The Journal Of John

John as we know today was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. He was also the brother of James, who was also an apostle. John was the son of Zeebee and of Salome. His father was a fisherman while living in Bethsaida in Galilee on the border of the lake Gennesareth. John's mother was one of many women who gave to the maintenance of Jesus Christ. John's parents were very good people, they loved God and his son. It is said that john and his brother James were fishing when Jesus came and chose them. They were soon known as the fishers of men. The John of whom I am talking about is John the Evangelist.

The book of John can be difficult for some to understand and for others mystifying. Tozer did a number of sermons on the book of John and presented Jesus, His deity, and explained Jesus to his church. In the book And He Dwelt Among Us: Teachings from the Gospel of John, although not written by Tozer, is a compilation of the sermons on the book of John. The book is compiled and edited by James L. Snyder, who is the pastor of the Family of God Fellowship in Ocala, Florida and is recognized as an authority on the life and ministry of A.W. Tozer. Snyder`s purpose is twofold, first two honor Tozer`s legacy, and second to address a concern that Tozer had regarding the “spiritual boredom” facing Christians. This book under review is only one of many that Snyder is editor of, as well as a daily devotional with never before published content. Snyder is the pastor of the Family of God Fellowship in Ocala, Florida, a Christian and Missionary Alliance church (1973–present). He is considered an authority on the life and ministry of A. W. Tozer, and has written a number of books and essays about Tozer; Snyder also has a radio ministry, writes for a syndicated newspaper column carried by 35 newspapers and over a dozen monthly magazines, online and print.

JOHN COOK was born in Driminigar on 28th of May 1826 and baptised on the 18th of June. He left Arran with his parents in 1829 when they came to New Brunswick and settled at Point La Nim.

Miraculously, John was born to an old priest Zachariah and a pious, old, barren mother named Elizabeth (Luke 1:5-7, 57). Indeed, John’s birth indicated the inception of God’s promised program to redeem His people. At last, God sent the last of the Old Testament prophet to Israel to break the four hundred years of silence. As God promised, John appeared in the role of a prophet proclaiming the coming Messiah, but he was introduced as John the Baptist. John’s ministry was associated with baptism, so baptism became his identifying sign and caused John to be known as John the

From the beginning to the end, God created us to be like Him and to have a dominion over the earth. We were made to love and have a relationship with Him. When Adam and Eve fell into sin, they broke up their relationship with God and put themselves under Satan’s rule. However, God recovered dominion through the death and resurrection of Jesus. One day He will return and rule the earth. Therefore it is really important to understand the meaning and timing of the prophetic events during the last days. Isaiah prophesied that the forerunners are the ones who would prepare the nations and Israel to respond the Lord in His return when he says “A voice of one calling: In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the Lord will be reveled and all people will see together. For the mountain of the Lord has spoken” (New International Version, Isa. 40.3-5). John Baptist is a forerunner because he came to announce and prepare the people for Jesus’ ministry before it started. John’s ministry is the role model to follow up for the end-times. These are the characteristics of the Forerunner Ministry.

This all started because of the Crowds doubt in Jesus. They still wanted to see if He could give them more Bread, like at the manna. They did not realize that the people who ate at the manna still died. The food they ate only sustained them for a time when they were in the wilderness, but they eventually died. Jesus was offering them something far greater than Moses’ manna, but they were rejecting it because they were thinking physically. Jesus then restates what He has been saying the whole time: That He is the Bread of Life.

The theme of John in writing his Gospel is the manifestation of Christ’s glory. To accomplish his purpose the apostle selects some of those things in the life and work of Christ that exhibit most clearly his true character and mission (Vaughn, 1965). John explicitly said in his purpose statement (John 20:30-31) that the aim of his Gospel is to present Jesus as the promised Messiah of the Old Testament Scriptures and the unique Son of God. John’s primary means of revealing Jesus as the divine Messiah is the seven sign-miracles and their attendant contexts of teaching, all of which are recorded in the first twelve chapters (Kim, 2010).

John 1 : 1-14 is basically the Christmas story told in a poetic way. With Christmas just around the corner I will try to explain John’s bold interpretation of Christs birth and just what that means to the human population. In class we spoke a lot about Genesis 1 and the Old Testament overall. We always drew parallels with just about everything that was said, Mount Sinai, The temple, etc... Everything is connected in some way.

John became the apostle of love. I will discuss the hermeneutic of and show how John’s view of love-God’s and Christians- is different from that of the world. I will explain how his power was used to bring love while respecting values of Jews and Gentiles.

The book of 1 John is defense his teaching of the history of Jesus's physical humanity. John uses the type of language that would imply the Christ was amongst him in existence. An example of this is when John says 'we have seen it with our own eyes" and "felt it with our own hands".

There are four gospels, which introduce information about Jesus Christ. They are Mark, Matthew, Luck and John.

Historically, the New Testament Book of John has been difficult to interpret because of its seeming contradictions in John 5 and James 2. However, upon more careful reading and understanding of the time period, these contradictions are really different interpretations of the same general paradigm, simply expressed in a slightly different manner. That idea, of course, is that "we know that we are children of God" (John 5:19). John's major point is that although there is evil in the world, we must go back to the basic teachings of scripture to understand that the dichotomy of God (good and evil, heaven and hell, salvation and damnation) are but opposing forces that one chooses based on the acceptance of faith and that of salvation (Lozada, 2000, intro). John was written for the Christian Gentiles and not the Jews, seen by references to the Jews as potential enemies of Christ (John 1:38, 41-42). This poses a cultural question as well regarding his views of three particular concepts: the family, belief, and faith.

The Gospel of John differs in many key areas to the Synoptics,and I will address some differing lines of thought.

St. John the Apostle was one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus. According to the New Testament, He was the Son

The author of the Epistle of 1st John is not named in the letter, but church tradition has been strong in affirming John the Apostle, “that disciple whom Jesus loved” from (Jn. 21:7), as the author. The author declares himself as one who “we have seen with our eyes…and our hands have handled” (1:1) declaring him an eyewitness to the life and ministry of Jesus. John’s authorship was not brought into question until the twentieth century. The epistles of 2nd and 3rd John add to the controversy as they are attributed to a person called “The elder” who’s identity is also unknown (see v.1 in 2nd and 3rd John). The discussion of authorship asks two basic questions in the case of the Johannine corpus, first, were the books all written by the same author and second who was that author.