Our Record on High

“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” (I John 5:7)

In the Great Commission, the Lord’s marching orders to the church, we are to make disciples and then to baptize these new disciples in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Jesus, the Son, is the Word according to John 1:1-3, 14. In our text we are told, “These three are one.”

These three, Father, Son, or Word, and the Holy Spirit bear record in heaven that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, as Peter proclaimed at Caesarea Philippi.
(Matthew 16:6)

When you and I make the same confession of Jesus that Peter made, the God Head in heaven verifies that confession. Saying or repeating that confession without heart belief and faith is meaningless.