Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

All right, we are in a series called Divinely Human.

And we've been looking at, like Abraham and Sarah and Peter and Moses and Zapura

and the first week which you might not realize as a part of the series, if you weren't here, was the message I preached a better covenant.

I really want you to hear that message if you haven't heard it and I really want you to listen to it again if you did hear it.

Because I laid the groundwork that if you are in any way, let me just say this.

I believe all of us, including I do this, all of us still think in old covenant terms sometimes and act in old covenant terms when we are living under the new covenant.

And so that's the most important message in the series that you might not think is the most important, but it is.

So that we're in that series, all right.

So this week we're going to talk about John.

And what I did is we're in the series if you're catching up or maybe this is your first time to tune in or to be here or to be online or whatever it is,

we're taking people in the Bible that we know as heroes, men and women that God used and were noticing that they were just humans and not only did they make mistakes, but they actually even sand.

And yet God still used them to do great miraculous divine things.

And we're using the scripture that tells us that we are partakers of the divine nature when we accept his grace.

So Jesus was 100% divine and 100% human on this earth.

And I'm going to explain that to you, by the way, at Easter.

I'm going to unpack that.

But we are not 100% divine, but we have someone living in us who is divine that we need to allow to live through us.

So that's what we're doing, all right. So hopefully I'm giving you all hope that even though you see your humanity and your frailties and your weaknesses, that you can still be divinely used by God because these men and women work, all right.

So we're going to get John. So I have actually a points this week, even though we're going to still read a lot of John story, a lot of scripture, I have points. I only have two.

And here's point number one, John's divinity. So we're going to look at that part of John that was that he allowed the divine to use him and the kingdom.

First of all, I need to tell you some things about John.

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