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- To understand faith according to the Bible, we need to search the New Testament scriptures. The Bible uses the word ‘faith’ 244 times in the New Testament. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Let me make this clear:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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- This blog is not about ‘faith in God’ or ‘having faith in God’ in the traditional context of escaping eternal torment. This Bible study is to help you understand faith in the context of who you are, as seen and known by God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- I am going to show you profound truths concerning faith that will forever change the way you read the scriptures. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Perfected by Blood ministry is here to bring you keys, tips and revelations to build your understanding into a Christ-centered consciousness so if you’re new here consider subscribing to our YouTube Channel. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>We\u2019re starting a new series on faith as this is the most important theme in the entire Bible especially New Testament scriptures which reveal what this faith is in the Bible.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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- We’re going to be spending time on what is faith in the Bible, what is the faith of God, what is the faith of Jesus, what is the faith of the son of God, what is the faith Paul speaks about and says we need to fight the good fight of faith along with so many other scriptures around “faith” so we can understand it better. <\/span><\/li>\n
- So right, in the beginning, I need to make this clear that what I’m going to be sharing with you about in this series is not the kind of faith that brings us to escape from hell. So that traditional understanding of you must believe to have a certain salvation this is not what I\u2019m talking about. And also I’m not spending so much time on the faith which is being taught in a way of exchanging with God in the sense of having faith for healing or having faith for finances or having faith for this or that.<\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I’m going to go deep down to the root of this issue because if you remember when Jesus talked about having faith in the Bible, He said that right after cursing a fig tree by the root so that shows us in a mature understanding of sonship we have to go way deep into the root so we can begin to uproot the tree rather than always trying to get rid of the fruits because that’s what the law does. <\/span><\/p>\n
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- The story of what is being revealed through Jesus is so much more amazing and beyond comprehension that we literally need God kind-of forcing us into this belief by His LOVE. These are all the themes that we’re going to have in the upcoming videos so you can also understand what it means \u2018that faith works by love\u2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Watch on YouTube<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Faith in the Bible Starts From Genesis<\/h2>\n
But now I need to bring this to your attention that the Faith in the Bible doesn’t start from the New Testament, it doesn’t start from the book of Matthew and it doesn’t start with Paul’s letters, the Bible and faith in the Bible starts from Genesis. So the story of mankind which now we are talking about \u2018faith in this man\u2019 and everything around this man, goes all the way back to the very beginning, the very genesis of all things. <\/p>\n
The Book of Genesis where we have a record of everything and mainly I’m talking about \u2018man\u2019 and the first time that \u2018man\u2019 is mentioned, sets in order what we need to pay attention to, so we can understand the story of mankind and God. What is the first thing that we see concerning man? It’s Genesis chapter 1 God said let us make man in our image and according to our likeness! So the story of mankind is the story of an image. <\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nFaith & Mankind, the story of an image<\/h2>\n
God had an image in His mind that was supposed to be formed and made into a man; God had an imagination that was about a certain man; God was thinking about something that was about a man; God was mindful of something that was called a “man”. Psalm chapter 8 begins this way, there is a man who is talking to God the Psalmist and he says what is \u2018man\u2019 that you are mindful of him. So right then we see again that God is mindful of this man.<\/p>\n
And the same thing is pointed out in Hebrews chapter 2 that reads what is \u2018man\u2019: that you are mindful of him or the son of man that you care for him. Now there was a time that two men, on the same ground stood face to face and talked together. One was called Simon son of Jonah and the other was called Jesus of Nazareth. This Jesus asked Peter, who do you say that I, the son of man, am? Peter said you are the son of God. <\/p>\n
So the son of man is the son of God!<\/strong><\/p>\n
