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What if the Gospel of John isn't just telling you
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who Jesus is, but showing you what reality actually is.
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Because John doesn't open with a baby and a manger.
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He opens with a cosmic headline, the Word was with God,
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and the Word was God. And then he starts documenting
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things that don't fit inside a purely material world. E.
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Water obeys, blind eyes open, a dead man stands up
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and walks out like a like death got evicted. So tonight,
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on Sunday Supernatural sit Rep, We're going to treat John
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the way John wants to be treated, Not like a
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bedtime story, but more like a dossier, a chain of
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supernatural signs that keeps asking one question, if this is true?
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What else have we been ignoring? And here's the part
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that'll mess with you a little. What if these weren't
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just miracles back then but patterns you can still recognize
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right now?
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Broadcast Broadcast.
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In the Minds of the po All right, welcome back
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to Broadcasting Seeds. I'm your host, Been Tantin, and you
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already know what time it is. This is Sunday Supernatural
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sit Rep, the weekly ritual where we take the Bible
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seriously enough to admit it's not always safe, not always
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wrapped up in a tidy little bow, and definitely not
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always explainable. Tonight we're gonna we're stepping into the Gospel
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of John Supernatural Signs, and I'm telling you up front,
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John is a little different. Matthew's got a family line,
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Luke's got the Nativity scene. Mark kicks the door in
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with action. But John John starts like he's reading the
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universe of Miranda. Warning. Okay, the like your Miranda rights
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in the beginning was the word that isn't poetic fluff.
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That's a claim about the operating system, about who wrote
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the code. And lately people are starting to notice again
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the world feels weird. Weird, like the air is straight
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up heavy, like everyone exhausted, like headlines are coming in
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faster than our nervous system can absolutely process. Right now,
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people are hungry for something solid, something true, something that
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doesn't shift every time the algorithm shifts. And that's why
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John matters this week, because the Signs and John don't
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feel like cute church stories. They feel like controlled breaches,
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like moments when the spiritual realm just stops being theory
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and starts being observable water becomes wine, not because Jesus
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is showing off, but because creation recognizes authority. A man
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born blind sees again, and the story quietly exposes how
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many people with functioning eyes are still blind. And Lazarus
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comes out of the tomb, and suddenly you realize John
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isn't just talking about life after death. He's talking about
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power over death. So here's the question we're going to
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carry through this episode. If John is presenting Jesus as
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the creator, stepping into his creation, then what do his
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supernatural signs reveal about the world we're living in and
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the one that we just can't see and listen? If
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this episode hits you in the gut, do me a
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favor like the episode, share it, leave a review. That's
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not me begging. That's just how podcasts grow, and reviews
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and shares tell the platforms, Hey, this is worth putting
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in front of more people. And if you know someone
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who who's been feeling the world getting stranger lately, someone
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asking bigger questions, send this to them. Because we're not
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here to play games with people's souls. We're here to
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wake up, steady things, and steady up and see what's
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actually happening. John doesn't start with a baby and a manger.
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He starts with a cosmic headline. The word was God.
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That's not poetry. That's an invasion of reality. And if
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the miracles and John are signs, then they aren't random.
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They're patterns, and patterns can be recognized even right now.
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The scariest part of John isn't Lazarus coming out of
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the tomb. It's realizing how many people are already end tuned.
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People are starting to notice the world feels off. John's
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basically saying, you're not crazy, you're just finally paying attention.
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So here we go Section one, Gospel of John, supernatural signs,
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the word behind the world, And let me ask you
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something real quick. Have you ever noticed how John doesn't
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argue with skeptics. He doesn't stop to prove God exists.
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He doesn't ease anyone in gently. He just states reality
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like it's already settled and let you catch up if
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you can. In the beginning, was the word. That's not
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an opening line, that's a pressure wave. John is saying
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there's something behind everything you see, a logic, a voice,
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a command structure. And that word didn't just create the world.
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It stepped into it, flesh, bone, breath, dust on his feet.
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Here's where the gospel of John's supernatural science start to
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feel different than the rest of the books. John doesn't
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call them miracles most of the time. He calls them signs,
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and that matters. A miracle it impresses you, right, A
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sign points you somewhere else. So when Jesus turns water
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into wine, John isn't saying, Wow, look what he can do.
