If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
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… I want to point out now five reasons that are woven into the text. To begin with, there was a lack of knowledge. Verse 14, a lack of knowledge. Jesus answered and said to them, even if I bear witness of myself. My witness is true. For I know where I came from and where I am going. But, now mark the next four words, you do not know. Lack of knowledge. You do not know where I come from, my origin, you do not know where I am going, my destiny. You have no concept of the sweep of God's plan. Drop down to verse 19 it is. They were saying to him, where is your father? Jesus answered, you know neither me notice lack of knowledge nor my father if you knew me you would know my father also no knowledge incredible ignorance Now, this was nothing new among the Israelites, I might say. It was an indictment they had been living with for centuries. Go back for a moment to the book following Daniel, the book of Hosea, will you please? …
… Jesus answered and said to them, Even if I bear witness of myself, my witness is true. For I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from and where I am going. You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. And yet if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. And it is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. I am one who bears witness of myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness of me. And then they said to him, Where is your father? Jesus answered, You know neither me nor my father. If you had known me, you would have known my father also. These words spoke Jesus in the treasury as he taught in the temple, and no one laid hands on him, for his hour had not yet come. And then Jesus said to them again, I'm going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. …
… This morning we're in the fifth chapter of that gospel, beginning at verse 31, reading through verse 47. John chapter 5, verses 31 through 47. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. There is another who bears witness of me, and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. But I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in His light. 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. And the Father Himself who sent Me has testified of Me. And you have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. But you do not have His Word abiding in you, because whom He sent, him you do not believe. …