our first class in a brand new study. And I'm very excited about it. I've studied half of the night on this thing, and days and days ahead. I am very impressed with those out there that like to study the Bible from the original language. And so I'm trying to keep the Hebrew out there, which we're doing the book of Exodus, and we're going to do 1 John. 1 John is one of the most dynamic, well, the Gospel of John, 1 John especially, and then the book of Revelation. The Gospel of John, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John are some of the most perfect Greek you could ever see if you're going to study Greek. 1 John was the first book that I ever did a translation of. You can see my writing over 50 years ago. It's a lot different than today. This is how it started out. There is the text there. It's in red. Most of my Greek is like that. And the Hebrew started like that and then I changed it. Anyway, you can see all the notes all over. I have to say now I'm a noted preacher. I have to write notes to remember what I'm supposed to do. 1 John And the Gospel of John and the Book of Revelation teaches one thing, especially, well, two things. First of all, the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is God in flesh. And it tells you that. Now, if I was a Jehovah Witness, I'd tear out of my Bible, I'd tear out the Gospel of John, the Book of Revelation, 1st, 2nd, 3rd John. tear out the book of Exodus, or not Exodus, but Ephesians and Colossians, because all of these teach the deity of Christ. And they're all talking, combating the error and the heresy that at that time was Gnosticism, which the modern Gnosticism is Jehovah Witness. So these books are combating what the Jehovah Witnesses today believe and also Islam of course. Islam doesn't believe in the deity of Christ at all. He never died on the cross as far as our concerned. They take him off the cross. Now, in studying this, I've studied the Talmud, I've studied the Mishnah, the Kabbalah, the culture of the Jews, this book. which is monstrous. I don't remember how many pages it has in it. Just about nearly 1,200 pages. And there's a lot in here about Christ, even though they didn't admit who he was. And then here we have another book. It's falling apart, as you can see. Word Pictures of the New Testament by A.T. Robertson. I have Bengal up there, I have Uist up there, all that. And then the most important books I have are the study guides of New Testament Greek. And even Liddell and Scott, The Monster, which is thousands of pages. Anyway, an introduction to this. John is writing against Gnosticism, Jehovah Witness doctrine today. That is it. There are very few scholars that deny 1st, 2nd and 3rd John and the Gospel of John as being written by John. They take a lot of exception to the Book of Revelation because the Book of Revelation is not good grammar in Greek at all. It is Hebrew grammar. And the book of Revelation was written in Greek, but with so many Hebraisms in it that it is very confusing to a Greek scholar. Now, John appeals to the five senses of mankind. I remember there was a lady, a real Christian lady that I went to college, seminary with, She had been in a communist country. She saw her husband murdered. And she had come here, and she was a devout Catholic. I mean, she went to Mass every day if she could. But in that, she didn't really know Jesus Christ at all. Well, somebody that knew her invited her to the First Church, First Missionary Baptist Church in Belfort, California. She went there and listened to Brother Reed preach, preached the Word of God. And she fell down on her face and her knees and asked the Lord Jesus Christ to save her soul. She never knew Jesus. And she said, I accepted Jesus Christ with all five senses. And basically, that's what John is asking you to do, is accept Jesus Christ with all five senses. sight, hearing, taste, smell, feeling, touch, everything. And he's going to bring that out. He's going to tell you that Jesus Christ is God in flesh. And he emphasizes that over and over and over again. All the attributes, all the abilities that God gave you to understand and to comprehend by touch, you know, There are people that have been born blind that touch and sound and smell are very important to them because they don't have sight. Well, I'm going to tell you something. There was a blind man that Jesus healed. And that blind man didn't see Jesus. He didn't know who he was before at all. And all he knew that he healed him. And he was blind from his birth. And they said, who healed you? And he said, I don't know. All I know is I'm blind and now I see. I don't know who he was. They kicked him out of the synagogue. They did everything to him to persecute him because he was saved and he was healed. Gnosticism. Gnosticism was a superior way of knowing, they said. And Jesus wasn't really, he was either the