Jesus is the Word of God!

Sermon Summary:

This powerful exploration of John 1:1-18 invites us into one of Christianity’s most profound mysteries: the incarnation. We’re challenged to wrestle with the stunning truth that the eternal Word of God actually became flesh and walked among us. The prologue of John’s Gospel isn’t just beautiful poetry—it’s a theological earthquake that sets Christianity apart from every other religion. We discover that Jesus wasn’t merely a great teacher or moral example, but God Himself in human form, fully divine and fully human simultaneously. This paradox may escape our complete understanding, but that doesn’t make it less true. Just as we accept countless realities we cannot fully comprehend, we’re called to embrace this central truth by faith. The passage reveals Jesus as the creative agent through whom everything came into being, the one who perfectly balanced grace and truth, and the ultimate revelation of God’s character. For us today, this means our transformation isn’t based on following a philosophy or imitating a hero—it’s about encountering the living God who chose to tabernacle among us. As we reflect on these truths, especially during the Lenten season, we’re reminded that knowing Jesus isn’t just knowing about God; it’s knowing God Himself.

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Sermon Points:

Key Takeaways:

• The Word of God (Jesus) is eternal, existing continuously from the beginning
• The Word of God is equal with God, face-to-face in divine relationship
• The Word of God is God Himself, not merely a representative or messenger
• The Word of God is the creative agent through whom all things were made
• The Word of God became flesh in Jesus of Nazareth, fully human and fully God
• Jesus resided temporarily with humanity, tabernacling among people
• Jesus reflected the glory of God perfectly through His sinless life
• Jesus embodied the perfect balance of grace and truth
• Jesus most fully reveals God to humanity because He came from God and is God
• The incarnation is the only hope for human transformation and redemption
• Understanding who Jesus is represents the most important question any human will answer

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Scripture References:

• John 1:1-18 (primary focus)
• Genesis 1 (creation narrative)
• Colossians 1:15-17 (Christ as creator)
• 1 John 1:1 (apostolic testimony)
• Philippians 2:5-11 (Christ’s humility and exaltation)

Stories:

• The pastor’s personal experience on airplanes when asked about his profession, sometimes avoiding revealing he’s a Baptist preacher
• The illustration of drawing a circle representing all knowledge and asking someone to mark how much they know within it, demonstrating human limitations in understanding
• Reference to the ancient banquet custom of seating people of equal rank face-to-face, explaining the Greek idiom used in John 1
• The congregation’s participation in a global flourishing study with Harvard University and Baylor, involving 1,300 adults and 12 churches worldwide
• The Jewish understanding of the tabernacle in Exodus and how God’s presence dwelt there, paralleling Jesus dwelling among humanity

Sermon Transcript:

Well, I know, I feel like I say it every week, but the worship ministry at our church, I mean, come on, y’. All, it’s amazing, isn’t it?

Just blessed by all of them. And then Tina and Maggie, little mother and daughter, beautiful harmony, right? And well, you know that our theme for this year is flourishing together. And we’re highlighting what it means to be transformed on the Jesus way. And we are still digesting and learning more from the results of our survey that we did back in the fall.

As I’ve shared with you already, they were right at 1300 adults here in our church that took this survey. And you know that we’re a part of a pilot program with 12 churches here in Texas and in California. And we are a part of this global flourishing study that’s being led by Harvard University and Baylor. And we’ve been in contact with Dr. Kate Long. She is our the researcher from Harvard.

And one of the things that she has as she has helped us digest the answers you’ve all given, one of the things that you can say about First Baptist Arlington, here’s one of the things she says the Secure Flourishing Index scores exceed national and state averages, especially in meaning and purpose. Individual Christian flourishing scores are also high with the strongest in meaning. She says the results of this survey point to a healthy, vibrant congregation shaped by long term spiritual discipleship. And as I said, we are still making our way through this 90 page report of all the answers that you have given to this survey that Harvard and Baylor are leading. And as I’ve thought about and prayed about it, as I look at us as a church, as Kate says in her conclusions, this is a spiritually mature congregation and I’m grateful for that.

And I believe that also means that we have a certain responsibility to ensure that we take these true theological teachings, the true doctrines of the Christian faith that are so woven in the fabric of this church and make sure that we hand them down to the next generations.

