Jesus explained that He didn't initiate anything He did. He first heard from the Father then He made a judgement.
Because He feared God, He did not make a judgement based on what His ears heard nor what His eyes saw. Isaiah 11:3
This is an area we have all failed but we can also follow Jesus here. All the judgment we make are based on what we hear or what we see. We need to develop a listening ear. Whatever our ears hear or whatever our eyes see, we need to keep it aside and have the attitude, "let me pray about it".
Always ask God even on your heart, "Father what should I do here or how should I respond here or what is the truth of the matter in this case?"
Let this be always your attitude.
Jesus said that His judgement was just because He didn't seek His will but the will of God in everything. This is the secret.
When you decide that you will always seek God's will in everything and never do your own will, God will always give you discernment in the matters we face. But we must remember not to trust what our eyes see, nor what our ears hear but always seek God in every matter.
Jesus said that if He bore witness to Himself, the witness would be invalid, but another bore witness to Him and therefore His witness is true.
A true servant of God is not one who tries to bear witness to himself trying to convince people that God anointed him or has called him and thus must listen to him; God bears witness to His servants who are doing His will. When one stands to speak, there is a witness in the hearts of those listening that this is from God.
If God doesn't bear witness to you or you ministry, go back to Him and track the place you lost the way. Your whole lifetime service to God will be worthless wood, hay and straw which will burn down if God doesn't bear witness to you. 1Cor 3:12-13
Jesus said that the witness John the baptist gave about Him is true. John was a burning and shining light.
You claim to be the light of the world; can the people who see you most of the time say that you are a burning and shining light? Has the light in you become extinguished through sin?
God bore witness to Jesus through miraculous signs. Even today God bears witness in different ways to His true servants; not through miracles for Paul explains that God gives these gifts to few individuals and not all, 1Cor 12:7-11. The important thing is that God bears witness to you in whichever way He sees.
Since the listeners did not have God's word abiding in them, they did not receive the one whom the Lord sent.
Even today, if you don't allow God's word to abide in you through study, meditation and obedience, you will not have discernment to know the one whom the Lord sent. If you want to have discernment as to those who sent by God, let the word of Christ abide in you.
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