Skip to content

Let us appropriate the Spirit’s testimony!

BibleGateway: 1 John 5:4-12

ESV Text: 1 John 5:4-12


KJV Text:

The section starts at about 0:21 and ends at about 1:44

Right click here to save the file for off-line use.

4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

     6 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. 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

     10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. 11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.(KJV)


Hymn: TLH 236:
Creator Spirit, By Whose Aid

— Organ Audio

Right click here to save the file for off-line use.

1. Creator Spirit, by whose aid 
The world’s foundations first were laid, 
Come, visit every humble mind; 
Come, pour Thy joys on humankind; 
From sin and sorrow set us free 
And make Thy temples worthy Thee. 

2. O Source of uncreated light, 
The Father’s promised Paraclete, 
Thrice holy Fount, thrice holy Fire, 
Our hearts with heavenly love inspire; 
Come and Thy sacred unction bring 
To sanctify us while we sing. 

3. Plentous of grace, descend from high 
Rich in Thy sevenfold energy; 
Make us eternal truths receive 
And practice all that we believe; 
Give us Thyself that we may see 
The Father and the Son by Thee. 

4. Immortal honor, endless fame, 
Attend the almighty Father’s name; 
The Savior Son be glorified, 
Who for lost man’s redemption died; 
And equal adoration be, 
Eternal Paraclete, to Thee.