John 1:9-11

Every person born in to this world has been given the light of Jesus Christ. We can accept Him or reject Him. God wants a family of those who embrace Him, not out of fear but of love.

God is love.

No greater love exists than the love of a Father who allowed His only begotten Son, all God and all  man, too willingly die for the sins of the world. This agape love is beyond our human comprehension and remains with us all the days of our existence here and after our physical death. 

John 1: 9-11

9 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

The Greek word used here, kosmos, the world, occurs 78 times throughout John’s Gospel. Sometimes it refers broadly to the whole created order, but most of the time it refers specifically to humanity in rebellion against God and hostile to Christ. Not only did the entire world not recognize its Creator, but God’s chosen people rejected their Messiah. Faithlife Bible.

In order to give due notice to the incarnation of Jesus, this verse may be rephrased: “That was the true Light coming into the world, which enlightens every man.” Jesus became man in order to reveal the truth to all people. Depending on the context, world can refer to (1) the universe; (2) the earth; (3) humanity; or (4) the human system opposed to God.

Receive here means “to receive with favor” and implies “welcome.” Instead of a welcome mat, Jesus had a door slammed in His face. The themes of rejection and reception appear again and again throughout the Gospel of John. NKJ Bible.

Christ was the true Light; that great Light which deserves to be called so. By his Spirit and grace he enlightens all that are enlightened to salvation; and those that are not enlightened by him, perish in darkness. Christ was in the world when he took our nature upon him, and dwelt among us. The Son of the Highest was here in this lower world. He was in the world, but not of it. He came to save a lost world, because it was a world of his own making. Yet the world knew him not. Matthew Henry Commentary.

Isaiah 49:6 Indeed He says,‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”

John 1:3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

John 12:46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.