Lego Building Blocks (John 1:1-4, 14; Hebrews 1:1-3)

LEGO

Many years ago, creative minds invented "Lego"; little toy building blocks, that children and some adults use, to put together innumerable shapes and designs, from varied pieces, to assemble a cascade of possibilities, limited only by the imagination. A person can gather together, all different shapes and sizes, and form something new, and depending on the age of the assembler, something totally unrecognizable, that becomes a boat; a person; a spaceship; or whatever their conception says it is.

ORDERLY SEQUENCE

The word (lego), is a Greek verb, which originally meant "the activity of collecting; carefully selecting; cataloguing in succession; or arranging together in an orderly sequence" and eventually, added the meanings of "enumeration, narration," and "to say".

IDEA or EXPRESSION

It is from this root that the word (logos) [3056, Strong's] is derived, and is normally translated as "word" or "saying". (Logos) can be something written or spoken, or simply something that is collected and gathered in the mind, but not yet uttered, in any form. It is distinguished from sound in that it is the idea or expression of one person, that can be conveyed to another. This idea or expression of another, is often carried by the voice, and communicated from the heart of one individual, to that of another. The voice may fade away, but the (logos) remains, both in the recipient and in the heart of the speaker, who communicated that expression of themselves, to another.

IN THEIR HEART

The speaker, or communicator, already has the word in their heart, but their desire is for the (logos) in their heart to be in the heart of the hearer, or recipient. Since the desire is for the (logos) to reside in another's heart, as it does in theirs, often a voice is assumed, and the sound of that voice carries the (logos) to another, and the sound penetrates and brings to the heart of another, the (logos), that still remains in the heart of the speaker, but now lives in others too. Nothing is lost from the purveyor of the (logos), but rather, innumerable recipients can now have the same (logos) in their heart.

EXACT REPRESENTATION

Jesus is called the "Word" (Logos). He is the exact representation and expression of the Father. However, He is not just an idea. John, by the Spirit of God, was drawing together two cultures in depicting Jesus as the "Word" (Logos).

TORAH

In historical rabbinic teaching, it was said of the Torah, "It was in the beginning. It was with God. It was God, or divine. All things were made by it. In it was life. It was the light of men" (Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Vol.4, p.135).

JOHN 1:1-4 says, "In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word (Logos) was with God, and the Word (Logos) was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men".

THE MEDIATOR

Hundreds of years before Jesus birth, in ancient Greek philosophy the Logos was 'the mediator between God and men', that came from God, who represented man to God, as high priest and advocate. The Logos was the sum of the creative powers of God, whereby the visible world was fashioned in detail and maintained in its ordered life (Theological Dictionary of New Testament, Vol.4, p.89).

TWO CULTURES

Therefore, the Spirit of God, through the apostle John, brought together two varied cultures, in the expression and person of Jesus, as the Logos of God. Jesus was identified as the embodiment of the Torah, to the Jews, and as the creative force and empowerment of God, bringing together God and man, according to Greek philosophy.

EVERYTHING HE IS

God, the Father, wanted everything that He is; collected and embodied, in physical form, to live in and be a part of, everything that we are, so He became the Word (Logos) made flesh, and dwelt, or set up His tent, Jesus, among us, and we beheld His glory. (John 1:14). In times past, He spoke to us through the prophets, but that wasn't enough. He had to collect [lego], all that He is, in Jesus, being the brightness of His glory, and the exact representation and express image of His person (Heb.1:1-3), and communicate the fullness of Himself, through His Word (Logos), so that we could know exactly who He is, and not only so, but that complete manifestation of Himself, could be the Logos living in us.

MADE FLESH

The Father did not just want us to know about Him, but to actually know Him. The most perfect way of fulfilling that desire, was to not just speak the Word (Logos) to us, of all that He is [as He did through the prophets (Heb.1:1)], but rather, for Him to become the Word (Logos), the gathering of all that He is, in Jesus, and through His Spirit, for that Word (Logos), in the person of the Holy Spirit, to live in us, so that once again, the Word (Logos), becomes flesh and dwells among men (John 1:14), in and through us, and others too can see that same Word (Logos), made flesh, in us.

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