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Witness and Testimony

by Esther Griggs
written by Esther Griggs

John writes about Jesus the Christ when he declares that He came both by water and by blood. The Spirit of God is the witness because He is the Spirit of truth. There are three witnesses in heaven and also on earth followed by the testimony.

Witness in Heaven

John says there are three witnesses in heaven. These are the Father, the Word and the Spirit. They are three but they are also one.

Witness on Earth

In 1 John 5: 8, he writes that there are also three witnesses on earth. The Spirit, the water and the blood. They are three but they all agree as if they were one. When the soldier struck Jesus to see if He was dead, water and blood spilled from His side. We may receive the witness of men but how much greater the witness of God who at His baptism stated, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.”

The Testimony

Do you believe in the Son of God? That in itself is a witness. Otherwise you make God out to be a liar. The testimony is that God has given eternal life, the life that is in His Son. Anyone who has the Son also has His life. There are three witnesses in heaven and also on earth followed by the testimony.

John clarified the reason he wrote. He was writing to believers. He wanted them to know that they had eternal life and to give them a reason to continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

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Preparing the way

The Word, The Witness, The Wonder

by Esther Griggs
written by Esther Griggs

The Word was in the beginning, was with God and was God. John declares that the Word created the world. The Word also is life. The life enlightens all men.

 This Word became flesh and lived among us. He revealed God. “When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” (Galatians 4:4) They learned He was the only begotten of the Father. His contemporaries saw Him, full of grace and truth. It showed up when He fed the multitudes, calmed the storms, healed the blind, ministered to children and the poor, or scolded the religious leaders. All the fullness of God was in Jesus. God sent the Word. However, God prepared the way for the Word by sending a witness and now we can experience the wonder.

“I am the way … “

The Witness

The apostle John writes of John the witness. The prophet Malachi speaks of the witness when he writes, “Behold I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me.” As the witness he was first to say, “This is Him.” Here is the One I was telling you about. He is the One who comes after Me. The Word is more important than I. He was before Me.

How, when he was born prior to Jesus, can the witness make this claim?  John knows Jesus is God. Jesus was in the beginning, at creation. The witness speaks of this One who came before him as creator and in the position as God’s only begotten Son.  John is the witness to God being Man.

A Wonder

We have all received from His fullness, grace for grace. God through Moses brought the law. But now as the writer to the Hebrews states,” in these last days” God speaks through His Son. Rather than being about law, John writes, it is about grace and truth. “Where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.” Rom. 5:21.

No one has ever seen God. Moses saw His form but never His face. Now in the fullness of time, Jesus, the Word of God, declares Him. Jesus tells us that no man comes to the Father except through Him. He is the way, the truth and the Life. When we live in His truth, we will know the truth. It will set us free from the law of sin and death. In Him we have life, abundant life. It is a wonder! God sent the Word but prepared the way by sending a witness and we experience the wonder.

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