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The Word - Meeting Jesus In John 1 Pt. 4 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. As we head into Thursday, we want to
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  Speaker 1: start this day with God. Time with God is the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of your Christian life, and this week we're meeting
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  Speaker 1: Jesus as we look at John's introduction of Jesus at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the Gospel of John. Yesterday we saw
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  Speaker 1: that the word that's Jesus was with God.
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  Speaker 1: And this really reveals to us the kind of relationship
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  Speaker 1: with God that Jesus brings us into, that He shares
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  Speaker 1: with us His near, close intimate relationship with God the
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  Speaker 1: Father and the Holy Spirit. He says to his disciples
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  Speaker 1: at one point, I no longer call you slaves, I
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  Speaker 1: call you friends.
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  Speaker 1: But this is the relationship that Jesus wants us to
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  Speaker 1: have with him and with God the Father. Well, as
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  Speaker 1: a man, Jesus is someone we feel like we can
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  Speaker 1: relate to, someone we can know really closely. We feel
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  Speaker 1: close to Jesus, but how do we relate to the
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  Speaker 1: reality that Jesus is also God, right?
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  Speaker 1: This is what we come to now. John said. In
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  Speaker 1: the beginning, Jesus was there before he was born. He
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  Speaker 1: was there before creation. In the beginning was the Word. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you can know Him. You can know God. He reveals
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  Speaker 1: who God is to us. He is God saying to us,
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  Speaker 1: this is who I am, and I want you to
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  Speaker 1: know me.
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  Speaker 1: And the word was with God shows to us the
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  Speaker 1: close relationship with God that God wants us to have.
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  Speaker 1: And today, and the Word was God. How do we
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  Speaker 1: connect the Jesus whom we know we can be close
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  Speaker 1: to with the reality that he is also God?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there are 3 phases of the existence of the
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  Speaker 1: second person of the Trinity, God the Son, who became
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  Speaker 1: Jesus when He took on humanity. 3 phases of His existence.
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  Speaker 1: Phase 1, His eternal existence as God outside of time.
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning of all created things, including time, He
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  Speaker 1: already existed in the eternal now. Phase 2, His life
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  Speaker 1: on Earth as Jesus of Nazareth.
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  Speaker 1: He added humanity to his being. He restrained his infinite
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  Speaker 1: attributes to live as a man on earth with all
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  Speaker 1: the limitations of humanity so that he could represent us
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  Speaker 1: at the cross as the representative of humanity. His deity
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  Speaker 1: was veiled. Phase 3. His resurrection life in glory at
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  Speaker 1: the right hand of the Father in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: He's still a man living in his resurrection body, but
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  Speaker 1: his glory as God is no longer veiled but on
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  Speaker 1: full display. Philippians 2:8-11 describes it. The apostle Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: and being found in human form, he humbled himself by
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  Speaker 1: becoming obedient.
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  Speaker 1: To the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the
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  Speaker 1: name that is above every name, so that at the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and
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  Speaker 1: on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God
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  Speaker 1: the Father. So.
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  Speaker 1: How should we relate to Jesus? Right? Every tongue will confess.
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  Speaker 1: Every knee shall bow. And yet we've just seen yesterday
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  Speaker 1: that we can be so close to Him, just as
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  Speaker 1: he was with God the Father. Should, should we view
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  Speaker 1: Jesus as our close buddy that we joke and laugh
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  Speaker 1: and cry with and share everything with, or as the
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  Speaker 1: in
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  Speaker 1: Conceivable God of the universe who'll judge all men and
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  Speaker 1: decide who goes to heaven and hell, who created everything
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  Speaker 1: that is with just His word and will one day
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  Speaker 1: destroy it with a word. Well, my sense of the
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  Speaker 1: picture of our relationship with God that Scripture paints holds
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  Speaker 1: a bit of both aspects.
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  Speaker 1: The picture given to us by both Jesus and the
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  Speaker 1: apostle Paul is that we should come like a dearly
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  Speaker 1: loved little child in his or her relationship with their father.
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  Speaker 1: That little child knows how powerful Daddy is and is
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  Speaker 1: quite nervous when Mum says, Wait till your father gets home.
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  Speaker 1: But also knows how much Daddy loves them and runs
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  Speaker 1: to Daddy's open arms for cuddles. It's an interesting paradox,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it? I no longer call you slaves, I call
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  Speaker 1: you friends. But just like the disciples also, we dare
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  Speaker 1: not take his friendship lightly, considering who he is. I'm
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  Speaker 1: John North.
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