john 1:14 sermon
Published by on November 13, 2020
After a few days in a trance, Walter began preaching on the streets of Los Angeles. In like manner Christ, who is "the brightness of the Father's glory," the true Shechinah, tabernacled among us. Brown, M. A.The Jews in the wilderness had a tabernacle or tent, wherein they worshipped God, and there the glory of God was seen. )God dwelling with menJ. H. Spurgeon.The greatest glory of the Jewish Church was thai God tabernacled in its midst. And DWELT.1. A. It shows the dignity of the human body. Creation is not a dead level, but an ascending series. It was only the plenitude of His grace, only the promptings of infinite kindness, that induced Him to undertake our salvation. Their sculpture exhibited a simplicity, a severity, a chaste grandeur which far outstrips all efforts of modern ages. The acceptance of this doctrine draws towards Christ; its rejection separates from Him by an impassable gulf? Being made flesh, all flesh may come to him to present their request.3. He effects a great deliverance, and bestows an infinite wisdom. Hence men were carefully trained to repress, and, if possible, eradicate all feeling. Can a person who denies either Jesus’ full deity or humanity be truly saved? Yes, but so was Creation, and Creation involved possibilities which led to much else beyond. (2) How born? ITS NATURE. Deny the Incarnation, and you have no positive proof of the Divine love; believe it, and you can never desire a higher proof. Let us tell everybody about it.5. It involved the possibility of the fall. (4)Immutability (Hebrews 13:8).2. In the first, Christ is introduced to us by John the Baptist as the Lamb of God; in the second, He is the Temple of God; in the third, He is the glorious anti-type of the brazen serpent; in the fourth, He says, in answer to the woman's question, "I Am;" in the fifth, He is the Judge of all; in the sixth, He says: "I am the Bread of Life;" in the seventh, He is the Water of Life; in the eighth and ninth, He says twice: "I am the Light of the World; " in the tenth, He says: "I am the good shepherd;" in the eleventh, He says: "I am the Resurrection and the Life; " in the twelfth, He is the King of Zion riding in triumph to His capital; in the thirteenth, He is the perfect Exemplar; in the fourteenth, He says: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life;" in the fifteenth, He says: "I am the True Vine;" in the sixteenth, He is the Precursor of the Comforter; in the seventeenth, He is the great Intercessor; in the eighteenth, He is, by His own solem asseveration to Pilate, the King of a spiritual domain, whose fundamental principle is truth; in the nineteenth, He is the Willing Victim; and in the twentieth, He is again the Resurrection and the Life.IV. Summers, M. A.The glory of the Mediator consisted, not in His wisdom, by which He knew what was in man — nor in His power, to which a material universe rendered homage — but in His grace, in the kindness of His heart, in the complete and perfect benevolence of His character. In the moment of creation He became to man the mysterious basis of that strong mysterious thing which we call life; the indwelling light, through whose guidance and illumination man might know God, and become like God. Here is a man who, before he became a criminal, threaded his way unnoticed through the crowd; but put upon his trial for his life he becomes a centre of universal interest. God's beneficence has in it heart-sorrow and willingness to endure grief for love's sake. He gazed steadfastly and could not behold their glory. The diviner the life, the closer the inspection requisite to understand it. Were it a mere question of love or power, He could have been sent earlier; but as it was also a question of wisdom, He must not be sent at a period likely to defeat the end in view. A MOST BLESSED VISION.1. )The Person and work of ChristW. Till He teaches us we cannot know God's thoughts about us; we might see the words in the Bible, might see the Word made flesh, but yet not be able to understand their true meaning, any more than we could understand a foreign book till some one had taught us the language.(T. The marriage of God and man eighteen hundred years ago is but the prophecy of a day when the bells of heaven shall ring in the nuptials of a ransomed Church with her royal spouse.(Prof. That He might suffer.2. But what moved God to unite Himself with a creative form? The development of the kingdom of God among mankind follows naturally a historical method; and so Genesis comes first, with much afterwards, in the preparatory dispensations, before the birth of the Saviour. Class Jesus, as some do, with Plato and Shakespeare, and He would receive no more honour than they. That development is gradual, and is concurrent with the study of Christ. In order to understand the statement thoroughly, we must ask: First, what does St. John mean by "The Word?" Furthermore, the Word that "was God" (v. 1c) now came into being as flesh, that is, he exists as a human being. You cannot understand the account of His life unless you recognize His Godhead and manhood.1. LET US BEHOLD THIS TABERNACLING OF GOD WITH US. Rent and torn; crowned with thorns; crucified. He that built repaired. What comfort do we get from the conception of an infinite brain? In Him we witness a dignity, a loftiness, a nobility which never show to better advantage than when compared with the highest ideals of Greek culture. — Christ came down to the tabernacle of our nature which had broken down and become a ruin, and to raise it up and repair it, making it fit for the habitation of God by His own indwelling.(W. Patton. The gracious character of the Saviour is a reason why His people should continually apply to Him. The truth is gracious truth, steeped in love, saturated with mercy. To have taken the nature of angels — to have appeared on earth in the pomp of majesty had been a humiliation.IV. A. )Christ clothed in human fleshThe pure Godhead is terrible to behold; we could not see it and live; but clothing Himself with our flesh, makes the Divine nature more amiable and delightful to us. THAT THE CONDITION OF MAN IS A FEARFUL AND EVEN DESPERATE ONE. TO RELIGIOUS COMMUNION. )Full of grace and truth.The fulness of ChristJ. (3) Nor mystically, as Christ is united to believers; for they are not one person with Him.2. We receive His blessings by receiving Him. But the real "beginning," or genesis, is given in the first chapter of the Gospel of St. John. He took a body like ours in order that we might know God's thoughts about us; and the more we know Jesus the more we know of God's mind. What is this fact? How then do we come to know Hebrew? The Gospel of John Introduction: The Word and the Witness Introduction: John 1:1-18; 20:30-31 The author of the Gospel is John the Beloved disciple. And how could it thus become outward, save in a human life; that sweet and lovely and altogether exquisite human life which the Gospel pages mirror to us?
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