Bibles with you, and read them, and meditate upon them, and get near
the Master of whom they speak, and the Spirit which uses the truth
will use it to fortify you.

III. And, lastly, note the consequent witness with which the
Christian may win the world.

'And ye also shall bear witness of Me, because ye have been with Me
from the beginning.' That 'also' has, of course, direct reference to
the Apostles' witness to the facts of our Lord's historical
appearance, His life, His death, His resurrection, and His ascension;
and therefore their qualification was simply the companionship with
Him which enabled them to say, 'We saw what we tell you; we were
witnesses from the beginning.'

But then, again, I say that there is no word here that belongs only
to the Apostles; it belongs to us all, and so here is the task of the
Christian Church in all its members. They receive the witness of the
Spirit, and they are Christ's witnesses in the world.

Note what we have to do--to bear witness; not to argue, not to adorn,
but simply to attest. Note what we have to attest--the fact, not of
the historical life of Jesus Christ, because we are not in a position
to be witnesses of that, but the fact of His preciousness and power,
and the fact of our own experience of what He has done for us. Note,
that that is by far the most powerful agency for winning the world.
You can never make men angry by saying to them, 'We have found tho
Messias.' You cannot irritate people, or provoke them into a
controversial opposition when you say, 'Brother, let me tell you my
experience. I was dark, sad, sinful, weak, solitary, miserable; and I