The Gospel of John Chapter 5 (IV)
The Fourfold Witness
Welcome & Introduction
Good morning, brothers and sisters, and welcome back to The-Way Ministry!
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May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all as we gather today.
Please open your Bibles with me to John 5:31–47.
In this passage, Jesus effectively calls His witnesses to the stand. He presents a powerful, fourfold testimony—John the Baptist, His own divine miracles, God the Father, and the Old Testament Scriptures through Moses—to demonstrate beyond all doubt that He is the promised Son of God.
As we examine this overwhelming evidence for Christ, let us hear God’s Word together.
Scripture Reading: John 5:31–47 (NKJV)
³¹ “If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. ³² There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true. ³³ You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. ³⁴ Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. ³⁵ He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.
³⁶ But I have a greater witness than John’s; for the works which the Father has given Me to finish—the very works that I do—bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me. ³⁷ And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. ³⁸ But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe. ³⁹ You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. ⁴⁰ But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
⁴¹ “I do not receive honor from men. ⁴² But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you. ⁴³ I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. ⁴⁴ How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God? ⁴⁵ Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust. ⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”