Jesus is the Word of God

John, in the Gospel of John, calls Jesus the Word of God. He uses the word Logos.

Logos means a collection of ideas or words. It can mean both inner thought and the outward expression of that thought.

John is revealing to us Jesus as the inner thought and outward expression of God.

John 1:1-2
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.

John establishes the deity of Jesus.

When all things began, the Word (Jesus) already was. Jesus wasn’t created. Jesus has no beginning. He simply is. And He has always been.

John also emphasizes the intimacy of fellowship between the Word (Jesus) and God.

John says that Jesus and God had a face-to-face relationship. Jesus was not just with God, He was communing with God.

Then John says that Jesus is not a god, but that He is the God.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about Jesus being THE GOD.

John 1:3
All things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made.

John says that Jesus is the Creator. Everything that has been created, what we see with the natural eye, what we see with the telescope, and what we see with the microscope, was created by Jesus. Even the things we cannot see -the spiritual world- was created by Him.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about Jesus being THE CREATOR.

John 1:4-5
In Him was life and the life was the light of men. The light shines in . the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Jesus has life in Himself. The life here is not just biological life, it is life in all its fullness. It is full physical life and full spiritual life.

Jesus is the light. He is that light that continues to shine.

Jesus is the light that is stronger and overcomes darkness.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about Jesus being THE LIFE AND LIGHT.

John 1:6-9
There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. The true light which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

John the Baptist was a witness to the light. Acts 1:8 says we all as followers of the Light (Jesus) are to be witnesses. Life is not about us. Life is about Jesus and as followers of Jesus we are be witnesses of the True Light. The Light, Jesus, is for everyone.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about being WITNESSES to the truth of Jesus.

John 1:10-11
He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, yet the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him.

Jesus the Creator was physically, bodily in the world. Jesus came to those who should have known Him, but they rejected Him.

The world rejected Jesus. The world as a whole is still rejecting Jesus. If the world rejects Jesus, the One we follow, then it will reject us because we are following Jesus.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about being willing to be REJECTED TO FOLLOW JESUS.

John 1:12-13
But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

Three key terms: Receive and Children and Believe in His name

Receive means to gain possession of something. We gain possession of Jesus as our Lord and He gains possession of us as His servants.

Children means someone born of another.

We are not just the servants of Jesus but out of His grace He makes us His children.

Believe in His name means the absolute transfer of trust from self to the Savior. Anything short of that is not a faith that makes us children of God.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about turning over complete control of yourself to Jesus and becoming a CHILD OF GOD.

John 1:14
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.

Jesus is the one and only Son of God. We are children of God through the grace of Jesus by faith. Jesus is THE SON OF GOD.

The Son of God became a human.
The Son of God became an ordinary human.

Jesus was not a king or a wealthy man or powerful man (from a human perspective). Jesus was an ordinary guy.

But even in ordinary human form, the glory of God was evident as Jesus showed grace and truth.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about knowing that Jesus is the one and only GOD/MAN.

John 1:15-18
(John bore witness about Him, and cried out, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because He was before me.) 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’s side, He has made Him known.

Jesus is to be supreme over our lives because:
He is the image of the invisible God.
He shows God’s grace and truth. 
He is at the Father’s side.
He has made the Father known to all.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about having Jesus as the SUPREME RULER OF YOUR LIFE.

With and In The Word Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls
                                             Joe