Spirit, Water, Blood: A Podcast from St. John's: Recent Episodes
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John wraps up his letter with encouragement and blessings for his readers. Because of Jesus we have confidence to ask God for whatever we need, according to His will. He keeps us in His care to keep us from sinning and reveals to us life with a capital L - life eternal.
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The trinity of witnesses point us to the one Christ who died for the life of the world. Those who believe in this Son of God are born anew from water and the Spirit, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin.
Spirit, water, blood. These three agree that life is found in Jesus.
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God is love, which He expresses by giving His Son, Jesus. Whoever confesses Jesus as the Son of God has the love of God through the gift of the Spirit. Having been loved by God, our imperfect and misguided loves are perfected.
Listen in on this study of 1 John 4:11-21 to discover the perfect love that perfects our love.
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Four verses and a complete theology of love - it's nature, source, shape, and aim. Listen to hear how love tempers the faith and works together for salvation and life.
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The Spirit is God's gift in Christ. But the Spirit of God is not the only spirit that a person can have. St. John offers a test for the spirits, by which he means those who claim to bring a message from God. How do you know if the spirit of is of God or an evil spirit? Tune in and listen and read along.
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The second half of John's epistle echoes the first and expands on the main theme. Love one another. This is not simply one of several options in the world, but an entirely different world - a world ruled by love. In this episode, we'll discover with St. John how love and hate are misidentified. We'll also learn to identify self-sacrificial, agape love, and how such love can be cultivated.
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This section of John's epistle recaps the first half. John urges us to live a life for the sake of Jesus, not for the sake of sin, because we are God's children. Although, what we will be has not yet appeared. That's Jesus. Risen. Glorified. And we will be like Him.
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This episode digs a little deeper into what St. John means by "antichrist" and examines how the Lutheran Confessions apply the term. But more importantly, St. John shows us the way to being with Christ, not against Him.
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When will the last days begin? John says we're already there. In this episode we start to unpack John's eschatology (study of the last things) and we'll get introduced to antichrist. But more on that next time.
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A curious little section, St. John addresses children, fathers, and young men of the church for encouragement and warning.
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Nothing is new except that which is made new in Christ. John alerts us to a world that is made new by the light of Christ, which truly reveals the love of God in Christ and calls us beloved disciples.
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In this episode, we consider the way to know God, according to St. John. Knowledge of God doesn't come from a secret dispensation or by careful study of nature or the collected wisdom of the world. It comes through the instruction of God, which is comprised of His commandments and His gracious promises.
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What does the cleansing blood of Jesus imply? Not that we may do whatever we please. Neither God nor His apostle John want us to sin. But when we do - and we will - there is a solution. Jesus is our advocate, our ombudsman, who intercedes for us by the same blood. He is our propitiation.
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Light. Fellowship. Truth. Cleansing.
This is what the blood of Jesus accomplishes for us. John's message is grounded in the blood of Jesus, the blood that he shed on the cross, which John witnessed with his own two eyes.
In this episode, we'll scratch the surface of the first main section of John's first epistle, 1 John 1:5-2:2. We'll set the stage for the next several weeks of study and reflection on the foundation of our faith, the witness of Jesus' blood.
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We begin our study of John's first epistle to the church. In this episode we'll discover the three themes that John lays out for his letter, as well as the way he employs some trinities of grammar. But it's not just the rule of three that John is putting to use!
In many ways, John's epistle is a prelude to his Gospel. The same themes, which are fleshed out, so to speak, in his story of the life of Jesus, are introduced in this letter and provide a direction for us not only in our study of John's writings and the Bible in general, but for our entire faith and life together as the church in general and St. John's Lutheran Church in particular.
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In this introductory episode of Spirit, Water, Blood, we will look at the background for St. John's writings in the Bible. We'll talk briefly about how his epistles relate to his Gospel, and where Revelation fits in with the bigger picture. The epistle of 1 John will serve as our starting point to the broader writings of St. John.
This study of St. John's writings to start our new podcast series will broaden your understanding of and appreciation for the Beloved Disciple, for whom this congregation is named.
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