Greetings Flag Branch members and friends and thanks for taking the time to join me, Pastor Jordan, for some Fine Points from Sunday’s service and message “Witness Of A Witness”.
“People will not believe want happened here in Jerusalem. They will not believe who I am. They will not believe the works I did. They will not believe the things I taught and said. They will not believe I have risen from the dead. So you must convince them because you are my witnesses“.
I can imagine Jesus saying something to this effect to His disciples as He prepared to leave the fate of humanity in their hands. It was up to them to bear witness of the things they saw and heard concerning Jesus of Nazareth.
Many of them put their lives on the line for their witness and testimony. Many of them were murdered for not recanting their statements concerning Jesus. But I must say that they did their job well or else I nor many other people would be looking for the return of the Lord and the gift of eternal life.
Their witness was strong. Their witness was powerful. Their witness was convincing. Their witness was true and sincere enough that over 2000 years after the event, people are still telling the story of Christ’s resurrection.
Ever since they died, people have borne witness to their witness. Retelling the things and events they saw and heard with their own eyes and own ears and touched with their own hands. Jesus knew the only way people would believe what happened was to have faithful witnesses who could and would relate the story.
The world was in need of witnesses then and it has been and is currently in need of witnesses now. Witnesses like those of the past. Witnesses who may not be eye witnesses with first-hand knowledge and account of what took place, but witnesses who live, behave and believe like they were.
This is what is missing in the Christian testimony today. We don’t have the creditability of those first witnesses and as a result believability in the world. Creditability not based on being there, but on living like we were.
As a whole, our witness is weak, contradictory, indifferent, tainted, influenced, corrupt, partial, unorthodox and is managing to turn a whole generation of people away from the truth. When people look at the Christian church and specifically the people who say they are Christians in the church, they see a lot of things but not the first century witnesses Jesus told them and us after them to be.
After Thomas saw Jesus and only then believed He was alive, Jesus remark was how blessed those will be who have not seen as Thomas saw, yet believe. They have relied and believed the witness of a witness.
We are called to be those witnesses today. A witness someone will believe because of our testimony concerning Christ. We as a people called by God have forgotten that our first and primary responsibility is to be a Witness for Christ above everything else we can and will do in the world.
If we fail, and we are failing, to do this, not only have we failed to secure the millions of souls from death who would otherwise have been saved, but we have failed to secure our own soul salvation regardless of what we have told and are telling ourselves about our standing with God.
So let us strive to be a Witness that will cause someone else to be a Witness. May we all be and become a Witness of a Witness.
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