archangel Michael or He was a spirit, he wasn't really flesh and blood and that he never died on the cross and he was never raised and all of this. He's just a spirit being. Now, the epistle is not a poet primarily but a letter for edification of the readers in the truth and the life of Christ. And yet the errors of Gnosticism are constantly before John's mind. Jehovah Witnesses should read this book. This is a sermon for Jehovah Witnesses today because they are not Jehovah Witnesses. They are anti-Jehovah Witnesses. Jehovah is Jesus and we're going to prove that to you also. The leaders had gone out from among the true Christians and tried to influence the churches. But there was an atmosphere of sympathy that constituted a subtle danger They are only two passages, 2.18 and 4.1-6, in which the false teachers are specifically denounced. But this unethical intellectualism, with a dash of Greek culture and Oriental mysticism and Lysistias, gave a curious attraction for many who did not know how to think clearly. John, like Paul in Colossians and Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles, foresaw the dire peril to Christianity from these Gnostics. In the second century it gave pure Christianity a gigantic struggle. The great Gnostics were the first Christian philosophers, and threatened to undermine the gospel message by deifying the devil himself, along with dethroning Christ. There were two kinds of Gnostics. Both agreeing with the essential evil of matter. Both had trouble with the person of Christ. The Doctrine Gnostic denied the actual humanity of Christ. The Sorrentian Gnostic distinguished between the man Jesus and the Aeon Christ that came on him at the baptism and left him on the cross. Some practice asceticism and licentiousness, and John opposes both classes in his epistles. They claim superior knowledge. The word gnosis, or gnosko, and so we're called gnostics, gnostic echoing. Nine times John gives tests of knowing the truth and uses the verb gnosko to know each time, two, three, five, 3, 2, 3, and 5, and 3, 16, and 19, and 24, and 4, 2, and 6, and 13, and 5, and 2. Some of the leaders he calls anti-Christ. They are. They are anti-Christ. The Jehovah's Witnesses are anti-Jehovah's. There are stories about John's dread of Serenthias and his unwillingness to be seen in the same public bath with him. the apostle of love, as he is the real son of thunder when it comes to Gnosticism. And he shows who he is. Westcott thinks that the fourth gospel was written to prove the deity of Christ, and so do I. Assuming his humanity, while 1 John was written to prove the humanity of Christ, assuming his deity. And certainly both ideas appear in both books. The book was written to churches. It's a church book. It's a church manual on who Jesus is. It probably was somewhere between 80 and 95 AD. The author, John, is older at this time. Now, there is so much. about this book. I want to read to you. I wish I had my other book here. I was going to bring it. Let's see. Go over here. Pick out something here real quick. If I can get there without messing everything up. Genesis. Let's start with Genesis 1 and 1, okay? Barashith bara elihim et hashemayim v'et ha'aretz. That's Genesis 1 and 1 in Hebrew. So you're getting Hebrew and Greek today, even though I haven't really read a word of Greek yet. Barashith. Beth, page 88. Rosh, page 912. These are the roots of this word. Beth, that means in. That's a preposition. Rosh, but it says Ba-Rashiv. Now, a lot of the modern grammars tell you that this is a feminine word. And that it is a plural word, or singular word, but it's not. If you go back into, I have it here, into the book of the grammar, by Gesenius, Gesenius will tell you that the Tau is a whole Hebrew plural. The Tau is also a sign of feminine, but here it says, in beginnings, or in beginnings plural, in beginnings plural, in one of the beginnings plural. Now there's no the in there, but we're trying to explain it. In one of the beginnings, he had created third person masculine singular, Cal perfect, alright, He had created Elohim. Elohim, that's a whole person of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Et, the sign of the direct object, and then Hashemayim. Hashemayim here means the whole universe. Now, John tells you about this in John 1. Paul tells you about it in Colossians 1 and Galatians and Ephesians. The book of Hebrews tells you about this. The book of Revelation tells you about this, 1 John. God created the heavens and the earth. And He created this in eternity past. This is not in space and time, people. This is in eternity past. Et hashamayim, the heavens. And then it says we, a conjunction, and et, sign and direct object, and the Haaretz. Ha, definite article, Eretz, Earth. He created the cosmos and then he put the Earth in exactly the right place. Exactly the right place. It was not created out of nothing, it came from God. Now Genesis 1 and 2 is very important, extremely important. Because here we see the person of God in what we call his nurturing form, the Shekinah. Holy Spirit. Now the word Spirit is neuter in Greek, but when it talks about the Holy Spirit, a lot of times it talks about masculine pronouns, etc. And here we see the person of God as a nurturer, to mourn over. The Hebrews in the cultures of the Jews and in the mission of the Talmud and all of their writings, they always look at The Shekinah glory is a feminine aspect of God. The nurturer, the mother. Now God is masculine, period. