Having the Faith of GOD
What Paul proclaims is a reality that flows out of the Witness of the Master. John 8:12-14 reads: < ... JESUS spoke to them saying, "I AM the Light of the world ...... ." The Pharisees therefore said to HIM, "YOU are bearing Witness of YOURSELF; YOUR Witness is not true." JESUS answered and said to them, "Even if I bear Witness of MYSELF, MY Witness is true; for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from, or where I am going." > Here the LORD is proclaiming what Paul is proclaiming. The LORD is declaring that HE is telling the truth because HE has the Witness of the HOLY SPIRIT within HIM as to where HE has come from and as to where HE is going. Ultimately HE goes to the Cross and GOD vindicates the Witness of the MESSIAH by raising HIM from the dead! HE also tells the Pharisees that they are not operating in such a reality in the SPIRIT of GOD and therefore they do not know where JESUS CHRIST has come from and where HE is going. And so we know that ultimately they crucified the MESSIAH. The Witness of true faith is described as follows in 1 John 5:14-15 < And this is the confidence which we have before HIM, that if we ask anything according to HIS will, HE hears us. And, if we know that HE hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from HIM. > The LORD JESUS in John 11:41-44, describes the fully functional reality of the Witness that is alive to GOD: < .... FATHER, I thank THEE that THOU heardest ME. And I know that THOU hearest ME always .... . HE cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." He who died came forth .... > So we see that the Witness in us actually knowing what is truly in GOD's will, is the key for the faith of GOD to be operating from our inward parts.
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