Sermon Tone Analysis

John 1:1–3 (NIV)

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.

1. Jesus

a. Jesus has always been there.

b.

Jesus and God are the same but separate.

2. Man

a. God gave everything to men except the fruit from one tree.

b.

Man ate the fruit of the forbidden tree.

c.

Man suffered the consequences.

3. God

a. God suffered the consequences.

b.

God knows everything before it happens.

4. Review and look at life in the shadow of the cross.

Jesus has always been

I'm going to start with John chapter 1 vs.1-3.

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 had been made.

When we read John's prologue there is no way to deny that the bible teaches that Jesus has always been there.

The Word is referring to Jesus.

If you look down at vs 14 John shows us that.

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.

The word is Jesus and it says he was there in the beginning.

He was there at creation.

Look at Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Jesus was there.

look at Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness.

Jesus was there.

Look at Daniel 3:25 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego are being thrown into the fiery furnace .

Nebuchadnezzar looks and says Daniel 3:25 (NIV) — 25 He said, “Look!

I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

Jesus was there!

The next thing I want us to see.

Jesus is God.

So we have established that Jesus has always been around, now we are going to complicate matters a little more.

Jesus is God.

Go back to that first verse of John In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The Word was God.

Jesus was God.

Some cults try to remove the deity of Christ.

The Jehovah Witnesses NWT says Jesus was a God.

That is incorrect, Jesus was God.

To deny that Jesus is God is to deny God.

This is serious heresy to not believe.

The apostles had a hard to getting this.

Jesus constantly had to correct them.

He was constantly having to explain this to them and they lived with Him.

Look at John 14:9 John 14:9 (NIV) — 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’?

Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.

Jesus was in the beginning and Jesus is God

Jesus and God are the same but separate.

Now I want to complicate things a lot.

Look at verses 2 and 3 He was with God in the beginning.

(3)Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that had been made.

Notice two words with and through.

He was with God.

That shows that there is a separation there.

John just stated that Jesus was God, but now he wants us to see that there is still a separation there.

Now verse 3 through him all things were created.

All things were created through Him.

This word through also shows us that Jesus while being God was also separate from God.

I'm not going to go into explaining the trinity this morning and I realize saying that Jesus is God and saying Jesus and God are separate is confusing but it is true and there is a third part the spirit which also belongs in there.

This is important God is three in one is how we often express this.

To put it more bluntly, there is one God with three distinct persons, distinct not individual.

All of these personalities are equal.

We have to be careful that we don’t overemphasize either of the three.

We do not have to be able to understand this to believe it.

The early church father Augustine stated, “Whoever denies the Trinity is in danger of losing his salvation; whoever tries to understand the Trinity is in danger of losing his mind.

The bible teaches it so we do what our human minds can to understand it while keeping in mind that God’s ways are higher than ours.

But let's not linger there too long let's just keep in mind that God and Jesus are the same but separate and that Jesus was there in the beginning.

God gave everything to man except the fruit from one tree.

Now let’s look at man and what God did in relation to Man.

Verse 3 Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that had been made.

Through Jesus God made everything.

If your finger is still in Genesis look back at 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

God created Man.

Then God gave man paradise.

Let's look at some things real quick

• vs. 28 God blessed them

• vs. 29 I have given you plant and tree for food

• chapter 2 verse 7 and 8 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

God created man and put him in a garden.

Man has it made Adam and Eve are in a garden paradise with a beautiful river flowing through it.

If they get hungry they go and get food from a plant or tree.

Now look at verses 16 -17.

Genesis 2:16–17 (NIV) — 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”

God says everything here is for your pleasure but stay away from the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.

If you eat it you will die.

All right everything is good here except one tree that has poison and will kill you.

How many of you have ever told your kids to stay away from something?

Where was the first place they went?

Well let's go to chapter 3 verses 6-7 real quick.