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The Sabbath in the Time of ChristJohn 1:1-5
Excerpted from: Our Awesome Destiny (1993)What the Bible is revealing here is that there is a purposeful creation made by two Personalities who are both God. "The Word was with God, and the Word was God." Two personalities, and both are God. The life existing in their creation was something imparted to it from already existing life. Mankind, and all the other parts of creation that are alive, has life because these two Beings imparted life to them. They did it purposefully. It was not accidental. They set their mind and will to give life, and things began living.
It was not something they were constrained to do in the sense of obligation, but rather they were constrained to give life to their creation because they wanted to share what they are with what they were creating. That is the purpose behind everything that is made, as we will see as this unfolds. It is so simple in its logic, that what motivated this creation was the love of God who wanted to share what He is, and what He is able to do with what He makes. He had to give life because He is life. You cannot share these things without life. And so, He purposefully, then, imparted life to what He was making.
These verses do not explain the purpose of life, but John is laying the foundation for teaching that life, which imparted life, became flesh, and was the light of men. That is, it opened up to mankind this life that was lived; it opened up to mankind by mankind being able to, first of all, view it with their own eyes, and later on be able to read about it and understand what this life did. It gave life, and it gave form and shape to life. It gave direction to life. It enabled mankind to perceive what is around it; why things were there; where it was headed.
John 1:4-9
Excerpted from: The Radiance of God's GloryNow please turn over to John 1, verse 4. Christ, the eternal Word is Himself, the radiant splendor of God's glory. The biblical phrase light in the Lord signifies the source of light in life. The implied message is, if God is light, to come to God is to go to the light and to receive life.
As the predicted Messiah, Jesus was to be a light to the Gentiles as well. Christ declared Himself the light of the world, and as light He was God manifested in the flesh. Jesus as the Word is the eternal expression of God as a word is the expression of a thought. In the essence of His being God, Christ is the light of life.
Accordingly, Christ the Word manifested the attributes of the divine nature as life, love, and light. These are inseparable and constitute the glory which the disciples saw in Him. In revealing and giving life, Christ became the light of men.
Christ is a teacher, the enlightener, the guide, the Savior of humanity. He gives us light, that is, He gives us understanding, truth, and wisdom. So Jesus, as the One who brings the true knowledge of God, is the light of humanity. And when people tried to extinguish the light of men, darkness fell when Jesus was being crucified.
So the New Testament portrays Jesus as the personification of light, of divine illumination.
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