Can two walk together accept they be in One accord? I wonder how many have ever stopped to considered that this is how the average family unit that is and remains a unit, even after the sons and daughters leave the home nest to go elsewhere are One unit. When this was all set in motion of the Just and Holy Ones long ago, as recorder in Genesis 2 and 3 and from there forward laid out for mankind. And how it is now for those who by humble humility choose Christ and GOD over the darkness and evils of the perverted world in which they live day by day, keep this plan going by will and strong efforts. And by so choosing live as Christ in GOD and GOD in Christ Ones in GOD as sons. Having a line of constant communication through Christ in them with the Father of spirits. And that was the plan and purpose of GOD and the LORD, as Christ ( the Messiah) in the man Jesus, Who was the Son and man in Jesus Christ and how this all signifies, us as such. When we walk in agreement as a unit of One, just as GOD in the beginning was ONE. One in Being, SPIRIT, in which all things are possible as Spirit filled all things visible and invisible. Spirit spoke and that which was invisible became visible or material in form. Now for Pastor Hoekstra and his teaching on Grace and how it is that Jesus is our ultimate example. And then for my targeted subject of, His Oneness with the Father making use of the ESV translation. And as always all being done under the LORD's watchfulness. As we walk as One by faith and not by sight.
"Jesus, the Ultimate Example of Faith's Results"
"The Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary . . . The Lord God has opened My ear . . . I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting. For the Lord God will help Me; therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed." (Isaiah 50:4-7)
"In our previous prophetic verses, we saw that the promised Servant of the LORD would undertake His Messianic mission through faith in His heavenly Father. " My God shall be My strength" (said the prophet Isaiah in 49:5, himself walking with a Oneness consciousness). These verses depicted Jesus as the ultimate example of faith. Now, a corresponding prophetic passage reveals the blessed consequences of trusting in the LORD. Herein, we see Jesus as the ultimate example of faith's results.
Once again, the prophetic parties are the Messiah and His heavenly Father. The confessions of Jesus (trusting in the Father) comprise the prophetic statements. "The LORD GOD has given Me the tongue of the learned." Jesus was "discipled" day by day by the Father (certainly using, in part, His godly parents). "The LORD GOD has opened My ear." This equipped Jesus to minister to burdened lives: "that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary." In fact, people were amazed in general at the manner in which He spoke. "So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth" (Luke 4:22).
As Jesus would trust in the Father, He would also be prepared for the mounting difficulties that He would face. "I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting." In approaching the cross, these prophecies of Jesus (and the enablement He found through depending upon the Father) were fulfilled. "Then they spat in His face and beat Him; and others struck Him with the palms of their hands" (Matthew 26:67). Though He knew all of this awaited Him before He came to Jerusalem that last time, He put His faith in the Father. "For the LORD GOD will help Me; therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed." The Father helped Him. He marched on resolutely to keep His redemption appointment at the cross. "Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem" (Luke 9:51). These are the wonderful consequences of faith."
His Oneness with the Father:
John 10:22-30 "At this time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around Him [for the purpose of taunting Him] and said to Him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." To this Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name bear witness about Me, but you do not believe because you are not among My sheep. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are One."
John 10:31-38 The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone Me?" The Jews [still taunting Him with even more hatred and rage of anger] answered Him, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God." Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'? If HE called them gods to whom the word of GOD came—and Scripture cannot be broken— do you say of Him Whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of GOD'? If I am not doing the works of My Father, then do not believe Me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me and I am in the Father."
John 14:8-14 "Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know Me, Philip? Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own authority, but the Father Who dwells in Me does His works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, or else believe on account of the works themselves. "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in My name [speaking of unity of agreement as in being One in Spirit, spirit and Truth], this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the [His many restored to Him] Son. If you ask Me anything [being] in My name, I will do it."
John 17:6-19, 20-24, 25-26 (this is all in red in my Bible) "I have manifested Your name to the people whom You gave Me out of the world. Yours they were, and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Now they know that everything that You have given Me is from You. For I have given them the words that You gave Me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. All of Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, which You have given Me, that they may be One, even as we are One. While I was with them, I kept them [and still HE keeps us] in Your name, which You have given Me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your word, and the world hates them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one. They are not of this world, just as I am not of this world. Sanctify them in the Truth; Your Word is Truth. As You sent Me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate Myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
"I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word, that they may all be One, just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be in US, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me. The glory that You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one even as WE are One, I in them and You in Me, that they may become perfectly One, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, may be with Me where I am, to see My glory that You have given Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
O righteous Father, even though the world does not know You, I know You, and these know that You have sent Me. I made known to them Your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them."
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