CHRIST IS INDISPENSABLE

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🏆 *CHRIST IS INDISPENSABLE!* 🏆

📌Passage of Focus: 📖John 1

In a world where little is deemed SACRED, VALUABLE, or INDISPENSABLE there is nothing comparable to the opening chapter of John's gospel. 

It is something akin to cultural shock that we experience when we read this chapter. This ancient writing has been described by some as perhaps the MOST PROFOUND WRITING we have. But, considering the SUBJECT MATTER, it had to be. 

*John makes very clear that he is writing about THE SON OF GOD, JESUS CHRIST, and writing to move men to a LIFE GIVING FAITH IN HIM.* (📖John 20:30-31)

We are surprised to learn in the very first chapter of his writing that one of his great themes is *THE INDISPENSABLE CHRIST.* 

The theme is introduced to us in 📖John 1:3 *"WITHOUT HIM was NOT ONE thing made that was made."*

✒ 3 Dimensions Of His Indispensability ✒

🎯 1️⃣ *CHRIST WAS INDISPENSABLE TO CREATION*

The vast immeasurable universe around us and the small planet 🌍 we call home are all the result of the CREATORIAL POWER of the Son of God. 

John's language is strong. All creation owes its existence to JESUS. 

👉 *JESUS as the SOURCE of life* 📖John 1:4

👉 *JESUS is its ORIGIN and OBJECT* 📖John 1:3

If John were with us today, he would not argue with EVOLUTIONISTS. He is not giving APOLOGETICS here, but REVELATION. 

If evolution be accepted and Christ and special creation rejected, men are left with a SOBERING CONCLUSION: 

*"We are the result of a chaotic, purposeless chance of time."* 

In other words, man's existence is reduced to a throw of the dice. *LIFE IS MEANINGLESS AND PURPOSELESS.* 

📝 *RECOGNITION OF THE CREATORSHIP of the Son of God, JESUS CHRIST, however gives DIGNITY and VALUE to mankind.* 

It likewise places man in A PLACE OF RESPONSIBILITY to His Creator. Could it be that the wish to be FREE OF ACCOUNTABILITY towards God has given rise to the movement to lock God out of His universe?

But John has more to say.

👊 *The Lord Jesus is THE LIGHT* (vs. 4); 

👊 *The Lord Jesus is THE WORD MADE FLESHY* (vs. 14); and

👊 *The Lord Jesus is THE DEFINITION OF GOD* (vs. 18). 

So, then, the message is clear: 👇 

🎯 2️⃣ *CHRIST IS INDISPENSABLE TO REVELATION*

Man standing in a position of RESPONSIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY towards God has a *PRESSING NEED TO KNOW WHAT GOD IS LIKE.* 

Paul addressing the intellectuals of his day at the Areopagus in Athens (📖Acts 17) made it clear that:

✏ *God was above man's CONFINES*, 

✏ *God was above man's CONCEPTS* and 

✏ *God was above man's CONTRIBUTION.*

The CONCLUSION is obvious:

*IF WE ARE TO KNOW GOD, HE MUST REVEAL HIMSELF TO US.* 📖1 Sam 3:21

*The good news is that in the Word incarnate, His Son (JESUS CHRIST), COEQUAL and CO-ETERNAL, He has been ACCURATELY DECLARED.*

📖John 1:18 (AMP/MSB)

The revelation of God in Christ shows MAN to be RUINED BY SIN. 

📌 *Neither RITUAL nor RELIGION fits man for heaven* (📖John 2:13-25). 

📌 *Neither SIN nor SELF-WILL satisfies the cravings of the human heart* (📖John 4:5-30). 

Before succeeding chapters shed further light on man's ultimate need, the conclusion is unveiled: 👇 

🎯 3️⃣ *CHRIST IS INDISPENSABLE TO SALVATION*

John records the words of that FEARLESS PROPHET of the wilderness, John the Baptist, 

*"Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world."* 📖John 1:29

Such imagery, MOST FAMILIAR TO HIS JEWISH AUDIENCE, was suddenly and sharply focused on THE PERSON BEFORE THEM (JESUS): 

*"The Lamb fore-ordained before the foundation of the world."*

📖I Pet. 1:20 

Converged in that *"LAMB OF GOD"* was *THE ANSWER* 

✅ To the *PROBLEM* Isaac faced (📖Gen. 22:7), 

✅ To the *PASSOVER* Lamb (📖Ex 12), 

✅ To the *PURPOSE* of the Scapegoat (📖Lev. 16) and 

✅ To the *POWER* of the uplifted Serpent (📖Num. 21). 

Here was the *GREAT ANTITYPE*, the FULFILLMENT of all the many PICTURES and PROMISES of the Old Testament, the ONCE-FOR-ALL SACRIFICE to answer the great sin problem that barred men from God. 

📝 *By virtue of HIS FINISHED WORK on Calvary, He is ABLE TO CONFER the RIGHT TO BE CALLED the CHILDREN OF GOD to all who receive JESUS CHRIST* (vs. 12). 

✒ Two Notable Conclusions:

📌 *Our CALENDARS remind us that His BIRTH DIVIDES HISTORY.* 

📌 *The CROSS reveals to us that His sin atoning DEATH DIVIDES ETERNITY.*

Happy JESUS Day Sir/Ma

Hope you were blessed❓🤷‍♂️😍 

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