Feb. 8, 2026

The Gospel of John Supernatural Signs and the Authority Behind Reality

The Gospel of John Supernatural Signs and the Authority Behind Reality

In this episode, Bennett Tanton explores the Gospel of John, emphasizing its supernatural signs and their implications for understanding reality and belief. He discusses how John presents Jesus not just as a miracle worker but as the embodiment of authority and truth, challenging listeners to confront their beliefs and the nature of reality itself. The conversation delves into the significance of the I Am statements and the narrative of Lazarus, ultimately urging listeners to reflect on their personal responses to the truth of Jesus' identity and authority.



Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-broadcasting-seeds-podcast--6402290/support.

Book - https://a.co/d/8ow3McD

Broadcasting Seeds Sponsors 

ECO Flow - For all your mobile power needs! For home or when you are camping or doing research in the field. ECO Flow has everything you would need.  
https://ecoflowtechnologyinc.pxf.io/19VYO9

Safe Shell VPN - This is the VPN that I use! Secure High-Speed Streaming VPN Different Apps, Different IPs The Best VPN for TV, Movies, Sports and Social Media with Exclusive App Mode-Enjoying content from multiple regions simultaneously! 
https://safeshellvpn.pxf.io/xLqJBR

The Long Story Shirt - for all your Broadcasting Seeds Gear and other High Strangeness Apparel and Swag.   
https://thelongstoryshirt.com

WEBVTT

1
00:00:01.240 --> 00:00:04.799
What if the Gospel of John isn't just telling you

2
00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:09.679
who Jesus is, but showing you what reality actually is.

3
00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:13.480
Because John doesn't open with a baby and a manger.

4
00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:20.559
He opens with a cosmic headline, the Word was with God,

5
00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:25.000
and the Word was God. And then he starts documenting

6
00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:30.519
things that don't fit inside a purely material world. E.

7
00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:36.039
Water obeys, blind eyes open, a dead man stands up

8
00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:42.719
and walks out like a like death got evicted. So tonight,

9
00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:47.280
on Sunday Supernatural sit Rep, We're going to treat John

10
00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:50.520
the way John wants to be treated, Not like a

11
00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:55.520
bedtime story, but more like a dossier, a chain of

12
00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:01.759
supernatural signs that keeps asking one question, if this is true?

13
00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:05.799
What else have we been ignoring? And here's the part

14
00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:10.640
that'll mess with you a little. What if these weren't

15
00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:16.200
just miracles back then but patterns you can still recognize

16
00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:17.200
right now?

17
00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:37.400
Broadcast Broadcast.

18
00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:43.879
In the Minds of the po All right, welcome back

19
00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:47.439
to Broadcasting Seeds. I'm your host, Been Tantin, and you

20
00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:52.879
already know what time it is. This is Sunday Supernatural

21
00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:56.439
sit Rep, the weekly ritual where we take the Bible

22
00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:01.560
seriously enough to admit it's not always safe, not always

23
00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.400
wrapped up in a tidy little bow, and definitely not

24
00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:11.360
always explainable. Tonight we're gonna we're stepping into the Gospel

25
00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:15.960
of John Supernatural Signs, and I'm telling you up front,

26
00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:20.680
John is a little different. Matthew's got a family line,

27
00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:26.800
Luke's got the Nativity scene. Mark kicks the door in

28
00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:32.120
with action. But John John starts like he's reading the

29
00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:36.800
universe of Miranda. Warning. Okay, the like your Miranda rights

30
00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:42.919
in the beginning was the word that isn't poetic fluff.

31
00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:47.360
That's a claim about the operating system, about who wrote

32
00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:52.680
the code. And lately people are starting to notice again

33
00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:58.240
the world feels weird. Weird, like the air is straight

34
00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:04.400
up heavy, like everyone exhausted, like headlines are coming in

35
00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:09.439
faster than our nervous system can absolutely process. Right now,

36
00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:14.639
people are hungry for something solid, something true, something that

37
00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:20.879
doesn't shift every time the algorithm shifts. And that's why

38
00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:28.319
John matters this week, because the Signs and John don't

39
00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:31.919
feel like cute church stories. They feel like controlled breaches,

40
00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:38.080
like moments when the spiritual realm just stops being theory

41
00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:45.080
and starts being observable water becomes wine, not because Jesus

42
00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:50.719
is showing off, but because creation recognizes authority. A man

43
00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:55.800
born blind sees again, and the story quietly exposes how

