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March 18 - John 1:1-18 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Tuesday, it's the 18th of
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  March and welcome to the next section of the year as we are
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  reading God's Word together. Ah yes, we have closed the book
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  on 1st and 2nd Kings and now we move forward to the Gospel of
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  John. Yes, this incredible gospel, the
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  spiritual gospel as many call it.
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  John's gospel falls into one of the four gospels.
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  And while the other three really do take a historical life of
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  Jesus approach to telling the Jesus story, John in his
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  approach really focuses in on who is the Son of God and what
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  does it mean to be his disciple in the world today.
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  So attitudes around the book of John have changed for many
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  years. People, well, they look down on
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  it as the least of the four gospels because it didn't
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  include all the life events of Jesus.
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  But lately people have adored it and you'll know that a lot of
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  the time when people print little get to know Jesus
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  booklets or tracts, there's often ones printed of John.
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  Because John really captures this beautiful essence of what
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  it means to be Jesus disciple and follow in his footsteps.
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  And today we are going to read not the whole of the 1st
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  chapter, but half. And yeah, that'll make sense
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  because as we get closer to Easter, the the great passion
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  will happen on Good Friday if we just break up chapter 1 into two
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  days. So that's what we're going to do
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  today. And today we will read this
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  beautiful prologue about Christ being there at the beginning of
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  the world. This really echoes the start of
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  Genesis as we hear about God in creation, essentially the Jesus
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  and Spirit in creation. So join me as we read this
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  beautiful, this poetic John chapter one one to 18.
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  In the beginning, the word already existed.
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  The word was with God and the Word was God.
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  He existed in the beginning with God.
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  God created everything through him and nothing was created
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  except through him. The Word gave life to everything
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  that was created, and his life brought light to everyone.
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  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can
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  never extinguish it. God sent a man, John the
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  Baptist, to tell about the light so that everyone might believe.
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  Because of his testimony, John himself was not the light.
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  He was simply a witness to tell about the light.
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  The one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was
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  coming into the world. He came into the very world he
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  created, but the world didn't recognise him.
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  He came to his own people and even they rejected him.
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  But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right
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  to become children of God. They are reborn not with a
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  physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a
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  birth that comes from God. So the Word became human and
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  made His home among us. He was full of unfailing love
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  and faithfulness, and we have seen His glory, the glory of the
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  Father's one and only Son. John testified about Him when he
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  shouted to the crowds. This is the one I was talking
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  about when I said, someone is coming after me who is far
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  greater than I am, for He existed long before me.
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  From His abundance we have all received one gracious blessing
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  after another, for the law was given through Moses, but God's
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  unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.
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  No one has ever seen God, but the unique One who is God
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  Himself is near to the Father's heart.
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  He has revealed God to us. Oh our incredible triune
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  Godfather, Son and Spirit, we worship you and we praise you.
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  Thank you for the gift of Jesus. Thank you that through Jesus we
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  see not only the law that you gave us, but we see your
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  unfailing love and faithfulness. Let that always be the tent pole
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  on which our life spreads out and is present in the world.
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  To know that your love for us, he's not conditional, is not
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  partial, and is not temporary. That your love for us is
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  unfailing. Come challenge, come blockade,
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  come time immeasurable. Your love stretches beyond all
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  of that and never, never fails to reach us.
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  And you are faithful to us beyond every doubt, beyond every
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  obstacle in the way between you and us.
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  You love us and are faithful to us.
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  May our life be but a mirror reflecting your love and
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  faithfulness back to you and back to your creation around us.
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  We give ourselves to you as a living sacrifice, every step we
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  take, every breath we take, that we would be true to that calling
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  in our lives. And we pray all of this through
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  your life, giving name Jesus, Amen.