John. Now, there are some that will
hear my words this morning and they see no evidence of why they
should believe the gospel. They look and they hear the things
spoken and they just see no evidence why they should believe God.
They don't see any facts that convinces them that this is the
Word of God. They have heard me actually say,
I just wish we had some witness that could show me that these
things are really so. Well, They won't receive the
word because of these things but somebody comes along and
some man comes along and he's speaking some mystical philosophy
and has no witnesses to back it up, has no evidence, no facts
to back up these claims he's making and men will just jump
on it. They'll just jump on it. They'll
take it, receive it, hook, line and sinker. It's just something that tickles
the ears. And you know, in everyday life,
we receive the witness of men without evidence, without facts,
without witnesses. We receive their testimony. It
comes to our food that we eat. We just believe what men tell
us about it. It comes to medicine. We don't
have the witness to the facts to show that all this is We're
just taking a man's word for it, taking men's word for it.
We do this every day in our life, in business. We receive the witness
of men and believe what men say. What about in a court of law?
We receive the witness of men in a court of law. What's required
in a court of law for a witness to be a credible witness? Well, you have to have more than
one witness It has to be two or more witnesses for the word
to be established. It has to be a credible witness.
That means it has to be truthful. They have to be of good character.
And then they have to be cooperating witnesses. They have to agree
their testimony. What they speak has to all agree
with one another. and then we'll receive this witness
that men speak. And there's no doubt, we receive
the witness of men. We do it in our lives every day
when there's not even really proper witnesses. We do it in
courts of law, we receive the witness of men. Look at what
he says in verse 9. If we receive the witness of
men, the witness of God is greater For this is the witness of God
which he hath testified of his son. If we receive the witness
of God, why wouldn't we receive, I mean the witness of men, why
wouldn't we receive the witness of God? The witness of God is
far greater than the witness of men and what he's testifying
to is to his own son. I want to talk to you a little
while this morning about the great witness. The great witness. We should receive the witness
of God. We should receive the word, the
truth, the gospel, the witness of God because it's the greatest
witness there is. It's the greatest testimony.
It's far greater than the testimony of men. And this is God's testimony
of His own Son. of eternal life. Believe this
testimony, you receive this witness, this is life eternal. I want
to do two things in this message. One, I want to comfort you who
believe. I want you to see what great
witness God's given us, what he's given us the testimony that's
so great and this is so comforting to us. We have a great, great
witness that God's given us. And then two, for you that are
skeptical, I want you to see, I want you to see just how great
the witness of God is in declaring that his son is the Christ. He is the son of God, God's anointed,
he is salvation. If we receive the witness of
men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God
which he's testified of his son. Now for my points this morning,
I want to use the three things that are necessary in a court
of law for a witness. First of all, has God provided
more than one witness? Has he provided two or more witnesses? Secondly, is the witness of God
truthful? Is it a credible witness he's
provided? And three, do all the witnesses
agree? Do their testimony agree? Now what is it that we're looking
here, what is it that we're bearing witness to? What's God bearing
witness to? This is the testimony that God
has testified of his son, it says. Now look back up at verse
six. This is he, talking about Jesus
the son of God, this is he, that came by water and blood, even
Jesus Christ. Not by water only, but by water
and blood. What that's declaring, I preached
a message on this a week or so ago, and what that's
declaring is, you remember when our Lord Jesus hung on Calvary's
cross and he said, it's finished. And the soldiers stuck the spear
in his side, and out of his side came blood and water. Blood and water. And all through
the Old Testament scriptures, all through the scriptures, you
had water. You had washing. And everybody
that, when they came to the tabernacle, the priest had to wash. There
was a laver. They had to wash in that laver
before they could come in. There was all these different
kinds of washings that took place. And then, it was full of blood. There was blood everywhere. Blood
had to be shed constantly. The water, the washing of water
