John 3:31-34: Jesus Christ: The One True Prophet

1 John 5:9-12 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Intro

Where can you go for truth?

That’s a hard question nowadays isn’t it?

We start to feel like Pilate…What is truth? (John 18:38).

Everywhere you look it feels like its just another lie.

Our culture lies just about as easy as we breath.

You can’t trust the government, they lie.

Can’t trust the news, they lie even more and for the government.

Its getting hard to even trust doctors and the whole medical establishment as we’ve seen over the last couple of year.

Seriously...Where do you go?

But here’s the scary thing…Those are just trivial matters.

Not that they don’t matter, but they aren’t eternal matters.

Spiritual matters things that determine your destiny and heaven and hell.

Who can you believe? Who can you trust?

In a world of all kinds of different faiths, philosophies, and paths to salvation who can tell you the true road of eternal life?

And then how do you know you can trust them when they do?

John 3:31-34 points us to the One who has the truths that matter most.

And He doesn’t just have the truth…He is the Truth.

Here’s the big idea we are going to look at today from this passage.

Jesus is the One True Prophet who alone has the words of eternal life.

He is the One we can truly trust with all of our life and all of our souls.

The One who God has sent to reveal who He is and How we might be saved.

And the important thing for today is that He is the Only One God has sent who can save us from our sins.

Let’s start with point number 1...

I. Jesus is the One True Prophet Sent from God

John 3:31-32 He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all. He bears witness to what he has seen and heard…For he whom God has sent utters the words of God...

From Above

I want to draw your attention to how forcefully John emphasizes that Jesus Christ is not from this earth.

He who comes from above is above all...

He says, He who is of the earth belongs to the earth…[but Jesus] comes from Heaven...

And in verse 34, he says Jesus was sent by God.

And this isn’t just in this passage. This is a major theme in the gospel of John. For example:

John 6:38 I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 16:28 I came from the Father and have come into the world...

Jesus’ heavenly origin, that He is not just another man, is crucial for John.

Why?

The answer is in Jesus’ own words in John 3:12-13: If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

Here’s the idea Jesus is getting at.

Proverbs 30:3-4 I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One. Who has ascended to heaven and come down?

Who has true knowledge of the Holy One?

Who has ever gone into heaven with a message from God’s own mouth of how we might be saved?

And Jesus’ answer is no one.

No one has ascended into heaven and come back down.

The only one who has a true knowledge of God and His will for mankind is the one who descended from heaven the Son of Man.

Jesus is the eternal Son of God incarnate in human flesh.

That’s why John says He is above all.

Jesus is not just another man. Not just another man from this earth.

He is God in the flesh.

Trinity

Remember what John said all the way back in John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

In the beginning, before anything was made that was made…Christ was. He was in the beginning with God (John 1:2).

Was God tells us that the Word was, obviously, God Himself.

But with God, tells us that the Word was also distinct from God. Literally face-to-face with God in the most personal relationship and fellowship.

Both of these together tell us that Jesus...the Son of God...the Word…is distinct from God while at the same time identical to Him.

He is not a separate being, lesser to God Himself. He is, in every way, the Most High God.

This is where we get our doctrine of the Trinity.

God is One God...one Being...who eternally exists in three divine persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - all three together coequally and coeternally God.

So as the Son of God come from heaven, Jesus uniquely has the authority to reveal God and His will in a way that no one else can because He is God Himself.

Or as John 1 says And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth…No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known (John 1:14,18).

And How? How does Christ make the Father known?

He bears witness to what He has seen and heard.

Jesus did not have secondhand knowledge of God and His salvation.

As the Word incarnate, He came from Heaven to give an eyewitness account of who God is and how we might be saved.

As Jesus said in John 15:15 All that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

The idea that John is driving at here is that Jesus is a Prophet you have to reckon with.

And He is not just a prophet, He is THE Prophet sent from God.

And He is no ordinary prophet God called out from among the earth.

He is the eternal Son of God sent directly from heaven because who better to reveal the Father’s heart and will than the Son and image of the Father Himself?

Jesus is the only one with the sure words of God and eternal life because He’s the only one who has come down from the Father in Heaven.

Prophet

This speaks to the glory of Christ as our Prophet.

The word Christ, or Messiah as it is in the Old Testament, simply means “Anointed One.”