True. So we’ve got to make sure that we continue to think and reflect theologically, Biblically so that we will remain that kind of church in this community into the generations beyond us. And so as I thought about that, I look at my culture, our society and our society by and large, whether you realize it or not, for the most part rejects the core message of Christianity because our society is entirely, it tends to be entirely self reliant. And that is something that is the antithesis of the teaching of Christianity and also the transformation that is needed. Our theme this year is being transform on The Jesus way, the transformation that is needed in the lives of people is only possible through the Christian hope that we have found in the Gospel.

And at the heart of that is not just a teaching, it’s not just a theology, it’s not a philosophy of life. All of that emerges, but at the heart of it is a person. And that person is Jesus. And so today we begin our first Sunday in the Lenten Easter season. We began the season Wednesday night with our Ash Wednesday service here in the sanctuary.

Many of you were here for that. But today Marks the first Sunday in this journey. And our theme for the Easter season this year is the Good Shepherd. And we’re going to read together the Gospel of John. One of the other results that we found in this survey was, according to what you said about yourself, is we needed to strengthen the discipline and the practice of daily Bible readings.

And so we have answered that as we are providing those for you now with a devotional that Kirk Grice writes every day. And I would encourage, if you haven’t signed up, to sign up for it. And you’ll receive those. They come every morning at 4:03. So I get up every morning, hit the send button.

That’s just the kind of pastor I am. You know, I just. I just love you. But actually, somebody does that. I’m not sure how it works.

But regardless, I just provide the daily Bible readings and. But you can get those. And we began on Wednesday with our focus for the Lenten season, reading the Gospel of John. And I want to encourage you to do that. We’re going to read the entire Gospel for this season.

But with that said, as your pastor, what I would encourage you to do is to spend some time every week on the first page, this prologue, John 1, verses 1 through 18. It towers above ancient literature. It is one of the most powerful pieces of literature that’s ever been written. Even those who are secular in their theology see this as a beautiful statement of the essence of Christianity. And so here’s what we’re going to do today.

Instead of me giving you what I would refer to as somewhat of a normal sermon per se, what I want to do for these next few minutes is offer you some theological reflections that are connected to John 1. If you use our church app, the notes are in your church app, and I want to ask you to spend some time each week in John 1 and look over these notes and let’s reflect together about who Jesus really is. Because the answer was to the question, who is Jesus? Is the single most important answer. Any human being will ever give to any question.

And that’s saying something. Because there are some profoundly important questions that need to be answered by human beings. This one’s the most profound one. And so I want to encourage you to look at it with me. I’ve entitled the message today.

Jesus is the word of God. And so we’re going to look at John 1. So if you have your Bibles, your copy of the New Testament, look at it with me. I want you to keep it open because we’re going to refer back to it today. So John 1, verse 1.

You know, it’s our custom to stand and honor the Lord Jesus when the Gospel is read. So I invite you to stand for the gospel reading. We’ll read these words. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. And the Word was God.

He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made. Without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

There was a man sent from God whose name was John. Now this gospel is named John, but that’s a reference to John the Baptist. The author of this gospel is John the Apostle. So concerning John the Baptist, verse 7. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe he himself was not the light.

He came only as a witness to the light, the true light. The that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

Children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We’ve seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son who came from the Father full of grace and truth. John. Again, John the Baptist testified concerning him.

He cried out, saying, this is the One I spoke about when I said, he who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me. Out of his fullness we’ve all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him Known.

Thank you. You may be seated.

So again today, I’m going to invite you to this time of theological reflection with me and going to reflect on the deep core truth and the miracle and the mystery of what theologians refer to as the Incarnation. The Incarnation is the very heart of Christianity. Is this truth that Jesus Christ is the Word of God, the Son of God, namely, he is God in the flesh. The reason we believe that is because there is so much at stake. What’s at stake in this conversation is the redemption of all humanity and the restoration of God’s creation itself.

And so, in order for human beings to be redeemed and God’s creation to be restored, the Incarnation had to be a reality. It’s a miracle. It’s a mystery. In fact, if you just keep your New Testament open. Look at the opening words.

John’s Gospel in the beginning. Does that at all sound familiar to you? John was a Jew. He was a Jewish theologian and evangelist. He knew full well when he wrote those words.

