Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calbury Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with John

the Elder as we pick up in 2 John Chapter 1, First 1.

And now with today's message here's Pastor Chuck.

The 2nd Epistle of John,

he writes addressing himself as the elder. Now that word

elder could mean aged or ancient. It also was a title within the churches. Each of the churches had their

elders who were the overseers of the church, but the Greek word presbyturos was originally just used for an aged person.

At this point when John is writing, he's probably over 90 years old, so he's very qualified to call himself the elder.

Both of these epistles, if you'll notice, are quite short, and in both of them he mentions there are a lot of things he wants to write about

but he will save that until he sees them face to face. He'd rather just talk to them about it,

then write to them about it. Now in those days they had a writing material of parchment that was a parchment

that was 8 by 10 inches, which is close to the 8 and a half by 11 notebook paper that you grew up in school with.

And... paper that you grew up in school with. And interestingly enough, each of these little

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