FAY ROWE
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Believing like Jesus
| Posted on May 11, 2010 at 11:50 AM |
Jesus was having a few interesting days in Jerusalem.
He had just annoyed the well respected Pharisees by healing a sick man who was lying near at the pool called Bethesda near the Sheep Gate. Maybe the healing itself could have gotten a pass, but it was the Sabbath, and, adding even more offence to healing on that day, Jesus told the man to pick up his bed and walk! ON THE SABBATH!
Then, when they challenged Jesus about it, he told them, "My Father has been working until now, and I have been working."
To tell you the truth, I don't know what he meant by that, exactly, although he talked later about only doing what he saw his father doing, somehow connecting his works to God's, but the fact that he called God his father really was the last straw. Making himself equal with God?
They tried to kill him for it!
So Jesus goes into a long (page and a half) discourse about the Father and the Son and their relationship, and then gives two witnesses that he is really the Son:
- John said it
- The works said it
But then Jesus says he needs no evidence of who he is other than that of one, his father.
"There is another who bears witness of me and I know that the witness which He witnesses of me is true...You search the scriptures because you believe that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of me. But you are not willing to come to me that you might have life."
Jesus knew that what God said about him in scripture was true. He needed no other witness.
Do we believe what God has said about him...and about us...in scripture? Or do we look for another witness?
"Jesus said to him, 'Go your way, your son lives.' So the man believed the word Jesus spoke to him and he went his way" (John 4:50).
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Knowing the Father makes all the difference in how and what we believe about Christ and about ourselves in Scripture. And that in turn influences how we actually live.
(If we truly know God as our Father, we view and respond to statements in Scripture about His Divine Son and about those who trust in Him in a different way than if we had no personal knowledge of, and relationship with the Father.)
The marvel, of course, is that we come to know the Father at all -- and for that, we are completely dependent on His grace to have made Himself known to us.
Peter Black says...
Thanks for the challenge, Fay.
Knowing the Father makes all the difference in how and what we believe about Christ and about ourselves in Scripture. And that in turn influences how we actually live.
Amazing, marvelous grace, Peter! Thanks for posting.
(If we truly know God as our Father, we view and respond to statements in Scripture about His Divine Son and about those who trust in Him in a different way than if we had no personal knowledge of, and relationship with the Father.)
The marvel, of course, is that we come to know the Father at all -- and for that, we are completely dependent on His grace to have made Himself known to us.
Thank you Fay for your always thoughtful blogs
"You say you believe in Me and you do. So does the devil. The question is do you believe Me."
Jesus believed His Father, God and we also need to believe our Father, God.
Thanks for the reminder Fay.
Jim
I would appreciate if a staff member here at www.fayrowe.com could post it.
Thanks,
Jules
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