When I was going to the seminary, and we had a class called Teaching Techniques, which is around here someplace. I see it up there. And told you that in the first part of your class, you ought to spend, on our class, you ought to spend about 15 minutes at least reviewing what you have done so far. And bring them up to where you are. Because maybe some of them weren't there, maybe they weren't listening very well, or whatever. And if you put brand new information upon them all of a sudden, they are lost. Now, first of all, we're studying 1 John. We talked about the Shekinah glory of God, that basically, you can see it. So the physical expression of God always represents the Son, the Son of God. And so we looked at that, we looked at how John in his writing here, he is combating a heresy called Gnosticism. And John is telling us that with all five senses and even our sixth sense we can, he said we saw Jesus, we saw Him. We touched Him. We knew He was there. We felt His presence next to us. As we ate, we smelled His breath. We smelled His body odor. We say to you that He is real. And that He is Jehovah God also. He is the Word. Right here, right off the bat, it says he's the Word. He is Jehovah. The Word comes from, it's a Hebraism coming from Hebrew, which is ha-the-bar, which is equivalent in Greek as hologos. And in English, it would be the Word, or what it actually stands for is the Jehovah. The Jehovah of the Old Testament. The Word became flesh, kai holo go sarxe genito. The Word, the Jehovah, fleshy, became and dwelt among us. We veil the glory of the only begotten Father, full of grace and truth. He is the eternal God, John 1.1. He is the God that brought Himself from eternity into space and time, John 1.18. And then I read to you the the Hebrew idea from the cultures of the Jews of the Shekinah person of God. And we read the poem about Jehovah, about Shekinah, the Shekinah glory of God. I might even read that again if I can find it. Well, I can't find it right now. Anyway, it said that the Shekinah with her broken wing, that she covered me. She felt my heartbeat. I felt hers. The absolute intimacy. The Hebrew people think in a sexual tone a lot. Everything's got sex in it. Male and female. Male and female. male the receptacle and the male. And it talks about how God wants to have communion with us. And that does, that says that in the third chapter. And the Hebrews had the idea that the person of God, the intimacy that a man and a woman have in sexual intercourse when they come together and they become one, is what God wants to be in communion with you like that beautiful demonstration of marriage when two become one. And no low-grade anything idea is that coming through that. It's that God wants to be our one that loves us, the merciful deliverer. And in Genesis, the 22nd chapter, God told Abraham, Abraham, Abraham, yes, yes, here I am, here I am. Take your son, your only son, and go and offer him as a sacrifice and go. And he was on a journey for three days. For three days that child was as good as dead in Abraham's mind. He was dead for three days. Typifying the three days Christ was in the ground, in the grave. And then when he got there, He told his young guides that went with him, the boys, the guides, the young guides, wait here and I and the boy will go up, we will sacrifice to God and we will return. We will return. He believed that if he sacrificed his child, if he killed him, that God would raise him from the dead because in that son was a Messiah going to come forth. God had promised him that. That is your son. This is your promised son. Not Ishmael, but Isaac. Not Ishmael, but Isaac. Not Hagar's son, but Isaac will be the one. And in John 1 and 4, as we go there to look at that, we see that there was a promised child. from the Old Testament. The Jews always looked for the promised child. The promise of Genesis 3.15. The Hamashiah, the anointed one that would come. And they had denounced Him. Their King of Israel, they denounced. He was of the right lineage. He was born at the right time, at the right place. Jesus stood as a Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. God has revealed Himself through nature. God has revealed Himself through His Word. God has revealed Himself in person. In person, God became flesh and dwelt among us. When we begot the glory, the glory is not only begotten of the Father. 1 in 4 now, CHI TAUTA GRUFFELMAN HEMES HEMEN HENA HEH KARA HEMON HEH PEP PLO ROH MENE Joy. In these sayings, CHI conjunction Page 208, these things, the little love, the monastic pronoun, the accusative plural, and these things, we write, joy of us, we write, to you from us in order that the joy, the kara of us may be having been fulfilled. When God created Adam, Genesis 126, it says that He breathed in him the breathings of life. The breathings of lives. He created him not from dirt, as it kind of is translated, but from the same elements as the dirt. Man is the primary creation of God. He comes right from God. He's created from the same elements that He created the artist from, the dirt. the ha-adamah, the land, the dirt. Adam came from the same elements as ha-adamah, from the earth. And he breathed in him the breathings of lives. And the blood that God breathed into Adam and into the veins of Adam, He breathed into him with sinless blood. But in Adam was a volition, a sovereignty. When God made man, he made him a spiritual image, Ruach, in his blood-throwing likeness, Dom, blood, Dom, and in his sovereign likeness, sovereignty over the earth, to protect the earth for God. The life in Adam was eternal, but it became tainted when he ate of that tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it destroyed the sinlessness of that blood and it became contaminated. And that's contaminated blood we have from every father from then until now that is in all of our veins. That's what causes us to die, what causes us to