Jesus As God

In this week’s message, Pastor Mark Allen invites us to wrestle with a profound truth: what if the greatest loss in human history wasn’t just sin itself, but the loss of intimate relationship with God?

Looking through the lens of both the Gospel of Luke and the words of Jesus in the book of John, we’re reminded that when Adam and Eve fell, humanity didn’t just lose innocence. We lost closeness with our Creator. That image of God walking with mankind in the cool of the day reveals what was broken, and what God has always been after restoring.

Using the imagery of the temple, the outer court, the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies. Pastor Mark unpacks how God designed us as body, soul, and spirit. Throughout Luke’s Gospel, we see this theme unfold: from Zechariah encountering God in the temple, to Jesus teaching there at just twelve years old, all leading to the defining moment at the cross.

When Jesus died, the veil in the temple, massive, thick, and humanly impossible to tear was torn from top to bottom. This wasn’t symbolic of loss, but of access. God Himself made a way.

And on Resurrection Sunday, we see the fullness of that victory.

Through the words of Jesus in John, we’re reminded that He didn’t come just to deal with sin. He came to restore relationship. To bring us back to the Father. To make a way for us to truly know God again.

Now everything has changed.

We are no longer distant.

We are no longer separated.

We are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Because of Jesus, we are restored as sons and daughters invited into a bold, intimate relationship with God. Not just to believe in Him, but to walk with Him, to hear His voice, and to experience His presence daily… just as it was always meant to be.