When The Evidence Demands a Verdict
Matt Keller
Part of One Hope—First John
November 7, 2021

This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. 9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. 11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. —1 John 5:6–12

You Can Be
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that Jesus is God’s Son and that You Have
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in Him.

The life of every believer should be all about Jesus and testify to the truth about who Jesus is, what Jesus has done, and the confidence you have in Him.

How can you be certain that Jesus is who He said He is and can do what He said He could do?

1. God’s

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proves Jesus is God’s Son – vs. 6-9

2. Faith in the person and work of Jesus is the only way to have

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– vs. 10-12

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. —Romans 10:9–10

Eternal life is not merely unending life…it is the very life of God. What we are promised in Christ is a participation in the life of the One who bears this testimony. This life is not to be enjoyed by everyone, however. This life is in Christ. Consequently, it is as impossible to have life without having Christ as it is impossible to have Christ without at the same time possessing eternal life. —James Montgomery Boice

“The external witness faithfully

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becomes internal
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.”

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Every believer was saved to be a

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.

You bear the testimony of Jesus, and you are to
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the truth about Jesus to a lost world.