Whosoever believeth that Jesus
is the Christ is born of God. And everyone that loveth him
that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we
know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep
His commandments. And this is His commandment.
that we should believe on the name of His Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus answered and said, this
is the work of God that you believe on Him whom He had sent. John
was with Peter and James in that mount whenever they saw Christ's
glory and Peter suggested they build a monument to Moses and
Elias as well as to Christ and there came a voice from heaven
commanding This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased
to hear ye hymn. When we are born of God and He
fitly frames us together and He makes us to edify one another
in love, it's in the unity of the faith. That's what I was
trying to do. to declare to you when I was
saying that this love of brethren is in the context of the church.
It's in faith. That's how we love one another.
By believing on His Son. Being united together and believing
on His Son. By this we know that we love
the children of God. When we love God and keep His
commandments. And this is His commandment.
That we believe on His Son. Verse 3, For this is the love
of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not
grievous. Christ said, Come unto me, believe on me. He said, All ye that labor in
the heavy laden, I will give you rest. For my yoke is light,
it's not grievous. It's light, my burden is light,
my yoke's easy. God's great love, wherewith he
loved us. makes it a light and easy yoke
to believe on Christ, doesn't it? And this is how we know we
love one another when we love God and believe on Christ. And in case we don't understand
that it's through faith in Christ, He says, verse 4, For whatsoever
is born of God overcometh the world, and this is the victory
that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh
the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God. Now here our text begins, verse
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. For there are three that
bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost,
and these three are one. And there are three that bear
witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood,
and these three agree in one. 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. That's our subject, the
witness of God. John said here in verse 5, He
that overcometh the world is he that believeth that Jesus
is the Son of God. Now how do we know Jesus is the
Son of God? How do we know? How do we believe
that Jesus is the Son of God? Scripture says, in the mouth
of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. Not
one, two or three. Two or three. Do we have two
or three witnesses? We do. That's what John is declaring
to us. We know and believe that Jesus
is the Son of God by the witness of God bearing witness within
us. The Spirit The water and the
blood. And these three are one. First
of all, we have the witness that Jesus is the Son of God because
He fulfilled the whole law of God for His people. This is one
witness we have. Christ fulfilled the whole law
of God for His people. He says there in verse 6, this
is He that came by water and blood. even Jesus Christ, not
by water only, but by water and blood. What is this water and
blood? Well, let's go back to where
brother Robert took us. In the garden, by our first father
Adam, all men were given a spiritually dead sin nature within us. That's what the water has to
do with. We were given a spiritually dead
sin nature within us. We're going to see the water
is how that's cured. And then in Adam we broke God's
holy law. That one commandment He said,
in the day you eat thereof you shall surely die. And it didn't
take God by surprise. As Rob said, it was according
to God's eternal purpose. Adam broke that law. And every
one of Adam's children broke that law in him. We became guilty
under the law of God. So we come into this world with
a sin nature that's unholy, that's defiled, that's corrupt, that's
dead. Because we're born of Adam's
corrupt, sinful seed. That's what the psalmist meant
when he said, Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my
mother conceive me. we were conceived in sin. Whenever God looked down upon
the earth in Noah's day, Scripture says this is what He saw. And
this is true of every sinner by nature in our day. This is
true of our sin nature. You and I who believe God, this
is true of our sin nature right now. This is all it is. God saw
that the wickedness of man was great in the earth. Listen to
this. and that every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. That's my sin nature and that's
your sin nature. It's only sin and all it does
is produce sin. That's all. And then we come
into this world unrighteous. We come into this world guilty
sinners. We come in guilty of transgression,
sin, and iniquity because we broke God's law in Adam. And there's no sinner that can
justify ourselves. We cannot make ourselves righteous.
