THE FATHER’S TESTIMONY, JESUS AND JOHN’S TESTIMONY

 NOTHING OF MY OWN AUTHORITY

“I can do nothing of my own authority. I judge only as God tells me, so my judgment is right, because I am not trying to do what I want, but only what he who sent me wants.

If I testify on my own behalf, what I say is not to be accepted as real proof.  But there is someone else who testifies on my behalf, and I know that what he says about me is true. John is the one to whom you sent your messengers and he spoke on behalf of the truth.  It is not that I must have a human witness, I say only in order that you may be saved.

John the Burning and Shining Lamp

 35 John was like a lamp, burning and shining, and you were willing for a while to enjoy his light. But I have a witness on my behalf which is even greater than the witness that John gave: what I do, that is, the deeds my Father gave me to do, these speak on my behalf  and show that the Father has sent me.

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The Father’s Testimony

 37 And the Father, who sent me, also testifies on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his face, and you do not keep his message in your hearts, for you do not believe in the one whom he sent.  39 You study the scriptures, because you think that in them you will find eternal life. And these very Scriptures speak about me! Yet you are not willing to come to me in order to have life.

I am not looking for human praise. But I know what kind of people you are, and I know that you have no love for God in your hearts. 43I have come with my Father’s authority, but you do not try to win praise from the one who alone is God; how, then, can you believe me?

45Do not think, however, that I am the one who will accuse you to my Father. Moses, in whom you have put your hope, is the very one who will accuse you. If you had really believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how can you believe what I say?” John 5:30-46

Lord Jesus Christ, I must be motivated by love of you to enable me understand your word.   Give me the promised advocate the Holy Spirit to enable me grasps your word. This is you truly speaking and testifying about your authority as the Son of God.  One can only speak of what one knows.  You are God’s word made flesh, and dwell among us. Direct my heart to love you the way I ought. H.G.