Testimony about Sonship

Dear Pastor John,

I was looking for something online when I bumped into this video, and first I didn’t even want to spend time watching it, but I just had a feeling that I should. So I listened to the whole material, and it’s a very thorough, Bible-based study about why there is only one God, the Father; why Jesus is the Son of God, and why that’s important; and why the holy Spirit is not a separate individual, but the spirit of the Father and the Son, in fact, the Spirit is Christ himself.

There are a couple of points where the speaker contradicts the truth, i.e. he thinks the OT prophets knew that God had a Son, he also believes that Jesus was already the Christ, when he was born in Bethlehem. But there was one point he made that really blessed me, and I’m not sure whatsoever, that he’s aware that he made a wonderful case for why speaking in tongues must happen every time a person is born again.

This is what he said (it starts at 19:21 in the video, and ends at 22:38): In the gospels there are three times when the Father audibly speaks from heaven. Two of these three times He declares that Jesus is His Son (first at Jesus’ baptism and the second time on the “mount of transfiguration”). The speaker makes the point that Jesus being His Son was so important to the Father, that He didn’t send an angel or a prophet to declare it, even though He could have, but did it himself, both times. Then he says this: Jesus being the Son is “so important, that God says, ‘This must not be entrusted with anyone, I will say it myself’”. As I was hearing these words, I felt like the Spirit was telling me: “So is the case every time someone becomes a son.” It must be the Spirit giving the witness! As Paul said: “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God”.

Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TpRpKi5N_o

Zoli