Those were some of the most recognized words in all of Judaism. And what he’s doing is. Is he is hearkening back to the story of creation because the message of the Gospel that he is writing is the story of recreation. And it is a powerful, gripping story. This is God’s answer to the brokenness of this world.

So let’s reflect on that theologically today. I want to share with you a quote from a book that I read years ago when I was in seminary. I refer to it often. It’s written by Dr. Shirley Guthrie. He was a professor of theology for many, many years.

He’s gone on to be with the Lord, but he wrote a little book called Christian Doctrine. And he says about the Incarnation, we must proceed very carefully here, he says, and very modestly, for we come now to a mystery no man can grasp and master. No one ever reaches the point which he can say, now I understand. Now I have it. Regarding the Incarnation, whoever thinks that he understands everything here has it neatly wrapped up in a nice system and no longer needs to listen to and let what he thinks he already knows be corrected, only proves that he understands nothing.

This does not mean that we must not try to understand as best we can who Jesus Christ is and what he means. But it does mean that we can never reach the end of our attempt to understand. And so the goal is, according to Dr. Guthrie, is the same goal I have for you to understand a little better and see a little more clearly. That’s our hope as we make this journey together. So I’ll set that before you.

So are y’ all ready? Alright, so I’m going to go through this quickly, but I want you to be able to refer to it over and over as you reflect on John 1. Here is my sense of a theological treatment of the miracle of the Incarnation. So I’m going to give it to you somewhat quickly. According to me.

You may not think it so quickly, but let’s start here. The Word of God. And when we say the Word of God, you could also say the Son of God. So that’s why I put it in parentheses every time. The Word of God is eternal.

Notice what the Bible says. In the beginning was the Word. Now, John wrote this in Greek, not in English. And the beautiful thing about the Greek language is it’s a very robust language, much more than English. And there are so many words that are used in Greek that signal profound meaning.

Here’s one of the examples. If you look at verse one, that little word was, don’t you love that word? It’s so simple in English, it’s so profound in Greek, though there’s so many different ways to say it in Greek. And this particular word is in a particular tense in Greek. It’s called the imperfect tense.

I’m not trying to impress you with my knowledge, my goodness, I grew up in Alabama. But I would just tell you, though, I’ve done my homework. This particular tense of this particular verb to be implies and communicates continuous action in the past tense. Past time. It means the essential existence of the Word of God.

In other words, you could translate it like this. In the beginning, always was the Word. That’s a legitimate way to translate it. Herschel Hobbes has written a wonderful commentary on the Gospel of John. He’s a pastor scholar from another generation.

Here’s what he says in the beginning. Immediately we’re introduced to the vast scope of the evangelist mind with regard to his Gospel. Mark began his account on the banks of the Jordan River. Matthew takes us back to Abraham. Luke, in his genealogy, looks back to the creation, to Adam, which was the Son of God.

But John sweeps back behind creation into the eternities in the beginning, whenever that was. So the Word of God is eternal. Next, the Word of God, or the Son of God, is equal with God. Notice this text says he was God and he was with God. Once again, an interesting phrase in the Greek text, Prosthomtheon.

What does that mean? It means face to face. He says in the beginning was the Word, and the word was face to face with God. That’s a Greek idiom. What that means is whenever in the ancient world, whenever they were hosting a banquet and you brought someone in and they were of the same rank, of the same order in the society, no one could sit above someone else.

And so if you happen to have someone of a certain rank and someone else of the same rank was visiting and one of them was taller than the other, you had to fix their cushion so they could see eye to eye. You didn’t look down on someone of equal rank. Does that make sense? That’s the phrase used here. The Son of God sees God eye to eye.

He is equal with God. Next, the Word of God. Here’s the one that’s incredibly powerful. The Word of God is God. That’s the message of Christianity.

The Son of God is God. Notice what John says. In the beginning was the Word, the Word was God, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Powerful statement. The Word is God himself.

Again, let me read you a quote from Dr. Guthrie’s treatise on the incarnation. In his book Christian Doctrine, he says this. In this real flesh and blood man, Jesus of Nazareth, God himself was uniquely present in the world. This man was not just a great teacher of profound truths about God, man, the world and the secret of a happy, peaceful, successful life. That’s the Westerners view today of Jesus.

