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| 8/11/2012 recording date. audio/video is 17 minutes takes a few minutes to load so be patient please. Or just read ahead. Also the following week it is air on utube on turtle30cshell channel. Just type in website name when you got to utube. The Stirring Part II: Power and Authority of Christ to Forgive Coming live from Turtle30cShell, I am your host Christina Farris. Today we going to be talking about Christ power as Son of God and His authority to forgive. I believe in One God, yet I also believe in the Triune God head. Meaning Father, Son and Holy Spirit three person of the trinity. Now hold on for those that do not know if they believe in the Trinity or not, let me continue if you believe in God you do, but maybe not in the format of the New Testament. Let me explain. Jesus is the Word of God according to John 1:1 In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. Jesus is the Spirit of Prophesy. He was prophesied about from days of old, example I be using is Abraham. God said to Abraham in: Genesis 17:19 KJV (19) And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. The everlasting covenant. A covenant that will never cease. The promise Messiah. The covenant is a promise between Abraham and God that he would provide the everlasting covenant through His line. The first promise of the Word of God coming to mankind. The promise of the circumcision of faith. Action being a demonstration of faith. Abraham believed and it was counted to him as righteousness, Yet His belief was back by his actions, his actions being part of his faith. So it was establish the act of belief. Covenant with Isaac. God said to Isaac: Genesis 26:2-4 KJV (2) And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: (3) Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; (4) And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Blessing of God would come from Isaac family. It did not mean the promise was not for the gentile people that are not Jewish, but that blessing would come through the Jewish tribe. This promise is talking about the spiritual blessing that comes through faith in Jesus. Belief in the Word of God. Then there is the Holy Spirit which is the third part of the Trinity. Holy Spirit is that Word going forth and coming to pass. Jesus would come in the flesh as promised. Yet He always was with the Father. Last week in the lesson The Stirring we talked about the healing at the pool of Bethesheda. The man told the Jews that Jesus healed him and it caused quite a stir, because it was on the Sabbath. So Part two of The Stirring. Let me begin by reading: John 5:16-24 KJV 16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. 20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. 21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. 22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Jesus response to those that sought to persecute him was, what can I do? He could only do what he learned from His Father. How often we mimic those that teach us. However Jesus was in the beginning because He is the Word of God and equal to the Father. Meaning He is the very breath, word of God that became flesh. The word of God stands assured. Meaning His word is the same yesterday, today and forever. If the same it can not be broken. It is solid. The word is solid. Jesus would be consistent with the Word spoken by His Father. Now healing was consider work on the Sabbath, because the man picked up his mat. Was this sin, or was it the Jewish religious law in question. Or was it a lack of knowledge. Under Moses leadership a man could be killed for breaking the Sabbath. Yet Jesus breaking the Sabbath in the eyes of the people, cause the people not to recognize the blessing this man received from God of healing. Jesus purpose in coming was to heal the sick and afflicted. To draw all men unto himself. Jesus was by healing doing the Father God’s biding. He was obeying His Father. What Jesus did was a good deed. Are you on the Sabbath more concerned about church attendance or obedience to God. The type of work a man could not do on the Sabbath was the type of work for labor or hire. There was nothing wrong with act of kindness or benevolent work on the Sabbath. For instant some church groups minister in the nursing homes on the Sabbath. It is work, but a work of love. That type of work was okay on the Sabbath. We are to follow in Christ example. By following in his example we obey Christ by doing good even on the Sabbath. To do good for someone is helping someone, not helping ourselves, but ministering to someone in need. It is not self seeking. It is sacrifice of ministering to someone else. To be Christ like is not to worry about our own reputation by missing church, but doing the will of God. For worship of God can come by helping those in need. Church is a time of worship, a time of fellowship something all Christians need. Sometimes it is in the fellowship of a building and sometimes it changing a flat tire for that elderly couple who does not attend church, but can’t get to the store. We must remember service is not self seeking. It easy to get lost in the world of me first. Yet if we follow Christ it not about our desire but about God’s will. Now far as carrying the mat yes it was sin according to the Jewish tradition. What justified the sin was the man who picked up his mat believed the words of Jesus. For Jesus said in verse 24,“He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” There is another verse in scripture that is important and goes along with the sin of carrying the mat. Psalms 32:1-2 KJV (1) A Psalm of David, Maschil. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. (2) Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. The power of belief in a believers life is that there sins are forgiven, both Old and New Testament. Christ came to take away the law. Meaning to cover our sin. To bury it with him through burial and through that burial we are then resurrected with Him and become a new creation, old gone and new begins. Being passed from death unto life. Let us continue the next passage. John 5:25-30 KJV 25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; 27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. 28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. 30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. A time is coming when Christ return and at the sound of His voice the dead will rise. With the resurrection comes judgment and condemnation. Judge of the unbelievers is hell and the judgment of believers is life. Jesus can only do the will of His Father. When our word goes forth we have the ability to change it. When God’s word goes forth it is established, yet God mercy comes to people of obedience. Jesus told the man he healed to go and sin no more. In other words stop carrying the mat. He was suppose to remove it according to the Hebrew defining of take up, not continuing to carry it about. However I think the joy this man must of felt, he perhaps was a little beside himself. And so with that Jesus forgave Him. . John 5:31-47 KJV 31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. 33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. 34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. 35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. 38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. 39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. 41 I receive not honour from men. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. 46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. 47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? Christ actions and deeds spoke of who he was. Only thing is people rejected his testimony as well as the prophets. Christ is the truth and the life. If we lack belief then we have lost everything. For Christ is from God and is God. He being one with the Father of all things. What do our actions speak that we are followers of God or followers of evil? Do we do God;s will in our daily lives or our own? Christ did His Father’ s will. He had permission to do the things He did because of His Father. He did not act as a free agent but in the will of God the Father. Christ makes it clear to those around that they reject Him though He has demonstrated love. He even goes on to warn them because of this rejection they would accept someone else that did not claim to be from God. That would come in his own name. We see people falling away today following people that come in their own name. Clearly the anti Christ. Christ explained that God sent him to do His will. To show people who He is. He had the same authority as God the Father to judge and to save. We have a choice whether to believe who Christ says He is and who the prophets say He is or to deny him. That is the choice. Do believe Jesus. Do you believe the Word of God. God forgives you upon belief in Jesus. John 3:16 KJV (16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. |
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