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Resurrection 16 Resurrection and Faith
When Jesus rose from the dead it began the most dynamic movement of the mind, heart and spirit in recorded history. It opened the portals of the longest continual human mystery, the heart in relation to the mind and the spirit. Now the mystery of the heart and its balance is found in the risen Lord. The heart is central to our humanity, defines who we are and why we are here. What the heart trusts is what and who we become. Jesus claims Himself to be the focus (the truth) to restore the heart, the focus to reshape it (the way) and the focus to bring it to its rightful place (the life) in the restoration of fallen humanity. We find in Him the perfect balance of mind, heart and spirit.
When Jesus came out of that tomb, came through rock, walked through locked doors and appeared at will in different places to different people at different times, it changed the way people not only saw themselves but saw God and found a new dimension of life. Jesus challenged the mind to think and believe spiritually in terms of one God not many, to order society in terms of its individuals not its structures and to return every person to see community as interpersonal not race, ethnic or class-conscious. Jesus appealed to the heart to trust itself to Him as He directed and nurtured it personally through the Holy Spirit of God. He calls for faith in who He is and what He taught, what He did, what He is doing and what He will continue to do until He returns.
The Resurrection brings Jesus to the front door of each of our lives. He appeals to the mind to believe the concepts He has presented about Himself. He appeals to the heart to personally trust His heart-touching presence and verify those beliefs. He appeals to our spirit to be faithful in order to justify our belief, our trust and our new behavior prompted by His Spirit. He is always here, always available, always working on our behalf. His Cross becomes the picture that keeps our mind, our heart and our spirit yielded to Him. The Cross becomes our will yielded to His will, our hearts loving as He loves and our spirits inspired to act as He has acted and acts now through faith. Life is no longer about me, us, I, but about what God wants and wills, the reconciliation of every heart and the world to Him.
The Resurrection shows how the Holy Spirit is the only true life giving power to make our capacity for faith come alive. Everyone is faithful about someone or something. It is faith in Jesus that brings the power that created the universe into our lives and completes His plan for us. Nothing else can do it. It is faith that carried Jesus to the Cross, that displayed the nature of the Father as being faithful and returning us in nature to His nature. He perfects us through faith. When Jesus tells us that we have to be perfect as the Father is perfect that means He is perfecting us through the Holy Spirit’s filling our capacity for faith.
Isaiah has a word for us here, “If you do not stand firm in your faith,
you will not stand at all (7:9)." Then Jeremiah reassures us with these words from the Lord, “For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future (29:11).”
The Father’s words later resonate in fulfillment as He tells those present at Jesus’ baptism, “When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased Lk.3:21-22," and then at Jesus’ Transfiguration, “"This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him (Mt.17:5)!"
The Birth, the Cross, the Resurrection…Jesus is Lord…Amen
More on Jesus…Stay tuned………
When Jesus came out of that tomb, came through rock, walked through locked doors and appeared at will in different places to different people at different times, it changed the way people not only saw themselves but saw God and found a new dimension of life. Jesus challenged the mind to think and believe spiritually in terms of one God not many, to order society in terms of its individuals not its structures and to return every person to see community as interpersonal not race, ethnic or class-conscious. Jesus appealed to the heart to trust itself to Him as He directed and nurtured it personally through the Holy Spirit of God. He calls for faith in who He is and what He taught, what He did, what He is doing and what He will continue to do until He returns.
The Resurrection brings Jesus to the front door of each of our lives. He appeals to the mind to believe the concepts He has presented about Himself. He appeals to the heart to personally trust His heart-touching presence and verify those beliefs. He appeals to our spirit to be faithful in order to justify our belief, our trust and our new behavior prompted by His Spirit. He is always here, always available, always working on our behalf. His Cross becomes the picture that keeps our mind, our heart and our spirit yielded to Him. The Cross becomes our will yielded to His will, our hearts loving as He loves and our spirits inspired to act as He has acted and acts now through faith. Life is no longer about me, us, I, but about what God wants and wills, the reconciliation of every heart and the world to Him.
The Resurrection shows how the Holy Spirit is the only true life giving power to make our capacity for faith come alive. Everyone is faithful about someone or something. It is faith in Jesus that brings the power that created the universe into our lives and completes His plan for us. Nothing else can do it. It is faith that carried Jesus to the Cross, that displayed the nature of the Father as being faithful and returning us in nature to His nature. He perfects us through faith. When Jesus tells us that we have to be perfect as the Father is perfect that means He is perfecting us through the Holy Spirit’s filling our capacity for faith.
Isaiah has a word for us here, “If you do not stand firm in your faith,
you will not stand at all (7:9)." Then Jeremiah reassures us with these words from the Lord, “For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future (29:11).”
The Father’s words later resonate in fulfillment as He tells those present at Jesus’ baptism, “When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased Lk.3:21-22," and then at Jesus’ Transfiguration, “"This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him (Mt.17:5)!"
The Birth, the Cross, the Resurrection…Jesus is Lord…Amen
More on Jesus…Stay tuned………
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Comment by jacque Wright on May 9, 2010 at 4:32pm
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Thank you for the lesson on Faith; God is faithful and he will provide a way. I can just imagine that your writings will have more exposure on Face Book and I am excited to see what God is doing. What would we do, or better yet, be, without our trust in Jesus. I praise God that He cares enough for us that He doesn't stop until He has completed His work in us. Thanks again for allowing God to use you as He does, in sharing His word with us. See you Tues.
Jacque
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