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John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
In Christianity God is not an impersonal thing nor a static thing - not even just one person - but a dynamic pulsating activity, a life, a kind of drama, almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance. The pattern of this three-personal life is the great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very center of reality. If God is triune, then loving relationships in community are the great fountain at the center of reality. – Tim Keller
1 John 4:8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that ‘God is love.’ But they seem not to notice that the words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made, He was not love. – C. S. Lewis
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Community- God enjoys perfect relationship in the love among the Father, Son and Holy Spirit Creation- God creates a perfect world where we can be brought into this perfect community. Crash- Man rejects God’s gracious invitation and plunges the human race into ruin. Covenant- God promises to bring man back to himself and pursues man in love. Crown- God chooses a family, makes it a nation to bless the whole world. Crisis- Israel rejects God’s plan, so God sends prophets/leaders to call them back. Christ - God enters human history as a man to do for man what they could never do for themselves Church- Jesus works through the very people he has saved to rescue the world Consummation- God restores all things to perfect order and brings us back into perfect community
John 17:5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. v. 22-23 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me v. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”
We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.
Indeed, what could be more ludicrous in a vast and glorious universe like this than a human being, on the speck called earth, standing in front of a mirror trying to find significance in his own self-image? It is a great sadness that this is the gospel of the modern world. – John Piper
