The sermon 'Witnesses of Christ' explores John 5:31-36, emphasizing the multiple witnesses that testify to Jesus' divine authority. It addresses the skepticism of the Pharisees and scribes who were critical of Jesus' claims and miracles, particularly after the healing of a man who was paralyzed for 38 years. Jesus responds by highlighting the testimony of John the Baptist, his own works, and ultimately God the Father, fulfilling the Old Testament requirement of multiple witnesses to establish truth. The speaker warns against having a superficial belief in Jesus that does not transform one's life, likening such faith to neglected and decayed objects. The sermon underscores the importance of personal submission to Jesus' lordship and warns of spiritual blindness akin to that of the religious leaders who failed to recognize Jesus as the Son of God. The sermon concludes with a call to live boldly for Christ, recognizing the evidence of His presence in believers' lives today.

[♪ Music And Music And Music And Music And Music And Music And Morning, family. Morning, brothers. Blessed day God has given us today. So today we will continue in the book of John, chapter 5. It's one of those weeks where I thought I would cover like the rest of the chapter, and I did not.

You get into it and it's so deep and wide that I didn't want to go too fast too far. So we will be in verses 5, book of John chapter 5 verses 31 through 36. So I'll start by reading that and then we'll kind of recap and get context. But it reads, If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. Here's 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. Yet 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 are 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." Let's open up in prayer. Father, we thank you for these words today.

We thank you for this text and we thank you for your son Jesus who gave his life, Lord God, who is with us this morning. We thank you so much for this text pray father God that it would do its right work in our hearts and our lives as we Commit this time to you Lord. I Just pray for your Spirit and your Word to do a work that is irrevocable and irreversible in our hearts and lives, Lord God, that will march us forward as your children, as your soldiers. In Jesus Christ's name, I pray, Amen. And so today, we have what is the witnesses of Christ.

And so to recap where we are, this all started out with what is the scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees not liking Jesus, thinking that he was this far left wing kind of a miracle worker that was drawing attention away. And it bothered them, and especially when he claimed deity, when he claimed equal with God, that's where it really got to them. He had been doing miracles all along, and they've been following and watching him. And at this point, at this point, This is a response to what has been in the beginning, the first nine verses of chapter five, where he healed a man that was lame for 38 years, crippled, paralyzed, could not move or walk, and Jesus healed this man. And so the Pharisees and the scribes immediately confronted him on it.

And this is Jesus' discourse back with them, telling them who he is. It's a proverbial, do you know who I am? Only this is the only guy that can pull that off. And so he's doing that, he's letting them know who he is and by what authority he does that. And As we go through this text, he's explaining who he is and what authority he has.

I want you to know that that's the authority that he has in your life. That this is not a 2, 000 year old story that's stale and outdated, this is today. This is the Jesus that is alive today and lives in every believer and every believer lives in him. And this is his authority to speak into your life and to get you to live for Him and move and breathe for Him. And so this is how the elite refused to believe, like it says, and in John 20, 31, it says these things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, and that believing you may have life in His name.

That is the goal, again, I'm gonna bring that back around because that's what this is all about today too. It's about personal submission and surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in your personal life. That's what this all comes down to being. And so it's meant to change our lives. And it is about John telling us about Jesus' discourse with the Pharisees, Sadducees, scribes.

And there's this almost like a courtroom type of an atmosphere going on. And Jesus is giving evidence. And this is a three-fold testimony. There's a four-fold testimony altogether. We're going to get into three of them today.

And so we see the Jewish leaders growing inside. There's this deep, intense growing hatred for Christ. So we can see the growing hatred for Jesus, for His truths, for what He's done, for the good things, the miracles. And we see that their own self-love, their love and their desire to cover and protect who they are and what they have done is larger than what their love for the word and the truths of Jesus Christ the Savior is. And so that's one place that we have to guard.

We need to guard that in our personal hearts and lives. That what we believe and what we want to do is not above what God wants us to do. And so he answers these men and he tells the evidence. And he's going through this, and we have to remember that in Old Testament, in Deuteronomy 19.15, it tells us that One witness is not enough. And so this becomes what is kind of the base for him to tell about these other witnesses.

