The first and most natural tendency when embarking upon a Bible lesson is to read the underlying text. What happens, though, if in reading the current text the previous is not recalled? At the very least some points will be missed, especially if the author is building point upon point.
The readership of John’s letter is in need of a boost, a leg up, a cheering on. He has been going about this and in the verses which lead up to today’s passage the pitch of encouragement has been raising sentence by sentence. We need to hitch back into those verses so that the sixth hits us at the appropriate pitch and does not try to start back at the first rung on the ladder John is composing. [Read more…] about 1 John 5:6, Part 1: The matterful mundane is about water & blood.