Light
and Darkness
Part 1: The Word Became Flesh
Today's Three-minute Bible Study
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Title:
The Word Became Flesh------------------------ Date: 10/27/1999
Keywords: "beginning" "darkness" "glory"
"light" "righteous" "Word"
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Passage: John 1:1-5, 14*
1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.
2. He was with God in the beginning.
3. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made
that has been made.
4. In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
5. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not
understood it.
14. 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.
Questions
1. Without the Word, what would exist?
2. Would the Internet?
3. How about web porn?
4. Who is the Word?
Practical help
Another light shines in the darkness, but in it is no life. That
light is the light of the computer monitor, illuminated with shadowy images, poor
reflections of what was in the beginning.
Jesus is the conduit of all creation -- it all was channeled through him. While web porn
can be rightly seen as a fabrication or "creation" of fallen man, even it would
not exist but for the Word, the author of life. When we look to the creation as our source
of life rather than the creator, we are looking in the wrong direction, with our back
turned to the light.
When Jesus became flesh, he became like us in every way (see Hebrews 2:17-18). He knows
personally the truth of your temptation, yet he is also full of grace to forgive. Turn to
the true light and extinguish the light of this world, which is really darkness.
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1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.
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