And so this is a fundamental or foundational text for us to know about, because it's relevant to the rest of the text here that he's telling about, the rest of the testimonies that are coming. And it says, one witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits. By the mouth of two or three witnesses, the matter shall be established." So you can't establish a case unless you have two or three witnesses. And so this is as old as the Old Testament. And so what we see in the previous text and in today's answers to these people from Christ is to ask ourselves, we have to, we can't miss it, we can't go through it learning a history Bible lesson.

Do we have, do I have, do you have? You need to ask yourself, do I have any head belief about Jesus but fail to let the truths of it soak in and dive that root down where it needs to go. Do we have, do I have a head belief or an understanding or preconceived notions of what God is or his will for my life and then not let it take root. And so, to where it really changes what we believe and walk, to where it changes our action. So this is an answer to the doubting men, these religious leaders, to these angry, bent on silencing Christ's words and miracles by who claim to be the religious leaders, the religious elite.

And so, if we go through this text, and when I say religious elite, or religious, or the self-righteous, when I say that, just say to yourself, that's me. Okay? Because that's all of us. We can't go through this text without understanding the base reality that that is us. Okay, and I'm not trying to slam or dig on anyone because that's us to some degree or another.

We have to confess that we are that, that we are them guys. And so do we ever get in a place in our lives where we settle into that religion? And as I was thinking about this the other day, I had to power wash the deck because it's spring, right? And I ended up without putting the best decking down that I could. So it gets this like haze of fungus or moss or, I don't know what it is.

It's just dingy looking. So I need to take the power washer and I need to power wash it. So I go down to the shed, I get the power washer and I'm like, I really hope this thing starts. And as I choke it and I turn the gas on, I choke it, I turn the machine on, and I pull it, second pull, it starts right up. This is great.

And I power wash the entire deck and I'm getting down to the end. And I'm like, I hope I got enough gas. Lord, please let me have enough gas. And wouldn't you know, I'm on the last board, this wide, that long, and it runs out of gas. And it doesn't go like, where you can kind of finish it, you know, you go quick and get, nope, it died, just poof, and it's done.

Like, okay, well, I got to go put more gas into this now I have to go and get gas so I went down to the shed and there's no gas and I'm like my big tank's empty and I know I had to fill that. So I pulled the tank up into the truck. It's like a 28 gallon tank. And I pull it up to the truck, I strap it in, I drive to the gas station And I fill it up with gas and I'm driving home and I look alongside of the road. And as I look alongside of the road as I'm driving back home, there is underneath some pine trees, there's a boat.

So this is probably a 20, 22 foot old fiberglass boat. And it's recognizable as a boat, but there's weeds and moss and it's just, it's dingy, it's dirty, it's not functional. It hasn't run in years. It's just been sitting there. Now, when the guy parked it there, I'm sure that he had intentions of, I'm gonna fix this up, or I'm gonna get this out running, and I'm gonna get out.

And he had these grand pictures of it. This captain's hat, and he's got all the fishing poles hanging out the back. And he's going to be the man, you know? Well, one day after the next and one spring after the next and summer. And the next thing you know, the thing is just about hiding in the weeds.

And we see this as we go up to Ketchikan, up to Metla Katla too. You walk the streets and every other house has a big old boat that's so covered in weeds and it's got trees growing right out the bottom of it. And so what hit me right away, I'm like, I know what that is. I know exactly what that is. That is neglected faith.

That's what it is. That is those who have heard the truth, those who have received the truth even, and those who have not kept it. Those who have not walked in it. Their decayed, weed-grown religion didn't happen overnight. All of these weeds in this deplorable looking condition, that didn't happen in one spring.

That was over probably 10 to 20 years that that happened. And it took years of neglect to get that way. And it's the same way with what we'll call these religious people. It took decades for them to get to the point where their religion was so corrupt that they didn't recognize the Christ standing right in their midst, preaching at them. And it didn't happen overnight.

