Read 1 John 1:1-4. What is John saying to us with those words? What hope can you take from them for yourself? Also, why do you believe him?

   Read 1 John 1:1-4.

   When John says these words he is declaring the authority that
   he has to deliver the message of Jesus. Now John is not simply
   boasting about something that he heard his message about Jesus
   is not second hand. Johns message about Jesus is about his
   person experience with the Savior. John breathed the same air
   that Jesus breathed he walked the same steps that Jesus walked
   He was there He as 100% engaged in the life of Jesus
  
   in these verses John does not not only want to show us his
   connection with Jesus , but he wants to invite us into that
   connection. John wants us to be about to experience what he
   experienced and he seeks the bring us into that reality. In
   the place where John endeavors to take is where we find hope.
   We were were alive when Jesus was, but through the writings
   of John we can experience Jesus as if we were there.
  
   I believe because when I read the pages of scripture it
   brings me in contact with the God of the scriptures. I
   was not there with Jesus, but through the scriptures I
   can experience Jesus Christ a fresh.

What two things does John say will come as a result of his declaration about "the Word of life?"