is because we are by nature polluted in sin. We're defiled in sin. We have to be washed. And that
water speaks to Christ being our sanctification. Sanctification,
the purity of God's people, that which makes us pure, holy, acceptable
to God so that God who is holy can receive us. We have to be
washed and be made clean. And the blood speaks to Christ's
blood. They would take a lamb, and that
lamb would be spotless, and they would put their hands on the
head of the lamb, and the sin of the people would be transferred
to the lamb, and then the lamb was fit to be slain. And that was the order always. They didn't just come and bring
a spotless lamb and kill a spotless lamb. They brought a spotless
lamb, they transferred the sin to the lamb, and then the lamb
was slain. And this pictured Christ, the
spotless Lamb of God, who had the sin of His people laid on
Him, and God poured out justice on Him instead of on His people,
so that His people are justified, washed, were perfected forever. Scripture clearly tells us that
Jesus Christ sanctified us by His will, by His one offering. By one offering, we're perfected
forever. And so this is what God's bearing
witness to. He's bearing witness to the fact
that the Lord Jesus Christ is His Son, that God's provided
the salvation of His people. He is the righteousness and holiness
God has provided for his people. In fact, he's everything scripture
said he would be. I'll show you towards the end
how he fulfilled everything in the word of God. But here's what,
this is what we're talking about. This is what our witness is that
we're gonna look at today. This is what the witnesses are
testifying. They're testifying Jesus Christ
is salvation. His holiness, His righteousness,
wisdom, redemption, high priest, the prophet, the priest, the
king, He's everything sinners need to be saved by God. Now first of all, has God provided
more than one witness? Has He provided more than one
witness? Scripture said one witness shall not rise up against a man
for iniquity or for any sin, and any sin that he sinneth at
the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses
shall the matter be established. You cannot have just one witness.
That's just my word against your word. You gotta have two or more
witnesses. So has God provided more than
one witness? Has he provided more than one
witness? Now for this point, we're just gonna look and see,
has God provided more than one witness? Well, first of all,
it says verse six, this is he that came by water and blood,
even Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by water and blood.
And then it says, and it's the spirit that beareth witness.
All right, there's One witness, the Spirit beareth witness. The
Spirit beareth witness by speaking through a host of men. The Spirit,
the Holy Spirit of God is the one that's born witness. And
the way He's done it, He spoke through a host of men. That's
why we have these scriptures. These scriptures right here were
written by men. Go back a couple of pages to
2 Peter and look at chapter 1 and verse 21. Men didn't just write
this word themselves, the Spirit of God moved them. The Spirit
of God gave them what to write. Look here, 2 Peter 1 and verse
21. The prophecy, that's talking
about the Old Testament Scriptures. Let's read verse 20. Know this
first, no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. The prophecy came not in old
time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they
were moved by the Holy Ghost. God, the Holy Spirit bore witness
by teaching men what to write. That's where these scriptures
came from. Now that can't be said about any other book that
men claim is a religious book. This is the only one. This book
right here doesn't contain the word of God. This book is the
word of God. That's what this book is. All
scripture is given by inspiration of God. This book is its own
witness that it's of God. The Spirit of God. Let me tell
you what I mean. The way the Spirit of God used
men to write this book is a witness that they were moved by the one
Holy Spirit of God. You consider this. Men who did
not know each other, who lived on separate continents, in separate
countries, Thousands of miles apart, hundreds of miles apart,
without modern communication or any way to communicate with
each other. They wrote in three different
languages over a span of 1600 years. And this book right here has
one unified harmonious message that fits together as if they
were sitting across a table from one another in the same room
and just wrote it all down. It sounds like they were speaking
with one heart. And you know what? They were.
How's that? Because behind them all, there
was this Holy Spirit of God giving them what to write. He's the
author of this book, and so everything fits together. There's no discrepancies
or contradictions. It all has one message, and that
message is bearing witness to the Son of God, the Lord Jesus
Christ, that He indeed is all in the salvation of His people.
He's all. All right, so there's one witness.
