In the Beginning was the Word
John • Week 1
Adam Barnett launches our 15-week study of the Gospel of John with a timely reminder of the power of the Light of Christ and its power to overcome anything!
MESSAGE NOTES
In the Beginning was the Word
John | Week 1
May 17, 2020 | Adam Barnett
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John 1:1-5 NIV
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:1 NIV
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
When did the story of Jesus begin?
Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
John 1:2 NIV
He was with God in the beginning.
John 1:3 NIV
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
John 1:4-5 NIV
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Psalm 36:9 NIV
“With you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light!”
Darkness cannot overcome the light of Christ.
John 1:12 NIV
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.