JESUS GOD’S WORD

So, from the reference John 20: 31 above, we begin a journey of truth for our eternity.

John 1:1-5

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 He was with God in the beginning.

3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men.

5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

Jesus is the Eternal Living Word of God.  As the Eternal Second Person of YAHWEH (LORD) Jesus created the universe and all things (Genesis 1:1;

John 1:3; Colossians 1:15-20) He speaks all God’s words (Exodus 3:14; Isaiah 55:11; Revelation 19:13).

John 1:10-11

10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.

11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.

We now begin to put together all that Jesus did for us.

John 1:14, 16-18

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

16 From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.

17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

18 No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known.

Notice in verse 14 above:

• glory of One and Only Son (cf Isaiah 41:14, 16, 20; Jeremiah 23:6; Mark 1:24)
• glory of Jesus seen at Transfiguration (Mark 9:2 ff)
• ‘grace’ cf Romans 3:24)
• ‘truth’ cf John 14:6

And in verse 18:

• ‘seen God’ cf John 6:46-59

John 6:46-59

46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.

47 I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.

48 I am the bread of life.

49 Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died.

50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die.

51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.”

59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

The word “feeds” above means depends, i.e depends on Jesus for eternal salvation.

John 14:8-11

8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.

11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.