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Sess ion 2: The Word Made F l esh, Glory and S igns , and the New Bi r th 33

a. The world did not know him, though he made it and came into it, 1.10.

b. His own people did not know or receive him, 1.11.

c. Those receiving him and believing in his name have been given the right to become the very children of God, born of God Godself, not of blood, or the will of the flesh, or of man, 1.12-13.

2. The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, John 1.14-18 – And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. [15] (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) [16] And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. [17] For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. [18] No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

a. The Logos “tabernacled” (dwelt among us) for a time with us human beings, and his glory has been seen as the Father’s own majesty, full of grace and truth, 14.

b. The literal glory of God is seen in the face of Jesus of Nazareth.

(1) 2 Cor. 4.6 – For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2) Luke 10.22 – All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except