John 1:14-16: Light to the world week 3

Are you a conspiracy theorist? There are some of those in the world today. I don’t know if you are a conspiracy theorist, but there are many conspiracy theories going on around the world. Conspiracy theories are usually an attempt to explain those unique oddities in our world that don’t quite make sense. Unexplained happenings that just don’t seem to make sense. Some individuals allow their imaginations to run wild and come up with all sorts of explanations or theories for how or why something happened. . . All these theories. In a world of conspiracy theories, theories about everything, it’s important to know the truth, right? We don’t want theories, ideas, or suggestions, we want truth. This is especially true when it comes to Jesus. There are many theories, call them conspiracy theories if you will, about Jesus. Specifically, there are many ideas relating to the humanity of Jesus. Was Jesus God? Was he man? Was he both? Was he partially God and partially man? How should we think about the humanity of Jesus? Many different theories have come about to explain and describe this, some of them even go as far as to deny the humanity of Jesus—saying he only seemed to be man but wasn’t really. In a world of differing theories about Jesus, we need to know and embrace the truth. ‌‌And as we come to our text today, John sets us straight about the humanity of Jesus. We saw over the last two weeks, the deity of Jesus. That Jesus is truly, genuinely God. He was in the beginning with God, he was involved in creation, and he is God himself. But today in our text, John tackles the humanity of Jesus. He teaches us that while Jesus was fully God, he also added to himself a genuine humanity. And in an effort to explain this for us today, John tells us that Jesus was indeed fully human, and he tells us why this matters. ‌‌ This is incredibly important for the time of year we find ourselves in today—it’s the Sunday before Christmas. This is the time of year that we celebrate the fact the Jesus did come to earth to be born of a virgin, and we celebrate that today. But how should we think about that and why does it matter? John helps us with that today. And he gives us three compelling reasons why the humanity of Jesus matters. So as we unpack our text today, I want to give you one truth to take home with you today. It’s our big idea for this morning. ‌‌ Big Idea: God the Son became completely human so that he could completely provide for your salvation