44
00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:01.439
many people with functioning eyes are still blind. And Lazarus

45
00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.560
comes out of the tomb, and suddenly you realize John

46
00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:11.400
isn't just talking about life after death. He's talking about

47
00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:15.719
power over death. So here's the question we're going to

48
00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:20.639
carry through this episode. If John is presenting Jesus as

49
00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:26.519
the creator, stepping into his creation, then what do his

50
00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:31.319
supernatural signs reveal about the world we're living in and

51
00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:35.959
the one that we just can't see and listen? If

52
00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.800
this episode hits you in the gut, do me a

53
00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:43.920
favor like the episode, share it, leave a review. That's

54
00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:49.600
not me begging. That's just how podcasts grow, and reviews

55
00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:53.680
and shares tell the platforms, Hey, this is worth putting

56
00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:58.000
in front of more people. And if you know someone

57
00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:04.279
who who's been feeling the world getting stranger lately, someone

58
00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:09.120
asking bigger questions, send this to them. Because we're not

59
00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.519
here to play games with people's souls. We're here to

60
00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:17.639
wake up, steady things, and steady up and see what's

61
00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:22.879
actually happening. John doesn't start with a baby and a manger.

62
00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:28.399
He starts with a cosmic headline. The word was God.

63
00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:33.800
That's not poetry. That's an invasion of reality. And if

64
00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:38.199
the miracles and John are signs, then they aren't random.

65
00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:43.519
They're patterns, and patterns can be recognized even right now.

66
00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:49.879
The scariest part of John isn't Lazarus coming out of

67
00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:55.600
the tomb. It's realizing how many people are already end tuned.

68
00:05:56.600 --> 00:06:02.959
People are starting to notice the world feels off. John's

69
00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:08.560
basically saying, you're not crazy, you're just finally paying attention.

70
00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:18.879
So here we go Section one, Gospel of John, supernatural signs,

71
00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:23.839
the word behind the world, And let me ask you

72
00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:27.240
something real quick. Have you ever noticed how John doesn't

73
00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:35.600
argue with skeptics. He doesn't stop to prove God exists.

74
00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:40.000
He doesn't ease anyone in gently. He just states reality

75
00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:44.439
like it's already settled and let you catch up if

76
00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:48.199
you can. In the beginning, was the word. That's not

77
00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:52.399
an opening line, that's a pressure wave. John is saying

78
00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:58.399
there's something behind everything you see, a logic, a voice,

79
00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:04.240
a command structure. And that word didn't just create the world.

80
00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:11.199
It stepped into it, flesh, bone, breath, dust on his feet.

81
00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:15.439
Here's where the gospel of John's supernatural science start to

82
00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:20.319
feel different than the rest of the books. John doesn't

83
00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:24.319
call them miracles most of the time. He calls them signs,

84
00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:30.480
and that matters. A miracle it impresses you, right, A

85
00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:35.480
sign points you somewhere else. So when Jesus turns water

86
00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:40.800
into wine, John isn't saying, Wow, look what he can do.

87
00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:45.560
He's saying, pay attention to who just gave the order.

88
00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:51.040
Creation didn't hesitate it, and it sure as hell didn't negotiate.

89
00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:58.680
It didn't need a process. It recognized authority instantly. And

90
00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:02.240
that should mess with you, you just a little, because

91
00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:07.360
if matter responds to him that easily, what does that

92
00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:12.160
say about the world we're walking through every day? What

93
00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:16.560
does it say about reality itself? Right? This is where

94
00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:20.800
John quietly pulls the rug out from under modern thinking.

95
00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:30.040
We're taught the universe is mechanical, random, cold, just particles

96
00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:35.000
bouncing around. Right, John says, No, the universe is responsive,

97
00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:40.879
and it listens, it reacts, It knows its maker. And

98
00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:44.919
lately people are starting to feel that again. You hear

99
00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:50.879
it everywhere something's off. Things feel heavier, things feel weird.

100
00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:54.600
Why does it feel like everything's accelerating. That's a big

101
00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:59.240
one too. John's answer would be simple, because the world

102
00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:03.960
isn't just physical it and it never was. John isn't

103
00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:09.159
trying to prove God exists. He assuming. He's assuming you

104
00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:12.519
live in his creation and daring you to notice that.

105
00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:17.200
Then John drops one of the most dangerous ideas in

106
00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:24.039
the Bible. The word became flesh and dwelt among us.

