The word became flesh
Apr 15
John 1:10He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. 14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
In verse 11 we read that when Jesus came into the world, the world did not recognise him. There is a lot that is said at the start of the first book of John about not recognising and not understanding. Jesus is and was the creator and yet His creation did not recognise him. We continue to read that Jesus came to his own people, but his own did not receive him.
Then we need one of those great verses of the Bible which says that those who did receive him, he gave the right to become the children of God. The verse says that Jesus gave them the right to become children of God. When we read of “the right to do something” it means that we have a legal position as far as that is concerned. But John goes on to say that these children were not of natural descent, nor were they born out of human decision or out of a husbands’ will, but they are born of God.
That is one of the great mysteries of the Bible, how that Jesus the creator, came to the people that he had made and even though he was rejected by them, He still had the grace to accept whoever would receive him. And then we read in verse 14, that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. One of the great preachers I really admire, someone by the name of Andrew Wommack has a wonderful teaching about the word becoming flesh.
The basis of his teaching is that in order for Jesus to be born as the word of God, all the words had to be spoken by people through the ages so that Jesus could be made of flesh, created out of words. In this way, Jesus became flesh by conception of the Holy Spirit. The wonderful thing about Jesus is that he did come and made his dwelling among us. The reason that Jesus came to dwell amongst people was to show the example that he wanted to set for all of us to follow. Jesus, the very word of God was there in the beginning (see the first verse of this book) came to earth and even though his own did not recognise him, he came to dwell among his people.