Word of the Father | John 1:1-2, 14
• “O come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant. O come ye, O come ye to
Yea Lord, we greet thee born this happy morning
Jesus, to thee be all glory given
Word of the Father now in flesh appearing —John Francis Wade, trans. Frederick Oakeley, “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”
• Jesus was fully
• There is always an element of
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning. —John 1:1-2, NIV
• First, the Word was
• John begins his Gospel by forcing us to make a choice: Do we believe that the Word that became flesh was
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. —John 1:14 (NIV)
God is both like and unlike the best of our earthly fathers. God is both like and unlike our impressions of him from the Old Testament. But God is altogether like and not at all unlike Jesus Christ. —Jerry Cook
• Moses was entrusted with a revelation
• The religious leaders labeled Jesus as a “
• The nails that went into the hands of
• The spear that pierced His side pierced the side of
• Jesus is the God who not only rescues and delivers us, but who has also