Jesus is God: The Evidence in John 1

I'm Michael link and welcome to the depositum where we explore the depths of christian theology through ai
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 So today we're cracking open the introduction to john's gospel and it's I mean
 It's a total mic drop really john doesn't start with a stable or a manger
 He just catapults us straight back before time itself
 He introduces the logos the word
 and it's important to think of the logos not just as a word, you know, but as
 As the divine architect the cosmic mind that spoke the entire universe into being right and then a man's cosmic scale
 Immediately sets up this yeah this profound tension that we have to grapple with exactly because this all-powerful architect
 The agent of all creation willingly chose to become vulnerable
 You see it so clearly later in john chapter four the same divine person is just sitting
 Completely exhausted at jacob's well so worn out from his journey
 He just says to a woman giving a drink the definition of power choosing limits
 It's incredible. Okay. Let's unpack that blueprint of divinity first
 Here is john chapter one verses one through five
 In the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god
 The same was in the beginning with god all things were made by him
 And without him was made nothing that was made
 In him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shineth in darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it
 And the word was god. There's just no ambiguity. Not at all
 And what's so fascinating is how john establishes this right away. This text is crucial
 It confirms he's not a subordinate not some kind of
 You know super angel not a helper exactly. He is the proper
 Principle and efficient cause the maker of everything yet the very world he made
 The creation of this architect it completely failed to recognize its own source
 It's a tragedy built right into the story listen now to john chapter one verses six through thirteen
 There's a man sent from god whose name was john
 This man came for a witness to give testimony of the light that all men might believe through him
 He was not the light but was to give testimony of the light
 That was the true light which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world
 He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not
 He came into his own and his own received him not
 But as many as received him he gave them power to be made the sons of god
 To them that believe in his name who are born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man
 But of god
 That verse verse 11 it just cuts deep doesn't it he came into his own and his own received him not
 And you have to think about the sorrow in that yes the sorrow
 It proves the word made flesh wasn't some kind of stoic detached god who was immune to pain
 If you look ahead to john chapter 11 when lazarus dies you see
 His reaction to human grief to his friends weeping right and seeing them the text says he
 groaned in the spirit and troubled himself
 And then simply and jesus wept his humanity was real
 He felt the ache of being rejected by the world he made and this whole journey from the eternal god to this grieving man
 It all culminates in one single seismic verse a verse that anchors all of christian theology
 Listen very closely to john chapter 1 verse 14 and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us
 And we saw his glory the glory as it were of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth
 And the word was made flesh. I mean that one sentence is the hinge of salvation history
 It's the absolute foundation for the nicene creed it is the early church had to fight to defend this to assert that christ was
 Begotten the father before all ages god from god the true god from the true god
 They were insisting that the logos wasn't created. He was co-eternal and
 Because people keep trying to sort of downgrade him to say he was just a superior creature a helper
 The church had to get very precise and they use the technical term consubstantial
 And it simply means that the son is of the exact same nature the same substance and power as the father absolutely equal
 So the core takeaway here is that the man who was thirsty at the well
 And the man who wept at his friend's grave
 Is the very same person as the eternal god the logos who spoke the stars into existence
 It's not two different people two natures one perfect person. It's the ultimate mystery really
 That the divine architect who designed everything chose to actually enter the building our human nature in order to save it
 So what does it mean for your daily weariness for your own grief that the eternal god willingly chose to experience them himself?