107
00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:31.120
That's not spiritual metaphor, folks, that's an invasion and the

108
00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:40.559
intelligence behind the cosmos compressing himself into human limits hunger, fatigue, pain,

109
00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:47.960
and death. Why Because signs don't just reveal power, they

110
00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:55.679
reveal intent. And Jesus doesn't perform signs in John to

111
00:09:55.799 --> 00:10:01.960
dominate crowds. He does them to expose fault line belief

112
00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:09.519
versus disbelief, site versus blindness, life versus death, and decay

113
00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:17.000
on Every sign forces a choice, and every sign forces

114
00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:21.600
a choice. You see this especially when Jesus heals he

115
00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:27.559
restores it. He just restores a man blind from birth,

116
00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.399
and suddenly the real blindness shows up in the people

117
00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:39.519
interrogating him. The sign isn't just physical healing, that's spiritual contrast,

118
00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:44.600
who can see reality for what it is and who's

119
00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:51.000
invested in staying comfortable. John's saying, watch how people react

120
00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:55.679
to truth, because that reaction tells you, It tells you everything.

121
00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:01.120
And we're back to the uncomfortable part. If the word

122
00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:06.679
really is holding everything together like John claims, then ignoring him,

123
00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:16.000
it's not neutral. That's resistance. Quiet resistance, maybe polite resistance, okay,

124
00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:20.759
but resistance all the same. The miracles and John don't

125
00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:27.240
just reveal power. They expose where people draw the line

126
00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:32.240
between comfort and truth or not even to Lazarus. Yet

127
00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:36.279
we're still at the foundation and already John is whispering

128
00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:43.919
something unsettling, and that is that reality is alive, responsive

129
00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:48.759
and ordered by the voice most people refuse to listen to.

130
00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:54.360
And if that's true, then the signs in John are

131
00:11:54.440 --> 00:12:01.440
ancient history. They're freaking warnings, folks, they're invitations, and they're

132
00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:06.480
setting the stage for something much bigger than a miracle story.

133
00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:16.039
Section two, when death gets a command. Okay, so let's

134
00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:21.240
slow down, because this is where John stops being philosophical

135
00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:27.279
and starts being i'll just say dangerous. Up to this point,

136
00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:32.879
the signs have been disruptive, Water obeys bodies, heel site returns.

137
00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:38.519
That alone, you've been enough. That alone should have been

138
00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:43.720
enough to make people pause. But John knows something. If

139
00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:47.840
you really want to expose what someone believes about reality,

140
00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:52.360
you take them to the edge of death. That's why

141
00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:57.679
Lazarus matters. This isn't a random resurrection story dropped in

142
00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:02.799
for shock value, folks. It's John builds toward it carefully,

143
00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:08.240
and Jesus doesn't rush, He doesn't panic, he doesn't sprint

144
00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:13.639
to the tomb like he's late to an emergency. He waits,

145
00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:17.960
and that waiting is part of the sign because from

146
00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:25.600
a human perspective, this is already over, and Lazareth is dead, dead, wrapped,

147
00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:31.879
barry decomposing. The sisters know it, the mourners know it,

148
00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:36.440
and the crowd knows it. Death has done its job.

149
00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.000
And that's exactly the point John wants you to understand

150
00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:47.000
that when Jesus finally shows up, there's absolutely zero ambiguity

151
00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:52.360
left here, no wiggle room. No, maybe he wasn't really dead.

152
00:13:53.000 --> 00:14:03.080
This is not CPR, it's not adrenaline. Is authority walking

153
00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:09.279
into territory. It doesn't technically belong to and taking over anyway.

154
00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:16.360
And Jesus doesn't hurry to Lazarus because he's not racing death.

155
00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:20.879
He's about to straight up confront it. When Jesus calls

156
00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.679
Lazarus out of the tomb, he doesn't pray first. He

157
00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:31.080
doesn't talk permission or like ask for permission. He doesn't negotiate.

158
00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:39.320
He commands and Death responds. That should unsettle you, It

159
00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:43.759
should reframe everything because John isn't presenting death as the

160
00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:48.799
ultimate power. He's presenting it as a system that still

161
00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:54.840
answers to something higher. And here's where's John twists the

162
00:14:54.919 --> 00:15:00.559
knife a little. Some people believe after seeing this, others

163
00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:08.519
immediately start planning how to kill Jesus. Right then, same signs,

164
00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:14.519
same event, two completely different reactions. Why, Because signs don't

165
00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:21.320
force belief, they force exposure. John is brutally honest about this.

