1 John class number 2. There's so much in the first verse that I can hardly get past it. Let's read it for a moment in the Amplified Bible. get to it over here in just a moment maybe. Pages are sticking together here. Amplified Bible is kind of a translation, trying to bring out some of the action It is a pretty good translation, it's one that I refer to people as a study bible. John says here in the amplified translation of this verse, I am writing about what existed from the beginning. What we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands concerning the word of life. the one who existed even before the beginning of the world, that is Christ. In Christ, we see the whole triune God and all reality. As you look at a computer, you have energy, come and work in that computer work, which is like the Holy Spirit. You have hardware, which is Jesus, and you have software, which is like the Father. And you have a keyboard. The keyboard is how you get the answers. And the Word of God is the keyboard. Jesus is that keyboard. If you want to know about God, look at Jesus. We talked about John 1 in the beginning, kept on being the Jehovah, which is Jesus, the Word. He kept on being an inseparable part of the Godhead, and then it says, because God kept on being the Jehovah, or the Word. John 1.14, Kailogos sarxagenito, and the word flesh he became, and he growed among us, but beheld the glory, and the glory is only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1.18, no one has seen God at any time, but they've only begotten God to one being, un, nomine singular racem, present participle, like the one being in the bosom of the Father. That one has led himself out. Colossians 1.16, Colossians 3 and 4. John 1, 15. These are all verses. Daniel 7, 9-13. Ezekiel 1, 26. Revelation 19, 7-9. And even from 11 on. 1 John 1, 1. 3, 5-8. 5 and 20. 4, 14. John 19, 35. John 10, 28, John 17, 3, John 15, 27. This verse is so dynamic that there is so much in it that we can hardly even realize how powerful it is. Genesis 1, 26. God said, let us make man in our image. in our spiritual shadow casting likeness, in our blood flowing likeness, the person of Jesus, Holy Spirit, the person of Jesus, and the sovereignty of God the Father. Now Shekinah. Let's talk about Shekinah. This is our tabernacle. from Genesis onward, slowly reveals to us the person of God. Slowly reveals to us Himself. This tabernacle typified Christ. Here we have the bread, the table of show bread. We have the light, the Holy Spirit. We have the altar of incense by Jesus' life, by His death. We have access to the Father, our prayers. We have the Holy of Holies, the Kadesh HaKadashim. The Kadesh is here, the holy place, and then Kadesh HaKadashim, over here. In here we have the Shekinah Glory, where God met with man. Shekinah Glory. Now, that's very important. The Shekinah Glory led them through the wilderness, He led them into the promised land. The Ark of the Covenant, the top on that, the Helasmos, the Kephar, with the two angels as witnesses, Shereb Kerebim. That Kerebim means, it's plural by the way, there's always two angels. And I like to say this, that when we're born, when we're conceived, two angels witness to that conception. When we're born, two witnesses witness to our birth. Our birth really begins at conception, but our birth into the world begins when we come out and when we're on our own. Exactly. The two angels witness when we're born again, the two angels witness when we're dead, when we die. Always there. That's the two angels that stood over the Caribbean, that stood over the over the Ark of the Covenant in the Kadesh HaKadoshim, the Holy of Holies. The Shekinah glory was always there. Above that, and they took the blood of the lambs, all of this, every sacrifice that they made on the day of Yom Kippur, they took the blood and they sprinkled it there. Not all typifying what Jesus would do. By the way, We talked about the Shroud of Turin a lot of times. There were over 700 wounds there on that person that was crucified. He had a helmet of thorns on him. There was over 50 wounds on that. The flagellants as they flogged him. Every part of his body was cut to pieces with the metal pieces on those three thongs. Two soldiers beating him from every angle. He was blind in his right eye. puffed up, beaten on that shroud. All of this comes out of the shroud. And then the most important thing, the power of the resurrection, the Anastasia, put an imprint of his person on that shroud. There's no way it could be faked any way in the world. They didn't know how it could be done today. Thousands of gigabytes, or whatever you want to call it, of energy instantaneously impressed that person that was crucified on that shroud, and they say it had to be Jesus. It had to be Jesus. All of the pollen, everything that was in there, wherever the shroud was taken, it would gather up other things, but it all began on the hill called Mount Calvary, where he was crucified. His pre-mortem blood, his post-mortem blood, type AB. All of this, all the wounds. And when you see that, you see our Jesus suffering for you and for me because of us. It's my sins that nailed Him to that cross. It's my sins that had Him beat. And if you're saved, it's your sins that did it too. The Shekinah glory of God. The presence of the glory. It's called Jesus was leading them through there. Now, the person that led them into the Holy Land was called Yahshua, wasn't it? Yahshua means Jehovah saves. Yahshua is the name for Jesus in the New