The Other World Podcast

Hello my dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Today we are continuing to read the book of John together! I so love getting to do these studies with you. The Bible is so important to me and I want you to fall in love with God’s word and be a LIGHT!

Why the book of John?

The goal of the book of John is summed up in these verses:

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

John 20:30-31

The book of John was written so that we may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. This book is written for us to be confident and BELIEVE! Believe in Jesus and who He is.

Episode preview:

Jesus points to His death, connecting what will happen to him to a seed/a grain of wheat which must “die” (be buried and go through this transformative process hidden underground. It goes to “sleep” so to speak (which the Bible will use the term of going to sleep in relation to death) and then it will split open and break apart and send out roots and it takes time but it will make its way through the ground and dirt and return to the above world and bask in the light of the sun (similar to how Jesus will die and be raised to life again to be in the light of His Father who is God and is the Father of lights)) then to produce much fruit and a harvest (for us a harvest of faith and souls saved).

For Jesus to save us, He had to die.

For God made a covenant (a promise) and swore by himself to keep it but it did not save the people (if anything is condemned the people for then they had this knowledge of sin and what was wrong and then doing it the law and the old covenant condemned them for it so really there was no escaping this) and it did not save the people for the people loved going after their own desires and passions and they loved the darkness rather than the light.

But to make a new covenant, it could not be broken or annulled except through death, for God keeps His promises, and He is a just God. As he swore by himself, only He could change it to save His creation.

Jesus came not to abolish the law but to fulfill the law, which He did while on earth by keeping the commands of God but also by being the one to die. God had to die to fulfill the first covenant and create a new covenant–a covenant, a promise of faith and salvation by believing in Christ Jesus knowing that we ALL fall short of the glory of God and we cannot save ourselves but only God can.

God is just. He will keep His promises, and His word will stand. Nothing will break His word. But He is also love. He is a Good Father. He loves us, His creation, and wants us to be His children. So, to adopt us and to save us because of His great love for us, He took on our punishment, our sin, our condemnation, our judgment, and died in our place to save our souls. That is how much God loves YOU.

Isn’t it a wonderful thing to be loved by the Lord!

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Hello my dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Today we are continuing to read the book of John together! I so love getting to do these studies with you. The Bible is so important to me and I want you to fall in love with God’s word and be a LIGHT!

There is purpose in the waiting.

God can do many wonderful and miraculous things. Impossible things.

Even when all feels lost and hopeless, Jesus is the light and He can do the impossible and heal what is broken and raise dead things to life. Nothing is impossible for Him.

That being said, God does not always answer our prayers in the way we expect. Actually I would say that it is usually always not in the way we expected or in the timing we want. God’s plans are for good but not always our interpretation or understanding of what we want or think is good. Sometimes it feels like God is late or we have missed something important. That is not to say God is late or out of control but our interpretation can be off when we don’t understand what is going on. We don’t know. We can’t see the future. We don’t know what lies ahead of us. That can lead to uncertainty. Not because God is uncertain but we are human and have a limited understanding. Waiting is very hard.

But God is good and His plans and timing and ways are not our own. He has a plan, a story He is writing. He can see things from beginning to end. He is not confined or restrained by linear time as we are. When he says He can turn all things for the good of those who love Him then know that He can do this. Even if we can’t understand it now the LORD’s plans are for good and He can turn broken things beautiful.

Sometimes the painful things we go through can lead us to greater dependency on the LORD and can even point others to seeing Jesus.

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Hello my dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Today we are continuing to read the book of John together! I so love getting to do these studies with you. The Bible is so important to me and I want you to fall in love with God’s word and be a LIGHT!

Jesus is telling this story of how sheep hear the voice of their shepherd and follow his voice and the shepherd calls to his own. Jesus is our shepherd. He is calling out to us. Even through this very book His voice is going out to all the earth searching for His sheep who are those who listen and follow His voice and obey His commands.

We will know Jesus’ voice. The more we read the Bible, the more familiar we are to the sound and are easily able to recognize His still small truth-filled peaceful voice.

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Hello my dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Today we are continuing to read the book of John together! I so love getting to do these studies with you. The Bible is so important to me and I want you to fall in love with God’s word and be a LIGHT!

You can go through things in your life that feel like a punishment or are really discouraging, but maybe what is happening is something that is going to glorify God and will become a testimony to point others to Jesus because God is at work in your life and He wants to use you and your story and turn it to good. Not all the bad things that happen in our lives are punishments. It can be a test like in Job or will show the work of God like in the life of this man.

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Hello my dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Today we are continuing to read the book of John together! I so love getting to do these studies with you. The Bible is so important to me and I want you to fall in love with God’s word and be a LIGHT!

