EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/16/2025 8:44 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 Intro
to:“The Witness of God”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
1 John 5:6-12
Message of the verses: “6 This is he who
came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by
blood. 7 And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true. 8 There are
three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in
agreement. 9 If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is
greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son. 10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the
witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has
not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son. 11 And his witness
is this, that God has
given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the
Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.”
Now before I begin to look at the introduction to
these verses I want to say that after I went over the first five verses for an
extended period of time by quoting the two sermons from John MacArthur’s
website that I am now done looking over these five verses and will go back to
get my help from the commentary that he has written which is what I have been
doing. I have to say that I have learned
much from those two sermons and it is my hope that those who read them have
learned many things too, for that is the reason that I take the time to put my
Spiritual Diaries onto the internet as it is my desire that the Spirit of God
will cause people whom he desires to read them.
The
apostle John as he writes this epistle has relentlessly hammered home the truth
that a correct view of the Lord Jesus Christ is essential to salvation. We can see that this was the apostle’s theme
at the beginning, and it is valuable to read the previous texts that support
that emphasis, which is what we will do not as I quote these verses that John
MacArthur has put in his commentary.
“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 —2 and the life was manifested, and we have seen
and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and
was manifested to us — 3 what
we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have
fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His
Son Jesus Christ. 4 These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete”
(1 John 1:1-4)
“In 2:22 he asked rhetorically, ‘Who is
the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies
the Father and the Son.’ ‘This is His
commandment that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one
another, just as He commanded us’ (3:23).
In 4:1-2 John warned his readers against false teachers who deny the
truth about Jesus Christ:
‘Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test
the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have
gone out into the world. By this you
know the Spirit of God: every spirit
that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.’
“Verses 9 and 10 of the same chapter
declare that
‘by this love of God was manifested in us, that
God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through
Him. In this is love, not that we loved
God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
Now
one of the things that we have been learning as we study this epistle of 1 John
is that the apostle John starts something in his letter and then as he
continues to write his letter he adds to what he has been writing, and this can
be seen in these verses that we just looked at.
I am happy that MacArthur is addressing that.
Now
as we begin the next SD there will be more evidence of what I just wrote about.
3/16/2025 9:13 PM
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