Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible.

So I'm ready to dive into this and I trust you are as well so let's go to the

Lord in prayer. Father as we begin this study, we are again mindful that we cannot approach this like this

as a math book or a science book.

We do bring our minds to study and to analyze and to dig and to read. But more than that, we need the

Holy Spirit to be at work within us and to open our eyes to the truth of your word. So I do ask

for his ministry to be very present with us and I do ask that you would fill me with your spirit

so that I would be an instrument used in your hand. So Father, as we now begin this study, assist us in Christ's name, amen.

So is this cutting on and off?

Yeah, I think so.

So Keith, can you tell back there to stop doing video games?

So yeah, so what's going on here, Addison?

Oh, we're just playing video games.

Yeah.

I usually don't call out the sound guys by name on an international broadcast but I felt it would be appropriate this time.

So I hope we're not interrupting you, Addison.

Okay, well we'll go ahead and start while we're working this out. We're in 1st John

chapter 5 and we're in the last two verses of the book. It's verses 20 and

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