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

I know how committed you are to wake up early in the morning to be up here to study second John.

So who in the world this morning is studying secondnd John, but us, but it's all inspired and an errant and there's

truth packed in here that I'm anxious to unlock for us.

Just by way of announcement, we will be here next Thursday and we will proceed into Third John.

And so I would love to finish third John maybe by the end of the year and

we'll start a new study in January but for those of you who are new to our study, welcome.

And we just move verse by verse through books in the Bible.

At some point I may do some kind of a topical doctrinal study

and it would be good. for the most part we just move

verse by verse through books in the Bible and for no other reason that's the way

God wrote it so we're just studying it as God had it recorded and we're in the book of second

John which is a short epistle and I'm looking forward to delving into it with you.

Welcome those who are watching on live stream and who will be watching this on all different kinds of platforms.

But I'm ready to hop into this.

We've got a lot to look at.

So let's go to the Lord in prayer.

Father, as always, we begin the day and begin our studies with

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