By John Foll
“Whoever
believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God,
and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him.” 1 John
5:1 NASB. The child born of Him represents primarily Jesus, the Son of God, but
could also mean any child of God who is truly born again. If we are born of
God, we will also love all others who are born of God too.
Whoever believes that
Jesus is the Christ is born of God. I.e. whoever believes that Jesus is the
Savior of the world is born of God. He who is not truly born again or born
of God does not truly believe that Jesus is the Christ. This is the test to
whether we are born again or not or please God or not: whether we truly believe
that Jesus is the Savior of the world! Do
you believe that Jesus is the Savior of the World? Then you are born of
God. Are you born of God? Then
you are born again and are overcoming the world, have faith, and are keeping
the commandments of God, and have life from God and this
wonderful change in your heart. “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we
love God and observe His commandments. For this is the
love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not
burdensome. For whatever is born of
God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the
world—our faith.” 1 John 5:2-4 NASB. Are
you overcoming the world? Are you keeping His commandments? Do you have Faith? Do
you believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Savior of the world? Do you find God’s
commandments to be burdensome? Or do you find that keeping them is a delight?
If you are not fully born again and not fully born of God, you will be unable
to do these positive things and consider the commandments to be a burden,
because humanly none of us can fully keep God’s commandments without His help. Are you breaking God’s commandments?
(By habit or by desire.) Then you are not yet fully born of God. Or do you confess your sins when you break His
commandments? If you do not have that
born again experience that Jesus said that all are required to have before they
can enter the kingdom of Heaven (John 3:3, 5), then you don’t fully believe yet that
Jesus is the Savior of the world, it’s that simple. But don’t give up, there is still hope. The door of mercy is still open for you,
open it, receive God’s forgiveness and be cleansed from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9. So confess your sins, contemplate the love of God, and of Jesus His
Son, and then you will believe and know that Jesus is the Savior of the world
and you will become born again!
Again
John the beloved breaks it down for us in such profound and easy to understand terms:
“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. He who has the Son
has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.”
1 John 5:10-12 NASB. With John there is
no middle ground, either we are for God or against Him. Either we believe
in the Son of God and give this testimony of Him of His love for the world, and
are born again, or we are not and find God’s commandments to be a burden,
because we cannot keep them or consider them to be a delight, until we have a
change of heart by letting the Holy Spirit change us. Either we have the Son
and have life or we have no life in us and do not have eternal life. Either we are born again and believe in
Jesus or we make God out to be a liar and believe not the Son. There is no
middle ground.
It is the Spirit that
testifies, because this Spirit is the truth, or ‘the Spirit of Truth’. John 16:13. When someone wants to tell others
‘the truth’ they should testify of Jesus, and give a message in harmony with
the Spirit of Truth. If anyone doesn’t
testify the truth of Jesus and His Father’s love for the world, or are not
telling the truth in love to others, they are not really giving a true
testimony of Jesus, but a false one. It matters not how many of ‘the
truths’ in the Bible that they believe or are correct on, if they don’t get this one truth, then they
are not giving a true testimony of Jesus or the Father and are not born again
and have not the Son and have not life. No one can give a true testimony of
Jesus all the time, if they have not yielded their heart completely to God. If you
are yielding your heart to God at the time you give a testimony of Jesus, then you
can give a true testimony of Him, but it is much better to be consistent and
yield yourself to God at all times, so that your life can be fully in harmony
with Him. Unbelievers often look at the
‘so called’ children of God and mock them and think that there is nothing to
this Christian faith. This is because often the “children of God” have not
yielded themselves fully to God yet. Let’s pray for the power to
consistently be a son or daughter of God, so that He will always be honored by
our lives and the way we live, not just when we are trying to ‘tell’ others
about God or ‘the truth’. And it is our faith that helps us to gain the
victory over the world, and to appropriate God’s many and precious promises to
help us in our time of need. To the true believer, what John says here is
really true: “We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and
the evil one does not touch him.” 1 John 5:18 NASB. If we are fully born
of God, as long as we stay connected to the vine, Jesus, the evil one cannot
make us go against God; God’s power
is too great to allow the soul who trusts in Him to be snatched out of His hand.
Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know
them, and they follow Me; and I give
eternal life to them, and they shall never perish;
and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has
given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them
out of the Father's hand.” John
10:27-29 NASB.
“Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who
believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 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 is the truth.” 1 John 5:5-6 NASB.
So let us believe the
words of John and believe in Jesus, that we may be born again, born of God, and
be an overcomer, and then we can have life from God and from above, and give a
true testimony of Jesus! God’s promises are true, not some speaker or
writer’s rambling or quailing over what the word of God says. Let God’s word
tell you the truth, and do not let anyone confuse you. Study it much, and with much prayer, and the Holy Spirit will explain
it to you. If you obey everything the
Holy Spirit has revealed to you and made plain from the Bible, more of this
truth will be revealed to you. God’s word, the Bible, says what it means
and means what it says. It’s easy to understand, if you will just take it
as it reads and in context (don’t just pick out part of a text, but read it in
a larger section first), although there may be some parables and prophecies
that you need to study more in depth to know what they mean. But the essentials of salvation are easy
for all to understand who want to believe, and want the promised blessing of a
new life with God and eternal happiness, peace, love and joy!
May the grace of God
be with you!
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