Christ's Threefold Record

Christ Jesus is the record of God. He embodies and fulfills the gracious will and purpose of God to save a people for himself. Christ was sent of the Father to justify and sanctify his people. This he accomplished through the cross. Because of Christ's accomplished redemption, the Lord reveals three powerful witnesses made effectual in the hearts of his people. John calls these witnesses in the earth, the Spirit, the water and the blood. These three agree in one that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ of God. He died, was buried and raised again by the power of God. These three witnesses describe the record of God powerfully revealed in his people by the Spirit, who are blessed to receive the witness of the scriptures and the gospel preached by the blood-redeemed church. You that believe, do so by the grace of God. Through these witnesses, God continues to reveal the accomplished salvation of Christ in the hearts of his chosen, redeemed elect.