Welcome to Further In, a podcast where Pastor Ben and members of our team take a deeper look at the scripture we studied this week at Passion City Church, D.C., and consider how to apply the truths of God's word to our lives.

Guys, we did it. We made it.

The real thing.

Come on.

How do you feel?

It's in the rearview.

I had a funny feeling, John, because I had a stack of commentaries on my desk that have sat there for months.

They've been my constant companion.

And one part of me was sad to put it all away,

truly. It was like, oh, because they were actually really fun. I really liked studying this.

Another part of me just felt an enormous satisfaction that we did it. Now, we could

easily turn chapter five into three different sermons,

or you could argue four. We planned on doing that. Yeah. Someone got long-winded in the middle.

So, yeah. But I don't think it was bad. I think the benefit of doing the flyover,

if you didn't listen to the sermon, folks, we did all

of chapter five in one talk.

The reason why I thought it was good to do that, sort of pull back and look at the

forest, not the trees, is there's a lot of connections to it that when you break it up

too fine, you miss some of the connections.

You know, I give you an example is, you know, we did it at Easter.

Whoever has the son has life. Whoever does not have the son does not have life. I write these

things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know you have eternal life.

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