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    Genesis to Revelation: John Participant Book: A Comprehensive Verse-by-Verse Exploration of the Bible
    Genesis to Revelation: John Participant Book: A Comprehensive Verse-by-Verse Exploration of the Bible
    Genesis to Revelation: John Participant Book: A Comprehensive Verse-by-Verse Exploration of the Bible
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    Genesis to Revelation: John Participant Book: A Comprehensive Verse-by-Verse Exploration of the Bible

    By Woodrow A. Geier

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    Study the entire Book of John, beginning with the Good News and ending with the victory of Christ and his call. Some of the major ideas explored are: a new day in religion, what does it mean for me to live on the bread of life, the resurrection and the life, "My peace I give to you," and searching for Jesus.



    More than 3.5 million copies of the series have been sold.

    This revision of the Abingdon classic Genesis to Revelation Series is a comprehensive, verse-by-verse, book-by-book study of the Bible based on the NIV. These studies help readers strengthen their understanding and appreciation of the Bible by enabling them to engage the Scripture on three levels:

    What does the Bible say? Questions to consider while reading the passage for each session.
    What does the passage mean? Unpacks key verses in the selected passage.
    How does the Scripture relate to my life? Provides three major ideas that have meaning for our lives today. The meaning of the selected passages are made clear by considering such aspects as ancient customs, locations of places, and the meanings of words.


    The meaning of the selected passages are made clear by considering such aspects as ancient customs, locations of places, and the meanings of words. The simple format makes the study easy to use. Includes maps and glossary with key pronunciation helps.
    Updates will include:

    New cover designs.
    New interior designs.
    Leader Guide per matching Participant Book (rather than multiple volumes in one book).
    Updated to 2011 revision of the New International Version Translation (NIV).
    Updated references to New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible.
    Include biblical chapters on the contents page beside session lesson titles for at-a-glance overview of biblical structure.
    Include larger divisions within the contents page to reflect macro-structure of each biblical book. Ex: Genesis 1-11; Genesis 12-50; Exodus 1-15; Exodus 16-40; Isaiah 1-39; Isaiah 40-66.


    The simple format makes the study easy to use. Each volume is 13 sessions and has a separate leader guide.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateDec 19, 2017
    ISBN9781501848582
    Genesis to Revelation: John Participant Book: A Comprehensive Verse-by-Verse Exploration of the Bible
    Author

    Woodrow A. Geier

    Woodrow A. Geier (1914-1994) as a pastor and an editor of adult curriculum resources for The United Methodist Church.

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      Genesis to Revelation - Woodrow A. Geier

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      THE GOOD NEWS—FULLNESS OF HIS GRACE

      John 1:1–2:11

      DIMENSION ONE: WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?

      Answer these questions by reading John 1

      1. What words of Genesis do the first three words of John’s Gospel recall? (1:1; Genesis 1:1)

      2. What words of John suggest Jesus’ divine nature? (1:2-4)

      3. What does John tell us about the relationship between life and light, light and darkness? (1:4-5)

      4. Who is introduced into the Prologue of the Gospel in 1:6?

      5. What is John’s purpose? (1:7-8)

      6. To whom did the true light come? (1:11)

      7. What was given to those who believed and did receive him? (1:12-13)

      8. What did the people (we all) receive in the coming of the Son? (1:16-17)

      9. How does John’s Gospel describe John the Baptist? (1:23)

      10. Where is John baptizing? (1:28)

      11. How does John say that he recognized Jesus? (1:32)

      12. Who are Jesus’ first disciples, as listed by our writer? (1:40-51)

      Answer these questions by reading John 2:1-11

      13. Who attended the marriage feast at Cana in Galilee? (2:1-2)

      14. What did Jesus say to the servants? (2:7-8)

      15. What did the master of the banquet say about the wine? (2:10)

      16. What did Jesus achieve by the first of his signs? (2:11)

      DIMENSION TWO: WHAT DOES THE BIBLE MEAN?

      John’s Gospel Confronts Us Today. Whatever our situation in life, whatever our perplexities and doubts, our anxieties and sufferings, our triumphs and joys, God confronts us today in the Fourth Gospel. John’s Gospel is the story of the divine-human Redeemer. Consider some words from John’s Gospel that are fixed in our memories, memories on which we may often dwell:

      In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . . In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. . . . The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. . . . No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known (1:1, 4, 14, 18).

      For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (3:16).

      A new command I give you: Love one another (13:34).

      Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; trust also in me (14:1).

      Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you (14:27).

      But take heart! I have overcome the world (16:33c).

      I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die (11:25).