If you get this, it will begin to provide a way of entrance, into the mystery of God. <\/p>\n
He says the son of man is the son of God but right then Peter turns to this son of Jonah and he says, but now Peter you are blessed because this son of man, being the son of God was just revealed to you. So the question is answered: what is man? The son of God! What is the son of man? He’s the son of God! So what is he trying to say?<\/p>\n
He’s trying to say that when we speak of a son of someone, that someone is the father. The son doesn’t start his journey by being birthed from anything else but from the father. So he says what is man? He is the son of God! And what does it mean that he originates from the Father? So what was that thing that started right in the beginning in Genesis chapter one? It\u2019s very clear, it\u2019s My own image and My own likeness. <\/p>\n
You are My image and My likeness! What does that mean? <\/p>\n
It means that You are a Reflection of Who I am! If I AM Faith, then you are faith!<\/p>\n
Faith is His Image And His Likeness<\/h2>\n
Now imagine this never changed, like the gold never becomes gold just by trying to become gold. Gold is gold, right from the beginning. So you don’t try to become the image of God. You start that way. Now there was a problem, Adam obviously fell from that mindset that was mindful of that which God was mindful of. Adam’s fallen state of mind brought him out of tune with the original thoughts of God concerning himself.<\/p>\n
Now when Jesus came, Jesus came to redeem that image once again; so that man, instead of looking at the corruptible image that he had inherited now from the forefathers he can begin to see the original image that was carved on him. <\/p>\n
That’s why in the gospels, where Jesus comes to a group of people and they’re asking Him should we pay tax to Caesar or not? And Jesus begins to answer them by illustrating and He says give me a coin and they gave Him a coin. He asked, look at this coin, whose image is on it? They replied, Caesar\u2019s! And then He said, give to Caesar what is Caesar’s but He added something profound, something more loving and something more kind which was: But Give to God what is God’s. <\/p>\n
What was God’s, or belongs to God? <\/p>\n
His OWN image! <\/span><\/p>\n
But where was that engraved, or inscribed upon?<\/p>\n
On mankind! <\/span><\/p>\n
So man was THAT coin that had the image.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
That’s why you can understand Luke chapter fifteen, the parable of the lost coin. Why was the woman in the house trying to find the coin? Because the coin belonged to her! <\/p>\n
So what is the illustration that God is trying to show in this parable? <\/p>\n
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- You are much more than what you have believed about yourself. <\/li>\n
- You are more than what you know about yourself. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
And there is something that has covered the image that you are and that something that has covered the image that we are has made that which we truly are: UNSEEN. <\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nWhat Has Covered The True Image of Man?<\/h2>\n
So the flesh comes to veil the true you, the true me, the true human beings. Who are the true human beings? What is true-mankind? The image of God, sons of God! Now does someone become a son of God just by believing in Jesus?<\/p>\n
These types of questions are all the things that we’re going to be covering in-depth in this series. Even to understand, what does it mean to believe in Jesus? Well actually, believing in Jesus is not even in the Bible. We have either believing Jesus, or believing INTO Jesus which are way more gracious than \u2018believing in Jesus\u2019, so we’re not called to forcefully believe in Jesus or basically, we would experience condemnation and punishment. <\/p>\n
Jesus came to show that we were ALREADY under condemnation. In fact, in John chapter 5, He calls us dead! He says those who are dead in the grave if they hear the voice of the son of God they will rise. Who is the son of God, the image of God? So what voice will awaken us, he says it’s the voice of the son which YOU are. <\/p>\n
So for God to awaken us back into what WE were CREATED in God\u2019s:<\/p>\n
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- thoughts <\/li>\n
- heart <\/li>\n
- delight <\/li>\n
- pleasure<\/strong><\/strong>He needed to send forth a voice like ours!<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
That He would speak in human flesh to those who were in human flesh: <\/p>\n
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- So THAT voice could be heard<\/li>\n
- And that voice could bring FAITH inside of us. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
faith comes by hearing<\/h2>\n
Now you can understand why Romans chapter 10 says: “faith comes by hearing”<\/em>… but let’s stop here for a moment. Let’s look at Hebrews chapter 11 to understand this even deeper. Verse 1 says, now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.<\/em><\/p>\n
