One God, and one Lord
The scripture says that we are victors over the world if we believe that Jesus is the Son of God. This Jesus is the one who came through water and blood. Likewise Jesus Christ came not by water alone, but by water and blood. On the other hand, the Spirit is the one that testifies, and the Spirit is truth. So there ‘are three’ that testify, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the ‘three are of one accord’ (I John 5:5-8).
If you are purified, in your heart that is the vessel of love dwells the Holy Spirit. It is apparent also that the likeness of the Father inhabits in you the same, as he gave you his own breath that you may obtain life; this aside from being gifted with the Spirit, a proof of the Holy Spirit baptism that goes along with your infant baptism. Even if the Spirit you received through water baptism is choked as one grows old and is exposed to evil, it is released through the Holy Spirit baptism that we can derive from Life in the Spirit Seminar (LSS), and other means like laying of hands coupled with an act of worship, which yield us to speak in other tongues.
In John 3:5, Jesus said “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and of the Spirit.” This means being baptized in water and in Spirit. This Spirit being the one who gives us His gifts, of which one among those is the ‘speaking in other tongues or languages’. In accordance with this, Jesus who stood up in the last and greatest day of the feast in Jerusalem has this to say, “Let anyone who thirsts come to me (Jesus) and drink. Whoever believes in me, as scripture says: ‘Rivers of living water will flow from within him’ (John 7:37-38).”
As we continue, it is explained that Jesus said this in reference to the Spirit that those who came to believe in him were to receive. There was of course, no Spirit yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified (John 7:39). Somehow there was the presence of the spirit of the Father that exists in the Rock in the desert that Moses strikes that water may come out.
In the New Testament, it says that the Rock was Christ. It is clear that the water being derived from the “well” that springs from everlasting flowing from the Rock before the eyes of Moses is symbolized as the nearness of the Father. In the crucifixion of Jesus (in place of water), blood flows instead. But as mystics and theologians say, what flows out of Jesus are both water and blood. To prove that Jesus has the Spirit of the Father apparent in him, we read in Isaiah 11:2 that, “The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him.”
Since we can live longer even with just the water as sustenance compared to that without food, the water here represents to “the life” we obtained from the Father, of which He makes our body as his dwelling place, or in place of the body, we have the heart where our God inhabits in, where therein he speaks as a still small voice. We also live with the blood of the Lamb who is Jesus being this as our protection that covers us like the mantle of Mary.
Blood also was poured out from the Christ or from the Son in his crucifixion of which Jesus Christ is now represented through the blood, he being the son of Mary, the woman Israel, and was born in flesh according to the law. The same blood and water do we have, that flowed from the heart of Jesus in the holy image of the Divine Mercy. So aside from the Holy Spirit, there is this blood and water, the three giving testimony of each other.
On the other hand, we can also say that it is through the blood of the Holy Spirit that Jesus was conceived making God as the Father to Jesus because the Holy Ghost is the spirit of the Father. Wherefore, this blood of the Lamb was made present to the Gentiles, which aside from the circumcision of the flesh are then circumcised in the heart. The blood and water springing from Jesus in the Divine Mercy proves of his Divinity represented by the water, and his humanity represented by the blood.
The scripture proves correct: So there are three that testifies, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are of one accord (I John 5:7-8),” meaning they are united as one agreeing with each other in a triune communion. The Father does the planting, where the Son harvests, and the Spirit testifies about their works.
So there are these three Deities in which each among them is true having the plurality of the One God in three divine persons: there was this God the Father in the creation or the Divinity present in the Father; and there was this God the Son, where the Divinity is also present in the Son as the true God and eternal life; and last amongst was God the Holy Spirit being the Deity who was also present in the Holy Spirit, as the one who testifies in churches, with Ananias who kept part of the sold property lying not to a human being but to God. The Father testifies of the Son, while the Son testifies of the Father, with the Holy Spirit speaking in churches according to what he hears.
In John 17:11 Jesus said: “And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me so that they may be ‘one just as we are’.” So it proves here that the Son inherited the name of the Father who is the name in Divinity being the God with us, or the Immanuel, and that God has the name “Jesus”.
To continue, Jesus added: “… so that they may all be one, as you Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one as we are, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me (John 17:21-23). So it is clear that there was this dual relation, the Father loving the Son, and the Son loving the Father, with the Spirit as the active force.
Likewise it is evident that the Son was sent by the Father, with the Son present in the disciples as the Father is also in the Son which proves correct the words of Jesus: I in them and you in me (John 17:23). These he proclaimed, as Jesus has to say: that they may be one as we (Jesus and the Father) are.
So there is the plurality of pronoun “we” in the phrase “one as we are”, with the Father and the Son being one as One God, though in clear terms, are absolutely distinct from each other, with the two of them consisting of different natures: the Father being a spirit present in the creation, and the Son being both body and spirit, with the Spirit present in Mary from whom Christ was conceived, believed to be the spirit of the Father (Isaiah 11:2) and that spirit is the Holy Ghost.
Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things are and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are and through whom we exist (I Corinthians 8:6). So there is one God the Father, and one Lord Jesus Christ, and as not to forget we mention also the Holy Spirit that is another Deity. These three are distinct from each other, they being merely of one accord but these three although not exactly fused as one, each being different, also exist as One God with Jesus as the name of this God.
Herewith we convey our prayers, invoking the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, these three in one Deity.
-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra
