Day 99: The Word Became Flesh (2026)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible Timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 99. You guys, you're one day, one day away from 100 days of reading the Bible, listening to the Word of God, and letting it shape your mind, your eyes, your heart, your Every part of you is day 99 and we are taking a break. We just finished 1 Samuel 6, 7, and 8. We're taking a break for the next seven days.
In the next seven days, we're going to go through the gospel of John. This is what it's called our first messianic checkpoint. And so today we're reading on day 99, we're reading from John chapters one, two, and three. We're also reading from Proverbs, taking a little break from the Psalms for about seven days, eight days or so. And then we're reading Proverbs five verses one through six. As you might know, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm actually using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to get your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. If you've not yet subscribed to this podcast, It's been 99 days.
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What passages and reading plan does Day 99 cover?
We're launching into the messianic checkpoint. What that means. Gosh, you guys, everything in the Old Testament leads to the New Testament. One of the things we know and believe is Christianity was not a new religion coming after Judaism. What Christians believe is that Christianity is the fulfillment of everything that God had promised in the old covenant. Everything God had promised is the fulfillment of everything he'd been leading up to. So everything we've been reading, plus what we'll be reading for the next, you know, while after this. all points to Jesus. And so it's not a new religion. In fact, the first Christians, they did not see themselves as leaving Judaism and becoming something else.
What they saw was, no, this is the fulfillment of Judaism. And we're gonna make a note on that after we read John 1, 2, and 3. But keep that in mind, that as we launch into this messianic checkpoint for the next seven days, we're not leaving the Old Testament behind. What we're doing is we're seeing how the Old Testament has been fulfilled in Jesus and how God's promises have been fulfilled. So without anything further, here we are with John chapter one, two, and three. The gospel according to John chapter one, the word became flesh. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
Why is this week called the 'messianic checkpoint' and what does that mean?
All things were made through him and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came for testimony to bear witness to the light that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness to the light. The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not. he came to his own home and his own people received him not but to all who received him who believed in his name he gave power to become children of god who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of god and the word became flesh and dwelt among us full of grace and truth we have beheld his glory glory as of the only begotten son of the father
John bore witness to him and cried, This was he of whom I said, He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–1:25
2
What passages and reading plan does Day 99 cover?
1:25–2:50
3
Why is this week called the 'messianic checkpoint' and what does that mean?
2:50–13:01
4
What is the opening theological claim in John 1:1 about the Word and divinity?
13:01–15:26
5
How does John the Baptist testify that Jesus is the Messiah and 'Lamb of God'?
15:26–24:33