We are witnesses to God and His Christ

There come a time in any legal dispute in court that the judge will ask the parties involved "do you have any witnesses". Either of the parties will then get none, one or more persons or set of persons to help them as witnesses to defend their claim. The availability and credibility of witnesses should ultimately decide the outcome of any independent court case.

Jesus said in Acts 1:8

But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Jesus wanted and still wants witnesses to maintain hid claim that

• he came to earth to do the will of the Father.
• he trampled on the devil and took the victory for the world to access.
• a sinful soul could be transformed to become a glorious saint.
• we can have eternal life and literally become children of an unseen God
• man can have power with God and be God's dwelling place
• all he said and did is still very possible with us as he has given us his holy spirit.

This is Jesus' testimony and he is in need of witness hence the release of power to all who would willingly go forth to affirm his claim in their life posing themselves as the real enemy to the god of this world - the devil.

1 john 5:4-12

1Jn 5:4 For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.

1Jn 5:5 And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

1Jn 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood.

1Jn 5:7 And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

1Jn 5:8 For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.

1Jn 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for the witness of God is this, that he hath borne witness concerning his Son.

1Jn 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in him: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he hath not believed in the witness that God hath borne concerning his Son.

1Jn 5:11 And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

1Jn 5:12 He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.

1Jn 5:13 These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.

1Jn 5:14 And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:

1Jn 5:15 and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

We are thus victorious who bear in us this great testimony of Christ as witnesses of his love, victory and judgement.

(all scriptural references are from the American Standard Version)