Now, the Spirit of God, he not only wrote this book, the Spirit
of God, also on the day of Pentecost, you remember. The Spirit of God
came upon the apostles on the day of Pentecost. Our Lord had
ascended back. He told them to wait there. The
Spirit of God came upon the apostles and here you got all these different
nations there that have all come up to Jerusalem to go through
the ceremonies and Peter stands up and the other apostles and
they stand up and they begin to preach in languages they never
learned before, foreign languages. When you read in scriptures,
they spoke in tongues. They're not speaking some heavenly
language that nobody knows what it is. They spoke in other people's
language, which was a foreign language to them, and they had
never learned it. They just began to speak, and
it'd be like me all of a sudden speaking French to you and not
knowing French, or speaking German and not knowing German. That's
what they did. and they preached the gospel. They understood what
was being said and they preached the gospel to these men. That
was the Spirit of God in everything they preached. You can read about
it in Acts in the first, second chapter. Everything they spoke
about was this is the Christ, the Son of the living God. That
was the Spirit of God bearing witness. And then the Spirit
maintained the preaching of the gospel through those apostles
doing signs and wonders. The reason that they did signs
and wonders in the early church was not just to impress people. Well, it was to a degree because
The gospel was going from the Old Testament to the New Testament,
and the end of the old had come, and Christ is the fulfillment
of it, so God was getting people's attention and showing them, this
indeed, these are my apostles who are preaching Christ is all,
and they were able to do things that nobody else could do because
the Spirit gave them the ability to do it. But the purpose was
to turn men to Christ, to bear witness that He is indeed the
righteousness and holiness of His people. And when those apostles,
they could put their hands on people and they could give that
gift to somebody else. But they were the only ones that
could do that. So when they died, the last one died, that ability
died out. People today that are claiming
that they can speak in languages they've never learned and that
they can do miracles and all these different things, no, they
can't either because that's over with. The purpose of it is served. The purpose of it is served.
And he bore witness, all maintaining the preaching of the gospel and
kept this witness going and that's why we still have the gospel
preached today and why we will have it preached to the, to we
all come, scripture says, to the unity of the faith. Christ
will continue to provide his preachers. The Spirit of God
will continue to bless people in their hearts until every last
single elect child of God is unified in faith in Christ. So this is the purpose, to bring
us to the unity of the faith. And the Spirit's bearing witness.
And he does so in the hearts of his people. And then look
here now in verse 7. So the Spirit bears witness in
that regard. And then it says here there's
three that bear witness in heaven. Verse 7, for there are three
that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy
Ghost. In other words, God is a witness. Now, there are three distinct
persons in the Godhead. Now, if you're going to speak
to somebody about the Trinity, I don't suggest you use that
verse of Scripture to do it, because I don't know if you are
aware, but people say that verse of Scripture doesn't belong in
the Scriptures, and it was added by one of the copiers one time,
and he put it in there, and that's why it's there. So, your Jehovah's
Witnesses are going to try to claim that doesn't belong in
there. So, if you want to use that, but it's all through the
Word of God. that we worship a God in three
persons. That's all through the scriptures.
First thing God did is let us make man in our own image. Let
us make man in our image. That's God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Holy Spirit. It's all through the scriptures.
We worship three distinct persons who is one God. It's one God
with three distinct persons. We do not worship three gods.
We worship one God in three distinct persons. I know this is difficult
to understand. You're not gonna understand it.
You're just not. It's just something. Great is
the mystery of godliness, and this is something you can't understand. God in three persons. It's not
that he's merely manifest in three distinct persons. God is
one God in three distinct persons. and the three persons of the
Godhead all bear witness that Jesus, that man that walked this
earth, is himself God in human flesh. He is himself the salvation
of God's people. God the Father, He created a
world where everything in this world has one purpose, to glorify
His Son. Let me show you, go to Colossians
chapter 1. Colossians chapter 1. It's speaking
here, verse 12, how we give thanks to the Father, which hath made
us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in
life. And look down at, look down at verse 19. He's talking about Christ then,
and it says, I'm sorry, verse 18. It says, Christ is before
all things, And by him all things consist, he's the head of the
body, the church, he's the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
that in all things he might have the preeminence, because it pleased
the Father that in him should all fullness dwell. The Father's
witness is, this is my son, this is my beloved son in whom I'm
well pleased, hear ye him. The Father spoke this from heaven.
And then the Son here in our text is called the Word of God
because the Word is the revelation and Christ, God the Son, is the
revelation of the triune God. So he's listed here as the Word. If you go to John, first chapter,
and read this first few verses with me, it says, In the beginning
was the Word, And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made by Him,
and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was
life, and the life was the light of men. Look down now at verse
14. And the Word was made flesh,
and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father. That means the Son. full of grace
and truth. He is the, he's the Word and
he's how we know who God is. He's how, that's why he's called
the Word is the Son of God is how God manifests the fullness
of the Godhead bodily. Back in Colossians, I'll read
this to you. I'm getting way off track here,
but let me go to Colossians chapter 2. It says here, It says in verse 8, verse Galatians
2.8, Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain
deceit after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the
world, not after Christ. For in him, in Christ, dwelleth
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. In other words, God the
Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit He's manifest
in the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the Son of God. That's why
He's listed here as the Word. He's the revelation of God. And
then God the Holy Ghost. That's the Spirit who we just
saw was bearing witness. So here's more than one witness.
