Journey through John 1:1-3

Good Morning Church Family – Journey Through John

Read John 1:1-3

Devo Thought: Here’s the thing. Jesus isn’t presented by the Scriptures as someone who was just a great teacher or a really good man. If you take the Bible seriously, you aren’t given that option. C.S. Lewis puts it this way in Mere Christianity: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” This beginning to John’s Gospel is one of those texts. We read it and we are left with no other option. Jesus and all his followers are either lunatics or He is really God in human flesh. Here we find him in the beginning with God the Father as God the Son through whom and for whom everything was created. Fully God, Creator of the heavens and the earth and all that dwells on them. “The heavens were made by the word of the Lord, and all the stars, by the breath of his mouth.” Who do you say that Jesus is? You must decide. This is why John wrote his gospel.

Let us pray to thank God that Jesus is more than a great moral teacher, to thank God that Jesus is fully God and fully man.