“Who has the Witness of God?” Testimony & Fruitfulness in the House of God
This week the Lord continues to release revelation on what it means to be a “witness” of Christ and a testimony to the truth of God in the earth. In a short 15 introduction earlier this week the spiritual power and significance of our “testimony in Christ” is something to be guarded and protected like precious wares.
Our witness in Christ is our “signature” as believers — and the enemy of our souls wants to steal that witness by bringing us into a place of disrepute, and by eroding “the confidence that we have in Christ” by entangling us in sin, compromise, and unbelief. Jesus challenges this same unbelief which plagued the religious contenders of His day and their inability to testify to His witness of the Father, as the Son of God.
Today, we take on a new layer and level of revelation by comparing two texts found in the Gospel of John chapter 5 (The Fourfold Witness) and the epistle of 1 John 4:14-15. Jesus explains that the Father Himself who sent Him has testified of Him and that the works which He has given Him to do and complete are the true testimony to who He is as the Christ and Messiah. He explained that “John the Baptist was necessary to be a testimony to you so that you would believe,” but that the testimony of men, confirmation through the law — and flesh and blood could never be a requirement to validate His true identity as the son of God. Yet they still did not believe in Him because of their hearts of unbelief , which included their rejection of the law and words of Moses (whom they claimed to follow).
So, what then is the true TESTIMONY and WITNESS of Christ? Is it just the words of an individual’s confession: “Jesus Christ is the son of God.” Or rather the words of a true biblically defined believer who has given their heart and life to God through the Son –with EVIDENCE that they are abiding in Christ and He abiding in them, by do the works of Christ?
1 John 4: 14 picks up on the certainty of Christ’s testimony with, “And we have seen and testify the Father has sent the son of God, God abides in Him, and He in God.” –But what happens when out of the mouth confession that Jesus is the Son of God is made, but in the heart and in deed one has received the truth and submitted to it. Join us as we rightly divide and examine the word of truth.
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