What Is The Bible Telling Us for This Week? 1 John 5: 9-13, Poking at the text.

So the Bible says we receive human words, but that God's words are greater.  

That leaves humanity in the DIRT, because can we even begin to measure how much GREATER God is than God's created humanity, notwithstanding that we are FALLEN humanity?

The reason is that the words of God are the words God has spoken in regards to God's Son.

The passage says 'testimony', which makes it sound like a trial.  Maybe it is.  But God's greater words than our own are in regards to Jesus.

It is not about knowing the words, but believing them, if we believe in the Son of God. 

Ok, God speaks better than us, God's words are in regards to Jesus, but they are not 'out there in the ether'.  God speaks to our hearts, God's truth is within us (more about this at Pentecost I would think).

But there is a flip side to this.  Those who do not believe in God have made our God a liar by NOT believing the words God has given us about God's Son.

But wait a moment, this is not some objective truth?  It is an internalized truth.  Not to believe in God is to make God a pretty gi-normous liar.  When I say 'internalizing', this is believing in what God has to say.  To believe makes God a truth teller about Jesus.  Not to believe makes God a liar about Jesus. 

What are these words of God?  God has given to us eternal life, and that life is in the Son.

God's greater words than those of humans are that we have eternal life in God's Son.

The result?  Those who have the Son have life, those who do not, do not have life.

To have the Son is to have the word of the Son, to believe it, having it in our hearts, from God, in the sure and certain knowledge that God has a superior word to our own, and having the Son is having eternal life.  Turn our hearts and backs on that and God is made a liar, and eternal life is not to be had.

This is why John is telling us who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that we KNOW we have eternal life.

It seems the people John is writing to have the part down about believing in Jesus, but have questions about whatn then comes of that.

So, in 1 John 5: 9-13, we are offered the greater testimony, witness, word-whatever works as the term for communication-that the Son, that Jesus is the basis of eternal life, not something we know, but somethig we internalize, we believe in with our hearts.