Sinclair Ferguson

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.

The inescapability of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ.

The fact that the world owes its existence to our Lord Jesus Christ.

The human race owes everything to Him.

It's amazing when you think about it, that the world has rejected him, as John goes on to say in his prologue, and yet he has continued to sustain that world.

But it's into that world that the Son came, the Logos, the Word, in order to redeem us.

There is, says John, good news for us in the fallen creation order.

And it comes in a sense in the prologue to John's Gospel in two stages.

Stage one is wonderful.

The light continues to shine because the darkness can never extinguish it.

But if stage one is wonderful, stage two is absolutely phenomenal.

The light that gives light has come into the world.

The Word has become flesh.

The eternal God has come to be face to face with us.