No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.No one has seen God at any time. The only born Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
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… We've heard from the mouth of Jesus, no one has ever seen God. John 1.18, no one has ever seen God, not just after the fall, but no one has ever seen God. They couldn't. Even their sinless eyes and minds and hearts couldn't bear it. Couldn't bear to see him. So can we actually see God? No. but also very much yes. this is almost too hard to grasp or to believe. I want you to believe it. Listen to 1 John 3 verse 2. This is what your eyes were really made for. This is why you have them. If a kid asks you, why do you have eyes? You could take them to 1 John 3 verse 2. Beloved, we are God's children now. And what we will be has not yet appeared, but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him because we shall see him as he is. We shall see him as he is. You have eyes so that one day you would get to see God. …
… and the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. The question we have is, is that worth the wait? Like, is what God has done, is that worth the wait? Because think about this, from the beginning of the story, from the actually very first story. Here's Genesis chapter one and two, chapter three, everything falls apart. But in the midst of Genesis chapter three, Genesis chapter three, verse 15, God promises, he promises that there is going to be one who crushes the head of the serpent. There is gonna be one who restores all things. And then the whole rest of the story is people waiting from Abraham to Isaac, to Jacob, to the judges, to the kings, to the divided kingdom, to the civil war, to exile, through all the whole entire story, all the way to Jesus. is that worth the wait? I was thinking about, you know, this, think of right now, Christmas Day. I think a lot of us, we get really excited. …
… created the heaven and the earth. John is saying, in the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God and the Word was God. That sentence in and of itself was enough to keep the theologians busy for three hundred years because on the one hand the Word is distinguished from God and then from a different perspective is identified with God. And since we looked at that somewhat closely during the Advent season, I'm just going to remind you that it's there as pregnant as it is in significance and is the basis basically more than anything else for the church's confession of Trinity. We read, He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him. Without Him nothing was made that was made. So that Jesus who came to this earth is now identified as the incarnation of that member of the Trinity for whom, by whom, and in whom all things were made. So that what John is saying in extraordinary ways is this, the one I'm going to tell you about, the one that I want you to believe in, and the one in whom there is life is the one who created you in the first place. …