NT Promise 135: The Witness is in you

1 John 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

God promises that each believer in the Son of God has an “inner witness.” This inner witness that we have been given is a Person. He is the Holy Spirit, who is sent by the Father and the Son into our spirit causing us to be born again into a new life when we hear the gospel. The Spirit is a witness to the bodily resurrection of Christ, and He speaks that truth to us and in us daily. He saw Jesus’ resurrected body and bears witness of that in us. This inner witness lives in us. The believer “has the witness in himself.”

This is the promise: ”we have seen the Lord.” Just as surely as the Apostles and