      These verses and many others in the Gospel express what has happened and what is happening now. Jesus’ words and John’s words about him describe real events in human experience. When John writes, I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you (14:18), the Fourth Gospel writer is recording a promise that has already been realized.

      Who wrote the Gospel? Traditionally the church has attributed the writing to John the son of Zebedee, but no one can be sure that the beloved disciple wrote the book. For generations scholars have researched this question and have developed many theories. The answer still eludes them. Most scholars would say the Gospel was written around AD 85–95. While speculations on authorship and place of writing are interesting and important, most of us are more concerned with asking: What is the meaning of the Fourth Gospel for us?

      We are more certain about the people for whom the Gospel was written. These people included members of the church, persons who had come out of Judaism and were immersed in Jewish faith and practice. The Gospel was also written for Greek-speaking Christians of the Mediterranean world, people immersed in Greek thought and culture, and for other people whose cultural traditions were not very binding.

      The author focused on the needs of these people of varying cultural backgrounds. He did this so profoundly that he spoke a universal message of God to all times, including our own. He leaves us with the challenge to believe—to receive the fullness of the Gospel in our lives and conduct. He tells us that God’s unmerited favor (grace) is available to the human race.

      John 1:1-18. We may call this opening section of the Gospel a prologue, a poem, a preface, or an introduction. The section, written in theological language, unites the whole book. It is a poem with inserted prose comments. Scholars think these verses were a hymn sung by the early church, an adaptation of a Jewish hymn in praise of Wisdom.

      More appropriately perhaps, we may see John 1:1-18 as corresponding to the overture or introduction to a great opera or symphony. This overture features themes of life and light and of glory and truth that pervade the Gospel. These themes recur repeatedly, celebrating the grand theme of the Word that exists through all eternity. The Word is preexistent and incarnate, the revelation of God and the giver of meaning and salvation to God’s human children. The Word (Jesus) is offered and rejected but stands at last as triumphant over evil and death.

      The words in the beginning take us to the opening words of Genesis and equate the Word with God. The Word is the eternal, creative, ordering principle that controls all things. ‘The Word was with God, and the Word was God (1:1).

      John also introduces two other images that pervade the Gospel. These are light and life: In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind (1:4). To be sure, darkness is present, but darkness has never been able to overcome the light. To be sure, also, there have been many witnesses to the light. Evil (darkness) has never been able to overthrow the good (light). What about the light that persists in the Creation? John the Baptist came to bear witness to that light, but he was not himself the light.

      Jesus, the true light that gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. Though he was among us and made the world, the world did not know him. He came to his own people—the people chosen by God to achieve God’s mission for humankind—and his own people rejected him. John uses the present tense (shines), a usage that is in harmony with 1 John 2:8: The darkness is passing and the true light is already shining. For the Gospel writer the coming of God in the flesh was an event of the past and a gracious promise daily being fulfilled. The darkness represents an attitude in which humankind will not see the light—in other words, a spiritual blindness that rules out the light. In the Prologue and in the rest of the Gospel we find the theme of the portrayal of the struggle between light and darkness. In both the light prevails.

      Verses 6-8 are concerned with John the Baptist. We shall discuss these verses later in the context of the relationship between Jesus and John the Baptist.

      The hymn in John 1:1-18 celebrates the idea of John 12:46: I have come into the world as a light. The hymn thus reveals God as the true light that enlightens everyone. Just as the sun’s light falls on the just and the unjust, we may assume God’s light falls on all whether they admit it or not. The most irresponsible, depraved person in the world is kept alive and sustained daily by God’s light.

      The world was made through him (1:10) represents a return to the theme of the preexistent Word. This theme counters the false outlook and attitude that rejects the incarnate Son. To believe in Jesus’ name means to be identified with him. It means one is divinely recognized when one acknowledges Jesus’ claim that he is the Messiah and the Son of God.

      Verse 13 emphasizes the need for rebirth. Note the words children born not of natural descent [in Greek thought the seed of the father was mixed with the blood of the mother], nor of human decision [sexual desire] or a husband’s will [human paternity], but born of God. The human being is reborn, born from above. The person is transformed by God’s love.

      Verses 14 to 18 summarize the theology of the Prologue. They emphasize, as does a great prelude, the meaning of a world symphony. They proclaim the message of the Gospel. The Word became flesh—these words stress that God was in God’s rightful place when God, in Jesus, lived in our human nature. These words deny the claims of gnostic sects in the Greek world that belittled our human nature and renounced the flesh as in itself evil. These words proclaim the full humanity of Jesus’ earthly life. He came and made his dwelling among us—that is, the eternal God pitched his tent with the human race.

      No one has ever seen God (1:18). But God has been revealed. We have seen God in Jesus Christ, who is the

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