One, we can't keep the law. But two, even if we could keep
the law, the scripture says, by the deeds of the law there
shall no flesh be justified in God's sight. Because the law
was given to give us a knowledge of our sin. That's why the law
was given. So when you look throughout the
old covenant, you read the law and you go through the law, we're
going to start getting to this more in Exodus as we go along. But as you read through the Law,
there's two things you always find that are necessary for a
sinner to approach God and be accepted of God. Water and blood. Water and blood. You always find
this throughout the Scriptures. Look at Hebrews chapter 9. Hebrews is a commentary on the
Old Covenant Levitical Law. And we find out something right
here about how that old covenant was enjoined to the people. In
Hebrews 9, and look here in verse 19, it says, When Moses had spoken
every precept to all the people according to the law, he took
the blood. He took the blood of calves and
of goats with water. Blood and water. and scarlet
wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people,
saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath
enjoined unto you." This is the blood of the old covenant, that
covenant of works that God enjoined to them. It was dedicated with
blood and water. Blood and water. Aaron and his
sons were priests unto God. Their picture of of us who Christ
has made priests unto God. We are not to offer up physical,
temporal sacrifices. He made us priests to offer up
spiritual sacrifices, praising Him, worshiping Him in spirit
and in truth. But those priests, Aaron and
his sons, in order for them to be consecrated as priests, two
things were involved in that ceremony whereby they were consecrated
priests. and blood. Water and blood. By water they were ceremonially
washed. They were washed. It was a ceremony. It was not spiritual. It was a ceremony. Physical ceremony. But it typified the inward work
of sanctification. It typified holiness. It typified
being made holy, being made clean, being made pure within. Christ is the sanctification
of His people. That's what the water signifies. And then the other thing that
was involved with them being consecrated as priests was blood. It was blood. They took an innocent
lamb, a spotless lamb, and they put their hands on the head of
that lamb, picturing the transference of their sins to that lamb, and
that lamb was killed in their place. And the blood was applied
to Aaron and his sons. And that's a picture of Christ's
blood making a believer righteous. Putting away our sin, justifying
us, making us righteous before holy God, before His holy law. Christ is the righteousness of
His people. So you're beginning to see here
what the water and the blood signify in our text. Let's read
it again. 1 John 5. And read verse 6. This is He, Jesus the Son of
God. This is He that came by water
and blood. Even Jesus Christ. It says there,
this is He that came by water. That's sanctification and holiness. He's pointing us to Christ, our
sanctification, our holiness, our purity, Christ. And blood. That's pointing us to Christ
our righteousness, Christ our justification. It says, even
Jesus Christ, not by water only. Some will say that, they speak
of this imaginary thing of saying that whenever God sanctifies
you and makes you holy, then or begins the work, they say,
then it's a co-effort between you and Christ and by your obedience
under the law and you work out this holiness and make it more
and more perfect until it's complete. No, He says not by water only,
but by water and blood. When Christ is truly made sanctification
unto us, we're made to see He is all our sanctification and
He is all our righteousness. There's nothing left for you
and I to do. He's all. Turn now with me to
John chapter 19. He came by water and my blood. Now we just sang two songs that
I picked out for us to sing. Rock of Ages said, Rock of Ages,
cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee. Let the water and the
blood, let the water and the blood from thy wounded side which
flows. Be of sin the double cure. Save from wrath and make me pure. The other we sang was grace greater
than our sin. And it says grace, grace, God's
grace, grace that will pardon and cleanse within. We need Christ to be the double
cure. We have a double disease. We're
impure within. We're unholy within. We're defiled
and corrupt within. We need Christ to be our holiness. We need Him to be our sanctification.
We need Him to perfect us and make us holy so we can be accepted
of God. And we have another problem that
we're guilty. We need Christ to be our justification.