You got the Spirit bearing witness through all these men He's borne
witness through. You've got Three witnesses in
heaven, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
And then you have more witnesses in the earth. Look here in verse
eight. And there are three that bear witness in the earth, the
Spirit, and the water, and the blood. And these three agree
in one. This is the unified testimony
of the gospel. Because here's what he's talking
about. We saw this last time in this message when I looked
at this. When the gospel's being preached
and the gospel's going forth, the Spirit of God, He says the
Spirit, the Spirit of God bears witness within His child, within
His people, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living
God, all our salvation, and He does it by washing us with water
by the Word. Remember the washing of water
by the word? That's what the water stands
for and he does it by the sprinkling of the blood of Christ on our
conscience which purges our conscience so we can hear the truth and
believe the truth. And so you have this witness
now. So if there's any skeptics, here's
what God's saying to us. We got far more than one witness. We got far more, we've got If
you had this many witnesses in court, we would receive the witness
of men, wouldn't we? Why won't we receive the witness
of God? Look at these witnesses we have.
You got God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. You
got all these scriptures and all the spirits given us through
men that have written scriptures. You got the witness of the full
unified testimony of the gospel that He bears witness in the
hearts of His people. So if we receive the witness
of men, the witness of God is greater. And this witness of
God is the witness He's testifying of His Son. Not only do we have
a greater witness, they're witnessing something better than any man
could ever witness to us. He's witnessing the truth of
the gospel of His Son. Now look at the second thing.
Alright, it's required in a court of law that the witness be truthful.
Not only can you have more than one witness, they've got to be
truthful. They gotta be credible. Scripture says, thou shall not
raise a false report, but knock your hand with the wicked to
be an unrighteous witness. So they gotta be credible. Has
God provided credible witnesses? Are they truthful witnesses?
Are there witnesses that can be counted on? Well, verse six, the Spirit bears witness
because the Spirit is truth. He's not just truthful, He is
truth. He is truth. Look at John 16. Our Lord said,
verse 13, He said, when He, the Spirit of truth, that's what
He called, the Spirit of truth, when He, the Spirit of truth
has come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak
of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall he speak,
and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me, for
he shall receive of mine and show it unto you." When will
a man, if a man's not interested in this gospel and they act like
they're too good for it and they're just humoring you to be sitting
in your presence while you preach it, why are they doing that?
God's not speaking to him. That's all. God's just left him
to himself. When he speaks, he bears witness. And he's witnessed truth and
he declares Christ. He bears witness of Christ. Well,
what about the witness in heaven, the triune God? Is he truth?
We don't even have to look at this, do we? Scripture says,
God's not a man that he should lie. Neither the son of man that
he should repent. If He's not spoken, will He not
do it? Titus 1-2 says He's God that cannot lie. You mean there's
something God cannot do? Yes! God cannot lie. Why? He's holy God. That's why.
He's the rock. His work is perfect. All His
ways are judgment. He's a God of truth without iniquity. He's just and He's righteous.
So yes, we have the triune God. He's truthful. What about the
witness in the earth? Is the witness in the earth truthful?
He says there are three that bear witness in the earth. It's
the spirit, the water, and the blood. We're born, scripture
says, of what kind of seed? Incorruptible seed. Now, if you've
been listening to the messages on Thursday night, and you know
when I'm going through 1 John, I cannot preach a message without
going to 1 Peter and reading this, so I'm going there. 1 Peter,
1 Peter, chapter one, He's talking here about the Word
of God. And you know, I said the Spirit,
the water, and the blood, that's all together is the incorruptible
seed, the gospel that's preached, the Spirit bearing witness of
the Word, the washing of water by the Word, and the blood. Now
look here, what he says about it. He says in verse 21, it's by Christ that
we believe in God. that raised Him up from the dead
and gave Him glory, and gave Him glory to shed all this in
our heart, that your faith and hope might be in God, seeing
you've purified your souls and obeying the truth through the
Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, When the Spirit
gives you life, you bow to Christ, and that's how and that's when
you believe you love your brethren. And it's unhypocritical then,
it's real. And you love them with a pure
heart fervently. Here's why. You've been born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word
of God. The Word of God is living and
it abides forever. This word is not just like any
other word on a page. When the Spirit of God has made
this word It brought this word into your heart. This gospel
is living. This word is alive. That's how
come it never gets old to a believer. It's new every day because it's
alive and it abides forever and that's how come we're alive inwardly
and abide forever because we're born of it. Now look, this is
why you got to be born of it, verse 24, because all flesh is
grass and all the glory of a man is like the flower of grass.
