It's the way He wants us to be, weak after weak in this gospel.

On our face, my Lord, and my God, that's who became flesh.

Who is this one who became flesh?

That's the question John Piper answers from John 1-1-3 in this episode of Light and Truth.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on September 21st, 2008.

What does John want to tell us about the word that became flesh?

The one he knew, the one he laid his head on.

What does he want to tell us about him?

And I'm going to give you four things.

Number one, he wants to tell us about the time of his existence.

Number two, he wants to tell us about the essence of his identity.

Number three, he wants to tell us about his relationship to God.

And number four, he wants to tell us about his relationship to the world.

Those are the four things.

Let's take them one at a time.

They won't be long.

Number one, the time of his existence.

Verse one, first phrase, in the beginning was the word.

Those words in the beginning in Greek are identical to the first two words of the Bible.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

I don't think that's an accident.

What John is saying is before there was any matter, before anything had been made was Jesus.

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