do you believe? -week 3
John 1:9-14
John 1:9-14 NIV
The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God– children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jesus is the TRUE light.
The word true means REAL or GENUINE, as opposed to FALSE or FAKE.
Definition of Incarnation
That act of grace whereby Christ took our human nature into union with His Divine Person, became man. Christ is both God and man. ~Easton Bible Dictionary
We did not RECOGNIZE Him
Man does not recognize the place he should fill. He has obviously gone astray. He has fallen from the true status, and he cannot find it again. So he searches everywhere anxiously but in vain, in he midst of great darkness. ~Blaise Pascal
Isaiah 1:2-3
Isaiah 1:2-3 NIV
Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth! For the Lord has spoken: “I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows his master, the donkey his owner's manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”
John 12:37
John 12:37 NIV
Even after Jesus had done all these miraculous signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him.
Isaiah 53:1-3
Isaiah 53:1-3 NIV
Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
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