Testament. Yahshua. Jehovah saves. Joshua was a type of Christ leading them into the promised land as Christ leads us into heaven. It's because of what Jesus did that we get to go to heaven. The Shekinah glory of God. In this big book. Now you can look this up in the Talmud and the Mishnah and even in the Kabbalah. But I've read this. I've studied this. I've studied those books there. And in this book, on page 232, 398, 399, 1026, 1029, 1030, and 1035, it talks about Jehovah. It talks about the Word of God. It talks about Hashem, the Name. And it talks about Shekinah. And let me open it up to just a few things. A lot of traditions, a lot of things are in here. The Jews began to use their own language again. And it became the national language of the Jewish people. All of these different things, as you can see here, I've read this thing thoroughly. The Hebrew language was reborn. Reborn. We'll drop the signal here. It actually was reborn in Hebrew in about 1880. And from 1836 to 1917, the Hebrews began to speak their language again in their land. They talked about the Shekinah. They talked about the living language that they were using. They talked about the bar. And the mother figure of God, the Elix, the Dabar, Ha-Dabar. They talk about the closeness that God wants to have with you and with His people. The closeness that He wanted. And He's a merciful deliverer. Exodus 23. Exodus 23-25, Exodus 24, 9-11, Exodus 14, 19, and Genesis 22. In Genesis 22, it talks about Abraham. visited Abraham and told him, I said, I want you to go and take your son. I want you to offer him as a sacrifice. And you go for three days, travel. I want you to understand something. Abraham took that boy to kill him. And for three days, Isaac was as good as dead, as far as Abraham was concerned. God's going to take my son's life, And I don't understand this because he hates human sacrifice, but he's going to take my son's life and I'm going to go there. And he traveled for three days. And he had two little, what we might call guides with him, young guides. And for three days that boy was as good as dead. When he got up there he said, you stay here. Now Abraham believed that Through Isaac would his name be known and through Isaac was a covenant family that was going to be the nation of God, the people of God. It would be the Messiah that would come through him. All of this was through Isaac. And he believed that if he killed him, he planned on killing him. God said, I want you to kill your son. I want you all to come here and sacrifice. And he says, God doesn't do this, but this is God talking to me. I know it's God. So he took him up there, and he was good as dead for three days. And then he goes up to the mountain. He takes the guys that are with him, and he said, you stay here. And in the Hebrew, it tells you this, he said, we shall return. He believed that God would raise that boy from the dead after he burned him up and cut his throat. And when he got up there, he was ready to, he tied him up, put him on the wood, and was ready to light, kill him, and then light the fire. And God, Jehovah, appeared in him, Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord is seen. The Lord provided, but the Lord was seen on that mountain, Jehovah Jireh. Did Abraham or Abraham, but not your hands or your son. Don't kill him. And Abraham said, as his son asked him, where's the sacrifice, father, where's the sacrifice? He said, the Lord shall provide. The Lord shall provide. Well, Abraham was 100 years old when that boy was born. And he had a son before that that he called Isaac. I mean, not Isaac, but Yitzchak. Anyway, he had that boy. And he said, I have a son. I have a son. Why do I need another son? He said, he's not the promised son. He's the son of the barn woman, Sarah. Or not Sarah. Hagar. And he took that boy up there, and he stilled his hand, and then God did provide. But on that mountain, he said, I saw the Lord. Jesus said in John, in the New Testament, the Gospel of John, he says, Abraham was in joy to see my day. He delighted to see my day. He was thrilled to see my day because when he saw me there on Mount Moriah, It saved his son's life. Abraham brought that child there and for three days he was good as dead. And then that was the time for Jesus because he would be dead for three days and three nights in the earth, in the tomb. There's a poem, I think it is on page 1029, poem about Jehovah. 1029 here, I think. I remember I. In the Tanisham, said the wind carried all of them away. The light swept all of them away. The new song made the mourning of their lives an exultant song. And I, a soft fledgling, was completely forgotten under the wings of Shekinah. Solitary, solitary, I remained in the Shekinah too. She fluttered her broken wing over my head. That broken wing represents Jesus Christ dying on the cross. My heart knew her heart. She trembled with anxiety over me, over her son, over her only son. This is written by Jewish poetry. She also already had been driven from every corner until one hidden nook, desolate and small, and remained the house of study. She covered herself with a shadow, and I was together with her in her distress. And when my heart yearned for the window, for the light, and when the place under her wing was too narrow for me, she hid her head under my shoulder, and her tear dropped on my calumet page. Silently she swept over me and enfolded me, and though shielding me with her broken wing, The wind carried them all away. They've all flown off and I was left