A World That Knows Him | Sermon 09/04/2022

John 1:6-13

The Apostle John wrote about the eternal Word who has no point of origin but is the Creator God. Now, in contrast, he says then came into being a man named John who was sent from God to point people to this Word. As the last of the Old Covenant prophets, John the Baptist points to the one called Light so that all might believe in the Light. Although there are many people and even angels that try to say they are the Light, there is a true Light that has come into the world shining across the it at His appearance.

The Light in transcendent, far above all things as superior to all and yet He is immanent, knowable, perceivable, and graspable. God has come into the creation and He has intimate knowledge toward the people of that world. But they did not know Him or welcome Him. And more narrowly, the Light came to His own covenant people but they did not receive Him. But He will build an increasing intimacy with a new people from all over the world He made. If His people reject Him, He will make a new people. If the creation rejects Him, He will make a new creation.

He gave this new people the right to come back into being but now as children of God. Children because they are dependent, trusting, and weak. They need their Father and He will be. And these children will be born again. They will not be born of natural means; they will not be born of sexual intimacy; they will not be born by any will or desire of man. These children will be born of God, by God, through God, and for God. Those in the Word called the Light, the one Jesus Christ will have a new genealogy. They will have a heavenly Father and an everlasting inheritance that comes with that adoption. Jesus will make a world with people that know Him and receive Him. The Creator creates again.