Their rigid rules had stiffened their hearts, but it couldn't cause them to obey, to joyfully obey God's commands. And here's the difference, and I heard this on the radio, and Bonnie had it written down, and I'm close with this quote, but I'm not perfect, but it is that faith is not believing without evidence. It is obeying without knowing the purpose or the outcome. That's what faith is. So they had their stiff necks, their stiff hearts, but they couldn't cause themselves to joyfully obey God's word and God's command.

So their amazing boat had no appeal to God, no matter what others might have thought about it, it didn't matter. And so in response to their spiritual blindness, Jesus gives us powerful defense of His divine identity by presenting multiple witnesses. He's going to bring out multiple witnesses and in doing so, he exposes the spiritual blindness of the religious elite, these leaders who rejected him, urging them, he's urging them, He's urging us to look past surface level religion, to look past easy believism, to look past emotional dramaism, and accept God's authentic testimony about his son. That's what he's trying to accomplish today. So let's take a closer look at the testimony of the ones that Jesus cites as witnesses of himself.

And so the first one is himself. The first one in verse 31, if I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. So he's setting himself aside as a witness. He's not using his own witness. He's setting it aside according to the common rule of judgment among men.

It didn't work as legal proof, and it could not be given as legal evidence either, according to the law. And so as David said in Psalm 116, 11, he said, I said in my haste, all men are liars. So this is coming down to it. Now this sounds extreme, doesn't it? David said it in his haste, but now what he said in haste, we can say deliberately, right?

What David said in haste, we can say it deliberately. You see, a person's testimony of himself is suspicious. Okay, and I've heard it, I've seen it, but it is suspicious. It can't be relied on, especially if you don't know the person. It's a sign that self-love is stronger than the love of the truth.

It's easier to love yourself and your own beliefs than it is to love the truth. Because the truth requires you to change. And yet even though Christ's testimony of himself is the deepest truth, Even though it is infallible, it is perfect, it's the deepest truth, he's pleased to set it aside. He's pleased to set it aside and waive that privilege and for the confirmation of our faith, He refers Himself to the testimony of other people so that they can give testimony and we can have full satisfaction. So that we can have full satisfaction that He is who He claims to be.

That He is the Christ. God's Son. How often would we be better off to keep our self-praise or our self-testimonies to ourselves? It's not easy, is it? It's not easy.

It's not easy to keep yourself quiet about how much you do, how much you know, what you've done, what you've accomplished. And yet Proverbs 27.2 tells us, it tells us, let another man praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. See, to apply that wisdom, it's hard. To say it, it's easy. But no matter how worthy we might be to be able to say something of our own praises or to give our own testimony of being highly spoken of, know that Jesus is not saying that His testimony is not, about Himself, is not accurate.

It's completely accurate. But in humility, which is one of the striking points and dead giveaways of a true believer is humility. In humility, Christ is saying that it isn't to be believed just because I said so. But all these other testimonies, then why should the leaders listen to Jesus if they can't listen if they if they Can't go by his own testimony. Why should the leaders listen to Jesus?

Why should we listen to Jesus? Why should we listen to Jesus if this is not His own testimony? The testimony of others, the second point I have is testimony from another. And verse 32 it reads, There is another who bears witness of me, and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. This is speaking based on the context of this passage.

I take this meant of God the Father. This is the ultimate witness of Him. Christ mentions His testimony with His own Word as well. And we'll see in verse 37 and see it again, John 8.18 says, I am one who bears witness of myself and the Father who sent me bears witness of me. So we'll get back to the witness of the Father because it comes back around to that.

Because the next three verses talk about John the Baptist verses 33 through 35 but we'll get back to the Father when we get around to that context but right now we'll look at the the powerful witness of John the Baptist And so this was his whole purpose, of whom Jesus said was the greatest man ever. So John the Baptist was, here's a man that was the forerunner of Christ. He was born, raised, for the sole purpose of being a voice crying in the wilderness. That was the purpose of John the Baptist. He was born, he was raised, he served that purpose.

