In this teaching, we have the interaction of John the baptist with the religious leaders as to whether or not he is the Messiah or some great spiritual figure. John denied these things but made them aware that the Messiah was presently among them.
We finally get to John’s primary point of His gospel, God becomes a man in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. In this teaching I also talk about God’s plan of salvation for the elect, giving a roundabout discussion of how He determined to accomplish this. Once God became a man, Jesus, He was full of grace and truth.
In these verse John talks about how John the Baptist came to witness that Jesus was the Messiah and point men to faith in Him. He continues speaking of how when Jesus came into the world, He was rejected by the world and His own people. And finally, he sets forth the principle of election. That is, those who are saved are not saved because of familial relationships, their own will or the will of any other person, but of the sovereign will of God.
In these verse John continues to lay the foundation of the divine nature of Jesus – that His is God. He strengthens his statement in declaring His eternal existence and that He is God, the creator of all things. This God came to provide life and redemption for a fallen world – a world in darkness.
This is an extensive teaching on John 1:1, dealing with the very nature of Jesus. It is in this verse that John lays down his foundational principle about Jesus – that He is God.
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