{"id":4384,"date":"2025-06-23T03:46:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2025-06-23T04:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T04:10:47","slug":"thoughts-from-the-gospel-of-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=4384","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from the Gospel of John…."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

                                The Word.<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John, chapter 1: verses 1-3<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   John begins his Gospel with a statement that cannot be argued with\u2026.In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word WAS God!    <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>What was this Word that John is referring to? From reading the next few verses, we discover that the Word that he is referring to is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ (His full title) \u00a0Who is the Son of God. He then goes on to show what the Word did\u2026\u201dAll things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made\u201d\u2026\u2026 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We read later in the Bible that it was God\u2019s Son Who made the\u00a0 universe, making the earth within it to be the home of human beings who would be able to fellowship with Him. This One is the brightness of God\u2019s glory and the exact mage of His Person, because He is part of the Godhead (Hebrews 1:2-3)<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are told so many things about the Word of God\u2026.there is the Living Word who is our Lord Jesus Christ, and there is the written Word which we have as the Bible. \u00a0\u00a0 God\u2019s Word, both living and written, is powerful, even today, and pierces into our very being, speaking things that do not leave us alone until we act on them . Everything that we say and do is open before God and His Word, and we cannot escape it (Hebrews 4:12-13)<\/em> . Just as Jesus Christ the Living Word, obeyed God the Father implicitly, so the written Word of God accomplishes what God intends\u2026,.it never returns to Him empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     There is a story about a man who was hearing the Gospel story for the first time and was very sceptical about it all. The preacher was going home the same way as this man and offered him a lift. All the way along the road, the sceptical one kept asking impossible questions about the sermon and each time the preacher would reply, \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about that, but I DO know that the blood of Jesus Christ, God\u2019s Son cleanses us from all sin!\u201d The trip lasted about half an hour, and each time the preacher answered the man\u2019s questions with the same Bible verse. They arrived at the place they were going and said goodnight to each other, and went their different ways.     A couple of days later, there was a knock at the preacher\u2019s door. The man he had given the lift to was standing there looking rather pale and haggard. The preacher  asked the man inside, and then before he even sat down, he said, \u201cI\u2019ve come to ask you to tell me more\u2026.ever since the other night, I haven\u2019t been able to get that verse out of my mind\u2026it\u2019s even kept me awake at night. Tell me what it means!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So this is a classic case of God\u2019s Word accomplishing His work in this man\u2019s heart and mind. He gave his life to the Lord that night, and went home a different man!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus Christ, God\u2019s Living Word, Came forth from God to those who erred,<\/em><\/strong> The Word is full of power indeed, <\/em><\/strong> And is written there for us to heed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                                The Word. John, chapter 1: verses 1-3    John begins his Gospel with a statement that cannot be argued with\u2026.In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word WAS God!     \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What was this Word that John is referring to? From reading the next few verses, we … Continue reading Thoughts from the Gospel of John….<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[233,919,165],"class_list":["post-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotionals","tag-gods-word","tag-jesus-christ","tag-obeying-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ISCST001.jpg?fit=357%2C292&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-18I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}