The Spirit, the Water and the Blood

1 John 5:6-8

This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7For there are three that testify: 8the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

The Spirit, the Water and the Blood

This scripture has always been a little ambiguous to me. I never grasped fully what it meant.  As the Lord dropped this scripture into my spirit this morning and I began to ask Him what He was saying, He took me back to Genesis 1.  He was saying that Jesus Christ didn’t just come in a spiritual mystical sense, but came in the flesh and in the blood.  

Genesis 1:1-3 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 

2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.”  It is interesting that John uses the analogy of the beginning with the coming of Jesus in John 1 and in 1John 1 as well.  

What God is saying here is that for the longest time the Spirit of God has hovered over this earth of His creation.  For the longest time He has watched it in a state of spiritual darkness, being formless and void of His life and creative hand.  Jesus Christ was the Spirit made flesh.  He came to separate light and the darkness.  He came to give the definition of God in man.  God created and formed in Jesus the likeness of Himself in Spirit.  A foundational part of our faith is that we never deny the deity of God in Jesus Christ who was God in man, thus the Spirit, the Water and the Blood.  The Spirit and the Water define the man of the spirit, but it is the blood the defines the man of the flesh and so it is the blood that must redeem the man of the flesh from sin.  Leviticus 17:11 says, “For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul.”  Jesus Christ was the atonement of God’s flesh for our flesh, His blood for our sin.  Without taking upon Himself the form of a man He could have never made the atonement for man.  

Water is the defining factor of life.  When we look at the possibility of life on other planets we look first for the presence of water.  It was out of water that God formed, created and shaped the earth.  We know that we were a spirit before we ever received a physical body.  We were like the water and the earth undefined.  Even when we possess a natural body we are like the earth in its state of infancy.  We are waste and wild and without form.  When we receive Christ into our lives and yield ourselves and will to His Spirit then a New Creation begins to take place.  It is the creation of the Spirit, the water and the blood.  It is the Spirit of God in man.  “Christ in you” is that defining work and creation that sets you apart from any other creature or creation in the universe.  In each of us He works uniquely and specifically to be a part and an expression of Himself.   Joined together we form a body that functions under the headship of our Lord Almighty Jesus.  He gives the order and the direction out of which each of us are to function in our unique gifting and God given ability.   This is the body of Christ made up of Spirit, the water and the blood.  These three testify and these three agree that the Son is in the Father and we are in the Son and the three of us are one.

Blessings,

#kent

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