Someone chosen by God and anointed by the Holy Spirit to carry out the work God had given them to do.

And in the Old Testament there where three different offices anointed by God to serve as Mediators between God and His people.

You had Prophets who were anointed to proclaim the word of the Lord and reveal His will.

Priests were anointed to intercede on behalf of the people and offer sacrifices for their sins

And Kings were anointed to rule according to God’s word and thereby secure God’s blessings for God’s people.

Well Paul says There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5).

He is the One True Mediator, and as the One True Mediator, the One True Prophet, Priest, and King.

All three come together in Him. And He is the perfect fullness of all of them.

So when we worship Jesus we worship Him as the Son of God who is the Christ - our Prophet, Priest, and King.

And the glory of Christ and His work, all that He is and all that He does to save us is revealed the more and more that we know Him as our Mediator in these three offices.

Priest

Now we understand the glory of Christ as Priest.

We talk about it all the time.

As our Great High Priest, Christ offered His life as a sacrifice for our sins when He died on the cross and rose again three days later to give us eternal life.

And today our Great High Priest has sat down at the right hand of the Father to intercede on our behalf.

To pray for us, and sustain us to the end.

Hebrews 10:12 “But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,” in contrast to the High Priests of the Old Covenant who had to continually stand and offer sacrifices for sin again again and again.

Christ sat down because His sacrificed cleansed us once and for all.

And now...

Hebrews 7:25 Consequently, He is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

Christ is our Great High Priest.

King

We also understand the glory of Christ and His relevance as our King.

The Bible says Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords (Revelation 19:16).

And To Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations...should serve him; [and] His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will never pass away and His Kingdom will never be destroyed (Daniel 7:14).

As King, Jesus rules over all to the blessing of His people.

He rules over the Kingdom of God. All authority in Heaven and on earth has been given to Him (Matthew 28:18).

The hope for the Messianic Son of David was the hope for a King that would make all things new (Mt 12:22-33, 20:30-34, 21:14-15).

For One that would conquer all of God’s enemies, give His people rest, and shower them with all the blessings of God as He faithfully ruled.

Jesus is that faithful King.

He conquered our enemies of sin, Satan, and death, through His death and resurrection on the cross.

And today He sits at the right hand of the Father reigning and ruling over all things.

Psalm 110:1 The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”

Christ reigns to build His Kingdom and bless His people that God might be worshiped in all the earth.

Isaiah says Of the increase, or the growth, of his rule and dominion and of peace there will be no end (Isaiah 9:7).

That is what Christ is doing today.

He is reigning and growing His Kingdom through the Sword of the Spirit…the preaching of the good news of the gospel...

And with an Iron Rod…His providential judgments on the nations and all those who refuse to submit to Him.

Even those who don’t acknowledge Christ are still under Him.

Romans 13 calls civil magistrates His servants.

In Psalm 2 God gives the nations to His Son and warns them to worship Him, lest He be angry and He smash them with a Rod of Iron..

This helps explain what’s going on in our nation today.

And the Bible promises that He must reign UNTIL He has pt all enemies under His feet, and then the last enemy to be destroyed will be death at the resurrection (1 Cor. 15:25-26).

And lest we have any doubt that Jesus will do this, that one day the knowledge of the glory of the LORD will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea (Hab 2:14), as dark and impossible as that seem today...

Isaiah promised The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this (Isaiah 9:7).

And that Jesus will not grow faint or weary until He has accomplished this task (Isaiah 42:3).

But He will be continually refreshed and drink from the brook along the way…that’s Psalm 110:7.

What about Prophet?

But what about Jesus as Prophet?

Its easy to see the relevance and glory of Christ as our Priest and King today and worship Him for it.

Prophet’s a little bit more difficult.

I think sometimes it can kind of take a back seat.

Of course Christ preached the gospel, but now He’s in heaven doing other things.

What relevance does Christ as Prophet have for our life today and how does it actually grow our worship for the Lord?

As Prophet, Jesus does for us two things:

First, He reveals God and who He is...

And second He proclaims to us the words of eternal life to save us from our sins.

Again, you might think that is pretty basic and lose the wonder and awe of what we are actually saying.

So, I want you to look at it like this. Remember who Jesus was a Prophet to, and what God sent Him to reveal.