He died. He was killed. Beheaded. And he was done. That was his sole purpose on this planet.

To be a voice crying in the wilderness. So why talk about John the Baptist? Not only had the people heard John's testimony, but also the divine witness that came to and through John the Baptist as he declared in John 1.33 and 34, says, I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, Upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God. And so this is John the Baptist's testimony of him.

And in Matthew 7.13, and suddenly a voice came from heaven saying, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. This happened in the presence of John the Baptist. This is the Apostle John's testimony as he's writing it down. And this is God's testimony of his son, Jesus Christ. So John was a burning, Shining lamp is what he was.

A true fire. He wasn't a backdrop. He wasn't in the background. He wasn't in obscurity. He was the first real influencer of the New Testament.

This was John the Baptist. The question is, we look at that profile of that dude, and we say, are we? Are we even remotely? Okay, there's a signup sheet for the fair in the back of the church. We've got plenty of open boxes.

This is the work of this kind of dude right here. Matthew Henry said, John was illustrious in the sight of others, though He affected obscurity and retirement and was in the deserts, yet such were his doctrine and baptism and life that he became very remarkable and attracted the eyes of the nation." the eyes of the nation. One man, a voice crying in the wilderness, a fire, a burning star, a lamp, whatever you want to call him, attracted the eyes of the nation. This is outstanding. What one man can do on fire for the Lord.

This is John the Baptist. And his whole life was not about himself. It was never his ministry. Support his ministry. No, it was about Jesus Christ, the coming Messiah.

And when He was done, He said, I must decrease, He must increase. And He did. He decreased until His head fell off. That's decreasing. That's getting out of the way.

He didn't retire in the mountains. His life was lived for Christ. And then there was the affection of the people to John the Baptist. Jesus tells us that you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. He's saying you were attracted to him.

You were excited with the words and with the passion of John's words and and were even proud that you had that kind of a man in your midst. A man who would was the honor of your country, who you could lift up and look up to, noticed by political figures and important people, right? He was. You're willing to raise talk about the light as boys do around a bonfire. I remember being a boy and having bonfires.

It was cool. Or moths around a light. You ever see that? Summertime? Of course you have.

We get the light up front right here, there are bugs all over it, right? That's how they were. They were inquisitive of John, much like a kid with a new toy. A child has a new toy and it's like, this is the best. Well, three hours later they're in the backyard playing with a stick, right?

The toy just doesn't have the appeal anymore. So, but the novelty of John and his ministry wore off. The people grew weary of him as they let that message of repentance sink in. It didn't taste so well. It has terrible aftertaste.

The people grew weary of him. And then they went on to accusing him of being possessed, of being not of God. Just a note of application. Many people seem to be affected by the gospel at first, and are overjoyed with this prospect of, I have new life, I've been born again. I've been down to the river and I've been baptized.

And then afterwards they grow to reject it, to despise it. Why is that? Why is that? Because there's a different life required with a life in Christ than what the life that we used to live, right? It's common for excited converts to cool down and fall away because they were attracted to the light of the gospel, the spirit of the moment.

But then they fall away. They didn't follow through with real repentance. With obedience in their faith. With not forsaking the assembly of yourselves. The test of time and willing obedience are tools that prove the extent of one's salvation.

Their sincerity of faith. We see in these verses, but they rejoiced in John's light, but they never walked in His light. John had a light and they rejoiced in that light, but they never walked in it. Galatians 5.16 tells us, walk in the Spirit. Walk in the Spirit.

What's the rest of it say? And you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. So John had the Spirit, he had the light, they got to it, but they couldn't walk in the Spirit. They fulfilled the lusts of their flesh. And it's not unlike the stony ground in Mark 4 verses 5 and 6.

It's talking about the parable. Everybody's heard of it. The parable of the sower and the seeds. It's really about the earth, the type of soil. Because the sower through the seed, the same everywhere, what happens is different is the ground that it falls on.

