{"id":678,"date":"2011-08-11T09:51:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T14:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:26","slug":"ye-shall-be-witnesses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Ye Shall Be Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Acts 1:1-11,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a02:22-33,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John 20:30-31, and 21:25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you were being tried for being a Christian.<\/p>\n<p><strong> I: What is A Witness?<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;One who gives his Testimony to the truth at the expense of his life.&#8221;<br \/>\n2. Witness comes from &#8220;Mart Us!&#8221; Myrtle.<br \/>\n3. Jewish Law condemned false witness as well as one that held back part of the truth.<br \/>\n4. One that was there when it happened. &#8220;Ye are witnesses of these things.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong> II: They Witnessed to:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Immortality of the soul, Resurrection.<br \/>\n2. Vanity of material things.<br \/>\n3. The satisfying nature of Christianity.<br \/>\n4. Guilt and danger of sinners.<br \/>\n5. Love of Christ.<br \/>\n6. Necessity of the New Birth.<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: Every Christian is A Witness. &#8220;My business.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. We are witnesses for good or bad.<br \/>\n2. If the Courts had as hard a time finding witnesses as the Church?<br \/>\n3. Whole hearted witness.<br \/>\n4. Determined witness.<br \/>\n5. First hand witness.<\/p>\n<p><strong> IV: The Results of Every Christian Witnessing.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. They turned a pagan world upside down.<br \/>\n2. Their generation heard about Jesus.<br \/>\n3. It will renew our own faith.<br \/>\n4. A new lease on the promises of God.<br \/>\n5. The backsliders brought back.<br \/>\n6. A fruit bearing Church!<br \/>\n7. Loved ones and friends brought to saving faith.<\/p>\n<p>Our own Christian experience reclaimed from a drab lifeless existence. &#8220;Ye shall be.&#8221; &#8220;We are.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Let that man take care of his own business.&#8221; &#8220;Honey, that is it he is!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts 1:1-11,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a02:22-33,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John 20:30-31, and 21:25 If you were being tried for being a Christian. I: What is A Witness? 1. &#8220;One who gives his Testimony to the truth at the expense of his life.&#8221; 2. Witness comes from &#8220;Mart Us!&#8221; Myrtle. 3. Jewish Law condemned false witness as well as one that held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}