One of the huge implications in John’s mind is that we have the opportunity to become children of God.

We can have Him as our Heavenly Father.

We can be heirs of all of Creation that God has made for us.

We can be adopted into His family.

The world is like a big pot of water and we are a bunch of frogs. The world is darkness. The world is bad. We are all in the pot and the world just gets darker and darker and worse and worse and sometimes we notice and sometimes we don’t. We are all in the pot cooking to death. The end result if we stay in the world is death. Spiritual death. Separation from God. In this passage, John the Baptist came as a witness to the True Light and showed people the way to Jesus. He was a witness for Jesus. Jesus is salvation.

So we get this idea in John 1:4-5 that the Apostle John is speaking about the tension and struggle and conflict of light and life verses darkness and death.

Jesus is God.

Jesus can be trusted.

A look at John 1:1-3.

In Hebrews 4:14-16, the “throne of grace” is described in two main ways… authority and power and then sympathy and understanding.

Part 2 of 2 messages focusing on the mission of CCC... "Helping People Find and Follow Jesus."