ACTS 4:8-14

A witness is one who has personal knowledge of some person or event. We who are born again have personal knowledge of Christ. If we do not know Him, we are not born again. The person who has experienced the new birth is a new creation in Christ Jesus. This is not something that could take place in our hearts without our knowledge.

We may not know the exact time or day or place where this transaction took place, but we do know that God has done something for us. Most people who are born again know some of these details, but not all do. If the new birth has taken place in our hearts at all, however, we have witnessed the working of the Holy Spirit in our life.

This puts us in a position to testify concerning this truth. A witness in court is there to give evidence. He tells what he has seen and heard. It is our responsibility to tell of Jesus Christ who has saved us.

This witnessing is to take place in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria and the uttermost part of the earth. We are to begin testifying of Christ where we are, and then we are to seek, by every means possible, to spread the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Since the Holy Spirit has come, we have no excuse for avoiding or excusing ourselves from witnessing.

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me (Acts 1:8).

Theodore Epp
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