John 1-12

[Jim Watt]

"*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE" MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

*Tel: 253.874.4265 -- Email: jmbetter at gmail.com*

*Web: www.2rbetter.org*

*2008-10-15
<http://www.2rbetter.org/>*



   *JOHN 1-12 - OVERVIEW - T1201R*

*JESUS: ETERNAL SON OF GOD*


 *1. 1:33b-34 (1:1-2:11) JESUS: ETERNAL WORD AND MESSIAH. "Upon whoever you
shall see the Spirit descending, and abiding upon him, the same is he that
baptizes in the Holy Spirit. 34 And I have seen, and have witnessed that
this is the Son of :God." *Father, it was *You* who revealed to John the
Baptizer the identity of Your Son, the Son of God, and the Baptizer with the
Holy Spirit and fire! *You* orchestrated all of these things according to
Your eternal LOgos! *Hallowed be your :name.*


 *2. 3:18 (2:12-3:21) JESUS: NEW BIRTH AND ITS NECESSITY. "Who believes unto
him is not judged: who believes not has been judged already, because he has
not believed unto the name of the only begotten Son of :God." *Your Name
Father, *Jehovah* the Savior, was given to Your only begotten Son - the
meaning of His Name, *Jesus*. You have made Him the *only* mediator between
God and man, the man Christ Jesus. *Your :kingdom come.*


 *3. 4:25-26 (3:22-4:54) JESUS: REVEALS HOLY SPIRIT, TRUE DRINK. "The woman
says to him, I know that Messiah comes that is called Christ: when HE is
come, he will declare to us all things. 26 :Jesus says to her, I that speak
to you am he." *What a revelation:" that Jesus is Your promised Messiah, and
that He is the Baptizer in Holy Spirit! You, O *Jehovah* Father, designed it
so. *Your :will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.*


 *4. 5:18 (5:1-47) JESUS: CONTROVERSY THROUGH A HEALING. "For this therefore
the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath,
but also said :God was his own Father, making himself equal with :God." *Jesus
was both Son of God and son of man. He is unique above all other men, the
only begotten of *You*, Father. May we diligently seek to understand in Your
Word exactly what You say concerning Your Son! *Our :daily :bread Give us
this day.*


 *5. 6:37-38 (6:1-71) JESUS: THE TRUE MANNA. "Everything that the Father
gives me shall come unto me; and him that comes unto me I will in nowise
cast out; 38 because I am come down from :heaven, not to do :my :will, but
the will of him that sent me." *Father, we want to be like Jesus: fully
submitted and conformed to *Your* will, not ours. We are weak, but *You* are
strong. O by Your Spirit within us, be our strength. *And forgive us our
:debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.*


 *6. 10:7-8 (7:1-10:21) JESUS: CAUSES BITTER OPPOSITION. ":Jesus therefore
said again, Amen, Amen, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All
that came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear
them." *There never was a Mediator or a Savior before Your Son Jesus,
Father! He *alone* and You in Him, are the Ones to whom we look for our
Salvation. *And bring us not into temptation.*


 *7. 12:27-28 (10:22-12:50) JESUS: ENEMIES PLAN HIS DEATH. "Now is my :soul
troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this :hour? But for
this cause came I unto this :hour. 28 Father, glorify your :name. A voice
therefore came out of :heaven: I both have glorified, and will glorify
it again."
*Father, You *have* glorified Your Name in Jesus, and given Him a Name above
*every* Name! *But deliver us from the evil one.*



 *NOTE*: Of all the four gospels - none is more spiritual and none more
difficult to understand than John's Gospel. It has the breath of heaven upon
it. It proceeds forth by the Spirit from the mind of God. It accords with
and fits into the renewed mind of Romans 12:2!


 Note also that God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, our one Triune God, has
the family name of Jehovah. Jesus in Revelation 1:8 says - *"I am the Alpha
and the O, says the Lord :God, who is and who was and who is to come, the
Almighty." *The 3 tenses of the verb "to be", compose the tetragram - the 4
consonants making up this 3-fold name. We being made in the image of God,
are *also* a triunity: body, soul and spirit.


 For New Testament quotations on this Website, I use Ivan Panin's Bible
Numeric English New Testament, translated scientifically from his Bible
Numeric Greek New Testament. For Old Testament quotations, I use the ASV '01
(American Standard Version 1901). This latter was the favorite translation
of C. T. Studd, famous English cricketer, and missionary to China, India and
Africa.


 Ivan Panin up to the time of his death in 1942, cited the ASV '01 as the
closest of all translations to the Numeric Phenomenon of the Bible. I highly
recommend that those interested read the "Preface" to this Version written
by the American Revisers. Note especially their remarks on p. iv under "I":


 "*The change first proposed in the Appendix - *

*that which substitutes "Jehovah" for "Lord" and "God" *

*(printed in small capitals) - *

*is one which will be unwelcome to many, *

*because of the frequency and familiarity of the terms displaced.*

*But the American Revisers, after a careful consideration,*

*brought forth the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition,*

*which regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered,*

*ought no longer to dominate in the English *

*or any other version of the Old Testament,*

*as it unfortunately does not in the numerous versions made by the
missionaries.*

*This Memorial Name, explained in Exodus 3:14-15,*

*and emphasized as such over and over in the original text of the Old
Testament,*

*designates God as the personal God,*

*as the covenant God,*

*the God of revelation,*

*the Deliverer,*

*the Friend of his people;-*

*not merely the abstractly "Eternal One" of many French translations,*

*but the ever living Helper of those who are in trouble.*

*This personal name, with its wealth of sacred associations, *

*is now restored to the place in the sacred text*

*to which it has an unquestionable claim."*


 It seems appropriate that the spiritual gospel of John should have its
roots in God's Personal Name that He gave to Moses in Exodus, the second
book of the Old Testament.


 Jim Watt




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