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John 8 15 reads you judge after the flesh I judge no man and yet if I judge this is Jesus speaking if I judge my judgment is true for I am NOT alone but I am the father that sent me it is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true I am one that bear witness of myself and the father that sent me beareth witness of me and again I'm going a little bit out of order here forgive me I'm a little bit tired this afternoon we're covering the point of your testimony being you know not just your action we started off with your actions now we're going back to being your words right and even in the law of God your testimony testimony to men that's how you determine what is the truth so if you're gonna convict somebody of a crime it's gonna take their testimony what they testify what they say to be true as being true your word is your testimony you need to hold that true you're in Acts chapter 14 look at verse number one the Bible reads and it came to pass in Iconium that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews and so spake that a great multitude both of the Jews and also the Greeks believed but the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and made their minds evil affected against the brethren so just so you understand what's going on in this story up to this point the disciples are doing a lot of great work they're getting a lot of people saved verse 1 says that a great multitude both of the Jews and also the Greeks believed so they're out preaching the gospel and they're getting a lot of converts right but the unbelieving Jews similar to the unbelieving Jews that crucified Jesus the one that hated them the one that that wanted to kill him they're stirring up the other Gentiles the other unbelievers that are there they're trying to stop this work that's being done so they're stirring up the Gentiles and they're making their minds evil affected against the brethren so what are they doing they're probably going around lying about them right spreading rumors saying oh man these guys that are coming here don't listen to them but you know and just saying whatever to make their mind evil affected against people you know it's not that hard to do all you got to do is bring up some false railing accusation against somebody oftentimes and that's enough to get people's minds evil affected against someone else but look at what happens here in verse 3 long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord so they didn't let that stop them the disciples here hey they're having great success they're converting Jews and Gentiles alike and they speak boldly it says here which gave testimony unto the word of his grace and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands so they're speaking boldly in the Lord they're not backing down in the face of opposition that gives a testimony unto the word of grace when you can withstand the oppression when you withstand the persecution when you can still stand and boldly preach in the face of all that persecution that alone gives testimony unto the power of the Word of God and because they did that because they showed their unwavering God added to that and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands if they would have backed down though guess what they wouldn't have had the the granting of the signs of wonders the fact that they were already giving the testimony unto the word God just added on top of that even further showing the power of God through these people through the miracles they allowed them to do because they didn't back down and were already testifying to the word of grace