Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. So we've got a special study in store for today. There's a handout. I hope everyone got a copy of the handout.

If you don't have that, you know, raise your hand and yeah, Keith can help pass that out.

Okay, good, everyone's got one. It'll just help walking through this.

So, again, just raise your hand if you need a copy. Yeah, the price goes up once the study starts. Okay, so you want the pre-registration.

Okay, all right, let's begin in a word of prayer.

Father in heaven, we meet in your name and we know that you're in our midst.

I pray that you would weld our hearts to your

heart and our hearts to one another we thank you for Christ we thank you for all that

he has done for us and is doing and shall continue to do.

We do long for the day of his return.

And so we say, Maranatha, come Lord Jesus.

Until then, I pray that you would just fortify our faith, nail our feet to the floor,

help us to stand strong in these days of apostasy, in these days of

spiritual declension.

And we ask now that you'd use this study for its intended purposes.

Bless these men who have come. We pray this in Christ's name. Amen.

Amen. Okay. We're going to step out of 1st John just for today. This may take

me two times to do this. I don't know how long it's going to take to walk through this,

but this is some information that you need to know as a Christian. Martin Lloyd Jones said,

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