The Gospel of John by Bruce Anstey, Wirebound

Introduction

The Gospel of John presents the Lord Jesus Christ as God incarnate. Thus, He is seen in His personal glory as the Son of God walking here as a Man. Presenting Him as such, quite naturally involves the revelation of God as Father, for there could not be a Son without there being a Father. Hence, this divine relationship of the Father and the Son runs throughout the Gospel.

The occasion which led the Spirit of God to inspire John to write this Gospel was that the Christians in those early times were plagued with certain mystical teachers who claimed to have superior knowledge to that which the apostles had received from the Lord. But their claims were bogus. Their false notions denied the deity of Christ and His true humanity, and this proved that they were not real believers at all. These corrupt mystical ideas became known as “Gnosticism.” The energy of the Spirit of God in those early times raised up a standard against those false doctrines in the writings of the Apostle John. The purpose of the Spirit in John’s ministry is to set the Lord Jesus Christ before us in His personal glory as the Son of God, and to show that as coming into this world as the Sent One, He is both divine and human, and thus refute that evil line of teaching.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Names and Titles of the Lord Jesus Christ

The Moral and Spiritual Characteristics of the New Life

The Lord’s Upper Room Ministry

The Passion of Christ

Appendix