Can I Get a Witness?

Testimony of God the Father Verse 9

John 5:34 NASB95

“But the testimony which I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

John 8:18 NASB95

“I am He who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”

Matthew 3:17 NASB95

and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”

John 5:37 NASB95

“And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.

Let us not seek any other ground of assurance than God’s own testimony.

John Calvin (French Reformer)

Belief in the Testimony Verse 10

Romans 8:16 NASB95

The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,

Calvin insisted that the testimony of the Holy Spirit is superior to reason.

Millard J. Erickson

Revelation 12:17 NASB95

So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.

John 3:18 NASB95

“He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

John 3:33 NASB95

“He who has received His testimony has set his seal to this, that God is true.

 4   All tradition must bow in reverence before the clear testimony of God’s Word. A. W. Tozer “Who Is the Holy Spirit?” sermon (20th century)

A. W. Tozer

Explanation of the Testimony Verse 11

John 3:36 NASB95

“He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

John 1:4 NASB95

In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.

Result of the Testimony Verse 12

John 3:15–17 NASB95

so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.