So do you see that there is something about NOT seeing? So there is UNSEEN and this \u2018thing\u2019 is all over the epistles. This \u2018thing\u2019 about the \u2018things that are unseen\u2019, \u2018the invisible\u2019, \u2018the invisible God\u2019 or the \u2018unseen is eternal\u2019 and these things are all about the unseen. What is the unseen? The very first part of this verse gives us the answer. It says faith is the substance of things hoped for. <\/p>\n
Now the word substance actually means person. So this is how it should read in light of this understanding:<\/p>\n
Now faith is the person we hope for, faith is the kind of person we hope to be, faith is the kind of person we hope to manifest.<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s why right after that he says it’s the evidence of things NOT seen. What is NOT seen is that person.<\/p>\n
Who is that person? <\/p>\n
That person is the image, that is the one that we HAVE been from the beginning. Just as God said, before you were in your mother’s womb in the flesh, I knew you! <\/p>\n
Faith, your true Origin<\/h2>\n
So your origin is not your father in flesh or your mother in flesh.<\/p>\n
Your origin is that voice<\/span> from the beginning that said<\/span> YOU ARE MY SON, so your origin, the image that you are, is something beyond that which at some point came out of the womb of a woman. <\/p>\n
The image that you are is the weight that is equal with God. <\/strong><\/p>\n
Born of God like God, in the image of God. <\/p>\n
Born of man like man, in the image of man; BUT born of God like God in the image of God, <\/p>\n
So what does faith do? <\/p>\n
Faith brings our focus into that which we are but are not yet fully manifested. <\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nSo faith begins to hear what God says about that which we are on the inside, covered by the veil of the flesh.<\/p>\n
So when we can hear THAT we can allow THAT to manifest effortlessly.<\/em> <\/p>\n
So we can enter into God’s rest<\/em><\/a> because we acknowledge God’s work was perfect in the beginning concerning us when He said you are my image. (In this post we talked about the Sabbath Rest of God<\/a> that is in the conscience and how you can enter by Faith.)<\/p>\n
And then we realize that His other work was also perfect in Jesus Christ when He came to redeem that which was lost, that image inside of us.<\/p>\n
So when we can begin to understand both the creation was perfect and the redemption was perfect we can begin to enter into rest effortlessly<\/em>, not trying to prove anything, but acknowledging what is already true about us. <\/p>\n
That’s why this faith begins to have so much more glory than just trying to get things from God! If you remember in the story when Jesus sent his disciples to go and preach the kingdom<\/a> casting out demons, healing the sick, they returned joyfully and said even the demons submit to us. <\/p>\n
He said something profound:<\/p>\n
Don’t look at the effect of WHO you are, understand that WHAT you are, and WHO you are will cause these things to happen.<\/strong> <\/p>\n
Now I was paraphrasing, but He said don’t rejoice that spirits are subject to you but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.<\/p>\n
What does that mean?<\/p>\n
That means your origin is not the seen realm of the flesh. Your origin is your God who is in heaven. Your origin is the Father that I say pray to Him. <\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nSee What The Father Sees<\/h2>\n
So He constantly tried to show that when you don’t see your origin you begin to enter into your labor…<\/p>\n
BUT when you begin to see your origin, you BEGIN to see what God sees…<\/p>\n
And then you don’t try to impress Him you just accept what He shows you. <\/p>\n
This is what the firstborn son of God told us in the New Testament. Let’s go to the gospel of John so you can understand how this unseen was in the language of Jesus. <\/p>\n
Then Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cMost assuredly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.\u201d [John 5:19]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So what do we see here? <\/p>\n
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- He says the Son can do nothing except by seeing what the Father does! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
So what is He trying to say? <\/p>\n
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- He says for ME to be able to DO<\/li>\n
- I MUST SEE <\/li>\n
- Because IF I don’t SEE<\/li>\n
- I will NOT do the work of the Father <\/li>\n
- I will do my OWN work <\/li>\n
- And in that sense, I will be in labor… <\/li>\n
- But WHEN I SEE the Father<\/li>\n
- I see what He sees <\/li>\n
- I will understand what He understands <\/li>\n
- I will know what He knows <\/li>\n
- I will speak what He speaks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
And in this conversation between the two of US: <\/p>\n
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- The fruit of this conversation would BE…<\/li>\n
- The manifestation that I’m looking for would<\/span> HAPPEN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Now He says it’s about the son seeing the Father, but right after that in verse 20:<\/p>\n
