Walk While You Have the Light

Rev. Philip Hoppe, pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Colby, KS, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study John 12:34-43.

The crowd listening to Jesus on Palm Sunday knows that He has been speaking about His death, but they do not know how Jesus could then be the Christ. Jesus proclaims the urgency of the situation; He is the light in whom they must believe right now. When the crowd does not believe, Jesus withdraws from them; all of this is in fulfillment of what the Lord had spoken by the prophet Isaiah, who saw God’s glory. Though many did believe in Jesus, they loved the glory from man more than the glory of God. Jesus shows us the true glory of God in His death and resurrection.

“The Word Made Flesh” is a series on Sharper Iron that goes through the Gospel according to St. John. The disciple whom Jesus loved wrote his Gospel account as an eyewitness to Jesus’ life and ministry. As we read the Word of God recorded by St. John, the Holy Spirit works in us so that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so have life by faith in His name.