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1 John 5:9-13

Good News Translation (GNT)

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  9  We believe human testimony; but God's
   testimony is much stronger, and he has given
   this testimony about his Son.
10  So those who believe in the Son of God have
   this testimony in their own heart; but those
   who do not believe God, have made a liar of
   him, because they have not believed what
   God has said about his Son.
11  The testimony is this: God has given us
   eternal life, and this life has its source in his
   Son.
12  Whoever has the Son has this life; whoever
   does not have the Son of God does not have
   life.

   Eternal Life
13  I am writing this to you so that you may know
   that you have eternal life - you that believe in
   the Son of God.

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Commentary taken from
'The Applied New Testament Commentary'
(Kingsway)

The Witness about
  Jesus Christ

     1 John 5:9-13

When Jesus was baptised, the people present heard God say from heaven, "You are my Son, whom I love". Men saw Jesus die on the cross, and then with their own eyes they saw Him alive again three days later!

The apostles spent the rest of their lives giving witness to these things which they had seen and heard. But God's own testimony is greater than man's testimony. God's witness is the Holy Spirit, who lives in us and through whom we experience God's presence, power, and love.

Because of the testimony of the Holy Spirit in our hearts, our faith can be just as strong as the apostles' faith.

First we hear the Gospel - the testimony of men. Then we believe in the Son of God. And then we receive the testimony of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. Through the Holy Spirit our faith becomes even stronger.

If we reject the Gospel of Christ, we call God a liar. We have rejected the Spirit of truth.

This is the testimony - the Gospel: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. God gave His Son Jesus, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

Without faith in him, there can be no eternal life

Concluding Remarks (5:13)

John wrote his Gospel that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Now, in this letter, John is writing to believers in order that their faith might become even more strong and certain - in order that they might know that they have eternal life.

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