166
00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:25.559
The closer Jesus gets to revealing who he really is,

167
00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:32.440
the more polarized the reactions become. There's no neutral ground anymore.

168
00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:37.320
You either recognize the authority that Jesus has or you

169
00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:42.720
feel threatened by it. And if we're being real, that

170
00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:47.000
dynamic hasn't changed at all. Right now, people are desperate

171
00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:54.639
for life, not just survival. People need meaning and they

172
00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:59.080
want purpose, something that feels solid in the world that's

173
00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:05.759
glitching out. At the same time, there's an almost allergic

174
00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:11.399
reaction to the idea of divine authority. I see it

175
00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:17.440
all the time. Power is fine, spirituality, it's trendy, right,

176
00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:24.679
but actual authority that makes people really, really uncomfortable. And

177
00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:29.639
John saw this coming. The same miracle that makes some

178
00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:35.159
people believe right makes others react reach for a weapon.

179
00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:42.480
Simple here's the quieter layer most people miss though. Lazar

180
00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:45.960
it doesn't walk out on his own. He responds to

181
00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:50.919
a voice, and John is showing you that life isn't relational.

182
00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:58.080
It responds, It recognizes, it, hears, and death. Death doesn't

183
00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:05.640
get the final word, man, folks, it gets interrupted. That

184
00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:10.599
has implications way beyond the grave. Because if Jesus can

185
00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:14.039
call a man out of a tomb, what else can

186
00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:22.079
he call out of? Hiding? Fear, trauma, addiction, generational patterns,

187
00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:30.400
spiritual numbness, things we've already labeled dead because we've lived

188
00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:36.960
them too long. John isn't promising comfort here, He's promising confrontation.

189
00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:43.359
And that confrontation is simple but brutal. If Jesus has

190
00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:47.799
authority over death, then pretending he's just a good teacher.

191
00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:53.000
That freaking doesn't work anymore, folks. That's why the signs escalate,

192
00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:58.240
because John isn't trying to convince you. He's narrowing the

193
00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:02.440
field and we're about to hit the moment where Jesus

194
00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:10.200
stops doing signs altogether and starts explaining what they actually mean.

195
00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:19.000
Section three, when the signs start talking back. This is

196
00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:23.640
where John tightens the circle. Right up to now, the

197
00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:28.039
Gospel of John, supernatural signs have been doing the talking

198
00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:34.200
for Jesus. Water changes bodies, heal, death backs down. You

199
00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:37.640
could still if you really wanted to chalk it all

200
00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:44.279
up to power without identity, ability without authority, and a

201
00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:51.400
gifted man doing extraordinary things. Right. So John doesn't let

202
00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:54.599
that last, though, because at a certain point he stops

203
00:18:54.640 --> 00:19:01.240
being enough. Signs stop being enough. So Jesus's explaining himself,

204
00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:05.920
and instead of saying I was sent by God or

205
00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:11.440
I represent God, he drops language that detonates the entire

206
00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:17.279
religious framework of the time. He says, I am not once,

207
00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:24.839
not twice, over and over and over. I am the

208
00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:29.519
bread of life, I am the light of the world.

209
00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:34.279
I am the Door. I am the Good Shepherd. I

210
00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:39.000
am the Resurrection and the Life. I am the Way,

211
00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:45.039
the Truth, and the Life. This isn't branding, folks. This

212
00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:48.880
is a claim to identity that reaches all the way back,

213
00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:53.799
all the way back to Moses standing barefoot in front

214
00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:57.759
of a burning bush. John wants you to feel the

215
00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:04.200
weight of this, because every I am statement does something unsettling.

216
00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:11.160
It collapses, It collapses distance, It removes the buffer between

217
00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:16.640
heaven and earth. God isn't just sending help. He's stepping

218
00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:24.640
forward himself. That's gravity, guys. He's stepping forward himself. And

219
00:20:24.680 --> 00:20:28.480
this is where people start getting uncomfortable fast, like they

220
00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:32.720
just don't get it. Jesus doesn't. Jesus doesn't say I'll

221
00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:37.720
show you the truth. He says, I Am the Truth.

222
00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:45.920
That's not inspiration, folks, that's confrontation. Confrontation. The signs now

223
00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:52.200
have context. They aren't random power displays. They're demonstrations of identity.

224
00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.640
When Jesus feeds people, he claims to be the bread.

