Sunday, September 4,
2016
Stephen Caldwell
1 John 5 - “The
Gospel is God's testimony”
v6-8
By water and by
blood - "Book ends of of Jesus work on Earth."
By water -
Jesus' baptism
By blood -
Jesus' crucifixion (ref: John 19)
v9
Man's word is
less than God's word.
How much more
trustworthy is God's testimony, when everyday we take men at their
word.v10
The gospel
demands an answer.
Acceptance or
Rejection – only possible answers.
Christian, you
can't keep “all this stuff” while declaring God's truth.
v11
“No man can
come to the Father but by Me (Jesus)”
This is an
absolute.
v12
If you don't
have Jesus Christ, then you don't have eternal life.
The Gospel is
not a message of facts and ideas, it is a message of a relationship.