The following Scriptural Rerun, although not a part of our current Apostolic Faith SERIES, will provide additional context for our look at the Gospel of John written about five years before the Elder's Epistles.
READ any post linked below from our 2020 SERIES from the Gospel of John
Scriptural exposition in the context of A.D. 85-90,
19 March AD2020 Churches ordered closed..while during recent months:
some sought to stream the stage of worship
some sent seeker-friendly scripture into our homes
some church communities disintegrated while others diminished & distanced (like our 2020 remote office meetings complete with slides).
To review the Gospel of John, simply click on any link in the outline below& it will open in a new window.
Roger – author of A.D. 2020 series on the Gospel ‘Good NEWS’ of John
I hope you were blessed by the secure links to reliable sites for further study of Scripture, as well as insight into the 1st century church of John’s Gospel (written ~A.D.- 90).
IN THE BEGINNING was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
ALL THINGS came into being through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of
MANKIND.
And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not grasp it.
14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
The Book of the Prologue
John’s Prologue [1:1-18], from which the Apostle next proceeds to the testimony of John the Baptist and the Messiah’s calling of the Twelve, states many important theological themes & along with his Epilogue [21:1-25 {linked below}] provides additional depth of purpose of John’s Gospel.
‘My Father’s House – John 2“You must be born again.I am the Messiah – John 4Before Abraham was, I AM John 11“..and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.also love one another-John 13Jesus prays – John 17Jesus answered him – John 19:11 Jesus said:
Gospel of John
“Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! – John 1:29b
As Jesus passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from birth. – John 9:1
Are you greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets died. Who do you claim to be?” – John 8:53
“But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;
and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. – John 10:26-28
Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise from the dead.”
.. “I am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in Me will live, even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die.
Hear all the unrelenting bad news of yesterday or today or any future year in the Common Era of these last days.
For followers of Jesus, His death diminished life’s hope in eternal life;
that is, until the GOOD NEWS of the Lord’s resurrection reached the eyes and ears and touch of His dearly beloved friends.
John and the Disciples witnessed the Lord Jesus in His Risen Flesh several times after His resurrection, as had hundreds of other disciples also seen their risen Christ!
but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
John 20:20
Their sorrow had turned into joy and so must ours; for in Christ Jesus his disciples of every generation have eternal life through His sacrifice for our sins. This is our Gospel, John’s Good News to those who would believe.
John’s Epilogue
John 20:30 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book.
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
John 20:21 CSB
Go in Peace and Believe
I pray that the Lord has blessed you through the Gospel of John in A.D. 2020 and now I might add, the Good NEWS of John by God’s grace continuing these last days in 2023 of the Common Era ..
May our Lord Jesus Christ
draw you into His grace,
giving you new hope of Eternal Life in the remaining years of our Common Era of 2023 and beyond if it is God's will,in the Name of the Father and the Son Christ JESUS, Who IS and Was and will judge all things when the Lord returns, and the Holy Spirit who sustains saved sinners in these last days.
AMEN.
An illustration of times in life beyond the bounds of time and place
The Gardener, the Shepherd and the Hunter
Once upon a time there was a gardener, a shepherd and a hunter.
I met a man who knew each of them (and many others), for he frequented the garden during his journeys through time.
But before I tell you about these men from long ago, allow me to describe this garden seen by just a few men, women and even children during these countless years and times.
To begin, you must close your eyes in order to look through a distant twilight upon a face of this place not visible to any who think we might see this extraordinary place by the light of this distant earth.
For that is how I met his man who showed me the way to look into the vast darkness to see this paradise.
Of course, if anyone wanted to look for a gardener,
wouldn’t you first try to find the garden where he works?
That’s what I did after I heard a Voice of the man who had met them all. Then he showed me where to look into the twilight of the night sky.
Better, with your eyes closed to this world, he said.
Do you have a picture of the garden where I can see this gardener, I asked?
Imaginations of it by men and women paint many pictures of places not at all like this garden, he replied.
You cannot allow even the most beautiful earthly place of your imagination to mirror this distant garden beyond the borders of time and place.
Beyond …time… and place
What do you mean that this garden is on another side of a border of time?
(I thought is was a straightforward question about where I should look.)
Have you ever been there … or met anyone else who has seen this garden?
(Of course I hadn't.)
And without saying anything and with my eyes still closed I could still see the man who spoke to me as he gently looked into the depths of my thought.
So you would like to see this garden..? .. and have me show you how to get past your border of..
.. The man was suddenly silent.
I strained to see him with faint light passing through my eyelids as I imagined a beautiful garden filled with light and life. I imagined scrumptious fruit, the greenest of plants and purest of air.. a blue sky (of course).. Behind a moving mist somewhere between my eyelids and my wandering mind, I painted for myself a paradise with several people wandering about carelessly…
… time … ?
But which one was the Gardener, I wondered?
Then as my mindless mist obscured my vision of this garden beyond the bounds of time and place, I realized that the man had just spoken to ME again.
…time… ? (he had just said – his last word inviting me to follow him there)
Do you see this … LINE …
he asked?
Yes.
Where does it end?
(With my eyes again closed tightly and staring into the distance both to the left and then the right, I could see NO END
and the … LINE … just keep going beyond where I could see..)
Can you see it’s BEGINNING?
I nodded.. NO.
Yet haven’t your READ the truth of a garden beyond this …LINE… drawn in …TIME…?
How about the other END of the …LINE…?
Now I thought briefly of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to John. A horrific scene of apocalypse began to unfold — a scene I had never wanted to look upon.
The Garden
And just as before when I had tried to glance back at the garden of Eden, the desired paradise with GOD, the voice of the man no longer spoke comfort into my spirit.
I did not know then WHO the gardener was, but now I knew where to look …beyond the line of time and place…for the garden.
garden, enclosure; גַּן gan, gan; from H1598; a garden (as fenced):—garden.
The LORD God planted a garden H1588 toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed..
Out of the ground the LORD God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden H1588, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden H1588 of Eden to cultivate it and tend it.
You have heard it: “BY FAITH ABRAHAM..” and you know it from Scripture. Abram was blessed by God, called on to leave his ancestral home on a journey to a promised land. By faith Abraham believed God that his own son would inherit the promises of God’s covenant. But I’ll bet your western tradition of thought never looked so far back to the ancient middle east to recognize Abram as a Sheikh or Abram Son of Nahor the Sheik.
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