New Year Obligations Part 4: Overcoming the World! (1 John 5)

Today is the 4th part of my New Year’s obligations series but the last day in the book of 1 John which has one of my favorite verses in all of scripture:

1 John 5:6-11: "This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. If we receive the testimony of people, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that He has testified concerning his Son. The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son. And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son."

The mission of this book is to provide a framework for understanding that we all have a testimony. My testimony is my own that God has given me specifically to glorify and accomplish the purpose of God’s purpose. The overall message of this chapter is to provide the direct narrative that the greatest testimony in all of the Bible and in all of the world is that God has testified that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

Again we have a testimony called an "Earthly Testimony" which means that that our testimony is the plan of our own choosing but we have another testimony which is called a "Spiritual Testimony." This type of testimony is the testimony that we are given by God to glorify His will. At the end of the day our earthly testimony will be overshadowed by our spiritual testimony because our spiritual testimony starts when we accept Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior as Jesus says in John 3:16:

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life."