We thank Thee for the glorious victory that has been won, and for the ways in which down through the centuries, Thou hast been sovereignly doing Thy work. We thank Thee for all that, that embodies, and all that, that means for the Christian church. Reminding us again of the successful completion of his Messianic ministry, his ascension, and session at the right hand of Thy throne. We thank Thee, and praise Thee for the Lord’s day. Our Heavenly Father, through the Son of God, who has overcome the world, we come to Thee. Let’s bow together in a moment of prayer. He that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son. For there are three that bear witness, and the spirit the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. “This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ not by water only, but by water and blood. So I’m going to read beginning at verse 6, and I will drop out verse 7, and the phrase “in earth,” and we’ll read from verse 6 through verse 12, The 8th verse begins with a “For” instead of an “And,” but “For there are three that bear witness, the spirit, the water and the blood and these three agree in one.” The New International Version has a slightly different versification, but if we just remember that 7th verse is not genuine, then most of the remainder of the Authorized Version is genuine with the exception of “in earth” in verse 8, and those of you that have the New American Standard Bible or NIV, you probably have some words of explanation in the margins. Now, for example in most of the English translations that you will find, “This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by water and blood.” As verse 6, and then verse 7 begins, “And it is the spirit that beareth witness because the spirit is truth.” The 7th verse drops out, as found in the Authorized Version.
The Father, the Word and the holy ghost, and these three are one.”Īssociated with that is the statement in verse 8, “And there are three that bear witness in earth.” That expression “in earth” is also not genuine, obviously added by someone who has just seen “There are three that bear record in heaven.” So in order to make up for the verse that is entirely missing, it has been necessary for English translations to make some modifications in the numbers attached to the statements. It reads, “For there are three that bear record in heaven. For those of you that have a New American Standard Bible or a New International Version, you do not have it in your text. So one can see that there is really no support whatever for the 7th verse. It is first found about the 5th century in a Latin manuscript. Further, in the controversies concerning the person of Christ and the trinity, in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Centuries, this text was never cited by anyone of those who carried on the controversy as proof of the doctrine of the trinity. To give you an example of the background of it, if you’ll just remember that no Greek manuscript contains this statement before the 14th Century. It’s not often that you find New Testament scholars agreeing on anything, out of the vast numbers of them, to find them agreeing on something particularly such as this is unusual, but all agree, regardless of their viewpoints that the 7th verse, as found in the Authorized Version was not a statement written by the Apostle John. We have something very unusual in the passage that we are going to read, and for those of you particularly who have an Authorized Version or a King James version, it poses a bit of a problem because the 7th verse, as found in the Authorized Version, is not a genuine statement of the Apostle John.
New field Amount: Migration/Modelįrom the default Generated QuickAdminPanel, we have this structure.Our Scripture reading for today is 1 John chapter 5, verse 6 through verse 12. So, let’s perform the change, step-by-step.
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