Okay, here’s what Dr. Guther says. This man was not just a great teacher of profound truths about God, man, the world and the secret of a happy, peaceful, successful life. He was not just a great moral hero for us to imitate as best we can, nor just a very godlike religious personality, the model of a truly spiritual life. Not just the founder of a religious club, later called the Church, where religious people with a common interest in him come together to admire him and admire themselves for admiring him. To know this man is not just to know a very great, very good, very wise man.

It is to know God himself. His very name, Jesus, which in Hebrew means God helps or God saves. He’s called Emmanuel. God with us. He is the Christ.

He’s the Messiah. He’s the anointed One of God. And his miraculous birth is a sign of the fact that where he comes from, who he is and what he does cannot be explained in terms of the ordinary processes of human life in history. This man comes from God, not from men. He is the Son of God.

Can I just say Amen to that? Jesus, the Son of God. The Word of God. God. John continues.

The Word of God, the Son of God is the creative Agent of God. I want you to notice what this text says. Verse 3. Through him, everything was made. Once again, another Greek word.

Everything came into being that has come into being. So everything that is this universe is not some accidental combination of gases and elements that have no life or no purpose in them. The scripture is clear. Everything that is this universe itself is a reflection of the very will of God. Remember what the book of Genesis says.

Written very simply. I get it. You know, when you read Genesis 1, it’s written in what scholars call semi poetic narrative. It’s not plain narrative. It’s also not poetry, but it’s semi poetic.

You’ll have. And there was evening and morning, the first day and it was good. There was evening and morning and the second day and it was good. There’s that natural rhythm, if you will, but the phrase that’s communicated throughout Genesis 1. And God said, and God said, and God said, and God said.

Because our words reflect our will, our intent, our desire, the Word of God expresses the very will of God. And so the creative agent of the Trinity is the Son of God. That’s the testimony of the Scripture. So listen to this from Colossians 1. Here’s how Paul puts it.

In verse 15, he says, the Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created. Things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities. All things have been created through him, and for him, he’s before all things and in him all things hold together.

Come on, y’. All. What does the Bible say about the Son of God? He is the creative agent of the Trinity. Everything that has come into existence has come into existence through him and the role that he plays and has played in the Trinity.

So here’s Take all that in. It’s powerful, powerful theological truth. But here’s where it truly makes a profound difference in what Christians believe that separate Christians from every other religion in the world. You know that we are in the midst of Ramadan across our society, in the world, our Muslim brothers and sisters, our friends. Very serious religious season.

So are we. We’re in the Lenten Easter season. And one of the messages that we can communicate to our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, is this belief right here. Because this is what sets us apart from every religion. It is this that the Word of God, the Son of God became flesh.

In fact, the Word of God became Jesus of Nazareth. Now that is the mystery, that is the miracle that is foundational to Christianity. The Son of God didn’t just appear like a man. He was a man. He didn’t just appear to be God.

He. He was God. He was not half man and half God. He was fully man and fully God at the same time. Now, you and I, it escapes our ability to understand it.

That’s why Dr. Guthrie says, if you think you’ve got this figured out, then you obviously know nothing. This is incredibly profound. But just because something is profound doesn’t mean that it isn’t true. And just because you can’t figure it out doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Sometimes people are puzzled by that.

Say, well, if I can’t understand this, and I just can’t believe it. Think about that for a second. There is so much in this life you don’t understand, and yet you believe in it all the time. There’s so much that escapes every one of us. And if you don’t realize that I’ve told you all this before, then go home this evening and look in the mirror and think about the expanse of this universe.

And look how small your head is. And think about your brain is smaller than your head. You got this little bitty brain encapsulated in your head. And if you think somehow in that little brain, you can understand all the mysteries of the universe. Come on.

You know how I’ve done it. Sometimes I’ll be on an airplane. And I’ve used this before, you know, when I fly on an airplane, you know, y’. All. It just depends on how.

I’m not always the best Christian on an airplane. Okay? I’m just gonna be honest. So sometimes I just don’t want to be bothered, you know, I’m going somewhere. I’m not going to tell you that I’m a Baptist preacher.