alone. And something akin to the ending of a very ancient lamentation, something akin to a prayer, a supplication of trembling, my ear heard in that silent weeping and in the tear boiling from my eyes and hearts. The Jewish people Like I said, on this book, the culture of the Jews, on page 232, 398, 399, 1026, 1029, 1030, 1035, all of these talk about Shekinah glory. The Shekinah glory is the presence of God. This Hebrew poem I just read to you, over her broken wing, that Jehovah suffered, that Merit Pesheth, El Pnei Havayim. Suffering over. The Shekinah God's shuffling over the creation of God. Back here in 30 Pass. It's like Shekinah Glory suffering over every lost man out there. Wanting them to come to Him. The Shekinah Glory, and this doesn't go into any perversion at all. God created sex. And sex between a man and a woman, between husband and wife, is a holy thing. The Catholic Church has taught that when you have sex with your husband that you've got to go repent and ask forgiveness to some priest. And that is forbidden except for procreation. But God created all your senses in a man and a woman so that a man and a woman can be close, one. And a man and a woman became one. And God, through His Spirit, becomes one with you. In every little church, wherever you are, He wants to be that closeness. And the Jews said the closeness of the Shekinah glory with God and His man, His creation, is like the closeness between a man and a woman. in sexual bliss and love, in that moment of absolute ecstasy, we come to know God so close in this world today. Jesus created the world. He created everything we saw. It said Him was the creation of Colossians, the first chapter, Colossians chapter 1. in a moment, I hope. Paul the Apostle, Jesus Christ, by the Thelematos, by the spiritual activating force of God. Then it says down here, for He delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. And He is the image the pressed out image of the invisible God, the head of all creation, is what it says in the original language. For in Him all things were created, both in the heavens and upon the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things have been created to Him, by Him and for Him. That's what it says in Greek. And He's before all things, and in Him all things are held together. For it was the Godfather's good pleasure for all the fullness of God to dwell in him. John, 1 John 1 and 2. Ha erokimin kai ako komen. Apongolomin kai himen. Hina kai himes kononion. Hecate meth himon kai he kononia de he hemathia meta tu patros. That was the third verse. How did I do that? Verse second. Did I lose verse number two? And we'll hold it that way anyway. Verse number 2 and 3, which we have seen. Remember, when we accept God in salvation, we accept Him with all of our senses. John told us that, 1 John. He said we saw Him, we touched Him, we handled Him. We smelled of His blood on the cross of Calvary. We saw the resurrection. that moment when he was resurrected in the Shroud of Turin, it put a photograph on that thing that nothing in the world could have done, except the Anastasia, the resurrection. Which, we have seen, first person plural, perfect indicative acti, and the conjunction, again, we have heard, first person plural, perfect indicative acti from Akul. We saw, we hear, We smell, we taste, we touch. Jesus said, eat this bread. It represents my body. Drink this wine. The fruit of the vine, grape juice or whatever. He said, it is my blood. It represents my blood. It's not my blood, but it represents my blood. So we hear, and when you see the bread, you can smell the bread. And today, it represents Jesus. And it's not something we get from Him. It is praise and glory that He receives from us for what He did. The Lord's Supper is not a vehicle of grace. It is a vehicle of our love toward Him for what He did. Then He said, we announce, pongalia is what it comes from. First person plural, present indicative active. We announce, we message to you also, in order that also you have kononia. Remember when we talked about how the Jews talked about the intimacy between a man and wife? That's kononia. We have in common. We have in common with God. We have in communion They call the Lord's Supper communion. When we commune with God, we commune with Him through His Spirit and through our prayers. We love Him. We call upon Him. He wants to hear from us every day. He does. A lot of people just pray at night time. I pray in the morning. I pray every time I eat. I thank God for every little thing that happens in my life. I commune with Him all the time. He wants us to commune with Him like that. I try to teach my people, pray always. The Muslims say, Muhammad went up to heaven and he kept running between Adam, or Noah, and Jehovah, or actually Allah, as he called it. Running back and forth, he said, they got to pray. A Muslim, one has submitted has to pray 500 times a day. And he goes back down and he, Noah says, we'll say 50 times a day. They go back and forth, back and forth. So he gets down to five times a day. And he said, five times a day. So Muslims have to pray five times a day. But they repeat the Quran. They repeat the Quran. And a lot of Muslims don't even know But they got to do it that way. They got to pray in Arabic. Sorry about my sneezing. It had nothing to do with that. Fellowship. God wants fellowship with you in prayer and in your life through your children. Remember every night I used to go on there to Dakota's bed and I'd pray with her and I'd tell her stories. I'd