Women touching lives world wide with online Bible study, 1 John
My heart grieves when people deny Jesus , but it seems to grieve even harder for those who can acknowledge that He was "once" here, yet still deny that He is the Christ, the Son of God , the Savior of the world, the Messiah . The first three verses of 1 John explains the " Incarnate Word " to us—Jesus being made flesh. Throughout the Bible, in fact, we bear proof of Jesus being the Son of God, yet many still go on in their unbelief, some dying in it even. John is know as "the disciple Jesus loved" and like Peter and James, this discple had a unique relationship with his Rabbi—his teacher. Whenever I read John's writings it seems that I connect with the warm love and affections that he had for his beloved Christ . The loved disciple wrote this letter, 1 John, to encourage the first generation of believers {little did he know his writings would continue encouraging believers throughout generations, extending to the 21 century and beyond} to get ba...