The Word Was God

Author: Rev. Daniel Johnson
January 30, 2026

Hello Church Family,

This past weekend, we finally opened our new journey through the Gospel of John. I was so excited to finally dig into this great book together! In the first 5 verses, we didn't start in Bethlehem. We started before time itself.

We saw how John 1:1–5 doesn't ease us into the story of Jesus. It confronts us immediately with who He is. Before miracles. Before teachings. Before the cross. John makes one thing unmistakably clear: Jesus did not begin—He always was.
We spent time sitting with that opening line: "In the beginning was the Word." Not came to be. Not was created. But was. John pulls Jesus out of the category of created things and places Him firmly on the Creator side of the line. Time, space, and matter all had a starting point—Jesus did not.

We also talked about why John calls Jesus "the Word." For Jewish readers, God's Word was how He revealed Himself and acted in the world. For Greek readers, Logos was the reason and order behind everything. John brings both together and says something stunning: the Word is not an idea or a force—He is a Person. God has spoken, and He has spoken fully in Jesus.

That's why John is so insistent about Jesus' identity. A diminished Jesus can't save. A created Jesus can't give life. And a redefined Jesus leaves us with a broken gospel. But if Jesus is fully God—eternal, uncreated, Creator Himself—then everything changes.

John then tells us what flows from who Jesus is: "In Him was life, and that life was the light of men." Life doesn't merely come from Jesus—life exists in Him. And when that light enters the darkness, the darkness doesn't win. It resists. It pushes back. But it never overcomes.

That truth matters. Especially when life feels heavy and when darkness feels loud. John reminds us that darkness is real—but it is not victorious. The light is still shining.

And that's where John leaves us in the opening verses: not with a question about whether Jesus existed, but with a much deeper one—what will we do with Him?

Looking Ahead

This coming Sunday, we'll keep moving forward in John 1 as the story shifts from eternity into history. We'll see how the eternal Word steps into the world—and how people begin to respond when the Light gets close.
If last week was about who Jesus is, this week starts to show us what it looks like when that truth collides with real people, real expectations, and real lives.

Come ready. Come curious. And come expecting God's Word to shape us again!

In His Service,
Pastor Dan

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