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Then it says, We Haaretz, and the earth. We and Ha, the earth. And the earth, Hathiatah. Hathiatah. She had become. The earth was not created in a chaos. The Jews got that idea and they translated that idea in the Septuagint. Because they went over into Babylon and they got the Babylonian idea of creation that God created a chaos. God does not create disorder. He creates order. It's contrary to his nature. The earth, she had become. Third person singular feminine, Kal, perfect. Hayah, that means to become. By the way, the word Hayah is where the name of Jehovah comes from. It means he who shall become. And the earth she had become, tohu, desolation, confusion, emptiness, void. Page 1062 in Brown, Graber and Briggs. and waste, we wahoo, wahoo, and waste, useless, nothingness, empty. Now page 96, now I'm driving a bridge, we wahoo. Then it says, we choshek. We choshek, it means in darkness, darkness, something more than Then the absence of light, it is spiritual darkness. Skotia in Greek language. Wehoshik. El P'nei. El is a preposition, that means upon or over the faces. P'nei, the faces, the nose, the faces of the Tehom, of the deep, the abyss. The mass of roaring muddy chaos. And then it says Wehruach. Weh, Ruach. Weh is and again, and then Ruach. Ruach is spirit. And spirit, Elohim. Now, if you go to the Hebrew translation to this, we got one over there, the Tanakh, it'll say, a wind from God. It's not a wind from God, it's spirit God. Spirit God, Elohim, Merpecheh. Merit Pitcheth, it means suffering, it means brooding, it means fertilizing, it means it's a participle and it's feminine and it's singular. This is where you see the feminine side of God according to the Hebrew writings. The nurturing one, the brooding one, it means to cherish. And Spirit God was brooding over, suffering over, cherishing. cherishing and mourning. El, upon El, page 752, Pnei, page 815, one of the faces of Ha-Mayim, of the waters, the waters. Now, the same word here, Hatiyah, It is used in Genesis, the 19th chapter, when Weiss Lott became a filler of salt. Became. The earth she had become. Change took place. She had become a filler of salt. G.H. Lange, L.D. Foreman, Eric Sauer, A.J. Kirkland, Thomas Ede, Talbot, Bogart, Bollinger, Pember, all of these people write about the earth becoming formless and void. The earth wasn't created in formless and void shape. The Babylon theory of creation was that deity brought order out of chaos. The earth was all, everything was created in chaos. God does not create anything imperfect. He creates that which is perfect. And then it became, even the Nahash. He said, we Nahashishiani. She said, the serpent made me do it. The serpent made me do it, the serpent. The serpent, Arum, he had become evil. The serpent wasn't created evil, he became evil. And over here in John, or not John, but Genesis, Chapter 3, and verse 1. וְהַנַשַׁשְׁ, הַיָּה עַרוּם, מִכָּל תַיָּה הַשְׁדָּה, עַשֵּר עַשָׁל הַלְבָּר אֶלְהִם וְיָּעֹמָר אֵל הַיִּשָׁה. Ki hamar elhim lo tashilu mikal etz hagarm. And what it says here, and we ha nahash. And the serpent, he had become arum. Arum, it means he had become evil, he had become guile, he had become lewd, he had become foxy, he had become UNNATURAL! It becomes synesthetical. He wasn't created that way. He had become that way. From all the beasts of the field, Michal, Yahya, all of the living things from the field, which He had made Jehovah. I won't have the word Jehovah down there because this is the word Jehovah. Jehovah, we don't know how to say it. Jehovah, the one who shall become Elohim, Yomer, and he said unto the woman, Off, is it true? Because, or that, he hath said Elohim, not ye shall eat from every tree of the garden. The serpent became evil. He was not created evil, he became evil. He was created with a volition. As all of the angels of heaven were and mankind. Now, let's go on down here and start reading some Greek, okay? Kai, hei, zoe. Iphana, ro, thei. Kai, iro, kamen. Kai, baturomen. Kai, apongalomen. Imen, tei. Zoein, tein, oyoneon. and it says, and the life, it was brought to light, the person singular, first heirs in dignity of passage, and we have seen We have seen, here we go, accepting God