EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/20/2025 11:03 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-1 “The Particulars of God’s
Testimony”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
1 John 5:6-9
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.”
It
was in the preceding section verses 1-5, that John described the joys and
blessings of overcomers, those who believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of
God. Now John knew that many would ask
why they should believe that Jesus is the One that John claimed He was. Now after all, Israel rejected Him; “He came
to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him” (John 1:11). It was the Jews who scornfully referred to
Him as a lying deceiver (Matt. 27:63), guilty of leading the people astray
(John 7:12, 47; Luke 23:2) and of fomenting insurrection against Rome (Luke
23:5; also see John 11:47-48). They
blasphemously accused Him of being a glutton and a drunkard (Matt. 11:19), of
being insane (John 10:20), and, most monstrous of all, of being demon-possessed
(John 8:48). Ultimately, their murderous
hatred of Jesus led them to call for His death by crucifixion (Matt. 27:22-23). Why then, in light of Israel’s rejection,
should anyone believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, God Incarnate, the only
Savior of sinners? The reason is because
of the infallible, unassailable, incontrovertible testimony of God Himself.
“John
MacArthur writes “Houtos (the One) points
ahead to Jesus Christ. It emphatic
position in the Greek text stresses Christ’s uniqueness. This One and no other is God the Son, who
came into the world. Jesus Christ’s life
did not begin when He was born; He had existed from all eternity (John
1:1-2). Hence the New Testament speaks
of Jesus coming into this world, not of His coming into existence. In the incarnation the eternally existing ‘Word
became flesh, and dwelt among us’ (John 1:14).
In John 16:28 Jesus declared, ‘I came forth from the Father and have
come into the world; I am leaving this world again and going to the Father’
(cf. 8:14; 13:3; 18:37). Earlier in this
epistle John wrote, ‘The Son of God appeared [not ‘was created’] for this purpose,
to destroy the works of the devil (3:8).”
Now take special note of the following: “The incarnation of Jesus Christ is the glorious central truth of
redemptive history and the foundation of the Christian faith. It is to
the coming of the Son and to His deity that the Father testifies in this
passage. John gives three elements of
that confirming testimony: the water,
the blood, and the Spirit.”
Now
this is the outline that we will follow as we move through these verses from 1
John chapter five.
3/20/2025 11:25 PM
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