Jesus Is God

John’s message is simple: the eternal God Himself has become human. The Creator has become a part of His creation, fully God and fully man, do that He might save sinners from their sin, death, judgment, and eternal hell.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John does not give us the earthly story.

Jesus is nothing other than God, nothing less than God. He is not a created spirit-brother of Lucifer and Adam as the Mormons say (also known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a religion founded in the U.S. in 1830, by Joseph Smith, Jr), or like any other false views of Christ. Jesus is God.

The infinite becomes finite. The Eternal One enters time. The Invisible One becomes visible.

The “Word”

John uses the term, “Word” to describe Jesus. It was such a perfect term to use to identify Christ on the supernatural side, and also on the philosophical side, in which the Greeks operated.

For the Jewish people, the term “Word” already had significance. The phrase “the Word of the Lord” appeared so many times in the Old Testament, and the Word of the Lord was simply the revelation of God. So the Word of the Lord is the expression of God to people.

In the Old Testament, it was the word of God by which God created the universe. The universe was created by the word of God’s mouth. Everything that God did, His power, His will, His mind, was directed toward men and it was always called His Word.

The Greeks believed in a logos spirit, some non-personal power source, some non-personal energy entity, floating around in the universe. They believed this non-personal force in the universe was responsible for the way things were. Logos was a Greek philosophical term expressing the identity of this power.

The Word Was Pre-existent

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

There are religions, cults and people who deny that Jesus Christ always was, and that He is total God. They have likely come to your house to tell you that He’s just ‘a Son’ of God, and is just one of the many gods. You’ve had people say to you that He wasn’t God from eternity past.

God was not created. He has always been, and so has Jesus, the second person of the Trinity.

In the beginning of Genesis 1:1, the Word was. What is the importance of that? The Word was already existing.

That is to say, the Word, Who is none other than the Son of God, Jesus Christ, was already in existence when God
created everything that exists. If you are not a part of the creation, you’re not a part of time and space.

If you’re not a part of time and space, then you’re eternal.

God and Jesus are eternal, outside of space and time.

Jesus was continuously existing already when the beginning began. He did not begin with the beginning. He is not a created being. Time began with creation, but the Word existed before time and therefore is outside of time, and therefore is eternal.

The Word Co-existent With God

John 1:b …and the Word was God. 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.

The Word was not only there; the Word was with God.

The Greek construction here is amazing. It says the Word was face to face with God. In the Greek language that identifies the most intimate possible relationship of communication, communion, and fellowship.
In eternity past God was face to face with Jesus Christ.

2 John 1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess Jesus Christ  coming in [the] flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

The Word Is Self-existent

John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God. 1:3 All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.

Here is the proof of His self-existence. Everything that exists came into being through Him. 1 Corinthians 8:6,
God is the Creator; the Holy Spirit is an agent in creation; but God does all His creating through
the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ.

John 20:31 That you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that Believing, you might have salvation in His name.