Title (Ⅰ) Our Savior Jesus Christ (John 1:1~14)
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① This text is a revelation of what kind of God Jesus was and what he did before he became incarnated, what he brought with him when he came into the world in the incarnation, and what he came to do. ② The true faith to receive salvation and achieve salvation consists in knowing, believing, and following Jesus the Savior.
“Jesus Christ, the self-existent God”
① Before the incarnation, Jesus is the only God with self-existence before eternity. ② Before eternity, there was neither the spiritual world nor the physical universe, but in the midst of this nothingness, He was God alone. ③ All things in the heavens and the heavens are called creatures because of something, but God does not exist because of something, but He is self-existent. ④ Therefore, do not commit the sin of relegating Jesus to one of the four great saints who were fallen creatures. ⑤ He is also the God of unity by virtue of being eternal, perfect, and eternally immutable. ⑥ Therefore, his life, knowledge, wisdom, love, ability, plan, management, creation, providence, and history... are also united in eternal life, perfection, and immutability. ⑦ Although He appears in many different ways, He works in every aspect as the eternal, perfect, and eternal, unchanging God of holiness.
“Jesus Christ who was the Word God”
“Jesus Christ, God the Creator, Providence, and Judge”
① “All things were made through him, and nothing that was made was made without him” ② Jesus created all things in heaven and on earth while he was the God of the Word in eternity. ③ He determined the purpose of salvation with the knowledge of wisdom and knowledge of eternal, perfect, and eternally unchanging attributes. ④ “He was in the world, and the world was made through him, but the world did not know him” refers to the historical world of the creation that God created. ⑤ “He was in the world” refers to the world created by the creation of all things. It refers to the intervention, providence, and judgment of all things in order to be used in fulfilling the purpose of salvation while in the world. ⑥ “It was made through him” means that the history of all creatures and the reality they met were created by God’s providential judgment. ⑦ Therefore, Jesus is the master and center of the history of the BC and AD divisions, weaving the history of mankind, the central history of creation.
“Jesus Christ incarnate to give life”
① “In him” means the word in God and in Jesus, who came into the world in the flesh ② “Life” refers to the connection with God who is life, and “death” is the connection with God and the devil, who is the authority of death. say bonding. ③ In God the Word, the Word itself is God as life, and in God the Word there is “grace of choice, grace of predestination, grace of creation, grace of providence” that connects and unites the elect with God who is life. ④ In Jesus incarnate, Jesus Not only is God who is life itself, but it is also connected and combined with God who is life. Through the redemptive grace of forgiveness, justification and reconciliation that fills us, we are connected and connected with God who is life through truth and the Holy Spirit. There was life.” ⑤ In order to give this life, Jesus worked as God the Word before the foundation of the world, and also came into the world in the flesh. ⑥ Therefore, he said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).