Midweek Review #11 (1 John 5:6-9)
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The Spirit, the water, and the blood testify that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
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- The blood refers to the death of Christ. We're told in 1st
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- Corinthians that the message of the cross is the power of God. Oh Lord, help me to represent this.
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- The blood is the death of Jesus on the cross. The proclaiming of that message, according to Galatians 3, depicts and portrays
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- Christ as crucified. Here's where faith comes from.
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- The message of the cross. We have the testimony of the scripture, the spirit bearing witness.
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- We have the water as others stand up and bear witness, but it is this gospel message that changes a heart.
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- There has never been a love like the love of Jesus Christ. Yes, we follow a leader who claims to be the truth and there is no other, but this leader was willing to go to Calvary and lay down on a wooden cross and be killed.
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- Knowing that there was no other way for our sins to be forgiven. Hear this, greater love has no one than this.
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- The one who lays down his life for his friends. Hear that message.
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- Let it be confirmed to your heart. While we are yet sinners,
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- Christ died for us. The righteous for the unrighteous to bring us to God.
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- The innocent for the guilty to take away our guilt. The Holy Son of God laying down on that wooden cross and his blood speaks a better message than the message of Abel's blood.
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- Cain killed his brother Abel and his blood poured out on the ground calls to God for justice, avenge me from my killer.
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- But the blood of Jesus that dripped from his body, torn on that cross and fell to the ground, that blood speaks a better message.
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- It says, Father forgive them, they know not what they do. This blood speaks mercy over us.
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- The blood cries out from the ground, Father forgive them. And so all who come to him find cleansing by water and by blood.
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- When his side was pierced as he hung on that tree, dead, water and blood poured out and that's the cleansing that we need.
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- Not just the washing of water, baptism itself cannot save, but the washing of blood.
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- To believe that he is the crucified Son of God, that his sacrifice atones for your sin and that he rose again.