Sinclair Ferguson

Yesterday I mentioned a letter by the great hymn writer John Newton where he makes the point that sometimes one blemish in our Christian character can be like a spot on a tie or a mark on a shirt or a dent in our car that everybody seems to notice.

That's what they notice rather than the shirt or the tie or the new car because it seems to take over.

That's what they notice rather than the shirt or the tie or the new car because it seems to take over.

We've been thinking all this week about the wonder of God's revelation in the cosmos and the marvel as Christians that we understand that we were made as His image for fellowship with Him in order that we might be like Him, that we might know Him, that we might trust Him.

But we've especially been thinking about our rebellion against this revelation and our rebellion and rejection of it.

But I don't think that we should leave this week without remembering where this story goes in the pages of the Scriptures.

For just as the Old Testament begins with the words that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, there's a very similar beginning, isn't there, to the gospel according to John.

And John echoes what Moses had written in Genesis chapter 1.

And he tells us that, as Genesis 1 tells us, that the creation came into being through the instrumentality of God's Word.

John now shows us that that Word was actually a person.

And he says, in the beginning, when God created all things, He did it through the person who was face to face with Him.

In the beginning was the Word.

And the Word was face to face with God, and the Word was God.

And then eventually in the prologue to John's Gospel, he makes it crystal clear that this Word is none other than our Lord Jesus Christ.

He is the one without whom nothing was made that was made.

He is the one who sustains all things.

And daringly, John adds, He gives light to everyone.

And that's something we've really been considering, isn't it?

that even the people who walk in darkness cannot escape the fact that their thinking, their reasoning, their loving, their living, their sense that there might be some meaning to life, their light on life is grounded in the Word who created everything, and now in Jesus Christ the Word, the true light who enlightens everyone who has come into the world.

This is a wonderful thing for us to know.