Darkness

You have to remember, all of us, the whole world was lost, blind, and dead in our sin.

We were completely ignorant of God and His will, languishing under the shadow of death.

The Bible calls this ignorance and describes our miserable state “Darkness,” thick darkness.

So thick we wad no hope and were without God in the world (Eph. 2:12).

We looked for light in false gods and in ourselves, but all of our religion and all of our striving was nothing more than groping in the dark (Acts 17:27).

We had no way to find God, and even if we did, our miserable state was that we loved our sin so much, we would never turn to Him.

We are so blind in our natural state that The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned (1 Cor 2:14).

This is Christ as Prophet.

Without Him we would never know God.

No one has ever seen Him nor can see Him.

He is invisible and dwells in unapproachable light (1 Timothy 1:17, 6:16).

But Christ is the light of the world (John 8:12).

John 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Jesus said John 12:46 I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

He is the Sun of righteousness who dawns on our darkened hearts and the darkness is dispelled (Mal. 4:2).

Luke 1:78-79 He is the sunrise who gives light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Without Christ as our Great and Glorious Prophet, we would never know God and be swept away to eternal destruction.

He came to preach to us good news.

Today

And Jesus continues to serve as our Prophet today.

You’ll notice John says He bears witness to what He has seen and heard.

That’s present tense.

John is saying Jesus bore witness, and continues to bear witness today from the right hand fo the Father.

How?

Through His Word, and the Preaching of His Word.

He is always bearing witness to God and His will.

Revealing who He is and how we might be saved.

Not to mention that Christ in His person and work, Himself, bears witness to the Father.

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Jesus will always be our Prophet because He will always be how we behold the glory of the Father.

He is the image of the invisible God (Col 1:15).

The only way we see the Father is through seeing Him.

And the more we see Him, the more we see the Father.

In Christ we see all the glory of God’s majesty, beauty, and holiness.

All of His love, grace, and mercy.

Righteousness, justice, wrath, wisdom, power...

The way you grow in your worship of God is through beholding the glory of God in Jesus Christ as our Prophet. The Light of the World who reveals God and proclaims to us the words of eternal life.

And that’s point number 2...

II. Jesus Alone Has the Words of Eternal Life

John 3:31-32 He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all. He bears witness to what he has seen and heard...

Again, John is focusing on Jesus’ heavenly origin and how that separates Him from all others as the One who has true, spiritual knowledge and therefore the only one with true authority to speak to us who God is and His will for salvation from God’s own mouth.

Who has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man? (John 3:13).

This is Christ exalted over every other Prophet that ever was or ever has been.

Whether they be true prophets of the Lord - Isaiah, Jeremiah, John the Baptist - or false prophets and messengers of Satan.

Hebrews 1:1-2 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son.

Jesus has supreme authority as the Prophet of God because He testifies to what He has seen and heard.

This has broader application concerning false prophets.

False Prophets

He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speak in an earthly way.

If you go back to verse 11 Jesus said Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony (John 3:11)...

And that’s were Jesus says He speaks of what he knows because He descended from Heaven.

The implication is every other “prophet,” and I put that word in quotes, who is of the earth save God’s true prophets anointed by the Holy Spirit, speak of what they do not know.

They can’t they are of the earth.

They have no knowledge of heavenly things. Heavenly truths.

Their spiritual revelations are the imaginations of their own darkened minds.

In other words, there is no other way to God than Jesus Christ.

Every other religion, every other faith is a lie.

Its of the earth.

Islam

Buddhism,

Judaism

Roman Catholicism

Mormonism

Jehovas Witness

Secular Darwinism

All of ‘em are lies and the worship of demons.

1 Corinthians 10: 20 What pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God.

And they all speak in an earthly way, meaning the build a road to salvation that makes sense to man’s natural understanding.

Its a road paved with works.

You must do something, be good enough to inherit eternal life.

Work your way to salvation.

Only Jesus says You must be born again (John 3:3).

There’s nothing you can do.

The only thing that can save you is God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the only one who gives salvation as a gift, not a result of works.

He died in our place for our sins because there was nothing we could have ever done to earn God’s salvation.

No amount of good works would have ever forgiven one sin.

But Christ lived a perfect and sinless life on our behalf and suffered the penalty for our sin so that through faith in Him we might have eternal life.

