1 John 5:20
"And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life."
“And we know that the Son of God is come.” He came, lived, died and rose again. All of that is summed up in the word “come.” He ascended on High having fulfilled all righteousness on behalf of His people.
And now “hath given us an understanding.” This is not just a knowledge of understanding but a discerning understanding—a knowledge of the difference between truth and error. Before the LORD opened our eyes and taught us, we were dung. We were blind. We were lost. We couldn’t see. We fell easily into deception, and back into the works of the flesh.
But now, it speaks of those that have been taught of the Spirit. “... that we may know Him that is true.” All true doctrine is founded on Him. To know Him and be found in Him is, as Paul said, “...not having mine own rtghteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the Faith of Christ, the Righteousness which is of God by Faith:” (Philippians 3:9).
“And we are in Him that is true.” If we know Him that is true, it is because we are in Him that is true. “...even in His Son Jesus Christ.”
“This is the true God, and eternal life.”
"And this is life eternal, That they might know Thee the only True God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent” (John 17:3). That is why we constantly return to the truth expressed in this hymn:
"My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly lean on Jesus’ Name.”
It is often when you are in the sweetest frame that your wandering has begun. You are asleep in the boat, and the current is taking you away.
"We dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ Name.
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness."
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