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The Word became flesh (8)       [John 1:1-4, 9-14]                       Let me ask the question: When God created Adam and Eve, did God intend for them to be served or to serve? The answer is that God created Adam and Eve for the purpose of serving.   So, Adam and Eve must have served well.   But in Genesis 3, Eve was deceived by the serpent, the most cunning of the wild beasts (Gen. 3:1).   The key to that delusion was “You will be like God”: “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (v. 5).   Why did the serpent, Satan, deceive Eve like this?   The reason is that Satan himself, a fallen angel and an evil angel, wants to be like the Most High God.   Look at Isaiah 14:12-14: “ How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have ...

The Word became flesh (6)     [John 1:1-4, 9-14]                     The second purpose for God the Son, “the Word,” to become “flesh” (man) is to be the mediator between God and us.                   Originally, there was no need for a mediator between God and us.   Originally, God had fellowship with Adam.   Look at Genesis 2:7 – “Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”   God created man (Adam) from the dust of the ground, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living being.   In other words, the man Adam was created to have fellowship with God.   And God made a garden east of Eden and put the man Adam there and had fellowship with him (v. 8).   Also, God mad...