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08/06/2026

Part 2. We took the question to the streets: what would it take to convince you that Jesus is King?

This answer came from Maimonides' criteria for the Messiah: a Davidic king who keeps the Torah, rebuilds the temple, and gathers Israel.

Here's the problem. Those criteria come from a 12th century rabbi, not from Scripture. And Scripture itself paints a different picture. Isaiah 53 describes a Messiah who suffers for the sins of His people before He reigns. Daniel 9 says the Anointed One would be cut off before the temple was destroyed in AD 70. That rules out any future candidate and points straight to Jesus.

Jesus is the Son of David who kept the Law perfectly, and He is gathering a people from every nation right now. The temple? He said destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. He was speaking of His body. He came first to suffer. He is coming again to reign.

Measured by Scripture, not by Maimonides, Jesus meets every criterion.

Follow along as we keep asking. The conversations only get more interesting from here.

08/05/2026

What would it take to convince you that Jesus is King?

The Gospel of Matthew was written with one purpose: to present Jesus as King. And it makes the case six ways.

His birth. His character. Over 100 fulfilled prophecies. His miracles. His teaching. And a resurrection He predicted before it happened.

This week we're taking that question to the streets and asking real people.

Follow along to see how they answer.

06/29/2026

Everyone has a Jesus. The only real question is where they got Him.

Years ago Elton John gave Parade magazine his version. Jesus, he said, was a compassionate, brilliant, deeply understanding man who, conveniently, seemed to agree with him about everything. That is culture's Jesus. Read enough interviews and you meet him constantly. Kind, affirming, vaguely spiritual, and he never once tells you that you are wrong.

There is another popular version. The buddy. The homeboy. The Jesus who shows up to improve your life a little and make things easier.

Here is the problem with both.

They were not discovered. They were built. A Jesus assembled out of your own preferences will always end up looking suspiciously like you. He shares your opinions, blesses your plans, and confronts none of your sins. And that Jesus saves no one. The person who already thinks life is pretty good has no use for a savior who only fine-tunes it. So they pass. Not because the real Christ was offered and refused, but because a counterfeit was handed to them and they saw straight through it.

This is exactly what happens without divine revelation. Left to ourselves we do not find God. We manufacture one. We trade His glory for an image we are more comfortable with and call it faith (Romans 1:22-23).

The real Jesus is not a projection. He is the God-man who stepped into His own creation to die for the sins of His people. You will never reason your way there. You will never feel your way there. No magazine, no instinct, no upgraded version of your own opinion will ever produce Him. You know who He is for one reason only. God revealed it. He spoke. And what He says about His Son does not flatter us. It saves us.

That is why the Word is not optional. Lose the Bible and you do not lose a few facts about Jesus. You lose Jesus, and keep a god of your own making.

So here is the question. The Jesus you carry around in your head, where did He actually come from? Your assumptions, or God's revelation? Only one of them can save you, and you do not get to vote on which.

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06/24/2026

We asked two people, and between their answers you can hear something worth slowing down for.

One of them said that when you spend real time in Scripture, you cannot miss what it says, whatever question or situation you bring to it. That is the clarity and sufficiency of the Word, and it is exactly right.

The other spoke with real warmth about God. He speaks through His Word in the mornings, they said, and also through a song in a low moment, a lyric that lifts and reminds them of God's love and who they are. There is genuine affection for the Lord in that, and it is good.

So this is not a correction so much as an invitation to put the weight in the right place.

A song can stir the heart. A friend can encourage you. A moment can move you, and God can certainly use any of it. But none of that is where God has bound Himself to speak with authority. He has done that finally and fully in His Son, and in the Scriptures that testify to Him (Hebrews 1:1-2). That is the gift.

And what a gift it is. Think about what we actually have. The God who made everything did not leave us guessing at Him through moods and impressions that shift by the hour. He sat down and told us. Plainly. In words we can read, return to, and trust. The same God who is too holy to approach put His mind in a book and handed it to sinners. That is staggering, and most of us hold it far too casually.

So the song that reminds you God is real is a kindness. Receive it with thanks. But notice that the song only knows what it knows because the Word said it first. Run everything back to that Word and test it there (Isaiah 8:20). What agrees with Scripture is solid ground. What doesn't will not hold you, however good it felt.

Which leaves a gentle question. When you want to hear from God, will you settle for an echo, or go to the voice itself?

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06/17/2026

She told us the Bible reads differently now than it did as a child. Back then it didn't touch her anxiety. Now she says she has more peace than ever, and she returns to it again and again.

Then she said something most people get backwards. God reveals Himself, she said, first in His Word.

After that, in the kindness of people, and in creation.

That order is correct, and it matters.

Creation tells you God exists. Romans says His power and nature are visible in everything He made, so that no one has an excuse (Romans 1:20). The sky testifies that Someone is there. It cannot tell you His name. It cannot tell you that you have sinned against Him. It cannot tell you about the cross. General revelation leaves every person without excuse, but it has never saved anyone.

Salvation comes through the Word, where God does not merely hint at Himself but speaks plainly. He names Himself. He names your sin. He names the only remedy, His Son.

So the peace she described is not a technique she mastered by trying harder. Scripture is not a self-help practice that produces calm if you log enough hours. The peace is the fruit of meeting the God who actually speaks, and who, by grace, opens blind eyes to see Him (2 Corinthians 4:6). He reveals. We receive.

That is the whole point of revelation. You did not climb up to find God. He came down and made Himself known.

So the question is yours now. Are you waiting on a feeling you cannot verify, or will you go to the Word He actually gave?

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06/16/2026

You can stare straight at the facts and still arrive at the wrong conclusion.
It happens to all of us. We read our circumstances through the only lens we own — our own — and we feel certain. Not lying. Not careless. Just human. And human logic, left to itself, has a ceiling.
But here's what most people never stop to sit with.

