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Hereby We Know...: John's Extremes of Love and Frustration Revealed

Hereby We Know...: John's Extremes of Love and Frustration Revealed

Stewart, Dennis

Paperback

Christian Living

ISBN10: 1795592516
ISBN13: 9781795592512
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 6 2019
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
John was a man of extremes. A son of thunder, John's passions were deep and complex. His priorities had to change many times during his life in order to fulfill his responsibilities. He was the lover of truth and a warrior against untruth all his life. He loved righteousness to the extreme and abhorred evil to the extreme.As a youth, John was a fisherman working with his father and brother James learning to become the keeper of their business. He was also a dedicated Jew looking for the Messiah. When confronted with the ministries of John, the Baptist, and later Jesus, John chose righteousness over the establishment, which was the system of Jewish tradition. He chose Christ as the fulfillment of prophecy over popular conformity. He was no longer a keeper. He became a changer.John's decision also made him a rebel, an outlaw in the eyes of the Jews. He followed Jesus with extreme love and dedication. His role as a homeless changer continued through the death and resurrection of Christ.John had left his family at an early age seeking to change the world, or at least the Jewish world, but now, charged with the care of Mary, the mother of Jesus, he was becoming more the guardian of his new family. He was becoming more the keeper again rather than the changer. No longer homeless, he became homebound.Thrust into the leadership of the first century church, John became the keeper and protector of the new Christian establishment rather than the changer of a system. His efforts to reach into the world's system of other religions and bring change by leading people into the light of Christ continued but now he was becoming more the man who was charged with keeping the system, the establishment of Christianity.John continued the battles of changing and keeping under the guidance of the Holy Spirit until his tired old body could give no more. Encumbered with the physical difficulties of extreme age, John began instead to write, perhaps using some of his personal journals. His final work produced some of the most beautiful teachings of love, truth, and fellowship as well as some of the harshest condemnation of untruth and evil in our New Testament. His writings at his extremely old and feeble age burst forth with the same strength, boldness, and willingness to fight the good fight of his youth. John remained a true, son of thunder until the end.

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