peace to live by

The Title of Word for Jesus, Part 1 (TMF:2962)

Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Peace to Live By: The Title of Word for Jesus, Part 1 (TMF:2962) - Daniel Litton
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       We can presume that the title "Word" signifies Jesus because it's what the end of verse 1 relays to us. It says, "the Word was God." That's the starting point of the whole thing. Jesus Christ has had his journey to the earth taking on human flesh. This is made straight from the start. It is even re-emphasized in verse 2: “He was in the beginning with God.” It’s as if he’s trying to say, “There is no question about it.” Certainly, by the time when John is writing his Gospel here, by the end of the first century, false teachers with their heresies had already been infiltrating the church. This fact was brought up in the study of Colossians. Bringing it to mind, we recall it was those pre-Gnostic people who tried to say that Jesus Christ had not really come in human flesh, but rather that he was simply a spirit. A spirit being; no flesh. To them, all physical materials were evil, and God himself surely would not inhabit a physical, human body. But John begins straightaway refuting that notion.