John 1:14-18: Seeing Immanuel’s Glory

In the fourth gospel, the Apostle John proves that Jesus Christ is unlike any person who ever lived; he is both fully human and fully divine. He became flesh and dwelt among us (fully human, John 1:14), and he is the eternal Word who has existed with God the Father from eternity past and created all things (fully divine, 1:1-3). Jesus, the God-man, is the only begotten Son, who came to show God’s love. (3:16)

John concludes his introduction (John 1:1-18) to his biography of Jesus with a crucial statement: We have seen his glory. We will invest time today in answering this question of Christmas: What precisely is his glory? and again, Have we seen it?