The Witnesses of Christ | Sermon 02/19/2023

John 5:31-47

After Jesus’ authoritative claims of His deity, rights to Judge, ability to raise the spiritually and physically dead, and the powerful ability to call all people of all time of every nation to rise at the final resurrection, He brings four witnesses to the stand to authenticate His words. He doesn’t need to as the self-attesting Logos, Son of God but He graciously demonstrates who He is and how other witnesses affirm Him. The witness of john the Baptist, the person and works of Himself, the Father, and the Scriptures. The Jewish leaders act like the believe John, the Father, and the Scriptures, in fact they say they affirm all that Moses wrote; but if they truly believed they would have believed Jesus. Our duty then, is to believe the witness testimony, believe in Christ, and become a witness of the Gospel to the world.