become before me: for he was before me.
16 For of his fulness we all received, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
(8) The Word was in the bosom of God the Father, was the Only Begotten Son of God, and had declared God to us.
- John 1:18 ASV
- 18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
