Hello,

Welcome to the Simple Not Shallow Podcast. My name is Charles, and this is the Coffee Side Chat series.

Recently, I’ve heard questions like, “How is it loving when Jesus says that no one can come to the Father but by him? Isn’t that a bit exclusive? Shouldn’t love be more inclusive? If God is so loving, why limit how people can connect with him?

I have a question of my own in response to these types of questions. If Jesus is who he says he is, then how is loving if he doesn’t say this? No, seriously, how would that be loving?

That's what we are going to kick around in this episode.

Scripture Referenced:

John 10:30 - That he and the Father are one.

John 10:38, 14:11, 17:21-23 - He is in the Father and the Father is in him.

John 5:17-19, 12:49, 14:10, 24 - He only says and does what the Father gives him to say and do.

John 5:18 - He identifies himself as the Son of God, which the people of that day understood as his calling himself God.

John 5:26, 27 - That even as the Father has life in himself, he gave to Jesus, life in himself.

John 14:7 - if you know me, you know the Father. If you see me, you see the father.

Luke 10:16 - if you reject me, you have rejected the one who sent me.

John 10:10 - he says he came to give an abundance of life.

John 17:3 - He gives eternal life, which he says is to know the only true God and to know himself, the Christ who the Father sent.

Philippians 2:5-8 – He gave up his status, becoming nothing in the form of a human being to die on the cross.

John 14: 6,7 – Jesus is the way the truth the life, no one can come to the Father but through him.

John 10:9; Matthew 7:13,14 – Jesus comparing himself to being a gateway, a small gate.

Matthew 7:13,14 – The pathway of life, of relating to God, is the narrow way.

John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that he sent.

John 1:18 – The one and only Son… has made him known.

Here are some links to:

My favorite YouTube apologist: Mike Winger

My favorite online church service: Alistair Begg

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