We need Him to be our righteousness. We need water and blood. We need Christ our sanctification
and Christ our righteousness. Now look here in John 19 and
verse 30. This is when our Savior was hanging on the tree. It says verse 30, When Jesus
therefore had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished. And He bowed His head and He
gave up the ghost. Our Lord is the only person who
ever did that. He bowed His head and He gave up the ghosts. He released His Spirit. Remember
He said, no man takes my life, I lay it down of myself. When it was time, when it was
finished, when He justified His people, He gave up the ghosts. Now look, the Jews therefore,
because it was the preparation that the bodies should not remain
upon the cross on the Sabbath day, for that Sabbath day was
a high day, they besought Pilate that their legs might be broken
and that they might be taken away. Now here is an example
of why Christ must be our righteousness and our sanctification. Here's
an example right here. In the middle of the two tables
of the law, if you look at the law, there's one table that is
the commandments of God toward God. There's one table that is
the commandments of God toward man. And right in the middle
between the two, God gave a commandment concerning the Sabbath. The Sabbath. God gave a Sabbath, a day of
rest. so that men could rest from all
their works. Isn't it amazing that God put
that commandment right there in the middle of those two tablets? Right there in the middle is
Sabbath rest, the command to rest on the Sabbath day. And
because these Jews he's speaking of had an impure, unholy, defiled,
sinful nature, they did not understand what the Sabbath pictured. That
Sabbath rest pictures Christ who fulfilled the law for His
people, who is the sanctification of His people, who gives us rest
from all the works of the law so that we can actually live
under God and enjoy the worship of God. That's what He gives
His people. But without Christ being made
sanctification unto us will do just what these men did. They
crucified the Lord of glory. They crucified the Sabbath. They crucified the Sabbath and
they wanted to get Him off the cross and get Him out of the
way so they could go about trying to keep
the law of the Sabbath day as well as all the rest of the law
so they could try to earn for themselves a righteousness and
a holiness. Isn't that sad? That's you and me. That's us. That's what's in our heart by
nature. Reject Christ for the law, reject Him who is the righteousness
of the law, reject Him who is the holiness of His people for the law. And our stinking,
filthy works under the law. That's what they were doing.
Now look what happened. It says here, for the sake of
the Sabbath day that they were, they saw pilot that the legs
might be broken that they might be taken away so these, they
could be taken off the cross. When a person was crucified and
this, you just, we ought to not speak of our Lord's death in
a flippant, stoic way because we just can't imagine what this
was like. Just the physical aspect of it.
Not to mention the spiritual agony. But when those nails were
nailed, they were nailed through the bones of the foot and they
were nailed in between the bones in the wrist right here. so that
your hand was automatically put in this awful reflexive, your
middle finger and your ring finger, it just felt like lightning shooting
through them. And it would force your hand
into a sort of a downward, you know, just tensed up like a seizure. And in order to, when you breathe,
you could breathe in fine, but you could not exhale. You had
to do, great effort to exhale. So in order to exhale, they would
push themselves up on those spikes through their feet to try to
exhale. And so what they're wanting to
do is break their legs so they couldn't do that, so that they
would not be able to exhale and they would die quicker. So they
could get them down so they could go back to observing the Sabbath.
Now listen to this, verse 32, Then came the soldiers, and broke
the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified
with him. You have to get a picture of
this. Here's one on one side, they break his legs, and when
they get to Christ, they just skipped him, and went to this
other one, and broke his legs. And it says, but when they came
to Jesus, then they come back to Christ. They saw that he was
dead already. and they break not his legs but
one of the soldiers with a spear and this is just in their minds
they didn't break his legs because well he's dead don't break his
legs and this other soldier just I suppose out of meanness just
took a spear and just shoved it up into his side up into his
lungs and his heart and it says and forthwith came there out
blood and water, blood and water. And he that saw it, John bare
record, and his record is true, and he knoweth that he sayeth
true, that you might believe. Now the soldiers did what they
did because this was what was in their heart to do. But look
at this, for these things were done that the scripture should
be fulfilled. Psalm 3420, a bone of him shall
not be broken. That's why none of the bones
in any of the Passover feasts or the sacrifices could be broken
because a bone of Christ would not be broken. And it says, and
again another scripture says, this is Zechariah 1220, they
shall look on him whom they have pierced. They were fulfilling
the will of God. But that's the scripture from
where Top Lady wrote the hymn we just sang. Let the water and
the blood from thy wounded side which flowed be of sin the double
cure. Save from wrath, justify me,
make me righteous, save me from my guilt, and make me pure. make me holy, sanctified. So the water represents Christ,
our sanctification. And the blood, Christ our righteousness. Outwardly, in what Christ did
for us on the cross, He made His people the righteousness
of God in Him. By His perfect obedience, even
until this agonizing, shameful, Death of the cross. He made His
people righteous. Completely put away our sin.
