1 John 5:11

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 John 5:9-12

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES1 John 5:9. Receive.—λαμβάνομεν; admit as valid. The testimony of two human witnesses is admitted; here is the threefold testimony of God—the voice at baptism, the acceptance in resurrection, the Spirit in our hearts.1 John 5:10. Witness in himself.—In two ways—in having the permanently abiding Spirit, and in having a personal experience. Made Him a liar.—Because to fail to trust a person is really to declare him untrustworthy.1 John 5:11. Record.—Statement or... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 John 5:6-11

1 John 5:6-11 The Witness of Christ. "Witness!" The word in its emphatic recurrence is typical of the situation out of which the Epistle springs. The special perils and anxieties with which the Church is now beset are changed from those with which we are familiar in the earlier epistles of St. Paul. And it may be worth our while to remind ourselves of the contrast. There the effort had been to get the message itself of Christ out in its distinct and native force; to disentangle it from the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 John 5:11-12

DISCOURSE: 2467THE GOSPEL RECORD1 John 5:11-12. This is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.IN matters that are established by human testimony, we necessarily proportion our assent to the number and credibility of the witnesses. And if we will act in the same manner towards the Holy Scriptures, we shall not entertain a doubt, either of their Divine authority in general,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 John 5:1-21

Chuck SmithWhosoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him ( 1 John 5:1 ).So I say, "I love Jesus. He is the Messiah. Yes, I'm born again. Oh, and how I love Him." Well, if I love Him who has begotten me into this new life, then I will also love those who have been begotten--the family of God, my brothers and sisters in Jesus.And by this we know [another proof of how we know what we know, by this we... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 John 5:1-21

1 John 5:1-5 . Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. The faith which embraces him as the Lord of glory, has a regenerating influence on the heart. The immediate fruit is love to God, and to his children; love is the test of the change, for before conversion we regarded them with indifference or contempt. And this is the proof and demonstration of our love to God, that we keep his commandments, which to the regenerate are not grievous; for then we delight in the law... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 John 5:11

1 John 5:11And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son The Divine recordIt is obvious that the designs of God respecting the work of His hands entirely depend on His own will, and that, unless He please to favour us with an express declaration of those designs, we may, indeed, by debating about the probabilities of the case, bewilder ourselves in all the mazes of metaphysical conjecture; but, as for anything like certainty respecting what so... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 John 5:11

11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Ver. 11. That God hath given to us, &c. ] How plain is the Holy Scripture in things needful to salvation! These God hath written for us, as it were, with the beam of the sun, that none may plead difficulty. But we are, most of us, of the Athenian strain, of whom Cicero says the proverb went, Athenienses scire quae recta sunt, sed facere nolle, that they knew what was right, but had no mind to... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 John 5:11

this: 1 John 5:7, 1 John 5:10, John 1:19, John 1:32-Nahum :, John 8:13, John 8:14, John 19:35, 3 John 1:12, Revelation 1:2 God: 1 John 5:13, 1 John 2:25, Matthew 25:46, John 3:15, John 3:16, John 3:36, John 4:4, John 4:36, John 6:40, John 6:47, John 6:68, John 10:28, John 12:50, John 17:2, John 17:3, Romans 5:21, Romans 6:23, 1 Timothy 1:16, Titus 1:2, Jude 1:21 this: 1 John 5:12, 1 John 5:20, 1 John 1:1-Leviticus :, 1 John 4:9, John 1:4, John 5:21, John 5:26, John 11:25, John 11:26, John... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 John 5:11

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.And this is the sum of that testimony, that God hath given us a title to, and the real beginning of, eternal life; and that this is purchased by, and treasured up in, his Son, who has all the springs and the fulness of it in himself, to communicate to his body, the church, first in grace and then in glory. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 5:11-12

3. The results of faith are eternal life, with present answered prayer, 1 John 5:11-17. 11, 12. Of this testimony, so divinely sure, we now are to have, through the rest of the chapter, the result. It is summed up in the word life; life in Christ and Christ in us, so that in us is the life. In the background, death, 1 John 5:16, and the wicked one, 18, and the world, 19, shadow a dark contrast. So we have the great antithesis, the battle-array, in which faith is the sure... read more

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