{"id":191,"date":"2008-11-24T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T14:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.wordpress.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2008-11-24T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T14:23:57","slug":"psi-living-the-challenge-1-2-3-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/psi-living-the-challenge-1-2-3-john\/","title":{"rendered":"PSI – Living the Challenge: 1, 2, 3 John"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yesterday, I issued a challenge at The Gathering<\/em><\/a> to begin to get into Scripture.\u00a0 (Audio can be accessed through our website, the Sermon Audio page of this blog, or iTunes, if interested).\u00a0 Looking at the Model Prayer in Matthew 6, we have spent the last three weeks on verse 11:\u00a0 Give us this day our daily bread.\u00a0 This last look was at the spiritual implications of the verse.\u00a0 Because we often have such difficulty actually getting into the Word, my challenge was to read five verses a day in the Epistles of John (since that’s where we’re probably going next) between now and Christmas.<\/p>\n I thought I would jot down any quick thoughts or brief insights I had from the passages as we go along to hopefully provoke some thoughts for those reading along.\u00a0 Today kicks it off with 1 John 1:1-5<\/a>:<\/p>\n I love this great apologetic in the first 5 verses of 1 John.\u00a0 One of the greatest proofs we have for the resurrection of Christ is the apostles, themselves. The fact that they lived such transformed lives AFTER<\/em> the time of the resurrection of Jesus to the point of giving up their lives for Him is very<\/em> strong evidence.\u00a0 It is one thing to die for what you believe<\/em> to be true and what you know<\/em> to be a lie.\u00a0 These guys would have known without question that Jesus was still dead if that were the case.\u00a0 Instead, they went from complete devastation after His death to complete and utter excitement and joy, being filled with power and action.\u00a0 Something had happened and there is only one thing that could have given them such enthusiasm for preaching about Jesus.<\/p>\n Here we have them saying, “Look, we experienced Jesus alive!\u00a0 We touched Him, experienced Him, learned from Him.\u00a0 This that we testify is true<\/em>!”\u00a0 Further, they talk about the completion of joy through expression.\u00a0 We’re made that way.\u00a0 The greatest joy we experience is in telling someone else something great that has happened to us.\u00a0 It completes the joyful experience.\u00a0 We can experience this same joy through our following these apostles examples.<\/p>\n What is the message they proclaimed?\u00a0 God is perfectly holy which is great news to us all.\u00a0 In essence:\u00a0 He is good and He is in control.\u00a0 With that truth, we can trust Him and follow Him without reservation!<\/p>\n