Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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Those two Scripture verses, one from the start of the Old Testament and the other from the start of the gospel of John in the New Testament, joined for today, proclaim a foundational truth: There is only one God, and one Lord. That is the truth that everything else is built on. That is after all what a foundation is.
Those two verses referred to, read in their entirety, reveal that first of all, nothing exists except by the power and will of God Almighty, and secondly that Jesus Christ, the Word of God was the instrument of all of that creation. Not only that, but so many other verses make clear that Jesus is the cornerstone of all that creation!
The first chapter of the Gospel of John continues to say that apart from Jesus nothing came in to being and as Genesis clearly states many times in that first chapter, that creation was good. It took mankind, deceived by and swayed by the serpent, the father of lies, to allow evil, badness, into the Garden. Then, it required the sacrifice of Jesus the corner stone and the truth to redeem mankind for all who will receive that gift. Therein should our celebration be placed as we do in taking the bread and wine, remembering His death, the cost of our salvation!
Mankind was formed by God, deformed by sin, misinformed by false teachers and prophets, reformed by the work of Jesus on the cross, needing to be transformed by the renewing of our minds in preparation for being conformed into the image of the Son! So the Lord was able to speak to us through the prophet Jeremiah long ago saying that He had a plan for us to give us a future and a hope. {Jer.29:11}
"He who testifies to these things says, 'Surely I am coming quickly.' Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” (Revelation 22:20-21 NKJV)
CELEBRATE JESUS, THE WORD MADE FLESH
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