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Introduction
1 John is dealing with who is a true Christian.
True Christians are the ones who know Christ through the true doctrine and know Christ in experience.
“By their fruits you will know them”.
John states in First John that true believers will adhere to certain confessional statements and will then live by them also.
To know by the head and know by experience or according to the heart.
, you will live according to the fruits of the Spirit.
Our Discipleship program is this: That those who want to be discipled, will sit through the Bible studies and teachings and then will live it out, serve in the church, go and evangelize.
As you study the Bible, you will know the right doctrine and live out your faith.
- Kingdom of God is God’s revelation that gets into someone’s heart
False Christians, Brethren.
Leads to False Doctrine
Darnel Wheat
will make you sick if heated up and eaten.
Good wheat can be rolled up and eaten and chewed
Satan is a counterfeiter of the truths of God and is looking to infiltrate the church
He will twist the scriptures
Keywords: Father is used 13 times, little children 11 times, light 6 times, love 33 times, life 15 times, fellowship 4 times, know 38 times.
Belief is used in the book of John 95 times and is continued to be used in 1st John.
Background on John
Apostles
Paul - The Apostle of Faith
Peter - The Apostle of Hope
John - The Apostle of Love
John as a Young Man
John was a teenager when He became a disciple of Jesus and was the youngest apostle.
He was likely around 15 or 16 years of age.
He was likely the son of Salome which is Mary’s sister (John 19:25)
John looked after Mary after the Death of Jesus ()
John exiled to Patmos during the time of Domitian after they tried to boil him in Oil.
John in Midlife
John stayed in Jerusalem until somewhere between 66 and 70AD.
He stayed in Jerusalem to look after Mary, Jesus’ Mother
Jerusalem was Sieged in 66 AD and destroyed in 70 AD
Jerusalem was the Epicenter and home base of the Christian church until then.
The Jews began an uprising against the Greeks and against Roman control in both Eqypt, Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem.
Many fled the area at that time including Herod Agrippa II who was expelled by the Jews.
(coming back to fight later with Titus against the rebellion)
The Romans sent reinforcements from Syria.
Vespasian was the Commander of the army against the rebellion in the area.
Titus (Vespasian’s Son took to sieging Jerusalem)
At around 69 AD Vespasian became Emperor after several failed Emperor's had short stints in holding the throne.
Vespasian was supported by Tiberius Julius Alexander who was a Jewish Alexandrian who had gained stature under Nero.
Alexander had two legions at his command.
With Alexander’s support, other legions supported Vespasian as the new Emperor who had gained the popularity through his leadership in the Jewish wars.
Titus began a siege on Jerusalem, they setup armies around the wall, built another wall and trench.
Whoever tried to escape would be caught in the trench and crucified.
600 held out in the siege, men and women.
Titus and the army broke through 2 of the 3 walls of Jerusalem.
He then began to break through the third wall which did not take him as long because it was built quickly.
The remaining rebellion had been split up and one group used the Temple as their remaining place to hold out.
The night before going after the the rebellion in the temple, Alexander, being a Jew and his family having been some who had donated gold for the temple, voted to not destroy the temple.
The fighting and siege of the temple continued the next day.
One of the Roman soldiers threw a torch into one of the store rooms which ignited the temple on fire.
Many Christians and Jews were driven from Jerusalem because of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem
Many Christians and Jews were driven from Jerusalem because of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem
Being that only 600 rebels remained during the last siege of Jerusalem and anyone that was caught during the siege was killed, the Christian church there would have Fled and been scattered throughout the empire.
John would have fled Jerusalem during this time.
It is said that he moved from Jerusalem to Ephesus during this period.
Ephesus - The natural new epicenter for Christianity
Ephesus was already the major trading and governing city of Asia (Asia consisted of Modern day Turkey for the Roman Empire, sometimes referred to as proconsular Asia) at the time.
The Kingdom of Pergamum (281 BC to 133 BC) Was bequeathed to Rome after the death of Attalus III who had no heirs and successors.
This became the province of Asia shortly afterwards.
The city of Pergamum continued as the Capital of Asia and where the proconsular seat was until it was moved to Ephesus.
Under Augustus, Ephesus because a great city, only second to Rome.
It was a natural hub within the Roman Empire.
It had 25,000 person amphitheater, the Temple of Artemis (Diana).
Historians deduce that that the Population was one of the largest of the empire and could have been over 100k or 200k people living in and around the metropolitan city.
The Ephesus church had been planted and grown by Paul the Apostle who spent 3 years at Ephesus discipling and teaching.
Paul Met John’s disciples there and began the church
Paul fought Wild Beasts
3. Paul Dealt with Professional Exorcists who, Sceva and his 7 sons.
4. Uprising at Ephesus happened
5. Paul wrote 1 Corinthians from Ephesus ()
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6. Paul sent for the Ephesian Elders at Miletus which is at the harbour south of Ephesus.
(Acts 20)
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Timothy was sent there by Paul and was the Pastor in Ephesus ()
i. by the time that 2 Timothy was written, there was a turning away of the apostolic teaching already as implied by .
ii. TImothy was said to be martyred in Ephesus around 97 AD.
He held up a procession for a feast called Catagogion in which the procession held up images of their gods.
They beat him with clubs and he died two days later.
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John Had moved to Ephesus where it seems that Ephesus became a Christian center.
i. Phillip the evangelist and his daughters also moved there as well as other prominent Christians
Phillips tomb and his daughters tombs are there in Phyrgia in the region.
John’s influence on the early church from Ephesus
Bishops - Polycarp, Papias, and Ignatius were all disciples of John (Smyrna, Hieropolis, and Antioch)
Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna who was a disciple of John and made Bishop of Smyrna by the apostle - told of “his intercourse with John and others who had seen the Lord”
Papias, Bishop of Hieropolis - that he couldnt get from books what he had gotten from “a living and abiding voice”
John’s
i. John wrote the 3 New Testament letters from Ephesus
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The church has continued there through 1923 - the Greco-Turkish exchange of population.
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https://www.blueletterbible.org/study/paul/timeline.cfm
https://www.blueletterbible.org/study/paul/timeline.cfm
John as an Old Man
Background on John
When & Who the Epistle Was Written
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