# 101 Don't Discredit the Witness

# 101 Don’t Discredit the Witness

Joh 5:36 "But I have a greater witness than John's; for the works which the Father has given Me to finish--the very works that I do--bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.

Jesus now calls another witness to the stand….the witness of His works, His miracles. He makes it clear that every sign, every wonder, was orchestrated by the Father. They were miraculous tasks given to the Son to perform in order to bear witness to His deity or Sonship, and His mission.

The disciples were blessed because they lived and walked with Jesus, but even with that privilege, there was some doubt. Remember Thomas? He needed to place his hands in the wounds of Jesus before he believed, and Jesus said, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”  Um, that would be you and I!

Even though we were not there for the eyewitness accounts, we are blessed because His signs and wonders were recorded in the Bible and preserved through the ages for us! Joh 20:30,31 says, “And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.”

There are those among us who would attempt to explain away the miracles of Jesus. They feel that there must be some natural explanation for His reversal of the laws of nature. In so doing, they attempt to weaken the witness of the Father. Stay away from such men! For in reality they are seeking to portray Jesus as simply a good moral teacher, a mere man.

But these miracles put the stamp of the unseen Father on the visible Son. These miracles say there is One greater than Creation, and He walked the earth for a time, clothed in the flesh of man, doing things only God could do!

His recorded miracles are to be believed as actual events. Events that help us all understand that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. To ignore them, or explain them away is to discredit the witness. Be careful here, very careful, for the witness is God Himself!