Messianic Checkpoint: The Gospel of John (2025)
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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. Speaking of today and speaking of Genesis to Revelation, We are now launching ahead. We just are in the midst of this time period, but we are jumping all the way to the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It's our first of four messianic checkpoints. One of the things that this comes out of is the idea or the reality, essentially, that as we're going through the Bible timeline, following these 14 narrative books, we recognized that if we just kept going through from beginning to
to the end we wouldn't be reading any of the new testament until roughly november and so we thought wow it would be very very important to introduce to all of us in the midst of this year a number of times where we get to take a step back and actually kind of launch forward and see okay now how has all of this been leading to christ because all the old testament is pointing to the New Testament. All the Old Testament is pointing to Jesus, who is the fulfillment of everything. And so for the next seven days, we are going to be walking through the gospel of John. And in order to introduce the gospel of John, so we can get kind of an understanding, once again, of John and of the structure of John's gospel and how unique John's gospel is.
Once again, we're joined by Jeff Cavins, which we're super grateful to talk with Jeff about John.
Hey, Father. Good to join you. And what a treat it is to look at a gospel at this point. It's like a little bit of a reprieve, isn't it? You're going through all this history and, yeah, but what about Jesus? But what about Jesus? And here we are. We're going to jump ahead for the Gospel of John. So this is going to be great.
So good. Yeah. I'm so grateful for the opportunity even just to see here is where the whole thing points. As I know, I think you might've even been the first person to point out this quote from St. Augustine. I think it's St. Augustine, right? You can correct me on this one, is that the Old Testament is revealed in the new and the New Testament is hidden in the old. And that's one of the things that I love about, well, all of the New Testament and Old Testament, but when it specifically comes to the gospel of John, there's a number of like just really critical connections that are fulfillments in John's gospel of all the stuff that we've been reading and some things we'll be reading in the future. But there are so many
I think the people who have been journeying with us for these last number of days will hear John's gospel in an entirely new way, knowing all that they know now, having walked through Genesis and Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers and Deuteronomy, all that we've been through. I think this is going to be just a unique experience of journeying through John.
Sure, it will be. And there's a couple of things to remember. And one is that all scripture that you have been reading, and in the case of our listeners, all the scripture you have heard up till now is all Christocentric, meaning it finds its fulfillment in Jesus Christ. And that's what Bible study is all about. And the other thing is what Pope Benedict said, mentioned, and that's called recapitulative history. It's a big fancy word for Jesus came and did it again. He came and he relived those stories. And so as you start to read the Gospels now, keep in mind that this is about fulfilling something. And it's about the Son of God fulfilling what the firstborn Son did not complete. And so Jesus had to fulfill all righteousness. He had to complete this.
And then we have some guidelines in the catechism about it being a revelation of who Jesus Christ is. And that's where we get to today with the Gospel of John. And the Gospel of John is different. Everybody knows there's four Gospels. And the question would come up, well, wouldn't it have been okay to just do maybe one? Just have one.
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