Can I get a witness?

The meditation of my heart and mind is always the church, the body of Christ. And the calling of God for the equipping of the saints and edifying of His body until we all come to  maturity. As I have learned to write as a tool to communicate my comfort is in speaking, yet for the benefit of all I will continue to write. I encourage you to consider these words carefully and examine yourselves.

The book of Acts is written by Luke the physician. This fact had little, if any value to me previously because I determined it as without pertinence. I was unaware, not knowing, in darkness. However, as God has enlighten my understanding to see I can share the value of such knowledge now. Luke wrote Acts. Yet he himself is not mentioned in the writings. He is a witness of the acts of the Apostles and records that which he witnessed. His detail account seems at times as though Peter or Paul were speaking themselves. Yet he spoke (testified) about what he himself had witnessed. He was an eyewitness and we read his testimony as recorded Acts.

What is a witness? to be a witness, that is, testify (literally or figuratively):  charge, give [evidence], bear record, have (obtain, of) good (honest) report, be well reported of, testify, give (have) testimony, (be, bear, give, obtain) witness.

Luke is a powerful example to us if we can/will understand it. First we must determine that Luke was just a man (flesh). Just like you and me. Additionally he is not listed as one of the twelve apostles. Although there are some listed as apostles that we have no record of their words or deeds, yet they walked with the Lord Jesus and were undoubtedly witnesses of His life, death and resurrection. We know this to be true because Luke was an eyewitness to their presence as recorded in Acts 1. This demonstrates the truth of God's Word as recorded by Paul when he said "that God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as he pleased." For God called Luke and equipped him to do the work of the ministry. And we are witnesses of that fact.

Why am I explaining this to you? Why is it prevalent to you and I? Because in Acts Jesus is recorded as giving the great commission, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

We have determined that it is a great commission ( a group of people who have been given the official job of finding information about something or controlling something). Jesus said, that we would receive power and that with that power we shall be witnesses. Meaning His Spirit would give us the ability to give evidence, proof, bear record, and testify to that which we have witnessed.

The examination now begins with, what are you a witness too? Remembering always that Jesus is our example as High Priest, Savior, Shepherd, Lord and King. Simply said, if we are not a witness, one that can display the evidence of Him within us (our lives) and one that can testify (make a statement based upon personal knowledge) and it is true and honest we are not a witness to him.

Remember that Jesus said, “If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true.”  He said, “There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true.” He goes on to tell us that John borne witness to the truth and that He has a greater witness than John, being the Holy Spirit.

My encouragement to you today is two-fold. One, to ask yourself are you a witness as defined, of Jesus whom you say is your Lord? Two, if indeed you are a witness of Him would not ALL be witnesses of you that you are His?  

*I can not presume that all will understand, therefore I must say that, what you confess or say without evidence or proof is useless, fruitless and therefore you are a false witness (not true, genuine, not accurate).