with all five senses and even your spiritual sense, the sixth one. Now, and we have seen, and we have witnessed, validated, and we have proclaimed to you all the life, the eternal. Now let's look at this. He said, we have seen this. Who's he talking about, we? He said all the apostles, all of the church members from the ministry of Jesus Christ, and there were thousands of church members. There were not only 12 disciples. There were 12 apostles. The apostles were disciples all right, but there were many disciples. Apostles means the habitual learner. Now let's go to John 1 and 1. John 101. Here's John 101. This Bible doesn't have any English at all in it, basically. That's John 101. I have written up here Halavar, the name Jehovah. In beginning, N-R-K, locative singular preposition, page 137, N-R-K, that's the first declension word. It means the absolute beginning when nothing else is beyond there. This is when God, this is when God alone existed out here in eternity past. In beginning, and then we have the word aim, third person singular, imperfect, indicative, active. In beginning, singular, now this is different than in Genesis 1.1, it said in beginnings there, that's plural. In one of the beginnings, this is talking about the beginning when nothing but God existed. In archein hologos. In beginning, he kept on being hologos. Now hologos is a Hebraism. It's all over, John. Every time John says the word, he means the Jehovah. When they came to the word, and the Jewish people, when they came to the word, they said, Ha-the-bar, or Ha-shem. Ha-the-bar, the word, or Ha-shem, the name, because they didn't speak it. They would not speak it. Even in their writings today, if they come to the name of God, they will go like this, God, and they'll put down a D. They won't say the name. Because they don't know how to say the name. They don't know how to pronounce it. And John the 19th chapter, or Revelation the 19th chapter tells you that. A name which no one knew. Starting with verse number 11, 19 and 11. In the beginning kept on being the Word. Kept on being the whole Logos. Ha the Bar, Hashem, the Jehovah. Translate that, Jehovah, the Jehovah, there's only one Jehovah, the one who shall become. And, the Chi conjunction, and Hologos, the Jehovah, he kept on being toward the God, he kept on being an inseparable part of the Godhead. Ein, third person singular, perfected in the Decade of Agape, with prose, page 346, in your lexicon, Ton Theon. That's accusive singular masculine definite article accusive singular masculine noun toward the God. Basically an inseparable part of Godhead. And Chi here, now page 208, this is not really an end here. It means because. Because God, Theos, kept on being Hologos. God kept on being the Jehovah. in John 1.14 it says and it says here And the word, the Jehovah flesh he became. The word became there is third person, masculine, senior, second heiress, indicative, middle voice. Middle voice, people. He brought himself into the world. God brought himself into the world. And we beheld in him like a theater the glory that was as the Ethos told Sama. We get the word theater right out of that word, as displayed on the theater, the glory of Him, the glory as the only begotten from beside the Father, full of grace, caritos, and aletheas, full of grace and truth. Okay, now John 1 and 18 now, if I can find it. John 1, 18. There it is. Then it says here, God, Theon, no one, now that's accusative singular masculine right there, second to gunting word, that Theon. No one, it comes from Udeis, moreover not one, U, Uk, De, and Eis, moreover not one, he has seen, no one, the only begotten, the only generated God. God generated himself from eternity into space and time in the person of Jesus Christ. The one being, Ho-On, That's Nomine Singular Maximum Present Participle Activa Om there. The one being Ace Ton Copon in the bosom of the Father. That one, Echinus, that one, he has led himself out. He has led himself out. God, in the person of Jesus Christ, led himself out of eternity into space and time. God let Himself out from eternity and the space and time to redeem you and me. He is our Goel, and from the Hebrew, our Kinsman, Redeemer. Let's finish the verse here quickly, but we're not going to finish it. And we announce, we proclaim, that's what A.T. Roberts calls a literal plural, first person plural present indicative active, to you all, the divine life, the eternal, the eternal divine life, which, hetis, relative pronoun, acutely singular feminine, which was kept on being toward the Father and He was manifest to us. What a verse. We covered several verses in the Bible with this. But in this verse is all of what I showed you, plus the book of Hebrews, plus Colossians 1.16, all of this. This is our Savior and our God. He is a second person of the Godhead, the Son of God. God the Son. Now, we look up there, we see one God. