JOHN THE APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST.
John the Disciple seems to be the youngest of the disciples. He was especially favoured with our Lord’s regard and confidence. He was spoken about as the disciple whom Jesus loved. Some affection was shown between them, such as the time he leaned upon Jesus’ bosom.
John 13:23.
Remember that John remained with Jesus right through His terrible suffering, His trial, and His crucifixion even to His very last breath.
Jesus regarded John so highly that He entrusted His precious mother to him to love and care for her for the rest of her life. There was no hesitation on John’s part, and he gladly took her into his home.
Following Jesus’ resurrection, John was the first disciple to enter the tomb.
How loving was this man, once called a Son of Thunder, now of a sweet and gentle character. You can see this change as you read his Epistles.
“WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US”.
“LOVE IS OF GOD, FOR GOD IS LOVE.” John 4:8, 10,11.
“BELOVED, IF GOD SO LOVED US, SO WE OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.”
John exercised his ministry at Jerusalem with much success and outlived the destruction of that city as Christ predicted.
Later, he was banished to the Isle of Patmos. It is. Recorded that his enemies tried to kill him by boiling him in oil, but he wouldn’t cook! So they banished him to a desolate, dry place at Patmos.
Patmos was a small rocky island. It was used as a place where many criminals of Rome were sent to serve their prison sentences under harsh conditions. After serving his sentence John was set free where he returned to Ephesus.
Here also penned the Gospel of John and the Epistles wherein he wrote about the Saviour’s life, death and resurrection. He clearly presented the way of Salvation through the story of Nicodemus emphasizing the need to be –
“BORN AGAIN” to enter the Kingdom of God.
This message has circled the earth š and only God knows how many have been saved from eternal destruction. Thank you John!
He wrote these books about 90 A.D. and passed them on. It is traditionally believed that John survived all the Apostles. He lived to an old age, dying of natural causes sometime after A.D.98. During the siege of Tragen, he became the only Apostle who did not die as a Martyr.
We praise and glorify our Lord for this dear man of God, beloved John.
Great is his reward in Heaven.
Amen.
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