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 the other thing I just want to mention very quickly and they're going to post it on to the

screen for those watching on live stream is I have two conferences on

expository preaching, one in Washington, D.C. in August and one in

Oklahoma City in August. And for those watching wherever you are, I would love to see you there it's amazing to me how many people get on an airplane and fly

to attend our conference and so don't think you have to live locally or regionally to attend the conference.

And there are accessible airports in both of those places.

So we'd love to see you there.

Whoever is watching out there. So we want to step back into our study. I'm excited for this study. It's phenomenal. So I need to begin in a word of prayer.

Our Father in heaven what a joy it is for us to gather back together and to sit under your word and your word speaks to us directly and

personally and I pray that your Holy Spirit will take the passages that we're going to be looking at today

and bring them home to our hearts.

We are always in dire need of yet further installments of your truth.

So Father, now, be our primary teacher,

speak through your word in Christ's name, amen.

Amen.

Amen. All right, we are in 1 John chapter 5 and I love I've been walking

around and saying hide a lot of people and I think every Bible is open to 1st

John 5. So I think I'm the only one in the room right now having to turn to 1st John 5.

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