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Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
Episode 020 - Do You Have Indoor Plumbing?
Is this your experience of the Christian life, or do you have indoor plumbing?
Review of last week’s episode, What We Don’t Know About the ‘Anointing,‘ the second installment in our study of 1 John 2:18-29.
Abiding
- What is the significance of what we learned about ‘the anointing’ last week?
- Do you have indoor plumbing?
- Most Christians don’t have indoor plumbing, and find it hard to believe or even conceive that other people do!
Living water (John 4:1-42)
- What does “living” mean?
- The water becomes a “well springing up to eternal life” (v. 14)
- An insignificant fact?
- Left her waterpot (v. 28) — why is this small fact important?
- (Side note: Another example of [click to continue…]
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Episode 013—The Love Meter
Review
How do you rate on God's Love Meter?
- God’s desire: “That you also may have fellowship with us” (1 John 1:3) — intimate communion with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
- The reason the Holy Spirit comes within — to draw us into that fellowship and to make us godly, Christlike
- Abiding in that fellowship is the foundation of freedom from sin and sinning
- “I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.” (1 John 2:1)
1 John 2:1-2
- “If anyone sins,” not when. For a Christian who is walking in the Light, living in the profferred communion with God, sin is a rarity, rather than a perpetual inevitability.
- Jesus is presented as:
- Our Parakletos, that is, our legal Advocate for when we offend.
- Same word used of the Holy Spirit in John 14:16,26; 15:26; 16:7
Our hilasmos, that is, [click to continue…]
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Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
Episode 004 – God Is Light (1 John 1:5)
The revelations of God’s nature in John’s writings:
- The “I am…” passages
- The “God is…” passages
The “I Am” passages:
- Exodus 3:14–”I AM THAT I AM.”
- Jehovah/Yahweh as a derivative of the verb to be
- I AM the Bread of Life (John 6:35, 41, 48, 51)
- I AM [click to continue…]
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Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Episode 001: 1 John 1:1-3
Words We Think We Know: "Eternal Life" & "Fellowship"
Teaching and Bible study notes by Jim Kerwin
Author: Anonymous, but confirmed to be the Apostle John based on historical testimony of the early church and internal evidence (uses of words like Logos, beginning, “eternal life,” style similarity, etc.). Never names himself in his Gospel (“the disciple Jesus loved”) or his three Epistles (the “elder” or “old man” in 2 & 3 John)
Date: a.d. 85-95 (same range as all the Johannine scriptures, including Revelation)
Some of the focuses of the letter:
- What is God’s ultimate intention for us?
- What is eternal life?
- What is a true believer’s relationship with God? How do we walk in and deepen the relationship?
- What are the no-compromise characteristics of someone who is truly born of God?
- How do we [click to continue…]
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