The
image depicts the Pharisees confronting the man born blind who was
healed by Jesus on the Sabbath.
Today,
reply is on the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the imparting of
spirit substance from the makeup of GOD as the primary divine tools
that result in commitment and Christian belief, rather than the
Lord’s ministry of miracles.
Miracles, wonders, and peculiar events conforming to mechanical
process and natural law were used by divinity as signs to indicate
the divine origin and certainty of fulfillment for demonstrations,
proclamations and oracles delivered by those serving as consecrated
seers, prophets, and spokespersons. The life and ministry of Jesus
on the earth were to actualize, fulfill and seal the many sacred
promises, prophecies, and signs that appear in the holy writings.
Included are admonitions, covenants, judgments, divine law,
revelation, and visions. Carnal and secular knowledge, superstition,
and the occult all are exposed as vain (i.e., void of divine
substance). It is written: 1st John 4: 1-6, King James
Version (KJV): 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the
spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are
gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every
spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of
God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of
antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now
already is it in the world. 4 Ye are of God, little children, and
have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he
that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they
of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We are of God: he that
knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby
know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. One of the
fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion &
Spirituality using the ID “Anonymous” (no profile data shown)
posted the following:
Jesus
proved himself to be from God by performance of miracles. Those who
saw believed in him.?
If
in the future a man who claims to be another 'Son of God' performs
proven miracles and says that he is the second 'son of God', would
you believe in him?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi,
he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man
am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the
Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter
answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon
Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee,
but my Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 16: 13-17, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: The Tools Of Divinity (12/09/2019); A Complete Divine
Revelation (11/15/2019); Acceptable Displays Of Faith (10/04/2019);
Believing That GOD Is (06/24/2019); Where Be His Miracles?
(05/07/2019); Why Spirit Displays Personhood (06/06/2018); Sabbath
Acknowledges Divine Personhood? (05/14/2018); Called “The Anointed
One” (05/08/2018)
“Anonymous”,
among mature Christian believers, it is the resurrection of Jesus
Christ and the imparting of the Holy Spirit to indwell his followers
that establish Jesus as authentic, and truly sent by GOD. The church
has been warned that in the last days deceivers will present
counterfeit miracles. The church displays the image of GOD through
those born again who resemble, reflect, and reveal the character and
likeness of Jesus Christ. More than simply teaching the
proclamations, principles, promises and prophecies from GOD, Jesus
went about fulfilling the word. Also, Jesus was acknowledged and
endorsed by those whom the people respected as living prophets of the
day including both Simon and Anna, who for years appeared daily in
the Temple at Jerusalem awaiting the appearance of Messiah, and John
the Baptist who had served in the priesthood there. As an evangelist
and traveling preacher, Jesus taught from the holy writings, cast out
devils and unclean spirits (we say, performed exorcism), and healed
multitudes of the sick appearing in the synagogues, and in open areas
(e.g., the seashore, the mountains, the plains). He did not rely on
the miracles he performed that included changing water to wine,
calming the storm, providing abundant supplies of fish when the
fishermen first took nothing in their nets, feeding the hungry crowds
using the small offerings that had been shared (e.g., 5 loaves, 2
fish), and walking on the water. While the operations of Spirit
substance from divinity that include faith may result in miracles,
miracles do not always result in faith. Some will respond to
miracles with appropriate awe and express gratitude toward GOD,
however, many also become afraid, confused, skeptical, and
unbelieving. Consider again the following that uses language from
the Bible, and a selection from the music ministry of John Michael
Talbot:
(1.)
Numbers 14: 20-23, King James Version (KJV): 20 And the LORD
said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 21 But as truly
as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the
LORD. 22 Because all those men which have seen
my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the
wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not
hearkened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I
sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me
see it:
(2.)
John 9: 15-18, KJV: 15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how
he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine
eyes, and I washed, and do see. 16 Therefore said some of the
Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath
day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles?
And there was a division among them. 17 They say unto the blind man
again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He
said, He is a prophet. 18 But the Jews did not believe concerning
him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they
called the parents of him that had received his sight.
(3.)
John 17: 17-23, KJV: 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word
is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I
also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe
on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou,
Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in
us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the
glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one,
even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be
made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent
me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
(4.)
Acts 17: 29-31, KJV: 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of
God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or
silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 30 And the times
of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every
where to repent: 31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he
will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath
ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men,
in that he hath raised him from the dead.
(5.)
Revelation 13: 11-17, KJV: 11 And I beheld another beast coming up
out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a
dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before
him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship
the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth
great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the
earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the
earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do
in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth,
that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a
sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life unto the image
of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and
cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should
be killed. 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and
poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in
their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that
had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (6.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w1TekpF-AU.) Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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