{"content":[{"text":"LETTERS OF THE APOSTLE JOHN","bbox":{"left":0.283631,"top":0.126581,"width":0.433132,"height":0.020434000000000008}},{"text":"Part 2","bbox":{"left":0.474533,"top":0.168861,"width":0.051550000000000096,"height":0.015363999999999989}},{"text":"I John 2:28 – I John 5:3","bbox":{"left":0.400551,"top":0.20592,"width":0.19928800000000002,"height":0.015363999999999989}},{"text":"By Jamie McNab \n July 3, 2010","bbox":{"left":0.427967,"top":0.237848,"width":0.14498100000000003,"height":0.031328999999999996}},{"text":"Right brethren, last week we began what is likely to be a fairly brief study of the letters of the","bbox":{"left":0.117724,"top":0.305126,"width":0.7342660000000001,"height":0.015363999999999989}},{"text":"Apostle John.","bbox":{"left":0.117724,"top":0.329072,"width":0.10791900000000001,"height":0.015363999999999989}},{"text":"It will be brief because the books are brief. The first letter has only five chapters,","bbox":{"left":0.23545,"top":0.329072,"width":0.639756,"height":0.015363999999999989}},{"text":"the next two letters one apiece. We might well conclude the entire series next week, at a push, or","bbox":{"left":0.117724,"top":0.353018,"width":0.7591019999999999,"height":0.015363999999999989}},{"text":"maybe the week after.","bbox":{"left":0.117724,"top":0.376964,"width":0.173058,"height":0.015363999999999989}},{"text":"From last week’s study you will recollect that John wrote these letters somewhere towards the","bbox":{"left":0.117724,"top":0.412455,"width":0.7390909999999999,"height":0.015363999999999989}},{"text":"end of his life, so he may have been in his nineties or maybe coming towards one hundred. He","bbox":{"left":0.117724,"top":0.436259,"width":0.744926,"height":0.015363999999999989}},{"text":"was a very wise man, and had been with John the Baptist as one of his disciples, and had moved","bbox":{"left":0.117724,"top":0.460348,"width":0.7547079999999999,"height":0.015363999999999989}},{"text":"across to the Lord Jesus when He appeared on the scene. John was very personally close to the","bbox":{"left":0.117724,"top":0.484151,"width":0.7429140000000001,"height":0.015363999999999989}},{"text":"Lord Jesus.","bbox":{"left":0.117724,"top":0.508097,"width":0.089369,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"John continued a long time, and he saw many changes in the church, and he saw","bbox":{"left":0.216901,"top":0.508097,"width":0.6351,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"much deception.","bbox":{"left":0.117724,"top":0.532044,"width":0.12951000000000001,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"In chapter one you will recollect that John starts off by talking about how he was an eyewitness","bbox":{"left":0.117724,"top":0.567535,"width":0.7491020000000002,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"of the Word. He had seen the Word, he had heard the Word, and he had even touched the Word.","bbox":{"left":0.117724,"top":0.591481,"width":0.7532270000000001,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"So that when John spoke it was not hearsay, it was not some book that he had read somewhere,","bbox":{"left":0.117723,"top":0.615427,"width":0.746175,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"but he literally had seen, and physically touched, the Lord Jesus, and his word was therefore","bbox":{"left":0.117713,"top":0.639373,"width":0.7235560000000001,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"valuable.","bbox":{"left":0.117722,"top":0.66332,"width":0.071245,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"John said that we all fellowship with each other, and with the Lord Jesus Christ and with the","bbox":{"left":0.117722,"top":0.698811,"width":0.724968,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"Father. He showed us that fellowship means more than just a relationship. A father and a son","bbox":{"left":0.117722,"top":0.722615,"width":0.7339450000000001,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"can be related because the father sires the son, but their fellowship might be non-existent.","bbox":{"left":0.117722,"top":0.746703,"width":0.700608,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"In","bbox":{"left":0.828138,"top":0.746703,"width":0.01626700000000003,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"some families they may have a big bust up and they may never speak to one another for decades,","bbox":{"left":0.117722,"top":0.770507,"width":0.759888,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"or until one dies. So you can be related and yet have very poor fellowship. But what John writes","bbox":{"left":0.117722,"top":0.794453,"width":0.7543259999999999,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"is that you and I should have fellowship and intimate relationship with our Father, and with the","bbox":{"left":0.117722,"top":0.818399,"width":0.746157,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"Lord Jesus Christ.","bbox":{"left":0.117722,"top":0.842345,"width":0.14218800000000004,"height":0.015364000000000044}},{"text":"That is what John wanted, and that is what the Father looks for, and that is","bbox":{"left":0.269718,"top":0.842345,"width":0.583609,"height":0.015364000000000044}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}