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JESUS THE LIVING WORD
TUESDAY, APRIL 1
John 1:1-14
Hebrews 1:1-3
“And the Word was made flesh…”
JESUS THE LIVING WORD
God has spoken to man through a person. That person is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Logos, the Word (John 1:1). He is the Message or the Revelation of God. Hebrews 1:1 to 2 says, “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son.” There is the Written Word (Bible), and there is also the Incarnate Word (Christ). “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him” (John 1:18). Jesus said, “he that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14:9). Jesus as the Word fully reveals who God is. He is God’s Perfect Revelation. The Son is God’s final Word to the world.
The Apostle John described Jesus uniquely as the “only begotten Son.” He mentions it in John 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18; and 1 John 4:9. Jesus is not just Son of God, He is the eternally begotten Son of God. The doctrine of the eternal generation of the Second Person of the Holy Trinity is taught in the 4th century Athanasian and Nicene Creeds, which state that Jesus is both Son and God “only-begotten, …of the Father before all the ages.” The Westminster Confession (1648) likewise affirms, “In the unity of the Godhead, there be three persons, of one substance, power and eternity; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. The Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father; and the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son” (II:3).
Be warned that the New International Version (NIV) attacks the fundamental doctrine of the eternal Sonship of Christ by removing the God-inspired word “begotten” from the Bible. The NIV reads “one and only” instead of “only begotten.” The Greek monogenes literally means “only begotten” (mono is “only,” and genes is “begotten”). Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, begotten, not created. The NIV has no right to remove the divinely inspired word “begotten” from the Holy Scriptures. Beware of corrupt versions that attack the Written Word and the Living Word.
THOUGHT: Am I using the King James Bible?
PRAYER: Father, guide me into all truth.