Let us think of some of the great facts we have read in the first half of the book of John, for some of these are not written quite as simply in other parts of the Bible.
First we read there has always been the holy One, called The Word. A word can express to us even thoughts or wishes, which we cannot see. He was the Living Word to show God’s will and His desires for people.
This holy One made all things of earth and sky: “Without Him was not anything made that was made.” He was the life and light of all.
That holy Being by Whom all was made came to live for a time on the earth in a body like ours. He was the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He showed wisdom, kindness, holess, patience in His words and ways, different from all others.
Although so great He came to be the sacrifice to bear the punishment from God for the sins of His creatures, called “the Lamb of God.” Before that many lambs were offered to show sins deserved death. He was the perfect offering, provided by God.
All were told to “Behold”, to look and think upon, this holy Person to be offered for sin.
The proofs the Lord Jesus gave of His power, which were written by John, are like exsamples of what He could do. He changed water into wine. He made a dying boy well. He made a helpless man walk. He fed thousands bread and fish. He walked on water. He forgave sinners. He made a blind man see. He made a dead man live.
Since he could do all those, He is able to do all else He has promised, He told God’s love for all and that He would die for them, and offered eternal life to all who trust in Him.
Yet the holy Son of God as a humble Man on earth was not welcomed by all; many wanted to keep on their own dark ways of sin: but all who listened and believed His words loved Him, and believed Him the Son of God.
One great truth for us to know is that God gives life that cannot end to all who believe His Son, and they can never perish. (John 1: 12; 10: 28).
The promise of the Lord to send the Holy Spirit to teach and comfort those who believe Him, and His purpose to come again to receive them unto Himself are given in the later half of John’s book; and there, the account of His giving up His life on the cross, as He had said; and that He was raised from the tomb.
Because the Lord Jesus is the “Living Word” He could keep His written Word for us to read; there are no greater facts for boys and girls and men and women to know.
ML 12/29/1946