1 John 3:1-9

The Whole Counsel of God

Fr. Stephen De Young, and Ancient Faith Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Fr. Stephen De Young continues the discussion of St. John's First Epistle.

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0:00.0	Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.
0:09.0	Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.
0:21.6	Chapter 3, verse 1,
0:22.8	Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us
0:25.8	that we should be called children of God.
0:30.8	Okay.
0:31.8	So he's saying, stop and think about what I just said for a second.
0:36.2	Right?
0:38.2	The love that the Father has bestowed in us that we should be called children of God,
0:42.7	that we have this privilege, right, of becoming like Christ, right, becoming like God,
0:50.4	imaging God in the world, right?
0:53.3	This is incredible love he's shown us, to share his life with us.
0:59.2	Therefore, the world does not know us because it did not know him.
1:05.2	Right.
1:05.7	So he's saying, remember when Christ came into the world?
1:10.1	People hated him. They rejected him. That's back in the world? People hated him.
1:11.6	They rejected him.
1:13.3	That's back in the prologue of St. John's Gospel.
1:15.8	He's in the world, but the world knew him not.
1:18.3	Came to his own, his own received him not.
1:21.8	And so he's saying, if you're imaging him, if you're living like him,
1:27.1	the world's not going to know what to do with you either.
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