His perfect life is counted to us as righteousness and His death becomes our death to pay for all of our sins.

Only Heaven could give us this message.

That is a gospel no one from this earth can come up with because it makes no sense to sinful man.

What makes sense is that we have to earn God’s salvation.

Work for forgiveness.

But heaven says God gave His Son for our forgiveness.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).

Jesus alone has the words of eternal life.

The Son is the only One who can truly reveal the Father.

He is the One True Prophet from Heaven sent by the Father.

And as such, He is the only one who has the authority to tell us the way to salvation.

And what did Jesus say?

John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Only the one from heaven can get you to God.

Every other philosophy, worldview, religion, theology will lead you to Hell.

Jesus as Prophet means we hold fast to Him, no matter the cost.

When many false disciples stopped following Jesus, Jesus turned to the 12 and asked “Do you want to go away as well?”

And Peter said, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” (John 6:67-69).

Where will you go?

And that takes us to point number 3...

III. What Will You Do With the Prophet’s Testimony?

John 3:32-34 He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony. Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true. For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.

Jesus came as a light to the world, shining in the darkness yet no one received His testimony.

This was foreshadowed all the way back in John 1:9-11 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

The world at large and Jesus’ own people, the Jews, rejected Him because of their love of sin.

This is what we talked about earlier with the world, every person ever born being under this cloud of darkness.

Now this obviously doesn’t mean no one receives his testimony universally.

After all, you and I are hear, and the very next verse speaks about people who do receive His testimony.

But there is a sense in which no one universally accepts Jesus’ testimony, because everyone is dead in their sin.

All of us could hear the gospel a thousand times and rejected until the Holy Spirit makes us born again (John 3:7).

That was what the conversation of the New Birth was all about.

We are not saved because we are more noble or less blind to the light than anyone else.

We are saved entirely by a powerful work of God’s grace which is why no one receives his testimony, but amazingly, verse 33, there are some who do by an amazing work of God’s grace.

And the reason why people reject Christ and do not come to Him is their own love for sin.

John 3:19-20 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

This is what keeps people from seeing the light of Jesus Christ. They are too infatuated with the darkness.

They are condemned and enslaved by chains of their own making, the chains of the lusts and desires of their own wicked hearts.

And that is all of us.

By by His grace, the Holy Spirit works in us, through the preaching of the gospel conviction over our sin and with sweet efficacy uses those convictions to draw us to Christ to where we see our need and willingly cry out to Christ for help.

That’s what it means to receive Christ’s testimony. To believe in His name.

We put all of our hope, all of our trust in Him.

And verse 33...

Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.

Back in those days a seal was the sign of your authority.

You would use a seal - think of it as a stamp or a crest - to mark things that belonged to you like you might brand cattle.

And this seal would also be used to mark something as authentic.

When a King gave a law, he would establish it with his seal.

All of that is the idea of what John is saying here.

When we come to Christ, when we receive His testimony we set our seal that God is true.

We own the truth of the gospel as our own, and we certify God’s truth as it is revealed in Jesus with our own personal guarantee.

So whoever believes in Jesus sets his seal that God is true, while whoever does not believe seals God as a liar and confirms themselves in their sins.

Thomas Watson says that Unbelief is the grossest sin, because it robs God of the richest jewel in His crown which is His truth (Thomas Watson, The Godly Man’s Picture, 247).

This same idea is in 1 John 5:10-11 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

So by believing in Jesus and receiving His testimony we affirm that God is true.

Why?

Verse 34: For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.

Here’s the flow of the argument.

All who receive Jesus confirm that God is true. How does believing in Christ confirm God’s own truthfulness?

What does Jesus have to do with the Truth of God?

For, because, He whom God has sent utters the words of God.

Jesus the Son of God speaks God’s own very words.

He is God’s Prophet. Everything we’ve been looking at.

All that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you (John 15:15).

And what’s the proof? What proof do we have that Jesus truly was God’s Prophet?

He utters the words of God for, or because, God anointed Him with the Spirit without measure.

Anointing

Remember how Jesus is the Messiah. The Anointed One.

The anointed with and empowered by the Holy Spirit to fully accomplish all that God had given Him to do,

Even in the Old Testament, Prophets, Priests, and Kings were given the measure of the Holy Spirit that was required for their task.

