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A series of expository Bible study lessons, interspersed with a variety of personal testimonies and informative talks, recorded at an adult Sunday School class at First Baptist Church of Orlando.
The recordings date back to 2009, and include Dr. James Bruton's verse-by-verse teachings throughout the Bible.
Please enjoy with us the gift of God's Word, as shared by various teachers over the years.
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CHRIST, THE ETERNAL GOD (John 1:1-18)
ReplyDelete1. In the Beginning (1-1-2)
a. The Word was. . . (“there never was when He was not”, Athanasius)
b. With God (“towards…”—face to face with God)
c. The Word was God (unambiguously affirms deity of Jesus, the full and final revelation of God)
2. Jesus Christ and the Creation (1:3-5)
a. “The eventual goal of science is to provide a single theory that describes the whole universe.” (Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time)
b. Through Christ all things were made (cf. Col. 1:16)
c. Biblical creation—“out of nothing” means that God is distinct from the world
d. He is the “Light” that has come into the world, illuminating every man; not overcome by the world
3. The Eternal Word entered history (1:6-18
a. The ministry of John the Baptist (1;7-9)
b. Christ came to the world He had made; the world ignored Him!
c. He came to His own people, but they did not receive Him. (1:10)
d. But, as many as did receive Him. . . those who believed in (into) His Name: (1:11-13)
-- He gave the “right” to become children of God
-- Entering the family of God requires( supernatural)l God’s action
4. The “Grand Miracle” (C. S. Lewis) (1:14-18)
a. The Eternal Word became flesh, and dwelt (tabernacle) among us
b. We beheld His glory—to which John the Baptist bore witness
c. From Him we have grace without measure, which the Law could not give
d. Jesus, coming from the heart of God, is the explanation (exegesis) of the Eternal, Invisible God