Keeping on topic and to the point of GOD's plan and purpose laid down before the foundations of the world in which He created His children through whom HE would acquire an untold numbers of sons. Can two walk together accept they be as One, and in the beginning GOD. Meaning that GOD as a unseen Spirit remains unknown by some and indeed the many. To these people as the invisible GOD HE is some where but just where remains a mystery to them because they remain unlearned of Him. All they know and maybe trust in is that some day if they are good enough they may join Him in His Kingdom. Not realizing that His kingdom is now actively acquiring recruiting sons and daughters through obedience to His Promises, plan and purpose and revelation of light restored within them. By the words of His Son made man, in human from, of His own likeness and image just like all of humanity is known. GOD being mans true resource of knowing Him Who was, Is, and will be again seen on earth in visible form. At which time, as eternity momentarily posses, in eternity HE will judge man for unbelief, rebellion and disobedience to His word, the living Word not received as a woman receives her husband in unity to become one being in child birth. Now for Pastor Hoekstra and his teaching on Grace and faith received by receptive man as the seed sperm of man is received by woman to bring forward a son or daughter into the world. And then I will look at our Savior in His bearing our sins, all being accomplished under His watchfulness in spirit and truth.
"More on the Source of our Faith"
"And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all." (Acts 3:16)
"The path of discipleship can only be traveled by faith (by trusting in our unseen LORD). Progress can never be made by sight (by relying upon that which our human senses can gather and process). "We walk by faith, not by sight" (2Corinthians 5:7). Therefore, it is vital that we understand where we must go for the resource of our faith: "Looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith" (Hebrews 12:2). Christ, in Jesus is mans only resource for faith. The scriptures often expound upon this fundamental truth.
When the lame man was healed at the temple gate, this truth was again declared. This miracle occurred when two of the Lord's disciples were going to the temple in Jerusalem to pray. "Now Peter and John went up together (being of one accord and in total agreement) to the temple at the hour of prayer" (Acts 3:1). A man who was crippled (though Jesus Himself had passed this man many times while He remains in Israel and on earth as a son of man, man being Adam) all of his life requested a gift. "And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful . . . asked for alms" (Acts 3:2-3). Peter and John had no money to give, but they offered far more than the man had sought. "Then Peter said, 'Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk' " (Acts 3:6). They offered this man healing [salvation] in the name of Jesus Christ. "And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them — walking, leaping, and praising GOD" (Acts 3:7-8). The miracle was extensive. The lame man was not only strengthened to walk, he was also enabled to leap and stirred to give exuberant praise to the LORD.
When the astonished crowd gathered, Peter explained how the miracle was related to the name of Jesus. "And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know." The name of Jesus referred to His person and His power (that is, all that Jesus was and all that He was able to do, verifying GOD's presence was with Him). This demonstration of Jesus' power was experienced through faith in His name (that is, reliance upon who He was and what He could do). Then, Peter explained the source of such faith. "Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness [salvation] in the presence of you all." Jesus is the source of faith. Those who know Jesus to be a wonder-working LORD will trust Him to do extraordinary things."
Bore the sins of many, Sin-bearer.
Isaiah 53:10-12 "It was the will of the LORD to crush Him; HE has put Him to grief; when His soul makes an offering for guilt, He shall see His offspring; HE shall prolong His days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in His hand. Out of the anguish of His soul He shall see and be satisfied; by His knowledge shall the righteous one, My servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the many, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors."
Hebrews 9:23-28 "It was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites [animal blood sacrifices], but the heavenly things themselves with a better sacrifice than these. For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of GOD on our behalf. Nor was it to offer Himself repeatedly, as the high priest entered the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then He would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, He has appeared once for all at the end of the Ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him."
1Peter 2:21-25 "For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in His steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth. When He was reviled, He did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but continued entrusting Himself to Him Who judges justly. He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed [receive Him Who is salvation, as woman was taken from Adams side she being his salvation in type]. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls."
1John 3:4-10 "Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that HE appeared in order to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin. No one who abides in Him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen Him or known Him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as HE is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of GOD appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of GOD makes a practice of sinning, for GOD's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of GOD. By this it is evident who are the children of GOD, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of GOD, nor is the one who does not love his brother."
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