Summary
This 10m episode bears witness to the LIGHT. Much as our words reveal to others our hearts and minds, so Jesus Christ is God’s “Word” to reveal His heart and mind to us. “He who has seen Me has seen the Father” (14:9). A word is composed of letters, and Jesus Christ is “Alpha and Omega” (Rev. 1:8), the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. According to Hebrews 1:1-3, Jesus Christ is God’s last Word to mankind, for He is the climax of divine revelation.
The verb “were made” is past perfect tense in the Greek, which means “a completed act.” Creation is finished, it is not a process still going on, even though God is certainly at work in His creation (5:17). Creation is not a process; it is a finished product over which God exercises authority.
Light and darkness are recurring themes in John’s gospel. God is Light (1 John 1:5), while Satan is “the power of darkness” (Luke 22:53). People love either the light or the darkness, and this love controls their actions (1 John 3:16-19). Those who believe on Christ are the “sons of light” (John 12:35, 36). Just as the first creation begins with “Let there be light!” so the new creation begins with the entrance of light into the heart of the believer (2 Cor. 4:3-6). The coming of Jesus Christ into the world was the dawning of a new day for sinful man (Luke 1:78,79).
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Wiersbe Bible
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