1 John 5:6–12

Overcomer

This is He who came by water and blood — Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the One who testifies because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning His Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning His Son. And this is the testimony that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son does not have life.

“He who saw it has borne witness — his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth — that you also may believe” (John 19:35).

“Who is it that overcomes the world?” John asked. The answer: people who believe in Jesus, fully God and fully man, two natures in one. False teachers always separate Jesus the man from Jesus the Christ.

The single most defining element that separates Christianity from every other world religion is the God-Man nature of Jesus, as noted in this passage by John. Many world religions recognise Jesus as important in one way or…