{"id":4190,"date":"2017-02-25T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2017-02-25T07:34:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:34:12","slug":"witnesses-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4190","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Witnesses of Christ
\nActs 1: 8<\/a>
\nIt is the privilege, responsibility and honor of every believer to accurately and honestly relate to others that which he has heard with his own ears, seen with his own eyes, and felt and experienced in his own heart (I John 1: 1-3<\/a>).\u00a0 Therefore, let us be sure that our testimony truly is, \u201cSalvation is of the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

1. We are witnesses by believing the Lord Jesus Christ is able to save (Acts 1: 4<\/a>.) The disciples had just seen the religious mob beat their Savior till he was unrecognizable.\u00a0 Returning to Jerusalem was witness that they trusted the power of their Lord to keep them.<\/p>\n

2. We are witnesses by waiting on the Holy Spirit (Acts 1: 4-5<\/a>.) The disciples had no more ability in themselves to strengthen their own hearts, to preach Christ or to quicken dead sinners than they had ability to keep themselves assembled after Christ\u2019s death. They were witnesses of Christ by waiting on the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n

3. We are witnesses by trusting the progress of the work to our all-wise God (Acts 1:6-7<\/a>).\u00a0 The disciples asked this question only once; they were satisfied with the answer.\u00a0 God \u201chath appointed a day\u201d; that is enough for Christ\u2019s witnesses (Acts 17:31<\/a>;\u00a0I Co 3: 5-7<\/a>; compare\u00a0Acts 1: 5<\/a>,\u00a07<\/a> with\u00a0Luke 3: 16<\/a>,\u00a017<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

4. We are witnesses by proclaiming Christ and by proclaiming Christ crucified.\u00a0 The one thing that separates true witnesses from false is, \u201cWe preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord\u201d (2 Corinthians 4: 5<\/a>;\u00a0Acts 2: 36<\/a>;\u00a01 Corinthians 1: 23-25<\/a>.)
\nClay Curtis.<\/p>\n

Our believing and embracing the true and living God is not caused by man\u2019s boasted, so called \u201cfree-will\u201d (Psalm 65:5<\/a>). Man\u2019s will is like his depraved and God-less nature which is always selfward and downward, never God-ward and upward (Eph. 2:3<\/a>). All who proclaim and promote free-will works religion promote the mind-set of Satan, for he is the author of it (Isaiah 14:12-15<\/a>). Our believing is the result of our Lord Jesus Christ making an effectual blood atonement for our sin (Heb.9.12<\/a>). Our believing is the result of irresistible grace. It is the work of God the Holy Spirit calling in mercy and giving faith and spiritual life to dead sinners (Eph. 2: 1<\/a>;\u00a0Jn. 17:2<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tom Harding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Witnesses of Christ Acts 1: 8 It is the privilege, responsibility and honor of every believer to accurately and honestly relate to others that which he has heard with his own ears, seen with his own eyes, and felt and experienced in his own heart (I John 1: 1-3).\u00a0 Therefore, let us be sure that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,72,68,32,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-tom-harding","category-christ-and-his-church","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies","category-the-will","category-gospel-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}