The grass withers, the flower thereof fades away, but the word
of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word which by
the gospel is preached unto you. This is why God says it pleased
him to save through the foolish of preaching because this is
the incorruptible seed. And the Spirit of God, now our
text says, the Spirit of God washes you with the water of
the word in regeneration, Titus 3, not by works of righteousness
we done, by his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration,
which he poured out on us abundantly through the righteousness of
Jesus Christ because he's justified us and we're heirs and we need
to be brought into this sonship. And this is why Christ said he
sanctified himself, that I might wash them with water by the word
and present them to myself spotless and without blemish. And it's
the blood, God's Holy Spirit said, Hebrews 9, how much more
shall the blood of Jesus Christ who offered himself without spot
to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God. That's what he's saying here
in 1 John 5-7 is the spirit with the washing of water by the word,
sprinkling of that blood, this unified testimony is all truth. It's incorruptible truth. And
that's how we're born of God. That's how of his own will begat
he us with the word of truth. So yes, number one, we got more
witnesses than one. Number two, all these witnesses
are truth. They're all truth, they are truth,
and they all bear witness of the truth. So if we receive the
witness of men, bearing witness to useless things that are not
even important things, if we receive their witness, John says
the witness of God's greater. And this is a more important
witness that he's testifying of his son. Why don't we receive
his witness? All right, lastly, in a court of law, they must
be corroborating witnesses. They have to all agree. These
witnesses have to be testifying the exact same thing. There can't
be no discrepancy between the witnesses. They have to be telling
one gets up, states facts, the other one gets up, states facts,
and they all agree on what they've seen, Well, is that the case
with the witness of God? Well, the Lord Jesus Christ himself
here, he bore witness by fulfilling the whole word of God. That's
what he did. The blood and the water signifies he fulfilled
the whole word. Let me show you that. John 19.
I'm just about done. I want to show you this though.
John 19. Our text says, He came not by
water only, but by water and blood. Look here, John 19.32. Then came the soldiers and they
break the legs of the first. And they came and they broke
the legs of the other which was crucified with him. But when
they came to Jesus, saw that he was dead already, they break
not his legs. But one of the soldiers with
a spear pierced his side, and forth came thereout blood and
water. That's what John's talking about
in our text. Now what did that mean? What did that mean? And he that saw it, bear record,
His record is true, He bear testimony, He bore witness, and His witness
is true, and He knoweth He saith true, that you might believe,
for these things were done, that the Scripture should be fulfilled. A bone of Him shall not be broken,
that was the Scripture, so that's why they didn't break a bone
of His, because that was the Scripture. Again another Scripture
said, they shall look on Him whom they've pierced, that's
why they pierced Him. And all through the Scripture,
blood, water, and all those washings said Christ is sanctification.
And all through the Scripture, the bloodshed of all those lambs
and bulls said Christ is our justification. And when Christ
hung on that cross, He said, It is finished. He said, I'm
the fulfillment of everything that's been written in all this
Old Testament Scripture. I'm the fulfillment of it. And
He is the fulfillment of it. We're washed, sanctified by the
Lord Jesus Christ and we're justified by Christ. Justified freely by
His grace to the redemption that's in Christ Jesus who God set forth
as a propitiation through faith in His blood. In His blood. And both He that sanctifies and
they who are sanctified of all are one for which cause He's
not ashamed to call us brethren. He sanctified us by one offering
on the cross, Hebrews 9 says. He's our sanctification. The
water and blood that flowed from His side said He's fulfilled
everything. He's fulfilled everything. A
bone of His wasn't broken because He's the fulfillment of Scripture.
