PT-2 Intro to: "The Witness of God" (1 John 5:6-12)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/17/2025 10:31 PM

 

My Worship Time                                                     Focus:  PT-2 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.”

 

            This evening I continue with the introduction to the verses from 1 John 5:6-12, and there will probably be a couple of more of these before I get through this introduction.  If you did not read the SD from yesterday it would be good to do so because there is a short review from 1 John in it, which is really helpful in understanding John’s first letter.

 

            Now remember that John began chapter five by reminding his readers that only the one who “believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God” (v. 1), while again we note that verse 13, and verse 13 is one of the most important verses in this letter, as it is the key to the entire letter:  “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life.”  Finally John wrote in verse 20, “And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ.  This is the true God and eternal life.”

 

            Now this is true that Jesus Christ is the focal point of redemptive history, and also the Father has repeatedly testified that He is the Messiah, Savior, Redeemer, and the King.  Now that testimony first came as a bright ray of hope in the bleak and terrible aftermath of Adam and Eve’s sin.  Now in the context of God’s curse on mankind came the promise of a deliverer:  “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel” (Gen. 3:15).  Now later on in Genesis, God reiterated His promise to send His Son, who would rule as King: “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh [Messiah] comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples” (Gen. 49:10; cf. Rev. 5:5).  MacArthur writes that “God sovereignly chose to reveal a messiah prophecy through the false prophet Balaam:  ‘A star shall come forth from Jacob, a scepter shall rise from Israel (Num. 24:17).  In Hannah’s inspired song, God again promised to send His messiah King (1 Sam. 2:10, 35; cf. 2 Sam. 22:51).  Second Samuel 7:12-15 records God’s promise to David of a Son greater than Solomon, who would establish an eternal kingdom (v. 13).  In Psalm 2 the psalmist reiterates the great hope of the coming messiah King (vv. 2:6), who will rule the nations (vv. 8,9), and is the Son of God (v. 12).”

 

            There is more that the Old Testament predicted as it was the precise details of Jesus’ life.  Isaiah prophesied that He would be born of a virgin (7:14). Micah that He would be born in Bethlehem (5:2), Hosea that Jesus would be called out of Egypt (11:1), and Jeremiah prophesied the attempt to murder Him in the slaughter of the innocents by Herod at His brith (31:15; cf. Matt. 2:17-18).  There is more as Malachi the forerunner (John the Baptist) who would prepare the way for Him (4:12-16), and then Isaiah wrote about His ministry in Galilee (9:1-2; cf. Matt. 4:12-16).  Next we see that Psalm 41:9 predicts His betrayal by a close friend, (Judas), and Psalm 22 delineates the details of His crucifixion, Isaiah 53 explains the theological significance of His death, and Psalm 16 foresees His resurrection.

 

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