sin. Joy comes when a person receives eternal life. You have sorrow. Do you ever remember having sorrow when God, the conviction of God's Word, you had sorrow? And this sorrow brought you to want to be, have communion, to be at one with God? That atonement means be at one with God, at one with Him. And then you ask God to save your soul and forgive you of your sins, and all of a sudden you realize you are forgiven! And the joy of salvation is in your heart! And you carry that from then on. And that's what changes your life from that time on. There's a point in time when you're saved. You aren't born saved. You aren't just gradually saved. You're saved instantaneously at one point in your life when you ask God to forgive you of your sins. And then He takes over your life. To us, in order that the joy of us may be filled up. Nominally singular, feminine, perfect, far-simple, passive voice. May be filled up. The blood-breathing Adam made him a living soul. We have Adam as a vassal flesh. We have Adam as a form. And then God breathed into him the breathings the breathings of life, Ruach, breath, the breathings of life, and he becomes a Hayah, Hayah, Ruach, Hayah Nefesh. Hayah Nefesh. He becomes a living soul. In the New Testament Greek, it's Pneuma, Psyche, and Sarx. Spirit, soul, and flesh. In Hebrew, it's nefesh, ruach, and hayah, life. We become a living being. When we are saved, we become a living, eternal being in Christ to be with Christ. We'll have eternal communion with Him. The angels shouted in heaven, when Jesus was resurrected. They saw the resurrection, they saw the fulfillment of salvation. They see the fulfillment when a person is saved. The joy in heaven is the angels and God feeling that, Merakasheth, from the Hebrew, nourishing salvation that has been accepted. God did not He did not choose to redeem angels when they sinned. He did not choose to redeem spirits when they sinned. But He chose to redeem that which was made like Him. Like Him. Like Him that He would become. Jesus, the Shroud of Turin, I keep going back to that because I tell you what, it's so phenomenal. Jesus was about 180 pounds 6 foot tall. taller than most of them. Very strong man. You can see the image of his face on that shroud. That's the image of our Savior. I don't need the shroud to know that I'm saved, to know that God came in flesh and saved me, but it is, to see it is, the man that took a photograph of it in the 1800s, I believe it was, he stood back and he said, oh my God, When he saw the image of the face of Jesus on that, you couldn't see it. You had to take a photograph. It's like you go up here and you see these petroglyphs. You can see them, but when you take a picture of them, they stand out. When he took the picture of that, he said, I have seen the face of God. I have seen the face of God. The face of God has blood all over it. All over that body, 700 wounds. 50 wounds on his head. His eye blinded, his right eye blinded from the flagellating. Every place on his body was beaten and ripped from those pieces of metal on the ends of those songs. Two pieces of metal on each song, ripping, ripping, ripping. Two people beating him, beating him. And you see that. You see all the torture that he went through because of your sins and my sins. I did that to him. I did it. I'm guilty of it. But Jesus went to the cross for me, went to the cross for you. God chose that way of salvation for you and me. 1 in 5, 1 in verse 5. And if you look at the Gospel of John, you look at the Colossians, the first chapter, you look at The 19th chapter of the book of Revelation, we see the Glorified Redeemer, you look at the first, the Word of God, Jehovah, Hadavar, the Word, the Jehovah, Flesh He Began, James. And here it says, Kai, Esten, Haute, Hei, Angelea, Hein, Aku, Komen, Ap, Autu, Kai, Ana, Galomen, Hina, Hemen that is, pote, ho, theos, phos, esten, kai, skotia, en, alto, uc, esto, esten, udimia. 1 John 3 and 11, John 1 and 1, John 1 and 18, John 1 and 14, 1 Corinthians the 15th chapter, John the 3rd chapter. It's all in this verse here. He is this, the message. And this is the message. The message is about Jesus, isn't it? The whole message of salvation is about Jesus. And He is this, the message, which we have heard. They heard it from the mouth of Jesus to begin with. I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh to the Father except by me. I came down to heaven. No one is going to come down from heaven except the Son of God. And he will go back to heaven. Here is the message of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. Paul in 1 Corinthians writes, he said, I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to write to you something that I already told you before. But the most important thing is that Jesus Christ came according to the Scriptures, that He died according to the Scriptures, and He raised according to the Scriptures. And everybody saw Him. The disciples saw Him. I saw Him. Peter saw Him, 500 brethren saw Him at one time. The proof of the Anastasia, the resurrection, the light that put that photograph on the power from a dimension beyond this world that put that tremendous photographic image on that shroud of truth. It is this, we have heard from Him, of Him, and we announce We up-message you, 1st and 2nd President Dickey, back to you all, that the God, Ho Theos, Photos. We got a word, photo comes from this word. Photography comes from this word. That light, that tremendous divine light that happened when Jesus was resurrected. The light that came from heaven. He said, I am the Light, the Truth. The God, Light, Phos, is. The word Frank comes from that. In Greek it's Photios. The name Photios, Frank. Light, spiritual illumination, He is. And, Skotia, darkness. Darkness. When Genesis 1 and 2, Let's go back there and look at that a moment. Genesis 1 and 2. Genesis 1 and 1 says, Barashi, Barah, Elyon, Ephashim, I and we, Athar, is that in