I can only imagine being there, at the end of that first century...with a gray haired and gray bearded Apostle John writing those final letters. With many people around him, writing those final letters of the most beautiful chapters ever written in the Bible. It was heard, seen and touched. All of which we have seen from the beginning, with our eyes, heard with our ears and explored with our hands. Life that was manifested, seen and bear witness that eternal life which is with the Father, seen and heard will have fellowship with us and we will have fellowship with Him. The Father and the Son, Jesus Christ, these things we write to you, God is Light and of no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him yet do not have light nor bear witness, then we have lied and not followed the Truth, and followed darkness. If we walk in the Light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with each other and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us of all sin.When we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is therefore not in us. We must stand for the Gospel...The Son gives us Truth - For the Bible says He has come for the sick - as it was the sick who need the help and the sinful that need to be free from sin. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and all unrighteousness. If we say to Him that we have not sinned, we are making Him a liar and the Word is not in us. So we must call ourselves sinners, we must realize we are saved by grace. This very grace that He Himself has given us as a gift. For there is not one man who can ever walk this world and have not sinned. Only Jesus Himself. Not one that ever walked this world and say that they have not sinned. So we must confess our sins, for He is faithful and just to forgive us. As He sits at the mercy seat of the Father, and we sin, He looks at the Father and says "I have died for that man". This is what it is. This is what a man in his 90's or closer to his hundredth year back from Pamos-back from exile....soldiers of Life - the Apostls, wanted to give us... everything that he could to help us have an intimate relationship with God. And God's top priority for your life is for you to walk in close fellowship with Him. And this we have to do. Walk in close fellowship with the Father through the Son. May the Holy Spirit, by the saving grace, which is a gift in itself. That no man shall boast. This is what this last Apostle wanted to tell us. This is what the one chapter, with the three letters in which the old man John-the Apostle they said would never die, wanted us to know. That He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sin, and to cleanse us all from all unrighteousness.
Amen
Daniel
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