And so there's this type of belief or lack thereof, it's talking about the stony ground. Some fell on stony ground where it did not have much earth and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up, it was scorched and because it had no root, it withered away. And so then you say, well, that's the parable that Jesus talked about. Well, then he goes on a little further in the same chapter to explain.

Says, these likewise are the ones sown on stony ground, who when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness, and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time afterwards when tribulation or persecution arise, for the word's sake, immediately they stumble. Immediately they stumble. Romans 7, 24 and 25 tells us, oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death. I thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord. This is a state of mind and understanding that we need to have that our salvation is in Him.

And this was their problem. These leaders were glad for John the Baptist at first. They had hopes of such an outspoken man coming up in authority and shaking off the yoke of the Roman bondage that's been on them and recovering the liberty and the honor of the Israel nation. But when they realized he was only calling out spiritual needs, when he was pointing at their sin and telling them, no, the nation's not your problem, your filthy rotten heart's the problem. They were like, whoa!

I don't want that. His fame among them fizzled out, and they left him. So now the point is that if they had continued in following John because he gave testimony of God, John gave testimony of God, and they ought to have believed him. Then they would have likely embraced Christ and his ministry when it came. But instead they turned away from the beginning of their teachings of real truth from John the Baptist and even now the teachings of Christ.

1 John 2.19. Mark 4, 16 and 17 explains, And I have already read that, I'm sorry. 1 John 2.19, they went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us, but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us." And so this is just a reflection, I believe, of the hearts of those who had began following John the Baptist and then they walked away from it. And that was just the stony ground.

That was just the not wanting to submit and walk in that light. And this is no different today. After much teaching and care and investment in some people and their promise to follow God and how much promise they show, they still, some people just turn away. They just disappear. And you know what?

That is not uncommon. That is to be expected, to be honest with you. It's no less heart-wrenching, but it does happen. And so people, this should serve to remind us of one biblical doctrinal truth, and that is that salvation is from Christ alone. It is not from us.

John couldn't save people. We can't save people. And Christ giving his witness to these people, they still needed to turn their hearts. And so in everything that Jesus is telling these people to This point has one goal in mind. And he tells it at 34b.

And 34b tells us, I say these things that you may be saved. I say these things that you may be saved. That is His point. That is His heart. Why?

Because He loves the world. Right? We went through that in John 3.16. For God so loved the world. And now He's going through this discourse with these people that are stiff-necked and he could just as well walk away.

What does he have to gain from it? Why is it? Why does he put himself through it? Because he loves them. He loves the world.

We have to remember that too. That we have to love people. There's a song that I was reminded of this morning. And as I listened to it, the chorus goes, Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade, to write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the hole, though stretched from sky to sky.

The love of God. The love of God for His wretched people. This is what He's talking about. See, being religious does not equate with being saved. And what He's doing now, He's talking to them, and it's something like I imagine like His Discourse with Nicodemus where he said, Jesus answered and said to them, are you the teacher of Israel and do not know these things?

He's trying to have them understand that they ought to know these things. This has been their life, they ought to know this. See, being religious doesn't equate with being saved. A person must believe the testimony, repent and follow God by obeying His word. Surrender your life to Jesus Christ.

There is no other way. And it looks different after that. The third point that I have today is the testimony from God. Jesus is clear in verse 34a, yet I do not receive testimony from man." And in fact, we see in verse 36 that the testimony Jesus has is greater than that of John. So what is that greater testimony?

That's the second witness of this passage. Well, third would be, the first would be Christ and then John the Baptist, and now this one. And so, we look back at the second half of verse 36 and it says, For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about Me that the Father has sent Me. Bear witness. So this is what He is saying.

The Father is working through me, and you have seen that. This is my witness. You have seen me heal this man crippled for 38 years. You've seen countless other people being healed. You've seen countless other miracles.

And also, John the Baptist, when he was put in prison, he asked, go and ask Jesus, is He the one that I'm looking for? Is He the final? Is He that? And Jesus answered and said to them in Luke 7-22, go and tell John the things you have seen and heard, that the blind see, The lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them. This is the evidence that Jesus is God.

