START YOUR DAY RIGHT DAILY DEVOTION
(KJV) 1 John 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
BY WATER AND BLOOD / 1 JOHN 5:6
This phrase probably refers to Jesus’ baptism at the beginning of His ministry and to His death on the cross. John may have written this because some were teaching that Christ did not experience death. These false teachers were early Gnostics who basically claimed that “spirit” (the spirit realm) is good, and “matter” (the physical world) is evil. For this reason, they could not conceive of God actually taking on human form. They argued that Jesus was born as a mere man and that the Christ (the Son of God) came on Jesus at His baptism but left Him before His suffering and death on the cross, so that only the man Jesus died, not the Son of God. Some even claimed that Jesus only appeared to have a body. Throughout this letter, John directly challenges these notions and affirms that Jesus Christ is both God and man (1 John 5:1-4; 4:2; 5:5; 1 John 5:1; 1 John 5:2; 1 John 5:3; 1 John 5:4). In this passage, he stresses that it was this God-man, Jesus Christ, who came into the world, was baptized and died for sins (1 John 5:6). This truth is vitally important because only as fully God and fully man could Jesus provide the perfect sacrifice to pay the penalty of sin once and for all (Hebrews 10:10; 1 Peter 3:18), bridging the gap that humanity’s sin had created between people and God. The Holy Spirit also bears witness to this truth (1 John 5:7-8). The Spirit descended on Jesus at His baptism (John 1:32-34; John 1:33), and He continues to confirm the truth of Christ in the heart of all true believers.
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Some of our Post That Might Interest You, All Out of the Current Book / Chapter
- OVERCOME THE WORLD, EVEN OUR FAITH / 1 JOHN 5:4
- HIS COMMANDS ARE NOT BURDENSOME / 1 JOHN 5:3
- THIS IS HOW WE KNOW / 1 JOHN 5:2
- BELIEVES … LOVES / 1 JOHN 5:1
- IF WE CLAIM TO BE WITHOUT SIN / 1 JOHN 1:8
- BECAUSE WE OBEY HIS COMMANDS / 1 JOHN 3:22
- MUST WALK AS JESUS DID / 1 JOHN 2:6
- THE DEVIL / 1 JOHN 3:8
- ASK ANYTHING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL / 1 JOHN 5:14
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Blessings,
Margarita & Stace
