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Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "The Word Was God" John 1:1-3,14, Colossians 1:26-28

Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.

Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Word = Logos = Word thought & Word uttered. (In the beginning) Before the world was made, there was only God’s will (His intelligence) and His Creativeness (His utterance) and God, nothing or no one else. All of creation is a product of God’s Word alone…. His thought and His utterance (and God said “Let there be…”)

The things that exist are not made of the things that do appear, (Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.) they are created by God’s Word alone, not by space debris or chemical elements. There were no elements … Only God and His Word.

The Same Word = Consistent = He’s always been there. He will always be there. He always loves me. He manifested His Word to us through His Son Jesus Christ (the Word became flesh). Jesus came to show us the Father. The Word was made flesh and dwelt (lived or resided) among us.

God’s Word in thought, God’s Word in Utterance and God’s Word in the Flesh are consistent, the same in the same. God needs no one or nothing from anyone but self-sufficiently (out of nothing) makes us into His image.

It is God in you the hope of glory!!!!

Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Col 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

Col 1:29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

It is God in you the hope of glory!!!!