The Father, Spirit, and The Son

Michael E. Wood
June 27, 2011

1st John 1:2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us-

While pondering this passage as a part of preparation for a Bible study, thoughts arose in my mind concerning the difference between “the life” and “the eternal life”. To the apostle John, along with the other apostles, the life of Jesus while on earth was openly displayed and witnessed by them. From the effectual call to follow him, to every word spoken in purity and with the power of the Holy Spirit, to every work which continually affirmed him to be the Son of God come in the flesh, the life was made manifest. In the gospel attributed to the same writer, he closes out the account therein by saying, “Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”

Though these brief words are sadly and woefully disproportionate in regards to explanation, I rejoice in the fact that our Father is pleased in our contemplations of the glories of His grace as revealed not only in the written word but by His mighty Spirit in the person of Christ Himself. For he was eternally with the Father before all creation, came to earth in the form of a man, lived the life of obedience to the Father’s will that we could not live, even unto death, the death of the cross. He took upon Himself our sin, shedding his blood and offering himself up as the only sacrifice sufficient to deliver us from the wrath to come. He was buried for our offences and raised again for our justification. Overcoming sin, death, and hell on behalf of all appointed by the Father who would put their trust in Him, he ascended to the right hand of the Father, and lives to make intercession for us. He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son has not life, for He is life eternal.

By grace through faith, which is the gift of God we are likewise made partakers of His life and it is this same Jesus of whom and by whom we are made witnesses not only of his life while here on earth but forever unto His glory and eternal praise.

Arrested by His loving voice,
Called of God by Sovereign choice
By faith made now to see and hear
Like those who by Him knew God’s fear,
To witness water turned to wine
And raised the sick by simple line,
Spoken with authority,
That to God all the glory be.


Walked on water, calmed the storm,
Each day the works of God perform,
As grace and truth poured from the lips
Of Christ the One who still equips
The members of His body each,
That we be used and others reach
As vessels, Holy Spirit filled,
Rejoicing as the Father willed
Perfections spoken by the law
From Sinai fulfilled them all
That perfect in obedience
Jesus would in every sense
Become as man the sacrifice,
Pay in full the awful price,
As all our sins are blotted out
To join as one the festal shout,


Eternal life, eternal praise
Is now our theme eternal days
Till all shall culminate in One,
The Father, Spirit, and The Son!