The Most Offensive Thing Jesus Ever Said (EP 213)

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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

Bryce Crawford 0:00

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today we are going to be talking about the most offensive statement Jesus ever spoke. This statement is so powerful, yet it gives us so much security to understand so much about Jesus. So if you got your Bible, we're going to be flipping to John chapter 14, baby. That's where we're going to be. I love the gospel of John. Now, Do I also love the Gospel of Matthew? Yes. Do I also love the rest of the Bible? Also, yes, because the Bible's awesome. But I love me some Gospel of John. Now, there was, like, a meme. I saw a meme, like, a while ago. Someone made a meme saying, like, I quote from Matthew chapters 5 through 7 all the time.

Bryce Crawford 0:44

Which is probably true, because I love Matthew 5-7. Anyways, we're going to be in John 14.

What passage in John does Bryce use to claim 'the most offensive thing Jesus ever said'?

Bryce Crawford 0:49

Today, Jesus, in this passage, for some context, is talking to the disciples. He's talking to the disciples. He's giving them some instruction. Here's what he says in verse 1. Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? Then I'm going to stop right here before we get to this next part. This imagery. we'll talk about in a moment, is similar to a Galilean wedding. And we'll get to that in a moment. We'll kind of close out the episode with that. But here's the most offensive thing Jesus ever said. Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Bryce Crawford 1:51

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you do know him and have seen him. Let me stop right there. The most offensive words that came out of Jesus' mouth were him definite claiming, I'm the only way. I'm the only truth. And I'm the only real life. And no one comes to the Father except through me. Why is this so important? Because we try to find the way, the truth, and life in so many different things. That's why we turn to sin. We try to find life in sin. It's like, okay, I'm feeling a hole in my heart. Let me go get drunk. Let me go do some drugs. Let me go have sex. Let me go do this. Let me go shove my face with a bunch of food. We try to find life. Or what's the way? We have so many self-help books and we have so many different medicines and we have so many different religions.

Bryce Crawford 2:48

I mean, how can we know which one's the way? Or what's the truth? Well, maybe your truth and my truth because I don't want to offend you. So, you know, you believe whatever you want as long as it's good for you and you're a good moral person, that's okay. And for me, don't question me because I have my own truth. And if you question me, then you're being hateful. No. Jesus says, I'm the only way. I'm the only truth and I'm the only life. What does he say earlier in John chapter 8? And you'll know the truth and the truth will set you free. He is the truth. Just six chapters later, he goes, yeah, that truth that will set you free, that's me. I'm the truth. Here I am in your face. I will set you free. Because so often people look at Jesus and Christianity as if it's this cage that's going to bind them down, make them boring, make them lose their personality.

Bryce Crawford 3:35

In fact, it's the total opposite. Jesus gives you your personality back. He gives you satisfaction. He gives you security. He shows you the actual truth. He opens your eyes. See, this is why I have been obsessed lately with the Matrix movie. I am actually obsessed with it. It is so insane, the biblical imagery that is in the Matrix movie. It's awesome. It's like you get two options. You either take the red pill, red pill, know the truth, and see how far the rabbit hole goes, or take the blue pill and just go live how you want to live. It's like those are the options. It's either you want to live your own way or you know the truth. And when you know the truth, you're awake. You're alive. You have true life.

Bryce Crawford 4:22

There is beauty in understanding. We can call these the most offensive words that Jesus ever spoke, but these are the most freeing words that Jesus ever spoke.