PT-2 "The Life is Revealed" (1 John 1:1)

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/4/2024 10:20 PM

 

My Worship Time                                                                  Focus:  PT-2 “The Life Is Revealed”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                           Reference:  1 John 1:1

 

            Message of the verse:  “1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life (NASB).  “1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked on, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life (AKJV).

 

            I have included the AKJV here because Warren Wiersbe always used the KJV when he wrote his “Be” books.  Now I want to continue to write what Dr. Wiersbe had in his commentary for this first verse of 1 John.

 

            We begin with “For example, there are those who tell us that Jesus was a man but was not God.  John has no place for such teachers!  One of the last things he writes in this letter is, ‘We are in Him that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ.  This is the true God,and eternal life’ (1 John 5:20).

 

            “False teaching is so serious a matter that John wrote about it in his second letter too, warning believers not to invite false teachers into their homes (2 John 9-10).  And he makes it plain that to deny that Jesus is God is to follow the lies of Antichrist (1 John 2:22-23).

 

            “This leads to a basic Bible doctrine that has puzzled many people—the doctrine of the Trinity.

 

            “John mentions in his letter the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  For example, he says, ‘By this know ye the Spirit of God:  every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God’ (1 John 4:2, SCO).  Here are references in one verse to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.  And in 1 John 4:13-15 is another statement that mentions the three Persons of the Trinity.

 

            “The word ‘Trinity’ is a combination of tri-, meaning ‘three,’ and unity, meaning ‘one.’  A ‘trinity,’ then, is a three-in-one, or one-in-three.  To be sure, the word ‘trinity’ is not found in the Bible, but the truth is taught there (cf. also Matt. 28:19-20; John 14:16-17, 26; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 4:4-6).

 

            “Christians do not believe that there are three gods.  They believe that one God exists in three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  Nor do Christians believe merely that one God reveals Himself in three different ways, much as one man may be a husband, a father, and a son.  No, the Bible teaches that God is one but that He exists in three Persons.

 

            “One teacher of doctrine used to say, ‘Try to explain the Trinity and you may lose your mind.  But try to explain it away and you will lose your soul!’  And the Apostle John says ‘Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father’ (1 John 2:23, NASB).  No Person of the Trinity is expendable!

 

            “As you read the Gospel records of the life of Jesus, you see the wonderful kind of life God wants us to enjoy.  But it is not by imitating Jesus, our Example, that we may share in this life.  No, there is a far better way.”

 

            Now that far better way that Wiersbe is speaking about is found in the next verse of 1 John and he entitles the next section “This Life Is Experienced.”  Lord willing we will begin to look at verse two in the next SD.

 

8/4/2024 10:46 PM