read Bible stories to her, I'd tell her stories about my life, whatever. She just loved to hear that and she'd say, tell that story again, Diana, tell that story again. I'd tell her about the Bible, I'd read the Bible to her. I'd read the Indian cultural stories that I read and I wrote. I was fellowshipping with her. Every evening I set aside this time to fellowship with her. All these years I've been married to Marilyn, I love to hear her pray. And after I had my cancer surgery, she used to sleep on the couch. She didn't want to wake me up at night, so I'd go in there and I'd walk through the house in quiet and she'd be in there praying, praying. I'd hear this noise and it was her praying. Wonderful to hear her pray. It makes your heart sing when you hear your children pray. Because they're communicating with your Savior, the one that you pointed them to, hopefully in their lives. God wants to have communion with us. He wants fellowship. He wants communion. He wants to be close. He wants to be intimate with you. Fellowship we may have, second person plural, Presence, subjunctive act, if he wants that. Subjunctive mode, you do it, if you want to. It's only your volition. With us, math, comes from Metta, page 265. With, genitive, plural, first person, pronoun, himon. And, conjunction, page 208, hei kononia. Again, the fellowship, things in common. Weak Adversive Conjunctive Particle, page 85, that word day there, the, ours, our fellowship, of us, Hamatera, with the Pothros, and with the Son, Chi-meta-tu-theu, of Him, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, the word Jesus is a Greek word, In Hebrew it would be Yahshua, which means Jehovah saves. Abraham, again, was a type of Christ, the father of God, the father, that offered his son for three days. His son was dead, as far as he was concerned, because he had to go offer him. In reality, Jesus Christ, the body of Jesus Christ, was dead for three days. His spirit and soul were in Hades. He went down and told them, I have overcome, I did it. The promise was all the way from here, all the way over to here. It had never happened, but now when Jesus died on the cross at Calvary, He said, I did it, I died for you, and I'm gonna raise, I'm gonna raise up, I'm gonna come out of this grave. His body would come out of that grave. And that beautiful resurrection brightness is recorded on that. Shroud of Turin. I just can't get over that. The research that they've done on that now. I believe in God without it. But boy, to see the face of God, to see His face on that shroud is something else. I just melted when I saw that, when I realized what it was. The Son of Him. the will, the heir of Jesus. Remember when Jesus was talking to the Pharisees and the scribes and all of them. He said, I'll tell you a story about something. I'm going to tell you a story about a landowner that went away and he sent his servants down to get rent off of the land that he had given to them. And he's talking about Israel. He talked about Israel as their responsibility to God and what they should have been doing all the time, and they weren't. He said, when I sent my servants, you beat them and tortured them and killed some of them, like they did the prophets. Then he said, I'll send my son, my only son. And they said, there's the heir! Let's kill him and we'll take his inheritance. And what did they say before Pontius Pilate, before they ever came to him before? Let's kill him! Let's kill him. He's going to take our religion and our power away from us. Let's kill him. And then he said to them, this is before it happened, he said, what do you think that that landowner, that potentate is going to do to those people that killed his son, his only son? It's you. You are the man. The prophet of God, Nathan told David when he had sinned against God and killed Bathsheba's husband and taken her for a wife. You are the man David, you are the man. From the foundation of the world, Jesus stood as a lamb before slaughter. Luke, John, Hebrews, Revelation tells us all of this. He is El Shaddai. He is an all-powerful one as James, his brother, called in the book of James. He wrote our names in the books of life and eternity past because he knew who would believe and who would not believe. Isaiah 53, Psalm 22 told about the suffering that our Savior would undergo. And this happened a thousand years basically before Christ did die. 800 to 1,000 years. Now we look back 3,000 years ago, and we see what those books said. How they lead us to Jesus Christ, our Savior. How they were supposed to lead Israel. Hebrews, the 11th chapter, verses 8-10, and 13, and 16, and 17, and 22, and 11 and 1. John says, John 1 and 29, Behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world. That's who we're talking about. And there's people in the world that are religious and they don't want to... The Jehovah Witnesses say they want to believe in a God, but they don't want to believe in the God that gave them life, eternal life. They don't want to believe in the Son of God that died on the cross of Calvary and rose again. They say, well, we don't know what happened to His body. He rose, Thomas! He rose from the dead, and He died for you, if you would only believe. Our Father, we send this message out for Your honor and glory. Please use it wherever it goes. Please instruct Your people. Please convict people of sin. Righteousness come, and Your Spirit will lead them in their lives to follow You more closely. Please forgive me where I failed You, in Jesus' name.