"The Purpose of God's Testimony" (1 John 5:11)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/25/2025 9:05 PM

 

My Worship Time                                                      Focus:  “The Purpose of God’s Testimony”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                         Reference:  1 John 5:11

 

            Message of the verse:  “11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.”

 

            Tonight we want to look at the purpose of God’s testimony through the water, the blood and the Spirit, and that is that sinners might receive eternal life.  Now eternal life involves far more than merely living forever in a chronological sense, which may be what many believers think it is.  MacArthur writes “The essence of eternal life is the believer’s participation in the blessed everlasting life of Christ (cf. John 1:4) through his or her union with Him (Rom. 5:21; 6:4; 11, 23; 1 Cor. 15:22; 2 Cor 5:17; Gal. 2:20; Col. 3:3-4; 2 Tim. 1:1, 10; Jude 21).  Jesus defined it in His High Priestly Prayer to the Father:  ‘This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent’ (John 17:3).  It is the life of the age to come (Eph. 2:6-7), which believers will most fully experience in the perfect, unending glory, holiness, and joy of heaven (Rom. 8:19-23, 29; 1 Cor. 15:49; Phil. 3:20-21; 1 John 3:2).

 

            “The eternal life promised by God in the Old Testament (e.g., 2 Sam. 12:23; Pss. 16:8-11; 133:3; Dan. 12:2) and sought by the Jews of Jesus’ day (Luke 10:25; John 5:39) comes only to those who believe God’s testimony and place their faith in His Son.  The gospel is exclusive; there are not many ways to God, but only one.  In John 14:6 Jesus declared, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but through Me.’  ‘And there is salvation in no one else,’ Peter added, ‘for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved’ (Acts 4:12; cf. John 6:68; 17:2; Rom. 6:23; 1 Tim. 1:16; Jude 21).”

 

            We are winding down in the study of 1 John, as there is only one shorter SD to do in this section and then only one more section in order to finish it.  Lord willing we will then look at 2^nd John and then 3^rd John.  I am not really sure as to what will happen after that, but I pray that the Lord will guide me.  Once again I ask for prayer for my wife who has cancer and we are looking to the Lord for great wisdom on how to attack this terrible problem.

 

3/25/2025 9:26 PM