Wed Jan 21

Listen up, little ones

Listen for the word word.

Reading

John 1:1-14—The Word from God

Optional Reading

Malachi 3:1

Keys for kids

• Malachi promised a Messenger from God.
• John introduces Jesus as the Word from God.
• We must hear and believe Jesus to be saved.

Questions

1. How is Jesus the Word?
2. When did Jesus begin?
3. What does John reveal in these verses that Jesus has done?

Notes

(See Saturday for authors. )

Malachi promises that God’s Messenger of the Covenant will come. But after Malachi’s prophecy, there were 400 years of silence from God. Then came John the Baptist, a messenger preparing the way for Jesus. More significantly, then came the Word from God.

John introduces Jesus as “the Word.” Hendriksen notes that a word serves two distinct purposes: a. it gives expression to the inner thought, the soul of the man, doing this even though no one else is present to hear what is said or to read what is thought; and b. it reveals this thought (hence, the soul of the speaker) to others. Christ is the Word of God in both respects: he expresses or reflects the mind of God; also, he reveals God to man.

Jesus—the eternally existent God the Son—is the creator of the world. Jesus—the eternal light of the world—is the only way to escape the darkness and find true life. Jesus—the Message and the Messenger from God—reveals God to us so that we might receive Him and become God’s children.

Do you know this Jesus? Each time you read a bit more, study a bit more, understand a bit more, hear this Word a bit more, do you find yourself marveling a bit more and loving Him a bit more?

Swedish Method questions

Praise

Psalm 33c, 119u

Prayer

1. Pray that you hear, know, and believe Jesus more and more.
2. Pray for change in you from last Lord’s Day’s sermons.
3. Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.