{ PT. 1 } - THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST:

 { PT.  1 } - THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST:                                         ________________________________________________________  Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and being not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that abiddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds         2  JOHN  1:9--11                                                                                     ________________________________________________________  There are four books of the [ gospel ] in the Bible, namely Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Both Matthew and Luke began their gospel with the birth of Jesus and continued through His death, resurrection and ascension to heaven, a period of about 33 years. Mark began his record of the gospel when the Holy Ghost came upon Jesus, and continued through his death, resurrection, and ascension, a period of about 31/2 years. These [ gospels ] give us a good and dependable history of the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, along with the record of His rejection, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. It was Saul of Tarsus, the great persecutor of the church, who several years after His conversion of Jesus, received the [ Revelation of Jesus Christ ] during a time in which he was alone, having been ostracized by the brethren in the church at Jerusalem [ ACTS  9:30--31 ]. This was the revelation of [ who Jesus is ] that [ turned the world upside down ]  [ ACTS  17:6 ] in Paul's generation.                                                        _________________________________________________________[ ACTS  17:6 - And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also ]          ________________________________________________________  [ ACTS  9:30--31 - Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down of Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.                        :31 - Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in te comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied ].          ________________________________________________________  Paul called the revelation he preached [ the gospel of Christ ]          ________________________________________________________  [ ROMANS  1:16 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek ]                        ________________________________________________________  During this time period, we actually know very little about the Apostle John, because he wrote no gospel book or epistle until about twenty years after the death of Paul and the other apostles, which preceded the destruction on Jerusalem in 70 A.D. John must have been will over 80  years of age when he wrote his gospel, and later his first epistle, in which he gave his [ revelation ], which he called [ the doctrine of Christ ].                                                                                                    _________________________________________________________

AND THAT THE WAY IT WAS!

JESUS IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, AND WITHOUT THAT LIGHT, WE WOULD BE WALKING IN DARKNESS, AND NO NOT WHETHER THOU GOEST.