Glenwood Springs Baptist Church

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Beginning in May 2012 at Glenwood Springs Baptist Church we will be delving deep into the books of First John and Deuteronomy.

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The First Epistle General of John

Writer: The Apostle John, as an unbroken tradition affirms, and as internal evidence and comparison with the Gospel of John prove.

Date:  Probably A.D. 90

Theme:  First John is a family letter from the Father to His “little children” who are in the world.  With the possible exception of the Song of Solomon, it is the most intimate of the inspired writings.  The world is viewed as without.

The sin of a believer is treated as a child’s offence against his Father, and is dealt with as a family matter. (1. 9; 2. 1)

The moral government of the universe is not in question and “Jesus Christ the righteous” is now his “Advocate with the Father.”  John’s Gospel leads across the threshold of the Father’s house; his first Epistle makes us at home there.

A tender word used for “children,”  teknia,  “born ones” or “bairns.”  Paul is occupied with our public position as sons;  John with our nearness as born-ones of the Father.

First John is in two principal divisions.

I. The family with the Father (1:1-3) 24.
II. The family and the world (4:1-5) 21.

There is a secondary analysis, in each division of which occurs the phrase “My little children,” as follows:

I. Introductory, the incarnation (1:1, 2)
II. The little children and fellowship (1:3 – 2:4)
III. The little children and the secular “religious” world, (2:15-28)
IV. How the little children may know each other, (2:29 – 3:10)
V. How the little children must live together, (3:11-24)
VI. (parenthetic) How the little children may know false teachers  (4:1-6)
VII. The little children assured and warned (4:7 – 5:21)

The fifth book of Moses called Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy consists of the parting counsels of Moses delivered to Israel in view of their impending entrance upon their covenanted possession.  It contains a summary of the wilderness wanderings of Israel, which is important as unfolding the moral judgement of God upon those events; gives needed instruction as to the conduct of Israel in the land, and contains the Palestinian covenant. (30: 1-9).  The book breathes the sternness of the Law.  Note Key-word “Thou Shalt”; Key-verses 11:26-28

It is important to note that, while the land of promise was unconditionally given to Abraham and to his seed in the Abrahamic covenant (Deuteronomy – 28-30. 9) That Israel entered the land under Joshua. Utterly violating the conditions of that covenant, the nation was first disrupted (1Kings 12) and then cast out of the land (2 Kings 17: 1-18; 24: 1-25); But the same covenant unconditionally promises a national restoration of Israel which is yet to be fulfilled. (Genesis 15)

Deuteronomy is in seven divisions:
I.    Summary of the history of Israel in the wilderness 1: 1-3. 29.
II.    A restatement of the Law, with warnings and exhortations, 4: 1-11. 32.
III.    Instructions, warnings and predictions, 12: 1-27. 26.
IV.    The great closing prophesies summarizing the history of Israel to the second coming of Christ, and containing the Palestinian covenant.  28: 1-30. 20.
V.    Last consels to the Priests, Levites and to Joshua,  31
VI.    The song of Moses and his blessings,  32. 33.
VII.    The death of Moses, 34

The time covered by this retrospect is approximately forty years

Source: King James Version of The Scofield Study Bible:  Edited by Rev. C. I. Scofield, D. D. et. al. published 1909

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