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Have you ever met someone who knows everything?
Yes
Or have you ever met someone that in a conversation constantly tells you that they know before you finish talking.
You may be working to explain to your children something and they interrupt with I know.
In the closing verses of John’s letter we have 5 Christian certainties that we can know and live out with confidence.
Through out this letter we have this tension that John is writing to refute false ideas that others have tried to influence this group of people with.
Pray
It is our desire with this series to understand what it means to walk in fellowship with Jesus as being Forgiven by Jesus.
God what is your desire for our lives.
How do you want us to live?
How do you want us to act?
As a Christ follower, what should we believe?
I said before that John throughout the letter has been refuting false teachings.
Here in verse 6 we again find John doing this.
So what is the false teaching that he is refuting and the truth that He is teaching?
The truth is that Jesus Christ is God
The false teaching was to make the person of Jesus not God.
Their desire was to say that Jesus was just a man.
Some said Jesus was a religious fanatic, a madman, or perhaps just a Jewish patriot, but we know that Jesus was indeed God.
The false teaching to try and make a lie truth was that Jesus was born not of a virgin and that Joseph and Mary were His parents but he was not God.
These false teachers believed that the Spirit of God came on this person of Jesus when he was baptized and that the Spirit of God left this person of Jesus before the death on the cross.
They believed that when Jesus cried out and said My God My God why have you forsaken me that at that point the Spirit of God had returned to Heaven.
John’s letter refutes this false teaching.
The letter presents three witnesses to prove that Jesus is God.
The first witness is the water.
God the Father used this baptism to declare that Jesus was indeed His son and that Jesus was God.
The second witness was the blood.
Jesus over and over told them that he would die but they would not understand it.
The false teachers tried to make Jesus just a man who had the Spirit of God, but John says through the baptism and through the blood that Jesus was God.
Jesus being God is essential to your faith.
Again this truth changes EVERYTHING in our life when we submit to the Lordship of Jesus in our life we change everything.
The third witness is the Spirit.
The Spirit was given to bear witness to Christ
Believers strive to understand the role of the Holy Spirit.
The major role of the Spirit is to bear witness to Christ.
The Holy Spirit was present at the baptism of Jesus and the death of Jesus but we were not.
This same spirit is sent to live inside of you to bear witness to Christ.
The Holy Spirit can be trusted.
The Spirit is active now in ministry.
We can see the effects of the Spirit’s ministry.
The Spirit also witnesses to us through the Word of God.
When we read God the Spirit speaks to us and teaches us.
These three witness here in 1 John settle the matter.
The water, blood and the Spirit settle it that Jesus is God.
1 John 5: 9-10
9 If we accept the testimony of men, God’s testimony is greater, because it is God’s testimony that He has given about His Son. 10 (The one who believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him.
The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony God has given about His Son.)
The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version.
(2009).
(1 Jn 5:9–10).
Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
We receive the witness of men, so why should we reject the witness of God?
People often say, “I wish I could have faith!”
But everybody lives by faith!
All day long, people trust one another.
They trust the doctor and the pharmacist; they trust the cook in the restaurant; they even trust the fellow driving in the other lane on the highway.
If we can trust men, why can we not trust God?
And not to trust Him is to make Him a liar!
Jesus is God: this is the first Christian certainty, and it is foundational to everything else.
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996).
The Bible exposition commentary (Vol.
2, p. 528).
Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
God gave witness to individual believers.
God wanted us to know that He has given us Eternal life.
Eternal Life is a gift and is not something we can earn
We receive eternal life not only from Christ but in Christ!
Christ wants us to LIVE!
When Sir James Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform, was on his deathbed, a friend asked him, “Sir, what are your speculations?”
Simpson replied: “Speculations!
I have no speculations!
‘For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.’ ”
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