Justified us from all sin. And because He's holy, and because
He is that holy thing born of a virgin, that water is declaring
Christ is our sanctification. We must be washed inwardly. Christ said, except I wash thee,
thou hast no part in me. We must be washed. Now, that's
the first witness. The whole Word of God, all the
Old Testament Scriptures are fulfilled in Christ. He's the
fulfillment of everything that's written. He's the fulfillment. When He said it's finished, that
veil in the temple rent from top to bottom. declaring that's
the end of the law. It's done. It's finished. And
Christ is the end. Now secondly, we have this witness
that is within us by the Holy Spirit. We have the Holy Spirit
to bear witness and I'm going to put this together because
it's just hard to divide it. But it's the Holy Spirit by the
washing of water by the Word, that water has got to be applied. And it's the Holy Spirit that
applies it, the washing of the water by the Word. And the blood,
that blood's got to be applied. And that blood is applied within
our hearts, verse 6. The second part says, And it
is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. Now we'll come back. There's
more witness. The triune God in glory in heaven
is a witness too. But we'll come back to verse
7 another time. But for now, let's just look
at verse 8. And there are three that bear witness in the earth,
the Spirit, and the water, and the blood. And these three are
one. In the season of His love, whenever
God sends the Holy Spirit, we'll be sitting here in the gospel
just like this. And sometimes it is all at once, but to us
we don't necessarily know it's happened and it may take a little
time for us to know. We have the witness within us
by the Spirit bearing witness within us. Our Lord Jesus said,
when He the Spirit of truth is come, that's what He's called
here, the Spirit of truth. Look at John at the second part
of verse 6. It's the Spirit that beareth
witness because the Spirit is truth. He said, when He the Spirit
of truth is come, He will guide you into all truth. 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, Christ said. For He shall receive of
Mine and shall show it unto you. This is that unction that John
was talking about. That you that have been born
of God, you have the unction. You have the unction of the Holy
One whereby we know all things. Because He guides us into all
truth. The Spirit of God comes and He
convicts us. Convicts us and convinces us
of sin. We have to be made to know we
are sinners. If we are going to have a need
of salvation, we have to be made to know it. You can hear me preach
depravity and hear me preach that we are ruined in sin and
you can acknowledge it with the mind and say, I see that, I understand,
we are to pray. But it takes the Spirit of God
making you know you are the depravity. And when He makes you know that,
that's when you're going to need Christ. He says to us in John
16, if you want to look there, He says in John 16 verse 8, this
is what the Spirit does. He said, I'll send the comforter.
And when He's come, verse 8, He will reprove. That is, convict
and convince. He'll reprove the world, His
elect, wherever they are in the world, of sin and of righteousness
and of judgment. Of sin, because they believe
not on Me. If we don't believe on Christ,
we're in our sins. We have sins. John, in the third
chapter, 1 John 3, he said, those that abide in him have no sin. We can't commit sin. Christ has
put it away. There's no sin in our new man.
We cannot sin. That new man cannot sin. And
before God, all our sins put away, past, present, and future.