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He's saying, pay attention to who just gave the order.
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Creation didn't hesitate it, and it sure as hell didn't negotiate.
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It didn't need a process. It recognized authority instantly. And
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that should mess with you, you just a little, because
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if matter responds to him that easily, what does that
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say about the world we're walking through every day? What
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does it say about reality itself? Right? This is where
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John quietly pulls the rug out from under modern thinking.
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We're taught the universe is mechanical, random, cold, just particles
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bouncing around. Right, John says, No, the universe is responsive,
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and it listens, it reacts, It knows its maker. And
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lately people are starting to feel that again. You hear
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it everywhere something's off. Things feel heavier, things feel weird.
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Why does it feel like everything's accelerating. That's a big
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one too. John's answer would be simple, because the world
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isn't just physical it and it never was. John isn't
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trying to prove God exists. He assuming. He's assuming you
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live in his creation and daring you to notice that.
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Then John drops one of the most dangerous ideas in
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the Bible. The word became flesh and dwelt among us.
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That's not spiritual metaphor, folks, that's an invasion and the
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intelligence behind the cosmos compressing himself into human limits hunger, fatigue, pain,
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and death. Why Because signs don't just reveal power, they
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reveal intent. And Jesus doesn't perform signs in John to
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dominate crowds. He does them to expose fault line belief
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versus disbelief, site versus blindness, life versus death, and decay
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on Every sign forces a choice, and every sign forces
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a choice. You see this especially when Jesus heals he
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restores it. He just restores a man blind from birth,
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and suddenly the real blindness shows up in the people
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interrogating him. The sign isn't just physical healing, that's spiritual contrast,
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who can see reality for what it is and who's
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invested in staying comfortable. John's saying, watch how people react
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to truth, because that reaction tells you, It tells you everything.
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And we're back to the uncomfortable part. If the word
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really is holding everything together like John claims, then ignoring him,
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it's not neutral. That's resistance. Quiet resistance, maybe polite resistance, okay,
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but resistance all the same. The miracles and John don't
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just reveal power. They expose where people draw the line
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between comfort and truth or not even to Lazarus. Yet
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we're still at the foundation and already John is whispering
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something unsettling, and that is that reality is alive, responsive
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and ordered by the voice most people refuse to listen to.
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And if that's true, then the signs in John are
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ancient history. They're freaking warnings, folks, they're invitations, and they're
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setting the stage for something much bigger than a miracle story.
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Section two, when death gets a command. Okay, so let's
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slow down, because this is where John stops being philosophical
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and starts being i'll just say dangerous. Up to this point,
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the signs have been disruptive, Water obeys bodies, heel site returns.
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That alone, you've been enough. That alone should have been
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enough to make people pause. But John knows something. If
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you really want to expose what someone believes about reality,
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you take them to the edge of death. That's why
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Lazarus matters. This isn't a random resurrection story dropped in
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for shock value, folks. It's John builds toward it carefully,
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and Jesus doesn't rush, He doesn't panic, he doesn't sprint
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to the tomb like he's late to an emergency. He waits,
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and that waiting is part of the sign because from
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a human perspective, this is already over, and Lazareth is dead, dead, wrapped,
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barry decomposing. The sisters know it, the mourners know it,
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and the crowd knows it. Death has done its job.
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And that's exactly the point John wants you to understand
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that when Jesus finally shows up, there's absolutely zero ambiguity
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left here, no wiggle room. No, maybe he wasn't really dead.
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This is not CPR, it's not adrenaline. Is authority walking
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into territory. It doesn't technically belong to and taking over anyway.
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And Jesus doesn't hurry to Lazarus because he's not racing death.
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He's about to straight up confront it. When Jesus calls
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Lazarus out of the tomb, he doesn't pray first. He
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doesn't talk permission or like ask for permission. He doesn't negotiate.
