. 193 has attested His Divine ch aracter and Messianic claims, and over all m ight be appropriately recorded: “These words are w ritten th a t ye m ight believe th a t Jesus is th e Christ, th e Son of God, and th a t believing, ye m ight have ' life through H is nam e.” The resu lt of accepting th e testimony of th e F ath e r and th e Word is saving faith. W hat are we to understand by believing in Christ? 1. An acceptance of Him as He is set fo rth in th e Scrip tures. 2. A su rrend er of ourselves to Him as His obedient followers: Christ’s example: “For I do always those things th a t please H im .” JiH THE JUNIORS THE WOMAN AT THE WELL Jo h n 4:1-15 (Review: The Lamb, th e Sign-Post, The Wedding, The Housecleaning, The House-top Visit, The Two K inds of Ser pents. ) R epeat Memory Verse (Isa. 53 :6 ). A fter Jesus had th e ta lk w ith Nico- demus on the housetop where He told him he must be born again, and then told him th e story of th e two serpents (th e kind th a t killed people, and the kind th a t made them well) He left Jerusalem and went back to Galilee, His own country, about 80 miles no rth of Jerusalem . The Bible says, “He must needs go th rough Samaria.” Why do you sup pose He needed to go th rough Samaria? Was th ere no other way to get to Gali lee? (Yes, He could have gone ano ther way, bu t He knew all things, and He knew th ere was a woman in Samaria th a t needed H is help.) Where did Jesus stop to rest? (At a well in th e City of Sychar.) W hat was the name of th e well? (Tell the chil dren a little about Jacob and th a t he lived hundreds of years before.) Have you ever wanted a drink of w ater and
THE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
SUGGESTIVE COMMENT Rev. W. E . Edmonds
Jesus Christ sent His disciples fo rth not to be merely preachers or teachers or w riters, bu t witnesses. W itnessing may or may not he done th ro u g h preach ing, teaching or w riting. I t all depends upon what we base our witness and con cerning whom we witness. Jesu s Christ must be the center and circumference of all our testimony, if it is to be ef fective. Notice five sources of testimony to Christ: 1. The F a th e r’s testimony (D iv in e): “This is My Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” Matt. 3:17. 2. The Scriptures’ testimony (In spired) : “Search th e Scriptures— they testify of Me.” Jno. 5:39. 3. The Be liever’s testimony (E xp erim en tal): “By th e name of Jesus Christ doth th is man stand before you whole. There is none other name whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:10-12. 4. The world’s te sti mony (H um an ): “Never man spake like this m an.” Jno. 7:46. 5. The demon’s testimony (In fe rn a l): “Jesus, thou Son of th e Most H igh.” Lk. 8:28. The h eart of th e lesson is in verses 36-38: Christ’s appeal to His F a th e r’s witness. H is own living voice was a fact which only dishonest people would endeavor to set aside. The F a th e r’s voice had been heard before, and the people said it thundered. The strongest evidence th a t they were not the people of God was refusal to h ear or accept the testimony of Christ. He then makes an appeal to th e ir Scriptures. Their own very Scriptures contain th e clear est intim ation th a t He came from God. “Moses wrote of Me and if ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me.” They had wholly m isunderstood th eir own Scriptures, and th e ir rejecting Christ and even Moses, would be a w it ness against them. Thus we trium phan tly sum up th e en tire series of testimonies by which God
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