And before God, we can't sin. We can't sin, but until we're
about to believe on Christ, He will convince of sin, because
they believe not on me, of righteousness, because I go to my Father and
you see me no more. That's the witness that Christ
accomplished making His people the righteousness of God. He
sat down at the right hand of the Father. And of judgment,
because the prince of this world is judged. The judgment is settled,
brethren. The judgment of God's people
is settled. He settled that at Calvary when
He put away our sin. He was judged at Calvary in the
place of His people. And He paid the debt that His
people owed. He died the death we owed. Judgment
settled and He crushed the serpent's head there. Now, in all of this,
if you go back to 1 John and look at chapter 4, This is what
John was telling us about in chapter 4, when he said the Spirit
of God reveals God's love for us. And when He does that, He
perfects His love in us and brings us to believe. Look at verse
16. 1 John 4, 16. We've known and believed the
love that God hath to us. That's because of what the work
of the Spirit did in us. He says, God is love, and he
that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. God's
taken up residence, abode in us by the Spirit. And He says,
herein is our love, or God's love in us, made perfect, that
we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as He is,
so are we in this world. That's what He's going to convict
and convince you of, or approve you of when He convinces you
judgment's settled. As He is, so are we in this world. So we can have boldness in the
day of judgment. And when He does this, there's
no fear in love. There's no fear in the love of
God. Because His perfect love, showing us what He's done for
us in His perfect love for us, He's cast that fear out. He's
cast it out. Because fear hath torment. You
haven't received the spirit of bondage again to fear. We've
received the spirit whereby we cry, Abba Father. Now, in Hebrews,
we saw that when Moses joined that old covenant law to the
people, he sprinkled blood and water on them. That's how he
joined that old covenant law of works to the people, through
that blood and water. Well, when God makes with us
an everlasting covenant of grace, there's going to be water and
blood sprinkled as well. but it's the blood of Christ. Look here, He's going to wash
us with the water by the word. That's the first thing. 1 John
5 verse 8, There are three that bear witness in the earth, the
Spirit and the water. This is the water whereby Christ
has made sanctification unto us. It's the water of the word. Remember Christ said that He
would wash us He said that He would sanctify and cleanse His
church with the washing of water by the Word. You hear this gospel
preached and Peter said that we believe by Him, we believe
by the Spirit, we believe by the Word, the incorruptible seed. This is the Word, the washing
of water by the Word whereby we're born again of Him and a
new man is created. Christ has made sanctification
unto us when this happens. And this is how we believe. This is what we've seen over
and over in Titus 3. And it's not by works of righteousness
we've done, but according to His mercy He saved us by the
washing of regeneration. When you're regenerated, that's
when you're washed. You're made new. You're renewed.
Renewed. Created after the image of Him
that created Him. Renewed. Washed. And this is
shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior because
He justified us by His grace. You see how connected justification
and sanctification are? We're sanctified by the washing
of water by the Word. Christ has made sanctification
unto us because Christ by His one offering perfected all them
that are sanctified because He justified us by fulfilling the
will of God. And then look here, the third
witness he says here. First is the Spirit and the Spirit
We're washed in regeneration by the Word. The washing of water
by the Word. Christ has made sanctification
unto us. And then the third witness here
is the blood. The blood. The Holy Spirit applies
the blood of Christ, making Christ's righteousness to us. Verse 8.
He says, There are three that bear witness in the earth, the
Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and these three agree
in one. Now let's go back to Hebrews
9. Let me finish up here. Hebrews 9, verse 11, that old covenant now, I want
to remind you that that old covenant was enjoined to them by sprinkling
water and the blood of a bullock mixed together, it was sprinkled
on them, and the book and the people, and that's how they were
enjoined to that old covenant of works. Well, we saw Christ
fulfilled all the book. He fulfilled all the law. And that's, in a sense, His blood
sprinkled on the book. He's fulfilled the whole law
completely. And that word's been put in our
heart. The word of this book's been put in our heart now. The
incorruptible seed that lives and abides forever. Now, look
here at Hebrews 9.11. It says here, Christ being come
a high priest of good things to come, by a greater, more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building,
not like that old covenant building, that natural building, neither
by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, He entered
in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us. That means He's the righteousness
of His people. He's freed us from the law forever.
Now look, how's that going to be brought to us? And we're going
to know this and have the witness in our heart. Verse 13, If the
blood of bulls and of goats The blood of bulls and goats and
the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifyeth to the
purifying of the flesh. That was one of the ceremonial
laws. They took the blood of a bull and a goat and the ashes
of a heifer and they sprinkled the unclean. And that ceremonially
sanctified them and ceremonially in patron type purified their
flesh. But look at this. If that was
the case with them, how much more shall the blood, the blood,
the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself
without spot to God, how much more shall the blood of Christ
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? Is He going to sprinkle you,
literally sprinkle your conscience with blood? Of course not. But yeah, because you are going
to hear this and it is going to become real to you. I mean
it becomes real to you. And the Spirit of God has done
that. He has made you to see what this blood accomplished.
