The Spirit, the Water and the Blood
The Spirit, the Water and the Blood
By Richard St.James
Bible 1611.Com / Old Paths Baptist Mission © 2024
The Spirit, the Water, and the Blood
1.
Spirit
2.
Water
3.
Blood
4.
The Plague
5.
The Uncleanness in All of Us.
6.
The Priest and the Scripture
7.
The Word and the Blood
The dirt and filth of sin is
everywhere. Death and Hell
are waiting for all of us. We are
found so woefully unclean.
We so desperately need a remedy through the
words of a priest to
make us clean with the blood
of a pure Lamb of God.
1 John 5:8:
“And there are three that bear witness in
earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and
these three agree in one.
The first witness is the
Spirit:
1.
Spirit
Spirit, spirit, is everywhere.
Question: What is God?
Answer: God is a
Spirit.
“God is a Spirit: and
they that worship him must worship him in spirit and
in truth.”[John 4:24]
God is a Spirit!
King David by the Spirit had this
following discourse with God in [Psalm 139:7-12]:
“Whither shall I go
from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy
presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art
there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art
there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell
in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall
thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even
the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness
hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the
day: the darkness and the light are both alike to
thee.”
God is a Spirit.
“The grass
withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit
[SPIRIT]
of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is
grass.” [Isaiah 40:7]
How can a man explain
this?
Well, when God bloweth
upon the grass, it forms an awesome sight.
When you realize the grass represents the
people of this world, you will begin to fear
the LORD:
“For our God is a
consuming fire.” [Hebrews
12:29]
God is a Spirit.
GOD the Father is
Spirit, and Jesus Christ, the SON of GOD is the
express image of GOD, WHO is a SPIRIT
[This is Scripture with Scripture].
“Who
[THIS IS THE SON]
being the brightness of his
[THIS IS THE FATHER] glory, and
the express image of his person
[THIS IS THE FATHER], and
upholding all things by the word of his power, when
he [THIS IS THE SON]
had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the
right hand of the Majesty
[THIS IS THE FATHER] on high;”
[Hebrews 1:3].
Conclusion: Jesus is
GOD come in the flesh!
Proof Text: [1 Timothy
3:16]
“And without
controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God
was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit,
seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed
on in the world, received up into glory.”
Jesus Christ is “all
the fulness of the Godhead bodily.”
[Colossians 2:9] “For
in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead
bodily.” Amen!
Now, let us go to the
book of beginnings: Genesis chapter
one, verses twenty-six through twenty-eight: we find
that plurality is enclosed [or
embedded] in a singular God.
We
read: “And God [singular] said, Let
us [plural] make man in our
[plural] image, after our [plural]
likeness: and let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God” [singular] “created man in his
[singular] own image, in the image of
God [singular] created he
[singular] him; male and female created he
[singular] them. “And God”
[singular] “blessed them, and God
[singular] said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the fowl of the air, and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth.” [Genesis 1:26-28]
[Agreement = >1 is in
1]
Thus far,
in this foundational insight given to us by
the Holy Ghost in the Scripture [the Authorized
Version of 1611], the words of God reveal …
that God is a PERSON with more than one
PERSON within HIM [a
plurality being enclosed [or embedded]
within Him.
[Agreement
= >1 is in 1]
Then, the question will
now arise: How many PERSONS is this ONE GOD?
What does the word of
God show us?
God, the Father
The first PERSON
is revealed to be the FATHER. This basic
truth is shown redundantly in the following
verses:
·
1 Corinthians 8:6:
“But to us there is but one God, the Father,
of whom are all things, and we in him; and
one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all
things, and we by him.”
·
Galatians 1:1:
“Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but
by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him
from the dead;)”
·
Galatians 1:3:
“Grace be to you and peace from God the
Father, and from our Lord Jesus
Christ,”
·
Ephesians 6:23:
“Peace be to the brethren, and love
with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.”
·
Philippians 2:11:
“And that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory
of God the Father.”
God, the Son
Second, we can see that
second PERSON of the
PERSONS in the ONE GOD is
very definitely ...
Jesus Christ.
“And to make all
men see
what is the fellowship
of the mystery, which from the beginning of the
world hath been hid in God, who created all things
by Jesus Christ:”
[Ephesians 3:9].
All things that were
ever created, were created by Jesus.
Conclusion:
Jesus Christ is the creator of Heaven and
Earth! Jesus Christ is JEHOVAH!
God, the Holy Spirit
The third PERSON is
the Spirit [Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost].
See the following:
·
John 7:39: “(But
this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe
on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not
yet given; because that Jesus was not
yet glorified.)”
·
Acts 2:4: “And they
were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to
speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance.”
·
1 Corinthians 12:3:
“Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man
speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus
accursed: and that no man can say that
Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.”
·
Ephesians 3:5:
“Which in other ages was not made known unto the
sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy
apostles and prophets by the Spirit;”
·
Ephesians 4:30:
“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye
are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
1 John 5:8:
“And there are three that bear witness in
earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and
these three agree in one.
The second witness is the Water:
Next - 2. The Water
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