Jesus is the Word

 

The apostle John in his writings, both the gospel and his letters and in Revelation, reveals to us some unique truths about Jesus.

 

In John 1:1 it says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

 

Jesus is the Word. He is the incarnate Word of God. That means Jesus is God and all that He says is God’s Word. Jesus as the Word reveals to us truths that are essential for us to know and allow the Holy Spirit to make real in our lives.

 

God created the world by speaking the world into existence. John 1:3 says, “All things were made through Him, and without Him, was not any thing made that was made.”

 

Jesus is the Creator.

 

Jesus created everything in the spiritual world and in the physical world. Nothing exists that was not made by Jesus.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is knowing Jesus as your Creator.

 

John 1:4-5 says, “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 is life and light.

 

Jesus as the life is the source of our physical life and He is the source of our eternal life. If we don’t have Jesus, we have a less than full physical life and we have no eternal life, only an eternity separated from Jesus.

 

Jesus is the light. Jesus illumines our lives and overcomes any darkness that we might be experiencing. Darkness is simply the absence of light and Jesus as the light overcomes the darkness.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is knowing Jesus as the source of our lives and having Him as the light that overcomes any darkness in our lives.

 

John 1:12 says, “But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.”

 

Jesus makes us the children of God.

 

Jesus as the Word is our source of becoming God’s children. Faith comes by hearing and hearing through the Word. Jesus is who we place our faith in and when we do, we become God’s children. Jesus as the Word gives us the new birth which is the birth that makes us children of God.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is placing our faith in Jesus as Savior and Lord and becoming children of God.

 

John 1:14 says, “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 grace and truth.

 

Jesus gives us grace, His unmerited and undeserved love. He gives it to us as a free gift. It is what allows us to experience salvation and God’s blessings.

 

Jesus is the truth. All truth flows from Jesus and anything that is not of God is not truth and conversely everything Jesus says is truth.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is experiencing the grace that Jesus gives us and experiencing salvation and trusting Jesus as the truth and applying that to how we live every day.

 

Jesus is the Word!

 

With Jesus as the Word,

Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,

Joe