But Jesus, as the True and Ultimate Messiah who had come to save His people in every way, was given the fullness of the Spirit without Measure to fulfill His ministry as Prophet, Priest, and King.

This is why by the way the only sin that will not be forgiven is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 12:22-32).

In context that is attributing to Satan the works of God in and through Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is basically unbelief in Jesus and denying His testimony.

While He was filled with the Holy Spirit from His miraculous conception in the virgin birth, Jesus received the full anointing of the Holy Spirit to carry out His ministry at His baptism.

John the Baptist in John 1:32 said I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.

And from Jesus’ baptism, He launched into ministry.

The first thing that happened was that He was driven by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil.

And its important that you understand this. When Jesus obeyed and resisted temptation, and when He performed miracles and did all kinds of signs and wonders, He did so as a Man.

Philippians 2 He did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped but emptied himself (Phil 2:6-7).

Jesus lived as a Man in dependence upon the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit.

He had to.

Because if Christ needed to obey and die as a man to save us from our sin. He could not, and did not, “cheat,” by relying on His own divine nature.

Everything He did, He did as a man relying on the Holy Spirit so that He could die as our substitute.

He was anointed with the Spirit without measure.

And this Spirit anointing was necessary for all our salvation

Because Hebrews 9:14 says that He offered his life as a sacrifice through the Spirit,

And Romans 1:4 it was the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead declaring Him to be the Son of God in power.

We know we are saved, because God anointed Christ with the Holy Spirit without measure to fully accomplish salvation on our behalf.

Anointing as Prophet

And this Holy Spirit anointing, even included His preaching as the One True Prophet of the One True God.

You’ll remember how people wondered at Christ’s preaching.

Matthew 7:28-29 The crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.

Jesus was the greatest preacher that ever lived. Every word demanded conviction and a response.

You either hated Him or you loved Him.

Jesus came to preach.

John 18:37 For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth.

Even when Jesus was doing all kinds of miracles and Peter came saying Everyone’s looking for you. Let’s keep it going!

Jesus said, Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out (Mark 1:38-39).

And when Jesus came preaching He started His ministry by reading Isaiah 61.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor (Luke 4:18-19).

And The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned (Matthew 4:16).

So when Jesus is anointed as Prophet to faithfully accomplish all God has given Him to do, He is anointed to preach good news to the poor.

To set us free.

Open blind eyes.

And bring us out of the shadow of death into eternal life.

He is the Prophet who is the Light of the World.

Conclusion

Jesus is the One, True Prophet who alone has the words of eternal life.

The question is what will you do with His Testimony?

Rejecting Him will lead to your own destruction.

Don’t ignore what happened to Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:15-16 The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? (Hebrews 10:29).

But receiving Him will bring you out of Darkness, and sin and the shadow of death, into His marvelous light of salvation, love, mercy, and grace.

How you respond to Jesus will determine your eternity.

Jesus is His Prophet.

He is the only one with sure knowledge from Heaven.

The only one anointed with the Spirit without measure to reveal God and the good news of the gospel.

There is no other way. He is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Him.

During his sermon at Pentecost, Peter quoted Deuteronomy 18 and applied it to Jesus saying Moses said ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’” (Acts 3:22-23).

God will judge us by the Word of Christ.

He is the Key. The end all be all. The last Word.

The Alpha and the Omega. The Beginning and the End.

The question is what will you do about it?

Will You believe in Him? Listen to Him. Receive His testimony and be saved?

Or will you reject Him. Set your seal that God is a liar be destroyed from the people?

Cut off from salvation and eternal life in Jesus Christ.

John 1:12 promises that all who do receive him, who believe in His Name who put their full faith in Him as the One True Prophet of the One True God, Jesus gives the right to become children of God.

In Christ, God forgives all our sin and adopts us as His own

He makes us His own beloved Children born again from above through faith in His Son.

And for the believer...

Do you still look to Christ as your Prophet?

Do hold fast to His Word no matter the cost?

Do you look to Him to know and worship God more and more as the One who reveals the Father’s love for you and all that He has done to save you in Jesus Christ?

Then live for Him. Throw your life on Him.

Do all that you can to grow in your knowledge and dependence on Him and His Word!

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God (John 3:17-18).