The Faith of Jesus
by Barry James Moore
Thursday, November 29, 2007
When Christ died on the cross for you and me, He did not only provide for salvation and life eternal after we die; He also died that we might have His life now. We must have faith in him. 2 Peter 1:3 says that He has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness. That is for now while we are here on this earth. Some people say that they believe "in" Him, but many do not believe Him. (Notice the difference).
When we read John 3:16, think of it this way, "whosoever believes, 'in Him' has eternal life". Notice where I placed the comma. The "in Him" is the key. We must place ourselves "in Him"; it is then that we have His life.
If we want His resurrection Life (capital "L"), we must first die to ourselves, in effect nailing ourselves to His cross, just as He went willingly to the Cross. Go through the Bible and see how many places it reads "in Him", and "in Christ". We have nothing when we try to live the Christian life apart from (outside of) Him; we must be "in Him". That is our choice; He never forces Himself on us.
As we place our faith and ourselves "in Him", it is because we know all things were made possibe through and by the faith OF Jesus. (Romans 3:22; Galatians 2:16, 20, 3:22; Ephesians 3:12; Philippians 3:9).
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Revelation 14:12 (The Holy Bible, King James Version):
"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
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Think about the level of faith that Jesus must have had in His Father. He predicted that He would be raised the third day, but on a human level, the faith He had in our Father, that He (the Father, through the Holy Spirit) would raise Him (Jesus) from the dead. That Faith was in God the Father because, once dead, Jesus could not raise Himself. He had to believe that God the Father would do it. Full Faith and assurance only comes when we see God for who He is, and we fully rest in Him as our only source. When we come to know God that intimately, as did Jesus, then we too can have faith on that level: The faith OF Jesus!
See: The Law of Love and Overcoming the Sin Nature.
