THE WORD BECAME FLESH

I know we are taking a long time to go through Chapter One, but isn't it exciting. Don't miss all that God is telling us in this fantastic chapter. Meditate upon it, think about the truth of God's precious Word. So far we have learned that Jesus is the Word, He is the Creator, He is the Light and now we will look at the fact that He has come to earth in flesh.

READ JOHN 1:14

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Something new has happened about the Word - it became flesh, it took on humanity and that human flesh came to dwell among us.
Last time God dwelt among His people was in the Tabernacle and than the Temple. (See Exodus 40:34; I Kings 8:10-11; 2 Chron. 5:13-14)
That cloud that so embraced and saturated the Tabernacle and than the Temple left at the Babylonian Captivity in 586 B.C. (see Ezekiel 10-11).
WE BEHELD HIS GLORY - The glory of the Lord returns in Jesus Christ, the only begotten from the Father. He is the incarnation, one of a kind human being, full of grace and truth. "Through the pity of the sins of mankind Jesus left His state of blessedness with God in Heaven and voluntarily underwent the hardshps and miseries of human life, and by his sufferings and death procured salvation for mankind." (Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament)
THE GLORY OF GOD HAS NOT LEFT AGAIN WHEN JESUS ASCENDED TO THE FATHER AFTER THE RESURRECTION. FOR WE AS BELIEVERS ARE NOW THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD AND THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT THE GLORY OF GOD RESIDES IN US. AWESOME ISN'T IT!