For whatever else you love about Jesus, his tenderness, his meekness, his kindness, his patience,

John wants you to be blown away so that all of that is inside something absolutely huge.

Jesus made the galaxies.

Who is this Jesus who made the galaxies? That's the massive question John Piper answers

from John 1-1-3 in this episode of Light and Truth. This sermon was originally preached at

Bethlehem Baptist Church on September 21, 2008.

The Gospel of John is a portrait of Jesus Christ in his sating work and word with a focus

on the last three years of his life, especially his death and resurrection.

Its purpose is given clearly in John 20 verses 30 and 31. You don't need to go there, I'll read

to you. Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples which are not written in

this book, but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, that is the Messiah,

the long hope for one, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

So the book is written clearly to help people believe, to bring about faith.

This portrait of Jesus is written by an eyewitness who was part of these infinitely important

earthly events five times in this Gospel. We find these unusual words, the disciple whom Jesus loved.

Very strange. Would you love them all? Five times the disciple whom Jesus loved. And at the very end,

last chapter, chapter 21, verse 20, it says, Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved

following them. And four verses later, it says, this is the disciple who is bearing witness

about these things and who has written these things. So the one called the disciple whom Jesus loved,

the one who was leaning with his head on Jesus' shoulder at the last supper wrote this Gospel.

This is a very close account. This is not somebody a hundred years later who's trying to figure out

what happened by tracing it down. He was there. And he wrote a book with his own divinely inspired

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