The Bible Books of 1st, 2nd And 3rd John

By Raymond G Cross

The Bible book of 1st, 2nd and 3rd John is written to finish commentary on the books of John. 1st, 2nd and 3rd John describes Gods tremendous love given to mankind by our Lord and savior. John states in verse one he had seen, touched, ate and fellowshipped with ‘the Word of life.’ Jesus is the one who gave all life to our universe an

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Sep 22, 2017
• ISBN: 9781947938403

Raymond G Cross

REV. RAYMOND G. CROSS was a design engineer for IBM during the sixties and seventies. He was involved with advanced technology pointing to new products, printers, copiers, imaging, and ways of placing information on paper. In 1965, he was transferred to the new Boulder plant, located in Niwot, Colorado. Niwot was named for an Indian chief and translates to 'left handed.' It was here that his life changed forever. One cold January morning, a minister of the Gospel visited. Pastor James Maxwell introduced him, his wife, and son into receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior. They were born again. He was thirtyeight years old and his so called intellectual, engineering background made him very skeptical. Diligent study soon convinced him the Bible was the inerrant truth. Continued workstudy lead him to understand God's wonderful word more, and he took early retirement from IBM to attend Reformed Seminary in Clinton, MS. In 1987 he graduated with a Master of Divinity from the Reformed Seminary. He went on to minister in the Presbyterian Church in America for over twenty-seven years in Sardis, Mississippi.

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The Bible Books

of

1st, 2nd and 3rd

John

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and

admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and

hymns and spiritual songs,

with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Colossians 3:16 (ESV)

Raymond G. Cross

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Unless otherwise noted, Scripture is taken from the King James Version of the Bible, (KJV) published in 1769, Public Domain.

Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001, 2007, 2011 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

The author copied Bible verses from E-Sword – the Sword of the Lord with an Electronic edge, copyright 2014 – Rick Meyers, all rights reserved worldwide. Jesus Christ’s words are in bold type

Note that the KJV copy occasionally uses a light italic for certain added words. The author uses Italic type for Illustration with: (Emphasis added)

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How much better to get wisdom than gold!

To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. 

Proverbs 16:16 (ESV)

Dedicated To:

The LORD Jesus Christ, who is the creator of all things, visible and invisible.

And also to:

All Jews and Christians

who suffer injustice by the world

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 (ESV)

And he [Jesus] said to them,

"To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,

Mark 4:11 (ESV)

Contents

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land,

who do his just commands;

seek righteousness; seek humility;

perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger

of the LORD. 

Zephaniah 2:3 (ESV)

Introduction

1st John – Chapter One

1st John – Chapter Two

1st John – Chapter Three

1st John – Chapter Four

1st John – Chapter Five

2nd John – Chapter One

3rd John – Chapter One

References

Introduction

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life,

but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.

Proverbs 10:17 (ESV)

Although he never mentions himself, there is no doubt that the author is ‘John the beloved.’ John’s use of certain words, expressions, phrases and people, with similar descriptions of particular events, are consistent for John and his writings. Early writers of Christian literature place John in Ephesus for these letters, written between A.D. 70 and A.D. 100. John’s witness gives an eyewitness account of all his experiences concerning Jesus. These three books were written as circular letters, with no particular recipient given. John simply wanted all to unerstand that Jesus, The Son of God, became the Son of Man, that the sons of men through Him might become the sons of God.¹

This letter was his answer to the Docetists Heresy in the very early church. Docetism is a Greek word (dokeo ) meaning ‘to seem.’ This false teaching claimed that Jesus did not come in fleshly form. They taught that Christ only ‘seemed’ (appeared) to have come as human, so there was no real incarnation, no real savior. Christ only ‘seemed’ to die. The docetists later became Gnostics. Gnosticism stressed an escape from our body, our world, could only occurr with acquisition of knowledge. They believed Christ was more Spirit then flesh and only ‘seemed’ or appeared to be fleshly. Since his body was spirit, we too are spirit and that