The Person of Jesus Christ as the Word of God.

His eternal Pre-existence and his Eternal activity. Notes from Myer Pearlman and Louis Berkhof.

Introduction.

We have looked at Jesus’ Titles as the Son of God and the Son of Man expressing His Deity and His Humanity. Now we are looking at this title which is the Word = logos in Greek.

The word of a man is the means by which a man expresses himself and communicates with others. This is the means by which he makes his thoughts and feeling  known. His words and his thoughts are closely linked and is a great mystery.

Christ as the Logos= the Word of God.

Likewise, the Word of God is that by which He communicates with other beings and deals with them.Myer Pearlman Knowing the Doctrines of the Bible p.147

Notes these verses:

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

Joh 1:2  He was in the beginning with God.

Joh 1:3  All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being.

Joh 1:14  And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and of truth.

Joh 1:18  No one has seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

JFB on John 1:1

In the beginning — of all time and created existence, for this Word gave it being (Joh_1:3, Joh_1:10); therefore, “before the world was” (Joh_17:5, Joh_17:24); or, from all eternity.

was the Word — He who is to God what man’s word is to himself, the manifestation or expression of himself to those without him. (See on Joh_1:18 above). On the origin of this most lofty and now for ever consecrated title of Christ, this is not the place to speak. It occurs only in the writings of this seraphic apostle.

was with God — having a conscious personal existence distinct from God (as one is from the person he is “with”), but inseparable from Him and associated with Him (Joh_1:18; Joh_17:5; 1Jo_1:2), where “THE FATHER” is used in the same sense as “God” here.

was God — in substance and essence God; or was possessed of essential or proper divinity. Thus, each of these brief but pregnant statements is the complement of the other, correcting any misapprehensions which the others might occasion. Was the Word eternal? It was not the eternity of “the Father,” but of a conscious personal existence distinct from Him and associated with Him. Was the Word thus “with God?” It was not the distinctness and the fellowship of another being, as if there were more Gods than one, but of One who was Himself God - in such sense that the absolute unity of the Godhead, the great principle of all religion, is only transferred from the region of shadowy abstraction to the region of essential life and love. But why all this definition? Not to give us any abstract information about certain mysterious distinctions in the Godhead, but solely to let the reader know who it was that in the fullness of time “was made flesh.” After each verse, then, the reader must say, “It was He who is thus, and thus, and thus described, who was made flesh.” JFB’s Commentary

Logos in Thayer’s Greek Definitions

3) In John, denotes the essential Word of God, Jesus Christ, the personal wisdom and power in union with God, His minister in creation and government of the universe, the cause of all the world’s life both physical and ethical, which for the procurement of man’s salvation put on human nature in the person of Jesus the Messiah, the second person in the Godhead, and shone forth conspicuously from His words and deeds.

If we express ourselves through words; the Eternal God expresses Himself through His Son who is the “express image of His person” Hebrew 1:3 Christ is the Word of God because he reveals God by demonstrating Him in Person. He not only brings God’s Message but He is God’s Message to Humanity. M.P. p.147

Compare

If we think of all the Galaxies and the size of the Universe, we are staggered by the immensity of it all. The Bible says that He upholds it all by the Word of His Power.

Compare the insignificance of man. It has been calculated that if every man were put into a box all  billion would fit into a box 3 kilometres in each direction. The Word of God is so mighty and vast and man is so infinitesimally small

In ages past God spoke through the prophetic word, through dreams and visions and through temporary manifestations of the Angel of the Lord. But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son. Hebrews 1:1-2

What is God like? He is Like Christ, the Logos, the Expression and Reasoning of God.