Topic: WITNESSING THE TRUTH
Text: John 3:9-15
3:9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”
3:10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?
3:11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness.
3:12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
3:13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.
3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
3:15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
STUDY:
Nicodemus expressed ignorance and unbelief to what Jesus had told him,”… how can these things be?” Jesus equally wondered that he was already a master in Israel and yet, did not know these things. By implication, he had
been speaking and testifying to what he did not know. Jesus wondered how Nicodemus would believe heavenly things. He told him that the Son of Man would be lifted up, so that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have eternal life because God sent His Son to come and save the world.
The response of Jesus to the ignorance and unbelief of Nicodemus is worthy of note by all ministers of the gospel. You cannot be a minister of the life you do not have. “Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We do know, and testify what we have seen; and you do not receive our witness”(v.11). Are you a witness or just a preacher? To what extent have you proven by life, the gospeI you preach? Although Nicodemus expressed unbelief in (vv. 10-11), yet the words of our Lord Jesus remained the truth he could not push away (John 19:39). That’s how powerful the words of a witness can be!
Prayer:
Father; fill me with the power of the Holy Spirit and make me a witness of the truth.
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