God's Witness to the Scriptures

Here we find the blessed truth that the Christian, the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God, overcomes the world. Jesus Christ is the Essential Word of God. He came by water; that is He came, being borne witness to by John the Baptist, as being the Messiah, at His baptism. It was there that He was witnessed to by the Father who said – "This is My Beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased", and it was there that He was also witnessed to, by the Holy Spirit who descended in bodily form like a dove upon him, it says in Luke 3: 22. But how do we know of these things concerning Christ? We know them because they were written down for us in the Scriptures; in the gospels. And they are written down here by John in his 1st Epistle. Therefore we need to understand that God Himself bears witness to the truth of Jesus Christ as the Son of God in and through the testimony of the Scriptures.