John 1:1-5

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The Light  shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it."

Here at the beginning of John's gospel we find John referring to jesus as 'the Word'. By doing so John gives key insight into the relationship of the Trinity (God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit), and how we came into being through them.

To see just how deep this connection is, we must go back to the very first verse, of the first chapter, in the first book of the Bible. The claim made in John 1:1 echoes the statement found in Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth". 
Now although Genesis doesn't provide us with a fully detailed understanding of how the earth and universe came to be, it goes provide us with context clues that sufficiently show we were designed by an all knowing and all powerful God. Make no  mistake, it is not by accident that John begins his gospel  with the same phrase.

As we read further into Genesis  1, we see the creation of everything outside of the Trinity starting to unfold. Time and time again we read how God spoke things into existence; "Then God said...and it was so". When you parelell that with the third verse of John's gospel, you literally see a divine agency of creation and relationship at work. That model of relationship moves us away from unitarinism (one God, one person) to the doctrine of the Trinity (one God, three persons). Futhermore we are provided another crucial insight in Genesis 1:2, when we learn that the Holy Spirit also participated in creation.

Within the Genesis account of creation, we find the Hebrew word 'Elohim' used for God in the original langauge. Whatis significat about this, is that Elohim is a plural term most commonly used to denote several gods. However in  this case, it points towards the majesty of the Trinity, while the verb "create" is singular, indicating God is thought of  as one being. Genesis is consitently monotheistic throughout, where as other ancient Eastern accounts of creation were certainly not.

So in order to truly understand John 1:1-5 it is necessary to see it from the creation account in Genesis.

The Word, Jesus, exsisted before any matter and he surpasses all time. Einstien brought the discovery that matter and time are coextensive. In other words; no matter no time.
In Jude 1:25 it says "to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever." All of this connects to show that Jesus did not 'come into being'. He was, is, and forever will be. Christ was not made, this is what it means to be God. A simple but weighty statement.

Do not make the same mistake the Pharisees made in John 10:33 when they proclaimed 'You are a man and make yourself out to be God'. John declares in the fourteenth verse of the first chapter, "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory".

In other words, do not be decieved. Jesus was in eternal fellowship with God the Father throughout all eternity. Yet, he willingly gave that up, taking the form of a man and became subject to a brutal death on the cross. Though he was fully man with temptations just like you and I, he remained spotless before God and chose to obey the will of the Father, which meant temporarily giving up his Heavenly status to suffer an excruciating death.

All because..........

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life"- John 3:16

--Billy Williams©