For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does… [John 5:20]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So now He says it’s not only that the son sees the Father, the Father shows ALL things to the son. <\/p>\n
Let me read it again: For the Father loves the Son and shows him all things<\/em>. The verse before said (John 5:19), the son can do nothing of himself but what he sees the Father do<\/em>. <\/p>\n
So what the Father shows<\/span> the son sees<\/span>!<\/p>\n
What does that mean? <\/p>\n
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- That means if the son sees something that means he wasn’t seeing it before! <\/li>\n
- That means what he is beginning to see, is the unseen!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Now, what is the Father revealing to the son anyway?<\/p>\n
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- All that He is showing him is about who he is IN the Father<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
That’s why He says, even right after that: The manifestation of this would be the GIVING of LIFE!<\/p>\n
You can read this in verse 21:<\/p>\n
For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so, the Son gives life\u2026[John 5:21]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Let’s go back to the beginning in the book of Genesis. What was the job of the tree of life? Giving life! So when the son sees the Father as a life-giving source he mirrors that tree in himself and he becomes the giver of life.<\/p>\n
That’s even why 2 Corinthians 3:18 says, But we all, with unveiled faces, beholding [or reflecting] the glory of the Lord, as in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image… <\/em><\/p>\n
<\/em>So that’s amazing because it says the way to BE is by SEEing! <\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nReflect the Father<\/h2>\n
The way to be that person that I WANT to be is by seeing. If I see, I would reflect. <\/p>\n
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- Where does it reflect from? <\/li>\n
- Where does it shine from? <\/li>\n
- Where does it manifest from? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Not from the OUTER heaven! <\/p>\n
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- It’s from the INNER heaven!<\/li>\n
- It’s from the INSIDE of us!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
It’s where the hope of glory dwells: <\/p>\n
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- Christ dwells INSIDE of us! <\/li>\n
- Our true being IS the Christ! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
What does that mean? <\/p>\n
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- It means The Anointed of God!\n
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- That which WE were in the beginning<\/li>\n
- The WORD that God spoke when He said IMAGE- is the WORD <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Now John chapter 1 says, in the beginning was the Word but that word became human flesh<\/strong>. But we saw the glory of this human flesh.<\/p>\n
So what does that mean?<\/p>\n
That means you and I were the WORD in the beginning. When that WORD entered into the realm of the flesh, something happened to us, a veil came over us. So every human being is left dead in that consciousness, or unaware of the original<\/span> consciousness, and has FORGOT who he was. <\/p>\n
You can see this in Deuteronomy chapter 32, Moses is singing his song and he calls the children of Israel, and he says you have forgotten the rock that you were hewn from<\/em>. So he’s bringing into the remembrance who they were in the Father before taking the form of flesh. So now we don’t know much about that and we don’t necessarily need to; but what we need to know, is right now we’re being AWAKENED into that<\/span> consciousness. How does that happen? <\/p>\n
(*Remember I said this is just an introduction? I’m going over all of these questions in this series. We’re going to be spending a lot of time on all of these terms to understand faith in a bigger language.)<\/p>\n
Faith vs dead works<\/h2>\n
I began in the book of Hebrews by quoting the first verse of chapter 11, which says, faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen<\/em>. But before we reach this verse in Hebrews chapter 11, there have been some details in the previous chapters. Now when you go and look at the details in Hebrews chapters 3 and 4, they are focused on works<\/span> and rest<\/span>.<\/p>\n
And He says, BUT let us enter into this rest<\/a>. <\/p>\n
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- Let us NOT be working the works of the law<\/li>\n
- Let us NOT be trying to perform<\/li>\n
- Let us NOT be living by the law of the flesh <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
What causes someone to be in that place from the beginning has been unbelief towards what the Holy Spirit reveals, towards what the Spirit says. That’s why He says, today if you hear His voice do not harden your heart<\/em>.<\/p>\n
