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Advent in John (John 1:1-18)
John Low, 20 December 2015
Part of the Advent 2015 series, Sunday Morning service
This morning we conclude our Advent series by looking at what the apostle, John, writes about the coming of Jesus.
We see in each of the Gospels a very different approach to advent. John doesn't mention Mary or Joseph, nor the stable, shepherds or kings. He focuses on the significance of God being revealed to us, his incarnation, on the approachability of God, on what he is really like and the fact that he experienced what we experience.
“No one has ever seen God. But God the only Son is very close to the Father, and he has shown us what God is like."
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John 1:1–18 (Listen)
1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) 16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
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