Hello Beloved,
We found
grace to understand from this previous series that Things FROM God are things created by Him while things OF God are things begotten by Him (1Jn. 5:4). Let’s now take another
look at the
faith that’s from God and the faith that of God.
Ps.
104:27-28 These (creatures
– vs. 21-24) wait all upon thee; that thou
mayest give them their meat in due season. That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine
hand, they are filled with good.
Faith has
been the principle by which God creates
and it has also been the posture of creature’s dependence on God. But when creation lost its
goodness through the fall,
the the earth got into disharmony with the heavens and God’s desire
to express his blessedness to man faced constant limitation.
A strong symptom
of the fall
was that man’s
focus changed into that of self-consciousness.
While creatures like birds could still look up to God for sustenance (Matt.
6:28-30), Man degenerated to a place where he lived for things
created and embraced the
profession of taking-thoughts for his life (Matt. 6:31:33). His needs became His thoughts, his god became
his belly (Phil.
3:19).
The corruptive influence of the law of sin and death caused
creation to lose it’s essence of goodness and the faith God
started the first man with, become a lost reality. Man
degenerated from the faith of the living soul into becoming flesh
(carnal). Gen. 6:3/12
The power of
sin and death was
a perverted law of faith of
a high creature who murdered the life in him as he turned from his
faith to promote self (Eze. 28:14-16). Man
needed a higher faith than that which could govern the earth or heal the sick. Man
needed a kind of faith that could deal with this perverted law
and God’s antidote to this was His faith! God’s joker was to download
revelations of righteousness (Rom. 1:16) into the last Adam – Jesus, and
thereby grow him into becoming the tree of life that would house His faith.
While the faith of the
first man (old creation creation) could neither
sight
(discern) God nor comprehend what He was doing,
the faith of God that later became the operational software in the man
Christ Jesus was what enabled him to see God’s secrets.
(Jn. 1:18/5:19&31)
Jn. 5:19 Then answered
Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do
nothing of himself, but what he SEES the Father do: for what things
soever he doeth, these also DOETH the Son likewise.
No creature had ever known
the secrets of God that was once packaged in the tree of
life! None had either seen Him or understood
His workings
(Jn. 5:17), but through the daily revelations of righteousness, the
father grew Jesus with an ability to sight (discern) Him and His workings (Jn. 3:35/5:20). God’s secret was His faith (Col.
2:12) and Jesus inherited this through complete obedience. The faith of the Son (Phil. 3:9)
therefore become an inheritance that is accessible to all saints/elects,
beginning from Apostle Paul (Rom. 2:16/Gal. 2:10/Tit. 1:1). So through the faith
of Christ, men can become owners of the gospel – OWNERS OF GOD. (Rom. 1:1/1:16/2:16/2Cor. 6:18)
Like Apostle Paul, and also known and
unknown faithful in the early church till date, we are at the mercy of SEEING
THAT JUST ONE, HEARING THE VOICE OF HIS MOUTH and KNOWING HIS
WILL (Acts. 22:14), so we can overcome the world, minister His faith
(His Life) and ultimately witness to God’s Love (Acts 26:16/1Jn. 4:8-12)
The faith of the
Son is that
which the word of His grace (Acts 20:32) is presently teaching all those
whose will are being liberated through hearing the gospel of power (Rom.
10:17/Tit. 2:11-12/Ps. 110:3), so that they
would lay hold on their inheritance (1Tim. 6:12&19/Acts 22:18d) which is The
Father and The Son (Eph. 1:14/Col. 1:12/2:2/Jn. 14:21/23).
Rom. 10:17 So then faith (of
the gospel/of the son of God/of God’s elect) cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God.
Blessings!
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series with your circle of influence if you have been blessed by it
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