The hearts were hardened but now there is something that has to come and change this heart from this evil conscience, which is a heart that doesn’t remember anything and doesn’t believe anything about that origin. <\/p>\n
Therefore, for you to have faith concerning who you are, something needs to happen to that conscience that is veiled by dead works. <\/p>\n
What does \u2018dead works\u2019 mean? <\/p>\n
Those are all the works THAT You DO, To TRY to get RID of a conscience… <\/p>\n
That is constantly saying: <\/p>\n
YOU ARE INFERIOR TO GOD, AND YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING <\/span>SO YOU CAN HAVE: <\/p>\n
A face-to-face encounter, Or conversation WITH Him. <\/p>\n
He says, but let me SHOW you something! There is something that can cleanse this evil conscience from your heart and that something is called the BLOOD of Christ. What does that mean? That means the LIFE is given through the Christ because the blood is the life of the soul, or the life of the flesh, you can see this in Leviticus chapter 17. <\/p>\n
When that life is given, pointing to the cross, what do you see there? You see the true manifestation of who God is to humanity.<\/p>\n
What is that? When you were enemies in your mind, He reconciled you in the body, of His own flesh.<\/p>\n
What does that mean in simple language? It means our conscience was spotted, stained, defiled, and polluted by our own thoughts that saw us LESS than what and who God says we are. That’s why we were trying to make ourselves perfect constantly. <\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nThe Faith That Has Perfected You<\/h2>\n
But now with one sacrifice, He has perfected forever. <\/p>\n
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- He’s not going to perfect you <\/li>\n
- He’s not going to perfect me <\/li>\n
- He’s not going to perfect your neighbor <\/li>\n
- He’s not going to perfect this president, or that murderer, or the other one…<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
He says He HAS perfected them forever<\/em>! <\/p>\n
Why is He saying this? He says just as through Adam everyone was made imperfect, meaning Adam showed proof<\/span> that mankind without God is imperfect. Now God has come in the person of Jesus Christ showing that mankind is perfect in God.<\/p>\n
So the gospel that we preach, Paul says, is not to make you perfect, in Colossians chapter 1, it\u2019s not to perfect you, it’s to PRESENT you perfect<\/em>.<\/p>\n
What does that mean? For example, let’s say I have a cell phone and when I’m giving it to you, I’m presenting it to you. So He says, perfection is not something that I’m trying to make you become. Perfection is something that YOU are and YOU don’t see it, because of the veil of the flesh. <\/p>\n
So HE says: <\/p>\n
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- Let me help you so you can see. <\/li>\n
- Let me speak to you the good news of God.<\/li>\n
- Let me speak to you the truth about God. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Why do you listen to worthless words concerning yourself?<\/p>\n
I think every one of us has had this example either for ourselves, or someone in the family, or somebody among our friends, or at least in the movies, which you always see two types<\/span> of parents: <\/p>\n
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- Type 1<\/span>: constantly criticizing their child: you will never do anything, you will never become anything, you will never grow into anything, you will never be able to to do anything <\/li>\n
- Type 2<\/span>: constantly encouraging their child: you will be a great teacher, you will be a great doctor, you will be a great person, you will be an inventor, you will be a loving person <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The way these two types of parents approach and impart to their children is two different ways. The good one is seeing in the child or person, something before they see it for themselves just like God sees us.<\/p>\n
God saw His Own glory in us before we saw it in ourselves. God saw His Own image in us before we saw His image in ourselves. <\/p>\n
Don\u2019t Try To Have Faith<\/h2>\n
This changes our way of approaching faith because now, all of a sudden, faith is not something that we try to increase, or try to have, or all those things that over the years we have had teaching for: <\/p>\n
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- How to have faith <\/li>\n
- How to how to increase faith <\/li>\n
- How to do this <\/li>\n
- How to do that <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
But faith becomes that GIFT of God to mankind, that sets mankind free from their works. They can begin to understand their true origin, because if you know where you come from:<\/p>\n
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- You will never try to gain something <\/li>\n
- You will never try to achieve something<\/li>\n
- You will never try to become something <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Just as the Bible says about Jesus: He knew where He came from.<\/p>\n
