The life and thoughts of a retired vicar

 I can do nothing on my own. I judge as God tells me. Therefore, my judgment is just, because I carry out the will of the one who sent me, not my own will.

Witnesses to Jesus

 ³⁹ “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! ⁴⁰ Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life.

 ⁴¹ “Your approval means nothing to me, ⁴² because I know you don’t have God’s love within you. ⁴³ For I have come to you in my Father’s name, and you have rejected me. Yet if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them. ⁴⁴ No wonder you can’t believe! For you gladly honor each other, but you don’t care about the honor that comes from the one who alone is God.

 ⁴⁵ “Yet it isn’t I who will accuse you before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, in whom you put your hopes. ⁴⁶ If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But since you don’t believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?

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There is an old saying "actions speak louder than words" and it survives because it is true.  Jesus has been accused of many things; a liar, a false prophet, of being mad, and yet his words still have been preserved as truth. I suspect if any were true his name would have disappeared out of 'Who's who'two thousand years ago! His actions spoke louder than his words and when the two are put together we have this loud shout from God, a proclamation, "This is my Son follow him-believe him".

Phil