even though Penal Substitutionary Atonement is an important concept, maybe even a foundational one, it is not the only important word on salvation, the gospel is so, so much more.
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Gospel of John: John’s Mic Drop
Someone I am too unworthy to even be the slave of is standing right here in the crowd, and you, with all your Bible smarts and holy living, you don’t even see him, let alone know who he is.
Gospel of John: John the Baptist
People came by the thousands, out into the desert, to hear the prophet John preach and to get baptized by him, because of the great spiritual hunger during that time.
Gospel of John: The Incarnate Word
the Lord designed human beings with the capacity for God and a hunger for God. God created people in God’s own image, the image of Jesus, and made us to correspond to the Lord. Being made in God’s image means that people are made as personal, moral, and spiritual beings.
Gospel of John: The Witnessed Word
Some would be repelled by the light, and others would be drawn to it.
Yet, tragically, most people did not even recognize the light in spite of the Baptist’s testimony.
Gospel of John: The Eternal Word
John was saying this man, this construction worker from Nazareth, was Almighty God himself.
Triumphal Entry
When Jesus was born, it was only about thirty years after the Romans had taken over Israel once again. So, there were plenty of people left who remembered what it had been like to have their own king, their own government, and freedom to live as their own people.
Gospel of John: Two Responses
Life versus Death
Light versus Darkness
Love versus Hate
Belief versus Unbelief.
Gospel of John: 7 Witnesses, 7 Claims
I picture John by candlelight, yet his papyrus glows with an otherworldly illumination. The ink in its well is like a pool of phosphorescence, and the tip of his quill lambent with supernatural light. “The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world,” he writes
Bartimaeus
You have to literally give up seeing some things so you are able to see other things.