You just enjoy the place that you are and the person that you are. Then you realize why Jesus said I will come and receive you to Myself that where I am you will be also<\/em>. He was not talking about a physical location, or even in that sense of a far heaven, a heavenly place, or a mansion, or something. <\/p>\n
He said if you can be where I am, where I am in God, where I am is in my original design, where I am is in the life that God is. <\/p>\n
I have begun to be in the place that God says in this<\/em> place, it’s called \u2018in the anointed<\/em> place\u2019, it’s called the \u2018Christ<\/em> place\u2019, it’s called the \u2018Christ consciousness<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n
In that awareness you don’t need to be in any place and you don’t need to look for the future. You can begin to enjoy right now that which you are waiting for in the future. <\/p>\n
Now please when I say this don’t try to apply this to specific circumstances because we haven’t been talking about any of those things, don’t try to use this teaching for trying to make money, or trying to get healed, or trying to get someone saved, or trying to escape from hell<\/a>. I’m not talking about any of those things. <\/p>\n
I’m trying to show you what is the purpose of faith. What is the major profound truth concerning faith so we can experience a bit of rest for our soul<\/a>. A soul that was trying to always do something to become something, can’t find this rest. <\/p>\n
Faith Is Seeing The Unseen<\/h2>\n
The first point that we need to know about what is faith in the Bible is,<\/p>\n
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- Faith is seeing the unseen <\/li>\n
- Faith celebrates the unseen now <\/li>\n
- Faith doesn’t wait for anything in the future<\/li>\n
- Faith doesn’t wait for a feeling<\/li>\n
- Faith doesn’t wait for anything <\/li>\n
- Faith is about the unseen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The second point: <\/p>\n
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- Faith comes by hearing <\/li>\n
- The unseen can be seen by hearing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
What do you hear, or what is this thing that Paul says faith comes by hearing? <\/p>\n
Hearing!<\/p>\n
Hearing what? <\/p>\n
The WORD!<\/p>\n
So faith is about seeing the unseen. You can begin to see<\/em> the unseen by hearing<\/em>. And for you to hear, what you hear is the Word. <\/p>\n
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- So there is a WORD about me<\/li>\n
- There is a WORD about you…<\/li>\n
- Which is that WORD which was in the beginning<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
When you begin to hear that Word, then you can begin to see that which is unseen.<\/p>\n
So let me tell you this once again, or let me put it more simply: the Word that was in the beginning, it wasn’t only the Jesus that we know on earth…<\/p>\n
The Word in the beginning reflects the image of God.<\/p>\n
It says it was face-to-face with God. <\/p>\n
So the Word in the beginning, it\u2019s that Word that we need to hear. We have heard so many things, the bible says you have; Paul says you have had many tutors, many schoolmasters but not many fathers. You have had many people that have come to guide you, to lead you, to teach you, to even sometimes lord over you but none of them have been your Father.<\/p>\n
So he says but the Word that was in the beginning, if that begins to be spoken, you can begin to hear and then you can begin to see that which was in the beginning. <\/p>\n
- Type 2<\/span>: constantly encouraging their child: you will be a great teacher, you will be a great doctor, you will be a great person, you will be an inventor, you will be a loving person <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Type 1<\/span>: constantly criticizing their child: you will never do anything, you will never become anything, you will never grow into anything, you will never be able to to do anything <\/li>\n
- It means The Anointed of God!\n
- All that He is showing him is about who he is IN the Father<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- He says the Son can do nothing except by seeing what the Father does! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- So right, in the beginning, I need to make this clear that what I’m going to be sharing with you about in this series is not the kind of faith that brings us to escape from hell. So that traditional understanding of you must believe to have a certain salvation this is not what I\u2019m talking about. And also I’m not spending so much time on the faith which is being taught in a way of exchanging with God in the sense of having faith for healing or having faith for finances or having faith for this or that.<\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- I am going to show you profound truths concerning faith that will forever change the way you read the scriptures. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- This blog is not about ‘faith in God’ or ‘having faith in God’ in the traditional context of escaping eternal torment. This Bible study is to help you understand faith in the context of who you are, as seen and known by God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
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