Hello my friends welcome to another follow him favorites my name is Hank Smith

I'm here with the awesome John by the way John we're getting down to the last couple of

lessons in the new testament we're in the book of revelation let's take on a of where it talks about the church overcoming the adversary, the dragon,

with the word of their testimony.

That's in verse 11.

The question is, right from the manual,

how do our testimonies of Jesus Christ

help us overcome the adversary?

What would you say, John?

Boy, isn't that a great question?

I love the idea that a testimony isn't something we gain.

We use that phrase all the time, but it's something

that we remember. We had that in the war in heaven. That was our weapon. Our

testimony in the blood of the lamb, it says in that verse you mentioned we begin to gain experiences

of choosing the right and seeing the fruits of that and sometimes we have really

beautiful feelings in the temple or in a

wonderful meeting and sometimes we just look around and we see the fruits of the gospel in front of us and the kind of people that trying to live the gospel creates and all of those things kind of add to our testimony and sometimes we hear things and they just sound familiar to us.

The scriptures tell us that the spirit can show us things as they really are.

And in the book of revelation you have this dragon that speaks like a lamb.

Almost a counterfeit. I know you want to listen to the lamb so I'll pretend I'm the lamb. Yet a testimony through the spirit

can show you things as they really are. So perhaps that's part of what a

testimony is meant to do as we see here in the book of

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