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He commands and Death responds. That should unsettle you, It
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should reframe everything because John isn't presenting death as the
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ultimate power. He's presenting it as a system that still
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answers to something higher. And here's where's John twists the
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knife a little. Some people believe after seeing this, others
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immediately start planning how to kill Jesus. Right then, same signs,
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same event, two completely different reactions. Why, Because signs don't
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force belief, they force exposure. John is brutally honest about this.
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The closer Jesus gets to revealing who he really is,
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the more polarized the reactions become. There's no neutral ground anymore.
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You either recognize the authority that Jesus has or you
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feel threatened by it. And if we're being real, that
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dynamic hasn't changed at all. Right now, people are desperate
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for life, not just survival. People need meaning and they
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want purpose, something that feels solid in the world that's
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glitching out. At the same time, there's an almost allergic
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reaction to the idea of divine authority. I see it
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all the time. Power is fine, spirituality, it's trendy, right,
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but actual authority that makes people really, really uncomfortable. And
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John saw this coming. The same miracle that makes some
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people believe right makes others react reach for a weapon.
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Simple here's the quieter layer most people miss though. Lazar
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it doesn't walk out on his own. He responds to
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a voice, and John is showing you that life isn't relational.
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It responds, It recognizes, it, hears, and death. Death doesn't
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get the final word, man, folks, it gets interrupted. That
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has implications way beyond the grave. Because if Jesus can
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call a man out of a tomb, what else can
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he call out of? Hiding? Fear, trauma, addiction, generational patterns,
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spiritual numbness, things we've already labeled dead because we've lived
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them too long. John isn't promising comfort here, He's promising confrontation.
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And that confrontation is simple but brutal. If Jesus has
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authority over death, then pretending he's just a good teacher.
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That freaking doesn't work anymore, folks. That's why the signs escalate,
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because John isn't trying to convince you. He's narrowing the
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field and we're about to hit the moment where Jesus
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stops doing signs altogether and starts explaining what they actually mean.
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Section three, when the signs start talking back. This is
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where John tightens the circle. Right up to now, the
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Gospel of John, supernatural signs have been doing the talking
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for Jesus. Water changes bodies, heal, death backs down. You
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could still if you really wanted to chalk it all
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up to power without identity, ability without authority, and a
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gifted man doing extraordinary things. Right. So John doesn't let
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that last, though, because at a certain point he stops
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being enough. Signs stop being enough. So Jesus's explaining himself,
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and instead of saying I was sent by God or
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I represent God, he drops language that detonates the entire
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religious framework of the time. He says, I am not once,
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not twice, over and over and over. I am the
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bread of life, I am the light of the world.
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I am the Door. I am the Good Shepherd. I
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am the Resurrection and the Life. I am the Way,
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the Truth, and the Life. This isn't branding, folks. This
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is a claim to identity that reaches all the way back,
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all the way back to Moses standing barefoot in front
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of a burning bush. John wants you to feel the
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weight of this, because every I am statement does something unsettling.
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It collapses, It collapses distance, It removes the buffer between
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heaven and earth. God isn't just sending help. He's stepping
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forward himself. That's gravity, guys. He's stepping forward himself. And
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this is where people start getting uncomfortable fast, like they
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just don't get it. Jesus doesn't. Jesus doesn't say I'll
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show you the truth. He says, I Am the Truth.
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That's not inspiration, folks, that's confrontation. Confrontation. The signs now
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have context. They aren't random power displays. They're demonstrations of identity.
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When Jesus feeds people, he claims to be the bread.
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When he opens blind eyes, he claims that he is
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the light. When he raises Lazarus, he claims authority over
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life itself. John is stacking evidence he's just stacking it,
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not to prove a theory, but to force a decision.
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And here's the thing, sermons, most sermons skip. Resistance doesn't
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come from the irreligious. It comes from experts. It comes
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from the experts, the leaders, the system managers, the ones
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who already know how God works. Because Jesus isn't disrupting
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people's beliefs, he's he's disrupting control. If he really is
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the I Am, then no institution gets to manage access
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to him, Folks, It's that simple. No tradition gets to
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shrink him down, and no authority structure gets to stand
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between the voice, his voice and the listener. That's us,
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the listener, and that do you understand how dangerous that is.
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That's why lately you see such strong reactions to John,