The Berean Call Podcast

So, with this promise of the Messiah to come (Genesis 3:15) through Abraham, through Isaac, through Jacob—all through the Old Testament, the prophets said…and set a criteria, and this is what I really want to get to. There have been many...

Dave: Well, not only was there confusion among the Jews, confusion among the disciples, and even John the Baptist... Remember, from prison John the Baptist sent two of his disciples asking Jesus, “Art thou he that should come, or look we for another?” So he asked the right question...

So the first thing that I guess we talk about in the book, Tom, is that—what do we mean when we say, “Jesus is coming”? When will Jesus come? To do what, for whom, when, you know?

For the last few weeks, we’ve been discussing God’s love, and there’s no greater demonstration of His love than what took place on a cross just outside Jerusalem nearly 2,000 years ago. As Charles Wesley wrote, “Amazing love, how can it be that Thou, my God, wouldst die for me?” But, Dave, the meaning of the cross is rather confused these days, isn’t it?

Dave, as you know, and many of our listeners know, we’ve been going over the topic of love—God’s love, loving God, what God’s Word says about love, and I think we’ve been through some very helpful—at least for me, and I hope for many of our listeners, some very helpful verses on what God’s love is about. And as we mentioned before, it’s something that we do. There’s no specific definition, but throughout the Scriptures we find Jesus, who is the perfect example for us of God’s love: all that He says, all that He does, all that He did, and what He asks us to do. He says, “A new commandment I give you. If you love me, keep my commandments.” And those are the very things that are a blessing to us because of what He did, and that we are to bless others, to be used of Him to that end.

We’ve been going through your book An Urgent Call for a Serious Faith, and the reason we’re going through that book is because it really does, what I believe, what we’re encouraging all of our listeners to do, and that is to get into God’s Word.