He's the end for the whole purpose of it. Now the Spirit bears witness
to that. That's what John's saying. Well,
what does He say to us? The Spirit says, He bears witness
to Christ and I'll tell you some things he did whenever that happened. The veil. Now this veil was one
thread was woven six times I think it was. One thread. was woven
six times and they were woven double. So this thing was thick,
this veil, and inside it was the mercy seat. Well Christ is
the mercy seat. He's the one that mercy seat
pictured. And that lamb that would be slain, Christ is the
one that lamb pictured. And that water that washed, Christ
is the one that water pictured. And that high priest that would
go in once a year into that Holy of Holies by himself with blood
and offered on that mercy seat to cover the law and to appease
God. Christ is that high priest. He's
everything that was pictured there. So you know what the Holy
Spirit did? Split that veil from the top all the way down to the
bottom. And it opened up And there wasn't
a mercy seat in there. There was no ark in there because
it had been lost a long time ago in one of the wars they went
into. It's gone. They've been faking
it for 600 years. And it opened up. And the Lord
said by that, He's the one that finished it. That happened when
He cried out, It's finished. That's when that happened. Signifying
He's the one that all the scriptures have been speaking about. And
then guess what happened? The earth quaked and the rocks
rent. Who do you think did that? This
witness did it. And it punctuated all those soldiers,
that centurion that was sitting there. It says he saw Jesus and
he saw the earth quake and he saw all those things that were
done and he feared greatly. Who put that fear in his heart?
The Spirit of God did, bearing witness of Christ. And you know
what he said? This was truly the Son of God. The Spirit bore
witness. Well, do the other witnesses
agree with the Spirit that He is indeed the end of the law,
that He's the righteousness, holiness, redemption, wisdom,
high priest, prophet, priest, king, everything. Does the rest
of these witnesses agree with the Spirit? There are three that
bear record in heaven. They're the Father, the Word,
and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one. They
agreed fully. They agreed fully. Our God the
Father spoke from heaven on the Mount of Transfiguration. Peter,
he saw Moses and Elias and he saw Christ and Peter said, well
this is great, let's build a tabernacle to all three of them. And all
of a sudden, bam, they come a loud noise from heaven and they hit
the deck and when they hit their face and God spoke from heaven
and said, this is my beloved son. You hear Him. Don't you build anything for
Moses. Don't you build anything for Elias. You hear My Son. And Peter looked back up and
Moses wasn't there and Elias wasn't there either. Just Christ
alone. The other father agrees. Does the Word agree? The Son
of God? Of course He agrees. He is the one we're witnessing
of. And the whole revelation is concerning Him being the salvation
of His people. All He ever preached was the
truth of God. and we saw the Spirit bear witness
with him. The triune God testified, him
hath God exalted with his right hand to be a prince and a savior
to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins and we're
his witnesses of these things. So is also the Holy Ghost and
God's given to them that obey him. So they all agree, brethren. They all agree. They all agree. Now, For you that believe God,
why is it you believe it? You see there's more than one
witness. You see that they're all truthful witnesses. And you
see that they all agree that Jesus Christ is all. Why do you
believe this? What makes you believe it? Look
at verse 10. He that believeth on the Son
of God hath the witness in himself. That's why you believe it. God's
put this witness in you. The Spirit of God has come into
your heart and he's made you believe and you agree, yes, you
receive his testimony. What about those that don't believe
him? He that believeth not God hath
made him a liar. He that doesn't believe God right
now Anybody sitting here right now that doesn't believe Jesus
Christ is the wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,
that he's everything that's book declared, you can't save yourself
by your works, you don't have a will, you don't have anything
to do it, you're calling God a liar. Because he's given ample witness.
He said he calls God a liar because he believes not the record that
God gave of his son. And this is the record that God's
given to us eternal life. He didn't make you earn it. He gave it. And this life is in His Son.
It's nowhere else. It's not in your works. It's
not in your will. It's not in your church. It's
not in your denomination or the walking in an aisle or church
membership or baptismal pool. It's not anywhere but Christ. That's it. Faith in Him. He that
hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God
hath not life. These things are written and
I'm preaching these things to you that believe on the name
of the Son of God. I want you to know you have eternal life.
And to you that's sitting here skeptical, I'm preaching that
you might believe on the name of the Son of God. I want you
to believe Him. If you receive the witness of
men, the witness of God is far greater. And He bears witness
of His Son. He's life. Believe on Him. Believe on Him. You'll have eternal
life. And it'll be because He put the witness in you and you'll
give Him the glory. All right.