God With Us, Part 2: Jesus is God

By Pastor Jeffrey Smith 

Christmas is the fulfillment of a prophecy spoken long ago in the book of Isaiah about Jesus, Our Savior. “ The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’).”(Isaiah 7:14) But who is Jesus and is he really God?

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1

The Greek translation for the term, “the Word”, in this passage is “logos”, which means “the reason or speech or the logic behind something.” The “logos” is something that everyone knew in Greek culture. It referred to the greatest mystery and unknown reason for everything in the universe. If you knew the answer, it would be the ultimate prize to the greatest secret in the world. Everyone, including philosophers, searched for the true meaning of “the logos”. John boldly states that Jesus is the Logos; He is the very thing you are looking thing for. He continues in the next few verses, 

“He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” John 1: 3-4.

Jesus is not secondary to God. He is God Himself and was with God from the beginning of time.us is not an expression of God, He is God. Through Him, all things were made, and there is equality in the perfect relationship between God the Father and God the Son. In the preexistent past, God became a man as the ultimate gift for you and me - all for love. “The Logos” came as a son, born of a virgin -- not as a powerful hurricane, earthquake, fire, cloud in the sky, or burning bush. The Logos, the ultimate reason for everything, came as a little baby. The Logos is Immanuel, “God with us.”  Jesus is more than a child in a manager, he is the greatest prize and hope for mankind.