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one. There's only one God, there's only one of you, but you have body, soul, and spirit. You are body, soul, and spirit. Body, soul, and spirit. You are Soma or Sarx. You are Numa, spirit. And you are Soul, Psyche. You are Basar. In Hebrew flesh, you are Ruach spirit, and you are Nephish soul. You are triune. And God made us in an image of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In Genesis 1-26. Let's go back there before we finish this one. Genesis 1-26. This is all in John 1-1. 1st John 1.1 actually. 1.26. Wayomra Elihim, Naasa, Adam, Besolmenu, Ketmatulmu, Begerdu, Elam, Herbage if that is. Hagam, Yuvayof, Hashemayim. And He said, Elohim, we shall make Adam, Adam, man, anthropos. We shall make man in our spiritual shadow-casting likeness. In our blood flowing physical likeness, man was made in the likeness of what Jesus would be. There is so much in these verses, this first message. In our blood flowing likeness, and he shall have sovereignty in his sovereign likeness over the fish, over the high Hayam, over the sea, and over the UVO, the Womblies, in the Lakota language, the Womblies, the wing flapper, of the heavens. Beautiful. Beautiful every place. We have just got started. The God that decided to redeem you, from your sin, to pay your guilty debt of sin. The God that created the heavens and the earth, created man in Genesis 126, knowing that man in his volition would sin, and so do we. We are born into this world, we are born with the blood of Adam in us, that which gives us the nature of sin. We're born into a world that's full of sin, and when we come to the age of accountability, we willingly become sinners. And God willingly, for God so loved the world, that he gave us only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Everlasting life. You may have that life from this great God that gave Himself for you. Jesus Christ, in the person of Jesus Christ, you know, we talk about evidence. I don't need evidence. We believe by faith. For in grace you're having been saved through faith, and that didn't come from you, it's a gift of God. But we have something from history, and I've studied a lot about this for over 50 years now, the shroud term. They have done a lot of scientific studies on that. They took a piece of it one time, and they said, well, it was made in the Middle Ages. But it wasn't. That was a piece of the cloth that had been repaired in the Middle Ages. But in the middle of that, now they know that Jesus had type AV blood. Very rare blood type. They could take off of that shroud the blood that was on Jesus when he was still alive and the blood that was on Jesus after he was dead. Post-mortem blood and pre-mortem blood. They said he had over 700 wounds on his body. And the helmet of thorns they put on his head, it wasn't a little wreath, it was a helmet of thorns There was 50 puncture marks and wounds on his head from that. His face, his right eye had been hit with a flasher. There were two soldiers beating him with a whip that had three thongs on it and lead or brass pieces in it and every time they hit him they cut him. Every part of his body was lacerated with these three whipped, flagellums. Even his private area, every part of his body was beaten. It was cut all over, 700 places. The marks of the nails, the spikes in his hand, in his carpal tunnel area, in his wrist on both hands. The place for the sword or the spear in his side, The blood was post-mortem. This was pre-mortem. And his feet were pierced. All of this is there. All of these slugging marks. His eye, his right eye was blinded, they said at that time. One of the pieces of metal hit him in the eye and blinded him. His mouth was bleeding. His ears were bleeding. Every part of him was bleeding. Every part of his body was beating. Pontius Pilate, when he took him before the Jews, he had him beat like that so they'd turn him loose. Maybe he can live. He said, echo homo, behold the man. Look here. Behold the man. Is this enough? And they said, no, it's not enough. Crucify him, crucify him. He said, I have washed my hands of this man's blood. I am innocent of this man's blood. They said, let his blood be upon us and our children, and it has been. 2,000 years. The Son of God became flesh. He became flesh to redeem us from our sins. Because we can't. We can't work our way into heaven, people. There's no way. No one ever worked his way into heaven. Our Father, we send this message out for Your honor and glory. Please call those to You who will come. I pray that your children throughout the world will be uplifted by this message, that they'll understand who your son is and who we are. We are ha-adam. We are mankind. We are sinners that your son came to save. Please forgive me for I failed you. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.