From Death to Life - John 1:1-5

John 1:1-5

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was with God in the beginning.

 ³Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴In him was life, and that life was the light of men. ⁵The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

This is such a fantastic passage of scripture.  Today during our gathering at Fusion Church we looked at and discussed this passage.   We spoke on the Deity of Jesus and looked at how we are confident that Jesus is who He said He was.  The first three verses speak about the awesomeness of who and what Jesus is.  We see that Jesus is not only God but He is also the Creator of all.  Nothing was made without Jesus speaking all things into existence. 

Jesus is the author of Life.  John writes in verse 4 that specifically that "In Him" was life.  Out of God comes the very essence and purpose of life.  This reminds me of the Creation account in Genesis where it says that "God breathed into Adam the breath of life".  Within all of us is found this very breath.   Actually what is more amazing is that in the original language the very word for "breath" is the same word for "spirit".  Same word.  Inside of you God has given you life with the very air you breath, and this life comes from God.  

Everything was fine for all of 2 chapters in the Bible.  Did you ever think about that?  Of all the chapters there are in the Bible it only took 2 chapters for somebody to blow it.  Chapter 3 begins the reason for the very reason that Jesus had to die.  As we all know Adam & Eve fell when they disobeyed God and passed on their sinful nature to the rest of us.  God told them that if they disobeyed his one command that they will die.  And sure enough they did.  Not only did they die physically...but they also died spiritually.  They had once enjoyed such fellowship with God in the Garden...but once they sinned that ended immediately.  Death overtook them...

Those who once were full of LIFE...now were dead.  Their children were born spiritually dead.  Cain & Abel did not have the fellowship that their parents enjoyed with God.  The Earth was cursed as well as it had been corrupted with sin.  It was as if Adam & Eve had ignored Doctor Emmit Brown and had messed with the "Space Time Continuum". Something had to change.  Life had to be restored to the Universe and to mankind.  This is where Jesus comes in.

Jesus came to a Lost, Dark and Evil world.  This was a world that was very far apart from God and a planet that was filled with spiritual zombies.  Zombies are "living dead beings".  People without the LIFE that Jesus gives are exactly that.  We who were "spiritually dead" without any purpose need the Life that had been given to Adam and Eve.  The groanings of the Universe could be heard and God wasn't going to ignore it.  Jesus came and brought Life.  He not only redeemed us through the Cross but he also showed us how to live.   The ways of Jesus and the death of Jesus give us Life.

Jesus came to bring restoration to the universe. 

 ¹⁹For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, ²⁰and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

 He came to bring life to man so that he could be united with God the Father once again.  John tells us that "in Him was LIFE".  This Life is the light of man.  It is a light that shines in the darkness.   It is a life that overcomes evil.  It is the life that created all things and it is the Life that brings us back in fellowship to God.  We who were dead have now been brought back to LIFE.

It is amazing how this was accomplished isn't it?  Man was created with this LIFE from God.  Man disobeys God and sins and then begins to die and lose that LIFE.  Jesus then comes.....He lives.....He dies....and then He LIVES!   It is because He lives that we also live.

Ephesians 2:4-6

because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. ⁶And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,