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April 11 - 1 John 1 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. It is shown here and it is so
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  good that you and I have in this post Easter glow can continue on
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  with our tradition of reading, a chapter of the Bible, each day,
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  and we have Josh, I worked our way through the wonderful Gospel
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  of Luke and now we are going to read through a quick-fire trio
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  of books written by John Jesus disciple.
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  John this is first second. And third John, which we are
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  going to be reading this week and next week.
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  Now, when you start to hear the writing of John, it's like we're
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  back in familiar territory. It's so similar to the way that
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  his gospel is written except he's not Thing to tell us the
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  life of Jesus this time he is riding to help a church who are
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  being challenged by number of false teachings, false teachings
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  in the form of gnosticism that was another prominent thought of
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  the day, that elevated knowledge, above everything
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  else. And to be saved, you didn't have
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  to be saved by Jesus death and Resurrection.
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  You had to be saved by having the correct knowledge and that
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  would do it for you. And so, he's going to push back
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  against this and other Pagan teachings.
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  And teachings from the Roman world that they lived in by just
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  reiterating. The central themes that will be
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  familiar to us from his gospel. That Jesus is indeed the Messiah
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  that God is light, that God is love and that they have all the
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  knowledge that they need. So as we come back to that world
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  that Jesus lived in just afterwards, when his beloved
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  disciple, John writes to his friends, to convince them of the
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  truth, we get to be right there with him and the front row seats
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  to hear what he has to say. So join me without further Ado,
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  let us read together. First John, chapter 1,
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  We Proclaim to you, the one who existed from the beginning whom
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  we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and
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  touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of Life.
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  This one who is life itself was revealed to us and we have seen
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  him. And now we testify and Proclaim
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  to you, that he is the one who is eternal life.
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  He was with the father and then he was revealed to us.
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  We Proclaim to you, what? We ourselves have actually seen
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  and heard so that you may have fellowship with us.
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  And our fellowship is with the father and with his son Jesus
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  Christ, we are writing these things so that you may fully
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  share our joy. This is the message we heard
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  from Jesus and now declare to you, God is light and there is
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  no darkness in him at all. So, we are lying.
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  If we say, we have fellowship with God, but go on living in
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  spiritual Darkness, we are not practicing the truth, but if we
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  are living in the light as God is in the light, then we have
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  fellowship with each other and the blood of Jesus, his son
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  cleanses us from All sin. If we claim, we have no sin, we
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  are only filling ourselves are not living in the truth.
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  But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful.
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  And just to forgive us, our sins and to cleanse us from all
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  wickedness. If we claim we have not sinned,
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  we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no
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  place in our hearts. Lord, thank you for the
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  apostles. Thank you for John.
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  Thank you that he was able to write so boldly not just about
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  things that he'd heard that about a life lived with you
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  seeing you hearing you and living alongside you.
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  Thank you. That these documents have been
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  preserved for us to read together, today to continue to
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  hear about you. Jesus and to learn what you were
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  like and that you are light and that you shine into the darkness
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  Jesus. I pray for all those dark
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  corners of our lives and a filled with doubt and shame and
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  hopelessness. Jesus Shine Your resurrected
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  light into those corners of our souls, fill us with your
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  presence so that we can live in your truth.
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  That when we mess up, we can bring that to you and know that
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  you are just and kind and forgiving you are the best.
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  We're so grateful for Easter. We're so grateful for your
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  resurrection and we are so grateful.
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  Advil. Now here you are loving us.
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  We just come before you and praise you, and it's in your
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  name that we pray, Jesus. Amen.