The
Testimony of The LORD Is Sure
John 8:12 “Then spake Jesus again unto
them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that
followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall
have the light of life.
13 The
Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest
record of thyself; thy record is not true.
14 Jesus answered and said unto
them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record
is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go;
but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
15 Ye judge after the flesh; I
judge no man.
16 And yet if I
judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but
I and the Father that sent me.
17
It is also written in your law, that the testimony
of two men is true.
18 I am one
that bear witness of myself, and the Father that
sent me beareth witness of me.
19
Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus
answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye
had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
20 These words spake Jesus in the
treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man
laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
21 Then said Jesus again unto them,
I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in
your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill
himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot
come.
23 And he said unto them,
Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this
world; I am not of this world.
24
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die
in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye
shall die in your sins.
25 Then
said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith
unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from
the beginning.
26 I have many
things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent
me is true; and I speak to the world those things
which I have heard of him.
27
They understood not that he spake to them of the
Father.”
1. The Light Of Life
2. Judgment That
Is True
3. True Testimony
4. It Is Not Time
Yet
5. Ye Shall Die In Your Sins
6. The Father
Is True
1. The Light Of Life
In verse twelve of our text [in John eight] we have this: “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
In the book of Proverbs, chapter twenty-eight we see an inexorable law established. “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” [Proverbs 28:13]
The person who doesn’t cover his sin is the one who will come to the light. The man, or woman, or child who follows Jesus Christ will not walk in darkness. Jesus Christ is THE LIGHT. HE will expose the works of darkness, which is SIN.
The person who FORSAKES sin is one who has the LIGHT of LIFE.
Have you ever noticed something about a TRUE believer in Jesus Christ?
Here it is. They walk in light. Everything about them, [that is, the BELIEVER] rings honest and true. There just seems to be a light in their eye; a gleam so to speak. You can tell that they have met [in a cataclysmic event] the Light of the World … Jesus Christ.
2. Judgment That Is True
Now read verse fifteen and sixteen in John eight: “Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.”
The TRUE LIGHT of the world gives TRUE JUDGMENT.
True judgment is righteous judgment, and Jesus Christ will EXECUTE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT!
Read [Jeremiah 23:5-6]: “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
3. True Testimony
Back to our text in verse seventeen, and eighteen: “It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.”
True testimony can be established when there are at least two independent witnesses that will bear testimony to something as being a fact.
In Deuteronomy chapter seventeen, verse six, and in chapter nineteen, verse fifteen, is where it is written in THE LAW “that the testimony of two men is true.”
A matter can be established by this formula. “One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.” [Deuteronomy 19:15]
In the matter at hand, of whether or not Jesus is the SON of God, we have these two witnesses.
• God THE FATHER is witness number one,
• And God THE SON is witness number two.
This makes the testimony TRUE that Jesus Christ is the SON of GOD … the righteous BRANCH.
Now there is something else here we need to see. Ready?
There is a connection to be made to the mercy seat, which was upon the ark of testimony in the wilderness, and to the MISSION OF MERCY by Jesus Christ in the wilderness of this old world that we live in, my friend. The mercy seat upon the ark of testimony is related to HIM, WHO came to redeem them who were lost because of sin. Jesus Christ is the ONE WHO received the TESTIMONY that HE is the SON of GOD, THE MOST HIGH PRIEST.
• The Two Tables of Testimony bear witness to The True Testimony [WHO is Jesus Christ] written by the finger of God. [Exodus 31:18] “And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.”
• The Mercy Seat can be said to depend on The True Testimony. [Exodus 26:34] “And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.” [Exodus 16:34] “As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.”
• The Testimony is to be kept inside [indwell] the Christian – [The True Believer] in this age of GRACE. [Isaiah 8:16] “Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.”
• Therefore, mercy and grace comes to us TODAY because of THE TESTIMONY of Jesus Christ. [Psalm 19:7] “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.”
4. It Is Not Time Yet
Verse twenty: “These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.”
Think about that! No one could lay a hand on HIM until it was the RIGHT time. Now, even when the hour was come, Jesus Christ could have stopped the whole thing … if HE wanted to stop it. HE is GOD come in the flesh!
Turn to Matthew twenty-six. Zero in on verse fifty-three: “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me?
I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled. And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.” [Matthew 26:53-57]
All that transpired in the forty-two months of Jesus Christ’s ministry on this earth was prophesied in THE BOOK hundreds of years before it all happened. Wow!
There is no other BOOK in the whole world that is like this BOOK! The Bible is the only book … able to foretell a thing [or event] before it happens … with one hundred percent absolute accuracy. Sum it up this way, with the Bible you have a book wherein are prophecies [future events] GUARANTEED to come to pass and become [historical events].
All the prophecies concerning Jesus Christ were “done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”
5. Ye Shall Die In Your Sins
Verse twenty-four: “I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.”
If a man, or a woman, refuses to follow “the light of the world” [Jesus Christ], then they are willfully rejecting the “light of life” to their own peril.
Here are the FACTS!
• They will die in their in sins.
• They will wind up in HELL, all because there is no light in them; TRUE JUDGMENT!
Do not reject the LIGHT of LIFE!
Please receive THE TESTIMONY from the word of God that Jesus Christ is THE SON of GOD.
In Isaiah 8:20 we have this: “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”
6. The Father Is True
Verse twenty-six is where we will end this message. Here it is: “I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true.”
Did you see that? There is comfort to be had here. If the Father is true, there will be “comfort” for all the children. What more can be said?
The Father is TRUE, and if you receive this testimony of Jesus Christ, or in other words, if you receive as HIM as your LORD and SAVIOR [born again], you [The Christian] will be saying: GOD is TRUE!
[John 3:33] “He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.”
Go to [2 Corinthians 1:3]: “Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.”
You can REST in safety in the cleft of THE ROCK.
You can have comfort as an adopted son of God because the Bible says God The Father, is TRUE!
The Father is TRUE.