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🗓️ 27 December 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | New Testamenters, today we finished books 25 and 26, and whole Bible crew we finished |
0:17.6 | book 64 and 65. We only have one book left. Both of today's books are written by someone who refers |
0:24.6 | to himself as the elder which was a common way of referring to a pastoral |
0:28.3 | leader in the church which John certainly was and church history tells us that this is |
0:32.3 | John the Apostle. |
0:33.8 | So while there are other viable theories about who wrote these books, the prevailing opinion |
0:37.9 | is that it was John the Apostle, aka The disciple Jesus loved, aka author of the Gospel of John and First John. |
0:44.4 | And many believe he also wrote revelation, which will start reading tomorrow and will finish |
0:48.0 | on our last day of this trip through scripture. |
0:50.5 | Second John is addressed to the elect lady. lady it could be a person but more likely that's John's way of addressing a specific church the bride of Christ God's elect |
1:01.4 | Why is that more likely there are are a few reasons, but the most straightforward |
1:05.0 | is that when John uses the word you in this book, it's typically the plural form of the word |
1:09.6 | you. In other words, John is using the Hebrew for y'all or you guys. |
1:14.4 | He starts out by saying he loves the church and its people, and that all people who love the truth |
1:18.8 | love the church and its people. |
1:20.5 | This is hard for some of us. |
1:22.2 | Some of us have been wounded by the church and its people because it's made up of sinners like us. |
1:26.7 | Some of us have done some of the wounding of other people either intentionally or accidentally. |
1:31.2 | God continually pours out grace to help us heal wounds and |
1:34.6 | bridge gaps and restore brokenness, just like with Paul and John Mark. |
1:38.3 | God is committed to the unity of his church, so he sends the spirit as our helper in aiming for |
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