When he does that, all those old works that you thought was
your righteousness, you rejecting Christ and butting, butting,
butting everybody that tried to talk to you and tell you Christ
is the end of the law, but what about the law? But what about
my responsibility? All that grand, glorious talk
about having a concern over the law, all that is is a sinner
trying to glorify himself and hang on to his filthy, stinking,
dirty works. That's all it is. He might not
know it, but that's all it is. Because when you see that Christ
has fulfilled the law, you see He did a way better job of it
than you ever would have done. You want the law to be upheld?
You want it to be magnified and honored? You want it to have
the glory that it's due? Christ gave it. And He's the
only one that gave it. And if you and I try to give
the law that, we're not giving it anything that it's due. But
in that day of grace, all we know is we find ourselves believing
this Word. We find ourselves believing on
Christ, believing that He is indeed all my righteousness. He put away all my sin, and we
find ourselves believing He is our sanctification. When He's
formed in us, we have a new holy man dwelling in us. And we're
united with Him. We dwell in Him and He dwells
in us. And when you found that out, it's because of Him, are
you in Christ Jesus, who of Him, who of God, who of the Spirit
of God is made unto us wisdom. Now you see how God can be just
and justifying. You say, that is the wisest thing
I ever, I never could have thought of that. He's wisdom. And He
is righteousness. And He's made unto us sanctification. And when you know that, then
you know He's made unto you redemption. You're freed from the law of
happy conditions. Jesus is bled and there's remission.
I'm freed from the law. And then you start glorying in
the Lord. In that day, there should be
a fountain open to the house of David and to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem. What's it for? For sin. It's for justification. and uncleanness. It's for purification. It's for
righteousness and holiness. For the first time, you find
yourself willing to plunge in that fountain. You want to dive
into that fountain. And you do it by believing on
Christ. He's that fountain. You believe
on Him. You find yourself drawing near
to God in full assurance of faith, casting all your care on Christ.
What's happened? What's taken place? You got the
witness inside you. You have the witness in you.
Look here, Hebrews 10.14. Hebrews 10 verse 14, here it
is. By one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. There's our righteousness and
our holiness. Here's what's happened. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is
a witness to us. He's born witness of the blood
and the water. Christ our righteousness, Christ
our holiness. The reason He did it is because
God said before, this is the covenant that I will make with
them after those days, saith the Lord. I'll put my laws in
their hearts and in their minds will I write them. I'm going
to put the law of faith in their heart. I'm going to put the law
of righteousness in their heart. I'm going to put my new covenant
in their heart and they're going to see now they're under the
covenant of grace. Look at this, and their sins
and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission
of these is, there is no more offering for sin. Do you know
what kind of good news that is? You know what that good news
will make you do? It'll make you do the one thing you never
could do before. When you find out there's no
more sacrifices you have to make and you find out God will not
remember your sins ever again, you're righteous and holy by
Christ. Here's what it'll make you do.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter the holiest by the blood
of Jesus. When that veil split from top
to bottom, He declared, He's our new and living way to God. Not through that veil, not through
that old covenant, not through a blood of a bull and a lamb.
We have a new way and a living way. Look here. By a new and
living way which He has consecrated for us through the veil, that
is to say, a new and living way which He has consecrated for
us through His flesh, We now have a high priest over the house
of God. Now here's what we do. Right
here. Here it is. We draw near to God, to holy
and righteous God. We draw near now through faith
in Christ with a true heart. That's a purified heart. A holy
heart in full assurance of faith. And here's why we do it. We've
had our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience by the blood
of Christ our righteousness, and we've had our bodies washed
with pure water by that water of Christ our sanctification.
And here's what John said, 1 John 5, 9. If we receive the witness
of men, the witness of God is greater. It's greater. I could tell you this all day
long and You finally will receive it when God teaches you. But
John said, but you have an unction and you don't need any man to
teach you. You don't need any man. You know it now because
the Spirit of God has taught you and the witness of God is
greater. For this is the witness of God
which He has testified of His Son. God has spoken into your
heart. He has testified in your heart
of His Son. That's when you'll come to Him.
Isn't that good? Isn't that good? That's when
you'll come in full assurance of faith. Amen.