Pastor Elio Marrocco's "The Purpose Of The Church" sermon at New Life Christian Church on December 23, 2012. You can learn more about New Life Christian Church here: http://www.newlifecc.ca

1. WHEN GOD BECAME ONE OF US
Text: John 1:1, 2, 14
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2. WHEN GOD BECAME ONE OF US
a. In the beginning
b. Was the Word
c. The word was with God
d. And the Word was God
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3. WHEN GOD BECAME ONE OF US
Leon Morris
“If that is a staggering affirmation to us
there is no reason for thinking that it
was any less so to the Jewish author of
this Gospel. (John the author writing is a
Jew.) To the Jews of the day
Monotheism was more than a belief
commonly held. It was a conviction to be
clung to and defended with a fierce
tenacity. (Jews would die for this belief.)3

4. WHEN GOD BECAME ONE OF US
Leon Morris
…The Jews knew with an unshakeable
certainty that there was, there could be,
only one God. When John says, “the
Word was God”, this must be
understood in light of Jewish pride in
Monotheism.”
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5. WHEN GOD BECAME ONE OF US
a. In the beginning
b. Was the Word
c. The word was with God
d. And the Word was God
e. The Word became Flesh
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6. WHEN GOD BECAME ONE OF US
1. THIS IS THE MOST PROFOUND
STATEMENT EVER MADE!
‘The eternal, unchanging, everywhere
present, all knowing, all powerful,
perfectly pure, absolutely loving God
became a man. And that man was of
course, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.’
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7. WHEN GOD BECAME ONE OF US
2. THESE FOUR WORDS, ‘THE WORD
BECAME FLESH’, ARE THE
FOUNDATION OF ALL OUR
KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, OF MAN, OF
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THEM,
THE FOUNDATION OF ALL OUR
HOPES, THE GUARANTEE OF ALL
OUR PEACE, THE PLEDGE OF ALL
OUR BLESSEDNESS.
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8. WHEN GOD BECAME ONE OF US
a. Jesus is the foundation of our
knowledge of God
b. Jesus is the foundation of our
knowledge of human kind
‘A creature entirely dependent upon
the creator, totally taken up with
the will of God, living only for the
glory of God.’ 8

9. WHEN GOD BECAME ONE OF US
c. knowledge of human kind
d. Jesus is the foundation of people’s
relationship with God
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10. WHEN GOD BECAME ONE OF US
Our Jesus is our anchor of HOPE:
- The hope of forgiveness
- The hope of deliverance from sin
- The hope of deliverance from
judgment
- The hope of eternal life
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11. WHEN GOD BECAME ONE OF US
e. Jesus is the guarantee of all our
peace
f. Jesus is the pledge of all our
blessedness
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