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  1. LIFE OF ST. JOHN IN OUTLINE
  by Daniel Steele
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Summary: St. John's life and ministry were characterized by his simple
faith, heroic spirit, and effective communication, which were rooted in
his personal experience and revelation of Jesus Christ.

Topics: "Apostle John", "Divine Revelation"
Scripture References: Mark 3:17, John 21:20, Acts 9:3, Romans 8:19, 1 John 1:1

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Daniel Steele preaches about the life of the apostle John, highlighting
his close relationship with Jesus as a first cousin, his youthful
enthusiasm, intense insight, and special favor from the Lord. John,
along with his brother James, possessed a fiery temperament and were
known as 'sons of thunder' for their swift and vehement proclamation of
the truth. John's perspective was focused on the divine side of events,
seeing everything as contributing to the manifestation of the sons of
God, the hope of the world, based on his personal experiences and
revelations of the Son of God.

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THE facts relating to this eminent apostle which are recorded in the New
Testament are soon told. He was the son, apparently the youngest son, of
Zebedee and Salome, the sister of the Virgin Mary, "the mother of the
Lord." Hence he was a first cousin to Jesus, the Messiah. There is
reason for the widely spread belief that he was the junior of the other
apostles, and by reason of his near kinship, his youth and his natural
enthusiasm, his intensity of thought, of speech, of insight, and of
life, he became the special favorite of our Lord Jesus.

Like the other apostles, except Judas, the traitor, John was a Galilean.
The fact has a moral value, inasmuch as it separated him from the
political intrigues and demoralizing speculations rife in Jerusalem. He
retained the simple faith and stern heroism of earlier times. With his
brother James he shared the ardor of the Galllean temperament fitly
described by the epithet Boanerges, sons of thunder; which their Master
early applied to them. From this we understand that they were very
effective speakers, swift, startling and vehement in the utterance of
the truth like fire shut up in their bones.

John regards everything on its divine side. He sees all events, the past
and the future, contributing to the manifestation of the sons of God,
the sole hope of the world. Of this he had himself been assured by
ocular evidence and inward revelation of the Son of God, like that which
thrust Paul into the Christian ministry. He could say: "We have seen and
do testify." He produced conviction not by labored argument, but by
confident affirmation

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