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. Okay we're on guys. We're alive. So I'm thrilled you're here. For you guys, this is your first time to be with us. Welcome. You're always welcome. And wherever I travel people ask me,

can anyone come to this? And I just tell them as long as you get Herb's House coffee and

when you show up, then you can get Herb's House coffee and when you show up then you can come. So we're going to start a new book today which is always

exciting for me. We're going to be starting second John. I've never talked through second John. I don't think I've ever heard a sermon on second John. So this is all new territory for me though I've read it obviously so we've got a great

study in store we will be here next Thursday morning at same time and we'll just

continue to plow our way through second John I think

you're really going to like this so and I do want to welcome those watching on

live stream wherever you are around the world. We know you're out there.

Wish you were here with us, but thank you for joining us for our study and being a part of

this. So we're going to dive right into this because we've got a lot a lot to

cover so I need to begin in a word of prayer. Father as we begin this time to

look into your word we we are mindful, this is your word.

It's been breathed out of your mouth.

Recorded by John, yet nevertheless, this is your divine revelation to us.

And so we want to learn from it.

We want to sit at your feet, and we want your Holy Spirit to take the written word and cause it to have great influence in our spiritual lives.

There's much for us to learn.

None of us have arrived, especially me, and so I pray that today's study can have a great influence.

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