one of the beginnings, He had created God, the heavens and the earth. And then it says in Genesis 1 and 2, We ha'aretz, ha'yathah, tohu wo'hobu, we hoshuk, El Pnei Dahon. Wiruwa, Elohim, Merikacheth, El Pnei Hamein. And the earth, she had become formless and void. She had become darkness. She had become spiritual darkness and physical darkness. And it had become a chaos. God didn't create chaos. Satan created Genesis, or not Genesis, but Isaiah 14 and Isaiah 28. And she became desolation, confusion, emptiness, void. Page 1026, Brown, Driver, Briggs, and then, well, woe, who? Waste, useless, emptiness. Page 96, Brown, Driver, Briggs. And then it says darkness was shoshek, like scotia. and darkness upon the faces of the home, the deep. One-third part of the angelic forces and one-third part of the spiritual forces of God live in darkness. They're the emissaries of the dark. Revelation 12 and 4. We were all in spirit Elohim, Spirit God. This is the Spirit of God. Spirit God, Mer Pechet. That's a PL participle. Feminine singular. A continuum thing. And it says that Spirit God brooded over, mourned over, suffered over, sorrowed over the faces of the waters. And then God brought He brought that darkness to life. He brought that darkness to restoration. When we are born into this world, we are born under the blood of Jesus Christ, but when we come to the age of accountability, then we become children of darkness. Until the point in time that we ask the Lord to save our souls, forgive us for our sins, we live in darkness. And then we live in light. We heard from Him, the message we heard from Him and of Him. We announce to you all in order to that, that God, Light, He is, and darkness in Him, no, not, it is, never, Uthimia. There's never any darkness in God. James talks about it, James 117. 2 Peter 2.4 and 2.9, 1 John 3 and 11, 1 Timothy 6.16, Jude 6, 1 Corinthians 15, Genesis 8, John 3.19, John 1.18, 1.14. Jude 6, let's go there, see if I can find the book of Jude. Jude the 6th chapter. Jude is right before the book of Revelation. Jude, a fond servant of Jesus Christ and his half-brother. The brother of James. To those who are called beloved in God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ. You're kept saved by him. You were saved by him and you're kept saved by him. Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, I was making every effort to write to you about the common salvation. I felt it necessary to write to you, appealing to you, to contend earnestly for the faith which was once and for all, hapox, and hapox means once and for all, delivered to the saints. That's you and me. It's our job to keep the Word of God straight and to preach the Word of God. He said, for certain persons have cracked in, those who were long beforehand marked off for the condemnation, ungodly people, turned to the grace of God until I sentient and denied our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ. I desire to remind you that all things from all over that the Lord, after having saved people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. Some of the unbelievers came too. And He said the angels that did not keep their own dimension, but abandoned their own abode, He has kept in eternal bonds unto darkness, this darkness, Skotia, Sophon, for the judgment of the great day. all the way down here. It said, Yet some mannered those men also, dreaming to defile the flesh, reject authority, revile angelic magistries. Talked about the angels come down, Genesis 6 and 1. Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce to him a railing judgment, said, The Lord rebuke you. But these men, to revile these things that they do not understand, and the things which they do not know. Like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay, and also rushed headlong into Arab Valen, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. Korah means ice, cold, cold ice. Cold-hearted men. These men are those who are hidden reefs in your love feasts. When they feast without fear, caring for themselves, clouds without water, carried about by winds of autumnal trees without fruit, double dead, uprooted. Enoch, he said in verse number 14, the seventh generation from Adam prophesying, behold, the Lord comes with many thousands, ten thousands of his saints to execute and judge him upon all and convict all of the ungodly, of all the ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. He said, but you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. He said, and having mercy on some who were doubting, have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh. Now Him who is able to keep you, guard you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless, with great joy, the only God, our Savior. This is the brother of Jesus now. This is the half-brother. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority before all time and now and forever. Amen. This is our Savior. Our Savior talks about darkness. In John the third chapter he talks about darkness. And there's no darkness in Him. But those that want to live in darkness, they are in darkness. And they hate the light. Jesus said those religious scoundrels out there, they hate the light. They hate truth. Because they're in power. And they don't want to turn it loose. We see that in America today, don't we? Those that were in power don't want to turn it loose. They're fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting. They want that power. Marxism. Marxism can't live with God. Marxism is God. It is a revelation of darkness. Marxism. Living in darkness. There's no room for God in that. Marxism is God. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory. Please protect us from the evil that's in the world, from the darkness, and let us cling to your light and your word. Please forgive me where I failed you and help us to glorify You with our lives and with Your Word wherever it goes.