They Did Not Know Him John 1:1-5 Sunday Morning May 22, 2016 by Pastor Fee Soliven John 1:1-5 Sunday Morning May 22, 2016

   John 1:1-5 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.  

Introduction of John

  Purpose To prove conclusively that Jesus is the Son of God and that all who believe in Him will have eternal life!  

Author John the Apostle the Son of Zebedee, brother of James, called a “Son of Thunder”    

Date Written A.D 85-90  

Setting Written after the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 and before John’s exile to the Island of Patmos

35 So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses."

34 "And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.

32 Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. 33 Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?'

21 Then Peter came to Him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?"

Key Verses John 20:30-31 30 And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

Jesus, John The Baptist and The Disciples Key People Jesus, John The Baptist and The Disciples

Cana, Capernaum, Jerusalem, Samaria, Bethsaida and Bethany  Key Places Cana, Capernaum, Jerusalem, Samaria, Bethsaida and Bethany  

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Psalm 33:6 “By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.”  

When the LORD began to speak by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea…

Psalm 119:11-13 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You! 12 Blessed are You, O LORD! Teach me Your statutes! 13 With my lips I have declared All the judgments of Your mouth.

1 Timothy 3:16 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.

2 He was in the beginning with God.

John 16:28 "I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father."

3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

1 Corinthians 8:6 “yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.”

Colossians 1:16-17 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

Hebrews 1:1-2 1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds…

4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

The Greek term used for “life” is zoe; in the Gospel of John  

John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

2 Corinthians 4:3-6 3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake.

6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 5:8-13 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.

John 6:44-45 44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.