Faithful Witness Characteristics and Biblical Verses

Revelation 2:10 ...Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Acts 5:28 You have filled Jerusalem with your teaching

Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

Characteristics of a Faithful Witness Acts 6:8-7:60 1. ACT like Christ. (6:8-15) John 1:14: The only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Acts 2:22 Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know.

Characteristics of a Faithful Witness Acts 6:8-7:60 1. ACT like Christ. (6:8-15) 2. SPEAK like Christ. (7:1-53)

John 2:19-21 Jesus answered them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. The Jews then said, It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days? But He was speaking about the temple of His body.

Hebrews 7:25 Consequently, He is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through Him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

Hebrews 9:12 He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

Revelation 21:22-23 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.

1 Peter 2:5 You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

James Montgomery Boice The temple of Herod was the glory of Jerusalem. Much of it covered with gold. So as a person drew near to Jerusalem, he saw it shining in the skyline. The temple had never been as glorious as it was in that day, and they loved the temple and could not see beyond it.

John Piper They wanted a kind of god and a kind of worship in which they could demonstrate their own power, wisdom, righteousness, morality, and religious zeal. They got their joy from what they could achieve and not from God.

1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

Matthew 27:18 For He knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered Him up.

Matthew 26:15 And said, What will you give me if I deliver him over to you? And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.

Matthew 26:64 Jesus said to him, You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.

Characteristics of a Faithful Witness Acts 6:8-7:60 1. ACT like Christ. (6:8-15) 2. SPEAK like Christ. (7:1-53) 3. DIE like Christ. (7:54-60)

Luke 23:34, 46 And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they cast lots to divide his garments... Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit! And having said this He breathed His last.

A person whose life has truly been transformed by God s grace as seen in the cross of Christ will be a person who God will empower to show grace to others.

Tertullian The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Romans 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.