Testimony of God about Son (1 John 5:6- 12)

TESTIMONY OF GOD ABOUT SON (1 JOHN 5:6- 12): 

After writing about the way of Loving God and keeping His commandments, through which believers could overcome the world, Apostle John continues to write about the testimony concerning the Son of God. Apostle John writes that Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood, not by the water only but the water and the blood, and the Spirit is the one who testifies because the Spirit is of truth. Jesus Christ was born as a human being from the womb of the virgin Mary, is the seed of her, and He had the life through her. Also, Jesus had followed all the righteousness including the practice of Baptism, and vitally expressed the need for obeying righteous practices when a person accepts God and repents, by proclamation to the world. He shed His blood in the cross, as a sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. The person who had accepted the Lord Jesus had received the Spirit of God, and also their genuine conscience know and testifies about the need of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Spirit of God always helps a person to be in truth. The three testimonies in heaven are the Father, Son, and the Spirit, and basically, God who is the source of everything. Apostle John writes that the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood are the three that testify on earth and those three agree. The conscience or the Spirit of God, the physical birth or the proclamation of accepting God, and the life or shedding life for others would surely testify about Jesus Christ.

Apostle John further writes that if they receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for the testimony of God, is that He had borne concerning His Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in Himself. Whoever does not believe God had made Him a liar, because he had not believed in the testimony, which God had borne concerning His Son. The words and actions of men are fragile and inconsistent whereas the expressions of God stand forever and God had testified how He is the pleasing personality to man and gives an inheritance to man through the Son of God. The person who had believed Jesus, know God and the person could be sure about the provision of God. But the person who had not believed God could neither believe nor commit his life to the Son, because God had testified about Jesus Christ.

Apostle John then writes that God gave us eternal life is the testimony and that life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life and whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. God loved the world very much though it was defiled by human beings due to disobedience and deviation from God. God gave His only son as an atoning sacrifice so that whoever believes Him with a genuine heart and mind, could be saved and have everlasting life. Thereby the person who had known Jesus Christ, after accepting and believing Him could surely have valuable life in the present world and the future, whereas there is no hope and future for who doesn’t know Jesus Christ.

Stimulations for Self-Reflection:

1.      How Jesus had come? Who testifies it?

2.      How the Spirit testifies that Jesus came by water and Blood?

3.      What are the three that testify? How?

4.      Which testimony is greater? How?

5.      What does one who believes in the testimony of Son have? How?

6.      What one who doesn’t believe in the testimony of Son does? How?

7.      What is the testimony of Son?

8.      What one who has Son has? How?

9.      How one who doesn’t have Son, don’t have a life?

10.  How we can be cautious about the testimony of God?