Saturday, August 15, 2015
Water And Blood
Bible Questions Answered:
“In reading 1 John I see the words
“water and blood,” what does this mean?...”
Sheila/ Denver, Colorado U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Text:
I John 5:6 KJV
This is He that came by water and
blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water
and blood. And it is The Spirit that beareth witness, because
The Spirit is Truth.
The “water,”
here referred to is Christ's baptism:
John 1:29-34 NLT
29 The next day John saw Jesus
coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb Of God who takes away
the sin of the world!
30 He is The One I was talking about
when I said, ‘A Man is coming after me who is far greater than I
am, for He existed long before me.’
31 I did not recognize Him as The
Messiah, but I have been baptizing with water so that He might be
revealed to Israel.”
32 Then John testified, “I saw The
Holy Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and resting upon Him.
33 I didn’t know He was The One, but when God sent me to baptize
with water, He told me, ‘The One on whom you see The Spirit descend
and rest is The One who will baptize with The Holy Spirit.’
34 I saw this happen to Jesus, so I
testify that He is The Chosen One Of God.
“Blood”
refers to the broken body and spilt atoning blood at Calvary of The
Lord Jesus Christ:
I John 5:6 NLT
And Jesus
Christ was revealed as God’s Son by His baptism in water and
by shedding His blood on the cross—not by water only,
but by water and blood. And The Spirit, who is Truth, confirms it
with His testimony.
Gnosticism in our Lords day and its teaching:
Gnosticism:... the conviction that matter is evil and that
emancipation comes through gnosis (Knowledge).
Merriam-Webbster
Gnosis: Knowledge of spiritual things; esp., esoteric,
superior spiritual knowledge gained by self-illumination and limited
to an elite few, like the Gnostics.
New World Dictionary
Gnosticism was based upon special knowledge. To the Gnostics the
material world was evil
so they denied that Jesus Christ was fully human; and so they denied
the doctrine of the Incarnation.
Gnostics reasoned, Christ must not be in the flesh (thus no
incarnation), for no good thing can come by means of the flesh!
How wrong they were, Christ was both God and Man, incarnated into
earthly flesh.
Incarnation:
Hebrews 2:14 KJV
Forasmuch
then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also
Himself likewise took part of the
same; that through death
He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Saved by The
Blood Of Christ:
John 19:34 KJV
But one of the soldiers with a spear
pierced His side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
Romans 3:25 NLT
For God presented Jesus as the
sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe
that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding His blood..."
Romans 5:9 KJV
Much more then, being now justified
by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
Ephesians 1:7
KJV
In whom we have redemption through
His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His
grace;
Ephesians 2:13
KJV
But now in Christ Jesus ye who
sometimes were far off are made nigh by The Blood Of Christ.
Colossians 1:14
KJV
In whom we have redemption through
His Blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Hebrews 9:12,
14, 22 KJV
Neither by the blood of goats and
calves, but by His Own Blood he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption for us.
14 How much more shall The Blood Of
Christ, who through The Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot
to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve The Living
God?
22 And almost all things are by the
law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
I
John 1:7 KJV
But if we walk in The Light, as He
is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and The Blood
Of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Revelation 1:5
KJV
And from Jesus Christ, who is The
Faithful Witness, and The First Begotten Of The Dead, and
The Prince Of The Kings Of The
Earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own
blood,
Revelation 5:9
KJV
And they sung a new song, saying,
Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for
thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of
every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
I John 5:6 KJV
This is He that came by water and
blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and
blood. And it is The Spirit that beareth witness, because The Spirit
is Truth.
The
Blood was emphasized because Christ was not just some spirit man, He
was flesh and blood (earthly body) who had come to be The Father's
Sacrificial Lamb, “that takeh away the sins of the world”
(John
1:29 KJV).
Selah
Spiritual
enlightenment, saves no one, only by The Blood Of Christ are we
saved!
I Peter 1:18-20
KJV
18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were
not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your
vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with The Precious Blood Of
Christ, as of A Lamb Without Blemish And Without Spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained
before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last
times for you,
John 3:16-21 KJV
16 For God so loved the world, that
He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not His Son into the
world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be
saved.
18 He that believeth on Him is not
condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he
hath not believed in the name of The Only Begotten Son Of God.
19 And this is the condemnation,
that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than
Light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil
hateth The Light, neither cometh to The Light, lest his deeds should
be reproved.
21 But he that doeth Truth cometh to
The Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought
in God.
Have you received
The Savior?