© 13 Colin Melbourne
God’s Testimony of Christ
First John 5:1-15 KJV
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one 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. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
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?
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. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
God’s Witness
Believers have come to realise it is a matter of integrity.
Witnessed & Sealed
The instant we repented of unbelief in the LORD Jesus Christ, Almighty God put His Witness into the core of our beings.
His integrity is a pillar of the Gospel: Validating the Perfect Word.
Our integrity is a measure of our love for God: Doing what we know is righteous.
We are permitted all things (1 Co. 6:12), even the unlawful, such is this Grace in which we now stand: He leaves us to our integrity.
We have freedom.
It is why we love Him.
Only God’s Love Set You Free
We are permitted; to sin, to doubt, to disobey, in order that we will learn not to.
He wouldn’t have it any other way, nor would we.
And always in the midst of our beings is the Rock upon which we stand: The Witness of God.
Declaring; we have eternal life, we have the Son of God, we have His Life in us.
They are ours forever, because God has demonstrated to us the integrity of His Word.
These are undeniable facts, even unto death.
His Name is His Bond
Therefore we know with absolute certainty that we can rely on the Name of the Son of God: The LORD Jesus Christ.
When we ask anything of God in accordance with His word, we know that we have whatever we asked of Him.
The integrity of His Name is a fact we rely on: The only valid basis upon which anybody can approach God.
His integrity made Flesh has caused us to become believers.
To doubt Jesus Christ is to reject God’s Word, to doubt in His Name, and to overrule The Almighty: Impossible for the man of integrity who has the Witness of God.
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have whatever we asked of Him
We rest in His Integrity.
We have what we asked.
His Witness confirms: It is ours.
Have you got it?
The Complete Teachings of Smith Wigglesworth: Smith lay dying of acute appendicitis. God sent a Spirit-filled youth to show him the difference between head faith and heart faith. Wigglesworth was instantly healed, and never forgot that lesson.
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