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John 1: 15-18 Jesus as God and the only way to the Father. No shortcut, only through Him.

15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’ ”) 

  • Even John acknowledged Jesus deity when he said "he was before me". In other words, he know Jesus was God one hundred percent that there were people in his time could not accept it even today. Cults religion or beliefs believed Jesus was just a mere man and not God.
16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.
  • John declared Jesus grace has been given freely for all us. Not only to the Jews but even to the Gentiles. It's only by His grace were saved, there's nothing in us to contribute for our salvation. It's hundred percent God's given grace. Our works are nothing and useless. 

17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  • John continue to explain here as he was speaking to the Jews as they were all familiar with Moses as the one giving them the law to follow to please God in the old testament. Yet he didn't stop there. He started to introduce to the Jews about grace and truth through Jesus Christ.
  • The grace through Jesus that saves us from condemnation and the truth that lead us to the light. There's no lie in Jesus. It's all truth in Him. If we trust Him we can assure of getting an eternal life because He is the truth.

18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known

  • As God is holy and we are sinners we cannot see God or else we will die because of our sins. But notice John was clearly stating that Jesus the one and only Son as God himself with closest relationship with the father. What John was saying here is that Jesus is the only way for us to see God. There's no one and nothing else. So if we would like to see God we have to go through Jesus. There is no shortcut.
Personal Application:
I would like to demonstrate the life of Jesus to my friends as He is the only way to the Father. I should be gracious to everyone as Jesus himself gives his grace for my eternal life.

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