SNT 0797 Stones of Witness
Stones of Witness Shows how Jesus Christ was the stone of witness rejected by the builders, but became the head; we also are the stones of witness as we speak in tongues and worship only the one true God. SNT – 797 February 22, 1976 Act 1:8; (Jos 1:5); Jos 24:1-14 Jos 24:14-25; (Act 19:19, 20) Jos 24:25-31; Luk 20:1-25 Luk 20:25, 26; Act 4:9-12; 1Pe 2:1-8; (Act 1:8) ------------------------------------------------------ “Stones of Witness” Victor Paul Wierwille February 22, 1976 – Sunday Night Teaching 797 Transcript – New Knoxville, Ohio I’d like for you to take your Bibles and look at Acts chapter 1, please. Tonight I want to share something along the line, if I were to give it a topic, I would call it “Stones of Witness.” In Acts chapter 1, verse 8 Jesus Christ said to his apostles, before he ascended: Acts 1:8: But ye shall [absolute tense] receive [lambanō, receive into manifestation] power [dunamis], after that [or when] the Holy Ghost [pneuma hagion, holy spirit] is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. The “uttermost part of the earth,” that has to include this meeting tonight. It says “ye shall be witnesses unto me.” And the thing that has been burning in my heart is along this line of “Stones of Witness.” I got this title, and the impact of it, from an Old Testament record in the book of Joshua, where I would like for you to turn, please. You will remember that after the death of Moses, Joshua was called to lead the children of Israel. The re is no man in his right mind who would have wanted to have Joshua’s job. Now you may vie for a lot of jobs that pay $250,000 a year. But Moses’ job didn’t pay that. And nobody was anxious to have Moses’ job. Because, who wanted to lead those two and a half or three million of stubborn, hardheaded, bullheaded, Israelites? – always kicking the traces and so forth. But God called a man called Joshua. And He promised
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by what authority I do these things.” Luke 20:8-20: And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time. And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty. And again he sent another servant [a more important servant]: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. And again he sent a third [more important]: and they wounded him also, and cast him out. Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him. 8 www.eternallyblessed.org “Preserve and Make Available” But when the husba