Good morning. Today were looking at the Gospel of John. I love the Gospel of John – you feel like you're right there with Jesus. The other Gospels are like they are just simply reporting what happened. John likes to use what is known as the historical present. He uses present tense verbs to talk about things that happened in the past. The difference would be like some joke that started: A man went into a bar and said to the bartender ... versus A man goes into a bar and says to the bartender ... In the second, you feel like you're right there in the bar with them. One of the most powerful verses in the Bible: in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And then verse two: He was in the beginning with God. Here we are again with infinity in the past. When the beginning came, the Word and God we're already there. Before time was – God is. Remember that in Greek when you say something is something else, it does not necessarily mean they are the same. It does not mean that Jesus and the Father were the same when it says that the Word was God. That was one of the heresies from 1000 years ago. Also the first verse means that Jesus was not created, which of course is another heresy. Verse three emphasizes this: all things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. Jesus did not come into being, because He always was. Of course this is really impossible for us human beings to truly understand. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. We are in Him who is life, and this life is in us. Today just like then the world is in darkness and they do not comprehend the light. Father thank You that Your life and light are in the reader. Wherever he/she goes, Your light and life will shine through him/her and the world will see and know that You are God in him/her.

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