By What Authority

"In the Beginning Was the Word"


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John doesn’t open his Gospel with a miracle, a crowd, or a crisis. He opens with a Person. Before creation, before time, before anything existed, the Word already was. In this episode, we step into John 1 and recover the divine order the modern church often forgets: identity spoken first, calling revealed through relationship, and assignment entrusted in maturity.

You’ll hear why Jesus names Peter before he performs, why Nathanael is affirmed before he follows, and why every believer’s identity—child of God, sheep of His pasture, the Bride, the beloved—is given at the beginning, not earned later. John 1 doesn’t finish the conversation; it opens it. It invites you into revelation, hunger, and searching.

This episode calls you to behold Jesus as the eternal Word, the true Light, the Lamb of God, and the One who sees you before you ever see Him. Everything He does in the rest of the Gospel flows from who He already is—and everything you become flows from who He has already named you.


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By What AuthorityBy Raymond Ybarra