{"id":98315,"date":"2020-09-03T03:56:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T08:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=98315"},"modified":"2020-09-02T21:59:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T02:59:13","slug":"14-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/14-m\/","title":{"rendered":"14.m. &#8220;In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">John 1:14 <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>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. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, \u201cThis was he of whom I said, He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.\u2019\u201d) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father&#8217;s side, he has made him known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Revelation 19:13<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Hebrews 4:12<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>For the word of God is living and active,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cAnd the Word became flesh and dwelt among us\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>What is this Word?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We know the Word was there in the beginning with God.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We know the Word was God. We know all things were made through Him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Jesus said in John 10:30 \u201cI and My Father are one\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Word is Jesus Christ.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Jesus was with God prior to creation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Jesus is eternal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Why would the Creator take on the form of a servant and allow being rejected, despised, beaten, and crucified?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There is no other reason than Love.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Out of love, He chose to redeem, forgive, and restore all of the lost souls who would believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He alone is the one and only true path\/way to eternal life in heaven.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Not because they are good enough or have done enough good but because they believed the opposite in and of themselves.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Their minds and souls were awakened to their sinful nature and the Holiness of Jesus Christ.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There is no amount of good works that can bridge this gap between sin and holiness besides Jesus Christ.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In simple terms, they surrendered to this fact and wholly trusted in Jesus Christ alone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In this surrender and trust, they were forgiven, redeemed, and promised eternal life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The life they live now is, or at least should be, in humbler service, honor, obedience, and faith to the only one worthy, Jesus Christ.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Creator did not redeem us to be critical of each other but to love one another, to build one another up, to encourage one another, to help one another, to pray for one another, and to worship, glorify, and praise Jesus Christ together.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There ought to be no room in our hearts, minds, and souls for anything other than our love, trust, and obedience to Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 1:14 \u00a0 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. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, \u201cThis was he of whom I said, He who comes after me ranks before me, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/14-m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;14.m. &#8220;In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8216,5988,2910,999,13088,448,304,5831,530,76,83,3945,4151,3224,1154,3414,219,3672,3215,147,14262,14261,872,3287],"class_list":["post-98315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-among-us","tag-before-me","tag-beginning","tag-cried-out","tag-dipped-in-blood","tag-father","tag-flesh","tag-fullness","tag-glory","tag-god","tag-grace","tag-jesus-christ","tag-john","tag-known","tag-law","tag-living-and-active","tag-moses","tag-received","tag-son","tag-truth","tag-was-god","tag-with-god","tag-witness","tag-word"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98418,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98315\/revisions\/98418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}