The text that Pastor John will be preaching from this morning is found in 1 John, chapter 5, verses 6 through 13.

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only, but with the water and the blood.

And the Spirit is the witness because the Spirit is the truth.

There are three witnesses, the spirit, the water, and the blood.

And these three agree.

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater.

For this is the testimony of God that he has borne witness to his son.

He who believes in the son of God has the testimony in himself.

He who does not believe God has made him a liar because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne to his son.

And this is the testimony that God gave us eternal life,

and this life is in his son.

He who has the son has life. He who has not the son of God has not life.

I write this to you who believe in the name of the son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

I wanted very much to be with John Mulline when he died.

So I went to see him about 5 o'clock on Friday.

He couldn't live more than a few hours, I thought.

So after the wedding rehearsal, I went back about 715.

It was quiet on the fourth floor of Augustana Home.

His roommate was evidently sleeping.

I sat down beside his bed and took that 90-year-old hand and his eyes were all glazed and half open.

His breathing was as many of you have experienced as though it were attached to a kind of respiratory pacemaker

that just somebody forgot to turn off when everything else had stopped.

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