There's a layer of reality underneath the one you can see. A perspective higher than yours — the One who made it all, who sees the end from the beginning, who knows what no human eye could ever reach. And you only get access to that layer if He chooses to speak.

He did.

He spoke in creation. He spoke through the prophets. And finally He spoke in His own Son (Hebrews 1:1–2). Not a hint. Not a feeling. Not your best guess at what the universe is trying to tell you. A word from God Himself.

And Scripture is blunt about why it matters: the natural mind, on its own, cannot grasp the things of God (1 Corinthians 2:14). Not won't. Cannot. Without revelation we don't just miss a detail — we misread the whole story. Wrong conclusions about God, about ourselves, about where all of this is headed. And then we build our lives on them.

Which is the question underneath everything. Will you live by what you've assumed? Or by what God has actually said?

So this week we hit the streets of LA and asked people one thing: what is the value of divine revelation in your life?

Their answers — and where they fall apart — over the next few parts.

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06/10/2026

Imagine someone walks up tomorrow and says, "I'm the Messiah. I'm Jewish. I was born in the line of David. I was born in the line of Abraham."

There is no way to verify it. The records are gone. The temple was destroyed in AD 70 and the genealogies burned with it. Anyone making that claim today is making a claim no one on earth can prove or disprove.

But here is what most people have never sat with.

Jesus made the claim about thirty-five years before that fire. The records were still there. The temple was still standing. The genealogies were still on file. Anyone who wanted to disprove Him could walk down the street, pull the scroll, and end the movement in an afternoon.

They didn't. Because they couldn't. He was who He said He was.

The entire Old Testament from Genesis to Malachi is predicting the coming of an Anointed One. The entire New Testament is the announcement that He came, and His name is Jesus. The line was verified. The prophecies were fulfilled. The tomb was emptied. The witnesses testified under torture and refused to recant.

This is the Messiah of Israel. This is the King of the world.

And the timing of His arrival is not an accident. He came while the evidence could still be checked, so that no honest person could ever say there wasn't enough.

So here's the question we started this series with, now back on you.

What evidence do you actually need?

If you've been honest with yourself through these four parts, you already have it.

Come check it out for yourself this Sunday. Or send this to the friend who said they'd believe if they ever had proof. They do.

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06/02/2026

We asked again. We got two different answers from two different people.

She wants a sign. A voice. An energy. Some divine intervention she can see and feel.

He already feels it. He watched a film about Jesus and his heart told him it was real. That settled it.
Both are looking in the wrong place.

Here's the thing about asking God for a private sign. He already gave a public one. He gave it in broad daylight, in front of more than five hundred witnesses, most of whom were still alive when Paul wrote it down and dared people to go check (1 Corinthians 15:3-8). Peter. James. The Twelve. The women at the tomb. Men and women who had nothing to gain and were tortured and killed for refusing to take it back.
She doesn't need a new sign. She needs to read the old one.

And here's the thing about a feeling in your chest while a movie is playing. Feelings can be moved by anything. Music in the right key. A well-lit scene. A story well told. The Bible never asks you to trust your heart. It says the heart is deceitful above all things (Jeremiah 17:9). What it asks you to trust is the testimony.

The reliable thing isn't the goosebumps. It's the eyewitness record written down by men who watched Him die and watched Him eat breakfast three days later (John 21:12-14).

The Christian faith was not built on energy, signs, or movie scenes. It was built on a tomb that opened, a body that walked out, and hundreds of people who saw it and refused to lie about it under torture.

That's the evidence. It's been sitting in front of us for two thousand years.

Pt. 4 next. 👇

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05/29/2026

Do you think who the Messiah is matters?

He told us he didn't care who it was. He just wanted the Messiah to come, the dead to rise, and good to finally win. And that longing is right. The Bible promises exactly that: a day when all people are physically raised and everything is made new.

But here's why the who matters. That resurrection has two outcomes. The saved are raised to blessing. The unsaved are raised to judgment. Everyone comes back. Not everyone comes back to the same thing. So the only question that matters is which side of that morning you wake up on, and that is settled entirely by the Messiah you trusted.

This is why it has to be Jesus.

He is fully God and fully man. He lived the perfect life we couldn't, died the substitutionary death we deserved, and after three days rose from the dead, conquering it. Paul calls Him the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep (1 Corinthians 15:20). Firstfruits is a harvest word. The first sheaf out of the ground is the guarantee the whole harvest is coming.

So who the Messiah is matters more than anything. Because a teacher can't raise you. A prophet can't stand in your place. Only the One who walked out of His own tomb can promise to empty yours.
He's right to wait for the day the dead rise. He just hasn't met the Man it already started with.

And that salvation costs nothing and can't be earned. It is received by grace, through repentance and faith in Christ alone.

Pt. 3 next. 👇

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05/27/2026

Every rabbi agrees on the résumé.

The Messiah of Israel has to be Jewish. He has to come through the line of Abraham. He has to come through the house of David. Those aren't Christian inventions. They're written into Genesis 3, Genesis 12, and 2 Samuel 7 — centuries before Jesus was born.

So when Matthew, a Jewish man writing to Jewish people, opens the New Testament, he doesn't open with a miracle. He opens with a genealogy.

Because if you can't link Jesus by blood to Abraham and David, nothing else about His claim matters.
But it could be linked. And it was. And first-century Jews who could have checked the temple records — and would have — believed it anyway.

The tomb is empty. The line is verified. The King has a name.

This week we're hitting the streets to ask people one question: what evidence would you actually need to believe Jesus is the Messiah?

It's going to get awkward. Stick around. Pt. 1 👇

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