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Witnesses
Joh 15:26-27
Christ gathered His disciples the night before His death.
Matthew 26:
Jesus foretold they would all abandon Him.
He graphically illustrated His love for them by washing their feet.
Gave them a series of magnificient promises in John 14.
He also warned them of the world’s opposition.
He spoke to them about abiding in Him by the power of the Holy Spirit in John 15.
And now he comes to the end of chapter 15 and He tells them how they will also testify of Him.
The nature of Christian Witness
I. We’re Witnesses to a lost world.
“You also will testify...”
Testify to whom?
Look at verses 18-25 — the context tells us the world that hates us.
And we’re commanded to go and confront the world with the Gospel.
Matthew
Think about the ambiguity of our culture of postmodernism and relativism.
Nothing is more needed than a clear presentation of the Gospel.
But in order to confront the word with the message of the Gospel, three things have to happen.
Nothing is more needed than a clear presentation of the Gospel.
We have to be in the world.
— “I am not praying that You take them out of the world.”
We are not a part of the world.
— “if anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
We must do so in love.
II.
Our Witness is from the Father.
“When the Counselor comes, the One I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father...”
The ultimate witness is God the Father, who testifies of Christ in several ways.
God spoke in the OT and the theme was the Lord Jesus Christ.
, , Luke 24:44
The Father testified to the Son through the divine works that Jesus did.
The Father spoke directly testifying of Jesus.
— “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”
The Father testified of the Son by sending the Holy Spirit.
III.
Our Witness is about Christ.
“He will testify about Me.
You also will testify...”
The ministry of the Holy Spirit to the lost worlds is to testify about Jesus.
Likewise, our message is not political activism, social reform, or self improvement — but Jesus Christ.
That’s a clear Biblical emphasis of our message.
Not only the truth of Christ, but a message of repentance.
This was Christ’s message.
IV.
The Witness of Christ is through us.
“You also will testify.”
Amazingly, we are the final link in the witness chain.
We testify what God the Father and God the Spirit testify.
We do this in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans
We are qualified like the apostles, who had “been with Him from the beginning.”
We are not eyewitnesses of the resurrected Christ as the apostles were.
But we are called to point people to the truth of Christ as revealed in Scripture and we demonstrate the power of His resurrection life in our lives.
God chose us as a means to reach the elect among the lost.
Romans 10:1
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