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1 John 5:6-13
Stephen Caswell © 2001
Carried To Your Own Room
A little boy named Kenny developed leukemia.
The disease progressed rapidly.
Soon he was unable to go to school, then unable to go out at all, and finally confined to his bed.
One day he asked his mother the question she feared hearing.
/Mother, he said, what is it like to die?/ Though she'd steeled herself for that moment, she couldn't handle it when it came, so she excused herself and went out of the room.
And there in the bathroom she prayed, her knuckles as white as the porcelain in the sink top.
Then, guided by God's Spirit, she went back into the bedroom.
She said, /Kenny, you remember how when you were a very little fellow you sometimes would fall asleep in my bed?/ /And how the next morning, when you would waken, you would find yourself in your own bed and in your own room?
Do you know how that happened?/
It happened because while you were sleeping, your father came with big strong arms and he carried you gently into your own bed in your own room.
That, Kenny, is what death is like.
The youngster smiled trusting in Jesus completely.
A few weeks later he fell asleep, his Heavenly Father came and carried him off to his own room and to his own bed.
Last week we answered the question, /Can we have confidence in the Savior, Jesus Christ?
/To do this we looked at the testimony of the saved.
We saw how that faith in Jesus Christ brings A New Life, eternal life, A New Love, God's love and A New Liberty, overcoming evil.
I want to look at eternal life again with a new question.
/Can we know that we have eternal life?/
Only this time we will see God's testimony concerning His Son. /Firstly,/ we will see */The Testimony Of The Spirit./* /Secondly,/ we will see */The Testimony Of The Father./*
/Firstly, /The Testimony Of The Spirit
*1 John 5:6: */This is He who came by water and blood — Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood.
And it is the Spirit who *bears witness*, because the Spirit is truth./
Most conservative scholars agree that the water refers to Christ' baptism and the blood to His crucifixion.
Christ's public ministry on earth took place between these two significant events.
John wrote these verses to provide assurance for believers.
False teachers denied Christ's ability to save.
Some challenged His deity whilst others questioned His humanity.
They said that the Christ came upon Jesus at His baptism and departed before His death on the cross.
So John reminded them of Holy Spirit's witness concerning Jesus Christ.
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The Water/ /- Christ's Baptism/
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The Father/.
/*The Father testified of His Son. *Luke 3:21-22: */When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened.
And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him*,* and *a voice came from heaven which said, You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.*/*
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God spoke from heaven witnessing on behalf of His Son.
He sent the Holy Spirit upon Jesus in the form of a dove.
This testimony happened at the beginning of Jesus' ministry.
God wanted the world to listen to His Son and believe in Him.
He was pleased with His Son and told the world so.
God gave a public testimony about His Son on at least three occasions.
*2.
John The Baptist.
*He testified about God's Son.
John understood the significance of the Jesus' baptism.
He recognized God's Son! John's testimony perfectly harmonizes with the Father's testimony of His Son. *John 1:29-34:* /The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, Behold!
The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
This is He of whom I said, After me comes a *Man* *who is preferred before me*, for *He was before me*.
I did not know Him; but that He should be revealed to Israel, therefore I came baptizing with water.
And John bore witness, saying, *I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove,* and He remained upon Him.
I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, *Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.*
*And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.*/
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The Blood - Christ's Crucifixion/
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*1 John 5:6a: */This is He who came by water and blood — Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood./
*The blood speaks of Christ's sacrifice on the cross for our sins.*
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Origin Of Yellow Fever Vaccine
In West Africa, in 1927, a blood specimen was taken from a native named Asibi, who was sick with yellow fever.
A rhesus monkey which had just been received from India, was inoculated with the specimen.
Asibi recovered, but the monkey died of the disease.
All the vaccine manufactured since 1927, by the Rockefeller Foundation, the government and other agencies as well, derives from the original strain of virus obtained from this humble native.
Carried down to the present day from one laboratory to another, through repeated cultures, and by enormous multiplication, it has offered immunity to yellow fever to millions of people in many countries.
Through the creative imagination of science, the blood of one man in West Africa has been made to serve the whole human race.
/Christ's blood cleanses all sin./
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The Father/./*
The Father gave further witness as the time drew near for Jesus to die.
He spoke audibly to Jesus from heaven for the third time.
*John 12:27-30:* /Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say?
Father, save Me from this hour?
But for this purpose I came to this hour.
Father, glorify Your name.
*Then a voice came from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again*.
Therefore the people who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered.
Others said, an angel has spoken to Him.
Jesus answered and said, This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake.*
*/God the Father wanted the world to listen to His Son.
Therefore He did all that He could to point people to His Son.
The Father also gave witness through miraculous power when Jesus died on the cross: the supernatural darkness, the earthquake, and the rending of the temple veil.
No wonder the centurion cried out, /Truly this was the Son of God!/ *Jesus did not receive the Christ at His baptism and lose it at the cross.
On both occasions, the Father witnessed to the deity of His Son.
God has testified about His Son.* /Are we listening to Him?/
Atonement Verses In Bible
The New Testament contains 290 references to God's love.
290 times God declares His love for us.
But in the same chapters and the same verses there are more than 1,300 references to the atonement, 1300 assurances that salvation is obtained through the blood of Christ.
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The Apostle John.*
John was present when Jesus was crucified and he gave testimony about Christ's blood.
*John 19:33-35:* /But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and *immediately blood and water came out*.
And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe./
The blood speaks of Christ's death on the cross.
Jesus Christ is in fact the lamb of God slain to take away the sins of the world.*/
/*Christ's blood proves that He was a perfect man.*/
/*He was not a spirit or phantom.
God cannot bleed, but a God Man can.
He was true God and true man.
Yes Jesus Christ shed His blood as the spotless Lamb of God to redeem us from our sin.
How Can Blood Cleanse Sin?
A preacher was speaking from the text, /The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin./
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