More on Jesus Christ, the Word

Here is more to chew on after December 21^st’s sermon from John 1:1-14, specifically about the word Word as it is attached to our Lord Jesus Christ.

John MacArthur provides more depth on the meaning of Christ as the Word in his commentary on the Gospel of John:

 

To the Jew a word was something concrete, something much closer to what we would call an event or deed. A word spoken was a deed done…What happens when God speaks? The answer is that something is instantly done. God said, ‘Let there be light, and there was light’ (Gen. 1:3). God said, ‘So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it’ (Isa. 55:11). Thus the Jew would be somewhat prepared for the thought that the Word of God could somehow be seen and touched as well as heard and that the ‘Word’ might somehow find expression in a life. It would not be entirely strange for a Jew to learn, as the author of Hebrews puts it, that ‘God, “who at sundry times and in diverse manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son’(Heb. 1:1-2).