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Prayer
This week we’ll be looking at verses 6-8 of John chapter 1...
…and if you were with us last week, we saw in verses 1-5 who Jesus Christ really is...
We saw that Jesus Christ:
Had no Beginning
Fully Distinct
Is God
Is Creator
Is Life
And so what we saw last week was this AMAZING introduction - by John - about who Jesus is...
And this week, we’re going to see something in this first chapter that seems a bit odd...
..almost wrong…from a certain perspective...
And so let’s start reading in verse 1 and then go straight through our verses today, a bit past our verses...
…to give you a better sense of this ODD thing that is evident in the passage...
Ok…now, I assume most of you took English Class in high school...
If we were to take this range of verses, copy it down, and turn it in for our English Paper....
We would probably get a D+...
Why?
Because if you look at the structure that’s used here…it’s seems ODD to say the least...
We just reconfirmed for ourselves…that last week we saw this amazing INTRODUCTION to Jesus Christ....
Our first verse today is verse 6 - and in verse 6 we see John here then introduce John the Baptist...
verse 7 and 8...
and then - in verse 9 we see what?
“The TRUE light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world”
In verse 9 - it’s - BACK to Jesus again.
And so from a STRUCTURE standpoint, we have an...
Intro to Jesus Christ...
Then a jump to an intro to John the Baptist…very briefly...
Then a jump BACK to Jesus...
Any English professor would tell you - NO - you finish the intro to the FIRST character...
and THEN you introduce the next character....
BUT - - as we know - what we see in the Bible was inspired by God himself...
Even the structure...
SO WHY would God do it THIS way??!!
Why - begin to declare who Jesus is...
and then break off into - Well here is this guy named John
and then - Oh and Jesus is the Light of the world!
Well, let’s see if we can see a pattern here in Scripture...
Let’s go to Exodus chapter 3...
So God here says - I will deliver my people!
I will do this!
COME - I will send you!
I - God - will DO this - through YOU....
I want to FREE MY people from the Egyptians...
I want to DISPLAY my power before them...
I want my voice to THUNDER down in their midst...
I want to give my people a LAND flowing with blessing forever more!
I want to LOVE them…
and I want to FLEX my muscle - as the God of ALL things...
And here’s HOW i’m going to do it!....
Hey Moses, shepherd boy....come here.
Now - just to clarify…Sheep Herding has NEVER been - historically - a sexy job...
And yet - THAT’s how God works!
God didn’t SHOW up and physically tell Israel that He was gonna free them...
No - He goes to one sheep herder and says - Hey, I’m gonna free My people…and I want YOU to go BE ME...
Now - remember this passage here in Exodus, because we’re going to close today with it!
Another one - let’s go to Isaiah 6
So here again - we have God wanting to SAY something - to move - on the people of Israel...
And He says - WHO will i send?
Who will GO for us?
Again - God wanting to FLEX His muscle IN THE WORLD…and instead of just DOING it...
He comes to a man and says - I want YOU to be the conduit through which my power flows...
NOW - God doesn’t AWLAYS HAVE to do it this way!
He doesn’t always HAVE man carry out His plans...
Sometimes God just DOES HIMSELF what He pleases...
Sometimes He’d raise up an army to destroy a people...
But sometimes, like at Sodom and Gomorra, He just blows the whole thing up Himself...
In the book of Daniel - we see a story of a King who was just living life - doing as he pleased...
- and it says that GOD’S HAND shows up - and writes on the wall of the palace...
“You are going to die”
And so, sometimes God takes matters into His own hands...
But sometimes - He OFFERS His people the opportunity to be USED by Him…for His purposes...
- And so ALL throughout the OT we see God continually call MAN to GO and BE Him to the world...
to go and flex God’s muscle to the World...
to go and tell the world of God’s love...
and then - for 400 hundred years - SILENCE...
The OT testament ends - and - SILENCE...
Not a word from heaven...
Not a sound...
And then?
SLIDE: The Call of John the Baptist: Bear Witness to the Light
The Call of John the Baptist
BE the conduit through which God’s power would FLOW!
John the Baptist was sent BY GOD - to prepare the way for Jesus Christ...
And as we’ve seen so far - this is not surprising!
John the Baptist was used by God - as a FLASHING STOP sign...
to stand up and say to the world - YES - this world is DARK - but THE LIGHT is coming!
So John the Baptist is LOOKING FORWARD to what is coming - the Good News that is coming...
And he’s sorta like the CONCERT PROMOTER - who tries to get the WORD out that this AMAZING concert is coming to town!** (Shane & Shane - brought them 3 times)
OKAY - now - fast forward to TODAY...
we read this NOW - looking back at the AMAZING CONCERT that took place on the cross - and we see in VERSE 5 where it says that the DARKNESS has NOT overcome the Light...
And yet we LOOK around (out these doors) and can say - Well - it looks like Darkness is doing just fine!
I mean - just turn on the news… it looks like DARKNESS is doing just fine!!
But - go to Matthew 28
Understand what happened here...
Jesus - RISES from the DEAD...
He conquered DEATH...
He CONQUERED the GRAVE...
Where DARKNESS once REIGNED - It REIGNS NO MORE...
And Jesus comes back and GATHERS His children together and SAYS - OK...
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