Christ the Word

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word...
We could spend, at least, the rest of the day on this very short first part of this verse.
“Word” here, Logos, is from the Greek, and in a few words means: thought (or reason), and (expressed) word. Think of it as that which is not seen (being thought or mind), and that which is manifest (as in, spoken or revealed)... God Who is Spirit manifest in Jesus in the flesh. (which we read later in verse 14, the Word was  made flesh.) It is what “incarnate” means; “made flesh, or embody with flesh.” The word incarnate is not, to my knowledge, found in scripture.

Speaking of Logos, Lewis Sperry Chafer, first President of Dallas Theological Seminary, writes in Systematic Theology – “He Who bears that name (Logos) within the Godhead, is to the Godhead what speech is to thought, i.e., the EXPRESSION of it! By its very meaning, the designation Logos bears a far-reaching revelation, not only of His deity, but of His essential and eternal relation to the First Person”

In the beginning was the Word... and the Word was with God and the Word was God; (the Godhead... God the Father, the first person in the trinity, God the Son, the second person of the trinity, God the Holy Spirit, the third person in the trinity), 
verse 2, He (Logos personified) was in the beginning with God.
Who does HE refer to? It is IMPERATIVE that we correctly identify pronouns!

Proverbs 8:22-31 says...
The Lord created me at the beginning of His way (more personification).  Before His works of old, I have been consecrated from everlasting, from the beginning, before there was ever an earth. When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was born; while as yet He had not made the earth or the fields, or the primal dust of the world. When He prepared the heavens, I was there. When He drew a circle on the face of the deep, when He established the clouds above, when He strengthened the fountains of the deep, when He assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters would not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was there beside Him as a master craftsman; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him, rejoicing in His inhabited world, and my delight was with the sons of men.

If we want to understand “Logos” we must identify who “me” and “I” refer to in that passage, because it is the Redeemer which was “created at the beginning” Who is ever before God as He is creating. God created the Redeemer before creation.

John verse 3-4 says, All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life (eternal) was the light of men.
The word "made" there (beside being repeated for emphasis) is the same Greek word (ginomai) used in Gal. 4:4 referring to Jesus being "born" of a woman. (think about that!)

verse 9, That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. (That? What is “That?” That is Spiritual awakening)

verse 10-13, He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own (people)  did not receive Him. But as many as received Him (Christ), to them He (God) gave the right (power of authority and privilege) to become children of God, to those who believe in His  name (Jesus): who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Now in 1 John 3:9 it says of those born of God... Whoever has been born of God (in that fashion) does not sin, for His seed (Christ) remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. (think about that!)

Back to John 1:14 And the Word (Christ) became flesh (obviously Jesus) and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Unto us a child is born (Bethlehem), a Son is given. (on Golgotha) Isa. 9:6

Jesus in His earthly ministry was the embodiment of the Divine Will in Christ.

The Interlinear Bible comments on the definition of Logos = In John, (Word) denotes the essential Mind of God, the divine reason or plan; divine manifestation and revelation, the divine wisdom and power in union with the second person in the Godhead (Who is the Son), 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, and shone forth conspicuously from His words and deeds. (emphasis mine)

The ”Word” and God are the same, and yet two distinct entities. How is that? Well, there’s God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Is there God the Christ? Yes! Is Christ a Person then? Christ is more a title... like Father or Son. Unless we learn more, it means Anointed. And God the Anointed was Jehovah. He is Who was born Jesus the Messiah.

Do we presume Jesus to be referenced in John 1:1-14? Can we really reference the MAN Jesus as being in the beginning with God? Can we really say Jesus became flesh??? Does that work? Flesh and blood cannot be pre-existent.

The emblems before us every Sunday morning, represent the person of a REAL man, Divine Man, flesh and blood, Who’s body was marred (disfigured, mutilated) beyond recognition, according to Isaiah, and who’s blood was shed... enough so that it satisfied God’s wrath against sin, for anyone who receives these truths. Jesus was the man, the Lamb, crucified for us. Although Jesus was fully man, He was also fully God. God the Son took on flesh. When we understand that the Christ was to be the sacrifice for redemption, then we will understand Jesus.