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The Word of Life

1John.1:1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

What a powerful introduction by the aged apostle John concerning the Word of life! Who among men can say their words match perfect truth, and because it is perfect truth without unrighteousness it is life?

John.1:8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. 1:9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.
1:11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him. 1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name: 1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

One cannot separate the two and equal life, one word, every word must be truth to be the Word of life. The word must be the very fiber, and substance formed into every actions to say “I am the Word of life”. Adam was instructed by God to watch each animal to match their names to their actions, when God gives us a new name it will match the truth he has formed in us perfectly, like he has his own Son Christ Jesus.

John.1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son,{NU reads "God"} who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

John 5:24 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

John 5:26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

Here we must balance our thoughts about the apostles time in the flesh with the Christ, why? Because there is nothing lacking in the Spirit the flesh would tells us otherwise it want physical contact hearing and touching the Lord of our faith. But the start of all things for the new creation is not found in the old birth, but the new one, in Christ, there we find the Spirit of love and comfort which teaches us all things about the love of our Father YHWH.

Jeremiah 23:4 I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, says Yahweh.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Romans 5:21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

The flesh is always active in working to kill the Spirit in us, but the flesh is not the truth or the Word of life, it is instead death, and the word of lies. So the apostle John will write perhaps the strongest spiritual book of all the apostles mystifying and even misleading those of the flesh but not those that start life from the beginning with the new birth into a new creation, that is, into the righteous life of Christ, the light of our world.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

They will be moved to truth and Spirit, they will learn of the complete faith John puts into the Spirit that indwells each one of them; he under Holy Spirit will increase their faith a gift of God's from the fruit of his Holy Spirit so each one can rest in the power of God's love for them. Those of the flesh will find John's book a mystery filled with fear of judgments decreasing God's love for them into a legal books of commandments upon commandments, measuring line, upon measuring line until the fear drives them into ignoring the book of first John almost completely.

2 Timothy 1:7 For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Hebrews 2:15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Such truth and faith that John demonstrates in his writing is with confidence of few words he was moved by the Spirit to say: “those that cannot hear us, that is, God's anointed Spirit lead children are not from us”. The brothers need not go beyond the Holy Spirit and try to teach, read what false brothers were teachings, it was simple they cannot hear what the Spirit says, no matter what we say. He defines weeds, and wheat, he teaches what all the apostles taught about the flesh that we no longer know anyone by the flesh, not even Christ no more.

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

1Cor.2:13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. 2:14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2:15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

1 John 4:6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

John will develop and put to rest any such thinking that truth depends upon mankind works on this earth in his letter, he will show that its only by the teaching of the Spirit that we are not mislead not the other way around where idol worship was spouting up through prominent teachers writings. John will put all power into Christ his head for keeping truth and revealing truth to his brothers on earth, no need for fear in love, and if we are in God's love, even if we be unfaithful he is always faithful.

2 Timothy 2:13 If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself."

1 John 2:27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Christ is the truth, the life, the way, he is incorruptible, and will preserve truth for all generation to come, why? Because he is faithful and true, amen!

Revelation 3:14 "To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God's creation, says these things:

Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

Hebrews 3:6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Hebrews 10:23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

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