225
00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:02.720
When he opens blind eyes, he claims that he is

226
00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:09.119
the light. When he raises Lazarus, he claims authority over

227
00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:16.319
life itself. John is stacking evidence he's just stacking it,

228
00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:20.920
not to prove a theory, but to force a decision.

229
00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:29.359
And here's the thing, sermons, most sermons skip. Resistance doesn't

230
00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:36.880
come from the irreligious. It comes from experts. It comes

231
00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:43.359
from the experts, the leaders, the system managers, the ones

232
00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:48.200
who already know how God works. Because Jesus isn't disrupting

233
00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:55.519
people's beliefs, he's he's disrupting control. If he really is

234
00:21:56.119 --> 00:22:00.400
the I Am, then no institution gets to manage access

235
00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:06.799
to him, Folks, It's that simple. No tradition gets to

236
00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:11.160
shrink him down, and no authority structure gets to stand

237
00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:17.319
between the voice, his voice and the listener. That's us,

238
00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:21.839
the listener, and that do you understand how dangerous that is.

239
00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:26.799
That's why lately you see such strong reactions to John,

240
00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:33.000
not just confusion, but irritation and mockery and dismissal. John

241
00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:39.319
doesn't leave, He doesn't leave room for a safe symbolic Jesus.

242
00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:43.160
That's the way I'll put it. He presents a figure

243
00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:47.279
who either is exactly who he says he is, or

244
00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:51.960
is a threat to every system built on partial truth.

245
00:22:53.319 --> 00:22:58.519
People are fine with a powerful Jesus. They panic, though,

246
00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:06.119
when he claims authority. Imagine if we claimed authority. Here's

247
00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:10.359
the personal layer. John isn't just asking who Jesus is,

248
00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:15.200
He's asking who you think you are in relationship to him?

249
00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:20.599
Are you a spectator, a consumer, like some sort of

250
00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:30.039
some sort of consumer, a fan of the philosophy maybe,

251
00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:35.519
or someone who recognizes a voice that actually carries weight.

252
00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:39.480
I mean it carries all the weight, because once you

253
00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:45.599
hear the im statements, neutrality that's straight evaporates. You're either

254
00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:51.680
moving towards him or you're backpedaling and creating distance. That's

255
00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:56.000
how I feel. And John is honest enough to tell

256
00:23:56.039 --> 00:23:59.839
you something else. From this way forward, the signs they

257
00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:03.839
just slow down, not because the power fades, but because

258
00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:08.319
the question has already been asked, who do you say

259
00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:13.480
that I am? And once that question is on the table,

260
00:24:13.559 --> 00:24:18.519
the story doesn't need more miracles. It just doesn't. It

261
00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:25.359
needs a response. So now we go to the question

262
00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:32.680
you can't unhear, and here we are. John doesn't end

263
00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:37.000
his gospel with fireworks. He ends it with a mirror.

264
00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:43.319
After all the signs, after all the water, the blind eyes,

265
00:24:43.519 --> 00:24:48.640
the empty tombs, after the im statement, strip away every

266
00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:53.559
safe interpretation. John tells you exactly why he wrote this

267
00:24:55.440 --> 00:25:01.079
so that you may believe. Let me say it again,

268
00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:06.200
so that you may believe, not admire, not debate, not

269
00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:10.920
bookmarket for later, believe. And that's where the gospel of

270
00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:16.079
John's supernatural science stop being historical and start being personal.

271
00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:21.000
Because John isn't asking if Jesus did these things. He's

272
00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:24.000
asking what you're going to do with the fact that

273
00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:27.559
he did. And right now a lot of people feel

274
00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:32.480
like the ground is shifting. Trust and institutions is man

275
00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:35.799
it's at an all time low. It's so thin, narratives

276
00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:41.759
are collapsing, and frankly, for so many people, the future

277
00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:45.640
feels so unstable. And people are starting to notice that

278
00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:50.200
material explanations, I mean with like Epstein files and all

279
00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:56.480
the stuff they material explanations don't answer spiritual exhaustion. And

280
00:25:56.559 --> 00:26:01.160
that is not an accident, folks. John would say, this

281
00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:05.400
moment has always been coming, and when the word steps

282
00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:13.920
into the world, everything gets clarified. Light shows up, and

283
00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:17.920
suddenly shadows don't get the benefit of ambiguity anymore. They

284
00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:21.799
can't hide things, can't hiden the shadows. You see what's alive,

285
00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:25.039
and you see what's dead, and you see what listens

286
00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:28.519
to the voice of God and what actually resists it.

