Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. Today we'll open our Bibles to John 1 19 through 28

as we continue the gospel, one sign at a time. Our year-long study in the gospel of John.

In it, Paul shows us how Jesus came to replace the religious status quo of his day.

To hear more of these Bible studies, visit paultrip.com slash John. Here's Paul Tripp from the Gospel of John.

You see what this passage teaches us,

which is very important for us today,

is there's absolutely no neutrality

when it comes to Jesus.

Music The next passage we're going to look at in John, John 1, 19 through 28, is there to alert us that Jesus didn't come to be part of the religious status quo.

Jesus came to interrupt and in fact to replace the religious status quo.

Let me read.

And this is the testimony of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him,

Who are you?

He confessed and did not deny, but confessed, I am not the Christ.

And they ask him, what then?

Are you Elijah?

He said, I am not.

Are you the prophet?

And he answered, no. So they said to him,

Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sin us. What do you say about yourself?

And he said, I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said.

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