I’m just not. You’re going to have to force it out of me, because I know what’s going to happen after that. So sometimes I’ll just say, I’m a part of a global enterprise. You know, I work for a huge corporation, whatever. But every once in a while, I’ll just get into the conversation.

I can’t help it. So sometimes when I encounter someone who tells me that you just. They just can’t believe all this, I will say, okay, I’ll do this. I’ll say, let’s get this piece of paper. And I’ll say, I’m going to draw a circle, and this circle represents everything there is to know.

Everything there is to know. Now, I’m going to give you the pen, and I Want you to draw inside that circle how much of all that you know.

Okay. And no matter what they draw, I always tell them that’s too big. You don’t know that much. I just met you, but you don’t know that much. There’s so much to know.

The Incarnation, the Word became flesh, is foundational to Christianity, but it continues to be a step of faith for us. But it’s not a blind step. We have testimony that’s given. These apostles lived with Jesus. The man that wrote this lived with Jesus.

Listen to what John says later in a letter to a church in First, John, he says that which was from the beginning, the Word which we’ve heard, which we’ve seen with our eyes, which we’ve looked at and our hands have touched, this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. John the apostle says that which was from the beginning, the Word of God. We saw him, we listened to him, we walked with him, and we touched him. So God is in the flesh, in Jesus of Nazareth. That is the foundational teaching to Christianity.

It. If you pull that out of our faith, then you have pulled the heart out of Christianity. So this is why it’s fundamental that you and I hold on to this and that we stay familiar with John1 and the rest of the teachings of the scripture that point us to that. Now John gives more testimony about the Incarnation. Are y’ all still with me?

Okay, I’m gonna start preaching here in a second. Because sometimes a sermon breaks out when you’re teaching. You don’t know. It’s like a hockey game breaking out when there’s a fight or whatever. So let’s keep going for just a couple more minutes.

So the Word of God, the Son of God, really resided with human beings for a season on Earth. That’s what John says. Verse 14. The word became flesh, he says, and made his dwelling among us. That particular word in Greek is the same Greek word that describes the tabernacle in the book of Exodus.

So basically, what John says is the Word of God became flesh, and he tabernacled with us. Now, that was powerful imagery for the Jews because they knew the story of the Exodus. They knew that there in the wilderness when the tabernacle was built, that God inhabited the tabernacle. He was present with them. And so John says, in some ways like that, the Word of God tabernacled among us.

Exodus imagery. But it also communicates the temporary nature of the assignment. Jesus is not physically on earth right now. He was, but he’s not now. It was A temporary assignment.

He dwelt with people for a season. He tabernacled with human beings for a season, and people knew he was a human. Have you ever noticed in the gospels, when Jesus will be doing something profound, Jesus will perform some kind of miracle. Jesus will offer some kind of teaching. Do you remember what the people would say about him?

They never said this. Isn’t he the guy that was sent from God, born of a virgin, prophesied in the scripture? That’s not what they said. Remember what they said? They said, now, wait a minute.

Isn’t this Joseph’s son? Isn’t he a carpenter from Nazareth? Didn’t I go to kindergarten with him? And now here he is telling me all this stuff. In other words, they saw him tabernacling among them.

He resided with humanity and he was fully human. Now, next, the Word of God, the Son of God, reflected the glory of God. That’s what this says. Look at verse 14. We saw his glory.

Now, glory is connected to the story of the tabernacle. When the tabernacle was with the glory of God descended. And so John says, just like that, we saw the glory of God, the essence of God’s character. So here’s what John is communicating to us theologically. You see, when Jesus lived on this earth as a human, he was perfectly sinless.

And what that tells us is that he was actually fully human. And we have to correct a little bit of our theology sometimes because we’re prone to say it’s just human to sin, to err is human, right? Well, let’s correct that a little bit. It’s actually unnatural to sin because God did not create you to sin. And so when you and I sin, it reflects the state of our being, but it’s not natural.

It’s just what we do. It’s unnatural. And when we sin, we violate the image of God in us. And we also dim the glory of God that’s supposed to be reflected through us. What did Jesus do?

Jesus was fully human. And he showed us what was actually supposed to happen. In the first place. He never sinned, and so he never marred the image of God in him. And he always reflected the glory of God as he lived his life every day because he was fully human.