Sin is bondage…chains that bind you…imprison you…trap you and hold you captive like Jacob Marley from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, where all his greed, love of money, and selfishness lead him to be held in these chains, chains he forged. He says, “I wear the chain I forged in life…I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” Chains. Sin is chains.

The only way to be free of these chains is by the son who sets us free. In Jesus we have FREEDOM. Freedom from sin and not to sin.

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Episode 57

Hello my dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Today we are continuing to read the book of John together! I so love getting to do these studies with you. The Bible is so important to me and I want you to fall in love with God’s word and be a LIGHT!

Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]] —John 8:10-11

The woman is spared and given a second chance at life. Jesus, who did not sin, could have condemned her but let her go with the charge to “sin no more.” She has been given a second change. A gift. The hope is she will take this gift that Jesus has given her, this forgiveness, this chance at redemption, and to do as he says and sin no more…no longer to be an adulteress but to be faithful and turn from these sins.

To be recalled to life as Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities) would say.

As this woman was given a second chance at life, redemption, and forgiveness…so Jesus offers the same thing to us. By believing in Jesus, we have life in his name, forgiveness, and redemption because of the love of God that saves our life.

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Episode 56

Hello my dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Today we are continuing to read the book of John together! I so love getting to do these studies with you. The Bible is so important to me and I want you to fall in love with God’s word and be a LIGHT!

You don’t need to go to school to be able to read the Bible and understand it. For it is the Holy Spirit who reveals God’s word and gives us wisdom and understanding. The Holy Spirit can teach you the Word better than any school because it is like having the author of a book tell you exactly why they wrote their book and what it means. We can have a personal relationship with the author.

Education is so important, and I encourage you to study the word and seek counsel, but I want you to know that Jesus and the Bible are for ALL people regardless of education, race, or upbringing.

“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.” –James 1:5

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Episode 55

Hello my dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Today we are continuing to read the book of John together! I so love getting to do these studies with you. The Bible is so important to me and I want you to fall in love with God’s word and be a LIGHT!

Episode preview:

“Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” —John 6:68-69

I love Peter’s response. Where will we go? Jesus has the words of eternal life. Even if I don’t know what it all means. Even if I don’t understand all the details. Even if I have questions. Things are hard. Where would I go? Jesus saved me many times. I have life in His name. I know Him. He saved me. Where would I go? There is nowhere else for me to go. How can I turn my back on the one who laid down? His life for mine? How can I leave the man who took me out of darkness and saved my life from death? I can’t.

So I will stay with Jesus and trust in Him even when I don’t understand and the road gets narrow. I will stay because He has proven Himself steady and faithful to me all my life. I know even if the road is narrow and I fear I might fall off, his hand is holding tight to mine, and so long as I hold on, I am safe. So I will hang on for all my life.

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Episode 54

Hello my dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Today we are continuing to read the book of John together! I so love getting to do these studies with you. The Bible is so important to me and I want you to fall in love with God’s word and be a LIGHT!

In life we will go through storms. Sometimes they are our own storms and others we are merely looking at others instead of Jesus. Both will take our eyes off of Jesus. Both can make us sink.

You see, when my eyes are fixed on Jesus it does not matter what season I am in for I am steady in the Lord. Yes, there may be waves that crash and lightning that flashes but I will not be moved. I can look to Jesus and find peace, true peace in Him that is nothing like this world. I can look to Jesus and be satisfied with who I am and what I have.

It is when my eyes aren’t fixed on Jesus that I sink.

When I start focusing on me, me, me and everyone else and assigning my value to where other people are in their lives. I’m comparing my messy first draft to their seventh draft that has been edited multiple times and is now published. They are not the same thing. Doing this, comparing your life to others will ALWAYS leave you unsatisfied and dry.

We need to fix our eyes on Him.

When your eyes are on everything else we drown in the storms and waves of life. Only when our eyes are centered on Jesus are we steady, our foundation is firm, we can be at peace, we can be content. Content in Jesus and the loves we have. We can still have longings and desires but there is more trust in the Lord instead of fear and jealousy. There is peace where there was a storm. There was rest when there was striving. Look to Jesus who satisfies our souls.

Jesus is the only one who will satisfy your soul.

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Episode 53

Hello my dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Today we are continuing to read the book of John together! I so love getting to do these studies with you. The Bible is so important to me and I want you to fall in love with God’s word and be a LIGHT!

Jesus doesn’t just want to heal you in one way but wants to heal and free ALL of you.

I have experienced the Lord’s pursuit of my heart. He didn’t have to. He didn’t have to show up and save my life when I was doubting him and in a dark place. He could have left me. But he didn’t. Jesus loved me enough to die for me on a cross and then pursue me when I lost all hope. When I was doubting and questioning, He met me where I was and revealed Himself to me. As He has pursued me, I believe He can and will do the same for you. I have faith. And at the end of the day we still have this choice to follow or not.

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