287
00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:33.640
And here's the part that doesn't get said enough. The

288
00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:37.400
signs in John weren't meant to convince everyone. Okay, they're

289
00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:39.799
just not meant to con None of this is meant

290
00:26:39.799 --> 00:26:45.720
to convince everyone. They were meant to reveal everyone. Some

291
00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:49.359
people saw Lazarus walk out of the two men leaned in, right,

292
00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:53.440
they leaned into it. Others saw the same thing and

293
00:26:53.559 --> 00:27:01.440
lean towards violence. Same sign, different hearts. Doesn't soften that

294
00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:07.440
he documents it. That's why this matters right now, because

295
00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:10.480
we are living in a time when belief is being

296
00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:17.599
sorted quietly internally, one decision at a time, not by

297
00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:22.119
miracles in the sky. But how people respond when truth

298
00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:30.480
presses in. This is Sunday Supernatural Center, not entertainment. It's

299
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:34.720
not hype, a weekly reminder that the unseen world is active,

300
00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:40.119
and it's intelligent, and the closer, it's closer than most

301
00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:45.559
people are comfortable admitting. If this episode connected with you,

302
00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:49.759
help it, travel around, like it, share it, review it

303
00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:53.400
all right, leave a review. That's how the show grows.

304
00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:58.440
That's how this conversation, These conversations reach people who don't

305
00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:02.279
even know what they're looking for you and send this

306
00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:06.240
to a friend who says things like something feels awful

307
00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:13.920
earlier but doesn't have language for why it feels off. Also,

308
00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:18.799
if you're a researcher, creator, or investigator working in Bible studies,

309
00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:25.920
the supernatural, suppressed history, or spiritual anthropology, that's what I'll

310
00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:31.119
call it. Reach out. Quiet collaboration beats loud speculation every

311
00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:35.319
freaking time. We'll be back next Sunday with another set rup,

312
00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:41.799
same watch, same tension, deeper layers. Because once you hear

313
00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:46.839
the question John is asking, you don't really get to

314
00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:49.559
on here. Have a good week.

315
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:55.279
Before the dustat name, before the stars learning their place,

316
00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:56.279
there was.

317
00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:58.480
A sound in the silence.

318
00:28:58.839 --> 00:29:01.640
There was a voice before space.

319
00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:08.160
No cradle, no salt entrance, no halo lullaby.

320
00:29:08.440 --> 00:29:13.359
Just by your rapping language, stepping down in time.

321
00:29:13.839 --> 00:29:19.400
You can call it there, you can call it fade.

322
00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:26.559
But the stone still sill, wins. Is the worst tail

323
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:36.759
speech in the worst tail, beans, water stillson tastils.

324
00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:43.119
Like cust what the dark ti fails.

325
00:29:43.359 --> 00:29:51.880
You can rise from the shoes, but the worst still speaks.

326
00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:02.119
One man fell the sun for the very first time,

327
00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:03.480
not just.

328
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:08.359
Us opened with the fall loss of mind.

329
00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:18.640
Why in the jars didn't ask why CREA members who

330
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:28.799
turned to comply contrast it call a chancel, fierce shoes of.

331
00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:35.519
Will shoe in the the worst still speech and the

332
00:30:35.799 --> 00:30:41.519
world still bells, grafls arguments.

333
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:43.960
And his commil.

334
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:49.880
Lifestyle fallward win whole salen.

335
00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:52.599
You com bear the shoes.

336
00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.160
The door still speaks rules.

337
00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:03.279
Count to date.

338
00:31:05.480 --> 00:31:12.640
Say it's over, said decay, But breath doesn't need permission,

339
00:31:13.519 --> 00:31:15.640
and death doesn't get the mic.

340
00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:20.519
When the voice upon the cosmos cause the name back

341
00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:21.839
into life.

342
00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:31.799
I am the door, I am the flame, I am

343
00:31:31.880 --> 00:31:32.799
the bread.

344
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:35.440
I am the name.

345
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:44.480
Say I'm a teacher, say om, We don't look away.

346
00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:48.279
When the dead recluse.

347
00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:50.920
Still speaks.

348
00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:59.640
Here in loud, not in fun, but is loud.

349
00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:07.960
The truth does m BG, It doesn't pretiale you do

350
00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:19.039
a sir. No word still speaks, its silence shape the.

351
00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:20.119
L is.

352
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:33.119
You fe come now answer him, Now answer him

353
00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:36.839
Him