1st John 5:7-8. “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.” THREE THAT TESTIFY. The Three are One in purpose and in name – Each One is different yet all are the same, For there is only One God, yet just one in a body came – In His life He did testify.
The Father was pleased with everything the Son had done. At the beginning of His ministry, the Father identified His Son. Through Jesus’ life and right until victory over sin was won – The Father-God did plainly testify.
To the desert the Spirit led Him that all of us would know Jesus was the God-Man as all the evidence would show – And the Holy Spirit then came to dwell in us here below – The Holy Spirit still does testify.
The Holy Three-in-One, each One as one, really do agree – From the beginning of Jesus’ life until His death at Calvary, That in heaven as on earth each gives testimony we can see – The Godhead all does plainly testify.
Here on earth where I live there are three; Each one of these also does fully agree From His baptism to His death it is plain to see The Spirit, water and blood do testify.
Jesus Christ in the flesh was always and forever God. Not some strange enigma but truly flesh and blood, With evidence to see, and by God’s Holy Word – These all do testify.
There is no need for any one to doubt. All these witnesses do not have to shout – And I also can tell others what I know about His Person and work when I do testify. “Father, even though there are some texts that do not include all these words, the truth is the same – Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God. The witnesses are all agreed as to His Person and His work. I thank Thee for giving these plain truths in words in this Holy Book. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”
God spoke in testimony out loud at His baptism and His transfiguration. This declaration of God as well as the Spirit of God, the waters of baptism and the sacrificial blood of Christ all agree that God gives eternal life to those who believe on Jesus Christ, and this eternal life is in His Son. This eternal life God has given us in the past when we believed on the Son is our possession now and forever. Its origin is in the Son who has eternal life and imparts that to us as a personal permanent possession. We do not wait for eternal life because it became ours the moment we believed. We do not work for that which we already have. We do not need to worry about whether we have it or not, because God's word says He gives it to us Himself. His word is His guarantee of this fact.
It is not given to us because we deserve it for some reason or by some effort of our own. The gift of eternal life in Christ is ours because God gave His Son for us and He is alive and is "the Gift that keeps on giving." This present possession of life in Christ is not able to be rejected or cast away after it has been received. Its nature is the life of God Himself. His life is an infinite life. One who does not believe God, "has made Him a liar." There is no greater sin than calling the One who created us a liar. This is an infinite sin that demands infinite punishment. The infinite sacrifice of sin that Christ paid by His death, has provided infinite life for us on the basis of that sacrifice. That is why this is available only through Christ. It is available to all. God wants all to have it. But if you do not have it, you are responsible for that lack. "Ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life."