And even though they were more fixated on the healing when it took place. Jesus doesn't want these Jewish leaders to forget what took place just hours before this. Just hours before this in the beginning of this chapter. Most likely only a short time before this conversation. Conversation, confrontation, it's about half and half.

So a man that was unable to walk, he's miraculously healed. And the fact that one of these religious leaders had stated only two chapters earlier in John 3, 2, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God. For no one can do these things that you do unless God is with him. So it wasn't just this one miracle that was confirming the lofty claims of Jesus, it was other miracles. It was miracles that these leaders were well aware of.

And so, we have both today. And I will submit to you that you have no less evidence of Christ in your life today than these guys did having Him stand face to face with them. And people today still reject Him. It is still easy to set Him aside and reject Him today. His witness is with us.

I have seen it. I've seen it. I've seen Him save people. I've seen him turn the hearts of stone to hearts of flesh. I've seen him heal people, answered prayer.

The most recent one to me is Timmy, Jonas's nephew. Two-year-old boy got into the milkhouse and he drank some peroxide. They said, He's not going to make it. Will not make it. We get an urgent phone message.

Pray. Pray for Timmy. Bonnie and I stopped and we prayed immediately. We spent Days crying out to God for mercy for this two-year-old boy that God would spare his life. He had very little chance of living.

Right now, he's at home. He's at home as though it never happened. That is the love of God. That is a miracle that God chose to answer a prayer. And we have that with us today.

Are we going to put a blind eye to it? How much can we? He works directly and undeniably in our lives today. 1 John 5, 9-12 says, if we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God which he has testified of his son.

He who believes in the son of God has the witness in himself. I'm gonna read that again. He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of his Son. And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son.

He who has the Son has life. He does not have the Son of God, does not have life. We stand today without excuse. This is black and white. So even though the witness of John was a less considerable witness, yet our Lord was sure to make use of it.

And He's pleased to make use of it. As believers today, we've got to be glad for all the testimonies and all the workings of God, the witnesses that God has in His grace and mercy put in front of us in our lives. That He has set in front of us that a blind man should be able to see it. And yet, we walk through life sometimes, yeah, whatever. He takes these and He weaves them in and through our lives.

And it builds our faith. The question is, what have we done with them? The question is, do we see them? What do we do with them? Because this greater testimony is that of the works of His Father gave Jesus to do.

That is in general, the whole course of His life. We're talking about the whole course of the life of Christ. Christ revealing God and His will to us. This is the work of Jesus Christ. Establishing His Kingdom in men.

Taking hearts of stone and turning them into flesh, dwelling and making His Kingdom and His Church in men. This is His work, reforming the world with life and hope, Destroying Satan's kingdom. The powers of darkness. It's still here on the earth, but it no longer reigns in my heart. Or yours.

He destroyed it, restoring fallen man to a right standing in front of a holy God and putting within men hearts the love of God. The love of God one toward another, planting that in us is truly more than we deserve. All those works which he said when he died, it is finished. That's what he was talking about. It is finished.

Satan is defeated. God will dwell in men. Victory, we now fight this fight from a platform of victory. We still fight it. It is finished.

And it was all from beginning to end a work worthy of God. And it was holy, it was heavenly. It's full of divine grace, full of power, and it's shown, proving abundantly that He was sent from God. The question today is what are we gonna do with this evidence? What are we gonna do?

Are we gonna live for Jesus? No, that is a question. John the Baptist in the miraculous works declaring that Jesus Christ is God, Will you, will you, will you put him as Lord over your life, knowing this? Father, today we thank you for your words. Thank you for your truth and your blessings, Lord.

We pray for our hearts to hear that witness, Lord, and to see it, what you have done and walked through in our lives, Lord God. Help us to submit and have faith, Lord God, that we can live a life sold out for you, that we can be boldly speaking to others, Lord. Help us to be a shining star, a lamp, Lord, that shines to others. Give us boldness as we walk out the door today to live for you, Jesus. Amen.