Testimony

John 5:30-31,39-40,46 – By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me. “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true…You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life…If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

John 1:7 – He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.

Application:

• ·         John the Baptist’s singular ministry was to testify about Jesus.
• ·         Despite their reverence for the very letter of Scripture, the Jewish leaders did not recognize the one to whom Scripture bears supreme testimony.
• ·         The authors of the New testament books sometimes expressly stressed and everywhere assumed that the Old Testament, rightly read, pervasively points to Christ.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV