John 1:6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. 7 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. Micah 2:13, Isaiah 40:3-5, Malachi 3:1 9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
Though our first parents rebelled against God, our Creator was not about to allow the darkness, the lies, and myths that we cling to, to overcome and defeat v.5 the light of truth. Ever since mankind rebelled by eating the forbidden fruit, Genesis 3, God promised to come to earth to provide a way for mankind to return to God.
Throughout history God sent prophets who were granted the ability to reveal aspects of God’s promised rescue operation. For example, Micah 2:13, Isaiah 40:3-5, Malachi 3:1 were all ancient prophecies about how God would send John the Baptist as a witness that he might testify about the light. John’s task was to prepare the way for the Messiah telling everyone that the true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
Who was this light? John explains:
John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him. 11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
And just as John the Baptist had testified, the Word that created the world, the Word that was with God and the Word that was God v.1 came into the world in the person of Jesus Christ, the Messiah. The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
The Creator came into the world, the world [that] was made through him, but strangely the world didn’t recognize him…and those who were his own didn’t receive him. There remains a great longing in our world for truth, meaning, purpose and immortality, yet when our Creator, truth in the flesh, came offering to fulfill those longings he was rejected.
Why was Christ rejected?
Why do many of the people in our world continue to be seduced by lies and cling to myths while refusing to receive the Creator? Aldous Huxley answers:
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was… from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. Robert S. Baker and James Sexton, Aldous Huxley Complete Essays
Many men don’t accept their Creator because they love darkness rather than the light. Why? Because their deeds are evil. John 3:19 Huxley rejected God not because he didn’t believe that there is no God but because he realized that God’s transcendent universal ethical standards would interfere with his sexual freedom.
Have you ever heard people say that they are not ready or not willing to believe in God or to accept Christ as God, who came to earth in human flesh, because they want the freedom to live as they want?
What keeps people from Christ?
They want to follow the desires of their hearts, believing that they can find the happiness and meaning they want, apart from the truth of God.
But where else can you go to find eternal life?
He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.