But he redeemed humanity because he was the perfect human. And so, yes, the glory was on display in Jesus. Then two more. The Word of God, the Son of God, was full of grace and truth. Notice what this says.

He was the glory of the one and only Son. He says, we’ve Seen his glory? Look at the end of verse 14. He was full of grace and truth. That is a marvel.

Because in Jesus, grace and truth were perfectly balanced. You and I struggle with that all the time. It’s a struggle you’ll carry to your grave. Every human struggles with it, and certainly every Christian struggles with it because we have tendencies and proclivities. Some of us lean a lot more toward grace.

Some of us lean a lot more toward truth. Somehow Jesus lived with those in those moral characteristics, if you will, in perfect balance. There are some Christians that believe that you got to believe the right thing all the time. And you got to believe it the way they believe it. And you’ve even got to do it the way they do it.

And they are prone to speak the truth. And they love to speak the truth. And they love to rest everything on the truth. But you know, the Bible says to speak the truth in love. Sometimes those who live way over here on the true side, I just can’t find the love in it.

And so they’re out of balance. Does that make sense? They’re all about truth, but sometimes their lives just don’t reflect it. They believe the right things, but their behavior doesn’t always add up. Now, come on now.

You got another group of Christians, though, who live all the way over here on the grave side. Everything’s fine. God will understand. That’s just the way you are. Live and let live.

It’s okay. Don’t worry about it. You don’t have to consult the authority of the scripture. I mean, be your own authority. Some Christians tend to live that way.

Here’s the thing. Jesus somehow modeled something for me and you. This should be our goal, to somehow have truth and grace balanced in our lives. John said that’s what we saw. He was full of both grace and truth.

And then finally, the Word of God reveals God. Look at verse 18. He says, no one’s ever seen God but the one and only Son, the unique Son. Actually, he himself is God. He’s in closest relationship with God, and he’s the one who has made God known.

In other words, John is saying, we know God best through Jesus because Jesus knows him best, because he’s fully God. Why do we follow the Jesus way? Because he is the one who makes God known to us. Why are we focused on Jesus? Because he came from God.

He is actually God in the flesh. He is the Word of God. He’s the Revelation of God. And he most fully reveals God. And he shows us the way to heaven and the way to live on this earth because he’s the eternal, eternally existent Son of God.

Now, in Gary Burges commentary on John, he says this about the prologue. So I’m going to ask you all to hang out in the prologue during this entire Lenten season. I want you to read the daily Bible readings, read the devotionals that Kurtz prepared, but spend some time every week on this page. Reflect on these truths. Here’s what Gary Bird says about the Prologue.

He says the prologue to John is not about a message that offers hope, but about the message that is the only hope. Because you see, this message is designed to accomplish something in us. This message about Jesus is supposed to transform us and we’re to be changed when we embrace this message. In fact, listen to this. Here’s what Paul says in Philippians 2.

He says, in your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus. Well, who is Christ Jesus? Here’s what Paul says, who, being in very nature, God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage. Rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, even death on the cross. Therefore, God has exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

My encouragement to us would be this. We are all, all going to one day give Jesus his due. I would encourage you to do it now and live into it and see how God can use you to spread this message to our world. May it be so. Let’s pray together.

Well, Lord, we love you. We thank you for your love for us, Lord. This profound truth in the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God.

The Word became flesh. It’s powerful, it’s life changing, it’s transformational and it’s true. And so we thank you that you’ve made yourself known to us. Lord, I pray for those within the sound of my voice right now, those that maybe have never decided to embrace Jesus for who he is, recognize him for who he is. I just pray, Lord, that right now, during this season, this will be a time of reflection for them and they will come to grips with who Jesus really is and give their lives to him and their hope and their future and their eternity and trust him.

Trust him to be who only he can be in their lives. We pray that to be so. For those of us that have made that decision. Lord, may we continue to be in awe of this profound truth. The Word became flesh.

May we camp out around it. May we reflect and meditate on it. May we allow it to just flow through the bloodstream of our theology and make it certain so that we can clearly communicate this truth to those that we know. We trust, Lord, you’ll use us in that endeavor. And we pray in Jesus name, Amen.