Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

There are five men in the New Testament that bear the same name.

The name means Jehovah is gracious, but one of them seems to stand head and shoulders above all the rest.

Before he became a disciple, he was a fisherman.

He was actually a cousin of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Their mothers were sisters. And he became a part of the inner circle of disciples during

Christ earthly ministry. He's known as the beloved disciple, or in the words of Scripture,

the disciple whom Jesus loved. He had a very close personal relationship with the Lord Jesus. Near the end of his life, he's referred to as the elder.

And he would later write the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Think of this.

He's going to outlive Peter.

He's going to outlive Paul by probably 30 years.

He'll die when he was nearly a hundred years of age, and God used this man named John

to pen some of the most simple and yet profound pages of Holy Scripture. We've come in our journey

through Scripture to the little book of First John, a book that really is a sequel, I believe,

to the gospel record that John wrote by the same name. Someone has even suggested that First John is really an

interpretation or a commentary of his gospel account, and there are a host of similarities that

would make a great in-depth study. But John writes this particular book for a specific reason.

You see, First John is a family book.

You know, there's nothing quite like family,

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