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John 1:12
Excerpted from: Faith (Part Five)Faith is produced by the grace of God that is given to us. It is the grace of God that empowers us to believe. We are going to follow this so that we understand very clearly where faith comes from and what our responsibility is in relation to it. The power to believe and the act of believing are two very different things. Without the power to believe, no one has ever believed with the kind of belief that is necessary for salvation, but with that power, once you have the power, once you are enabled, once the grace, the gift has been given to us, then the act of faith is the man's own. Let us understand this.
We are going to focus on the word that is translated in the New King James as “right.” If you have a King James Version it says, "to them He gave the power." Now this is Strong's 1849. It is capable of a variety of usages. It can be used as power, authority, capability, ability, strength, entrusted, commissioned. It implies the liberty or power to do something. It is the word exousia. It has its roots in a word exesti. Now the two of them when they are put together, exesti and exousia, combine two different ideas, right and might. Right and might. You are given the right to do something, and you are given the might to do it. So you have the right to do it and you have the might, or the power, to do is.
What did God do here through Jesus Christ? As many as received Him, to them He gave the right, or the power. He gave the right and the power, to become children of God.
John 1:11-13
Excerpted from: Do You See God?The people in His day and age saw Him. Did they believe? Did they see God in the flesh walking with them? Teaching them? Giving them the eternal truths of life? Showing them how to live, the way to live - both by word and by example? Were they just so overwhelmed by the awe of knowing that this was God? He even proclaimed Himself as being such! Were they so overwhelmed that they said, Yes, I see. I believe. I'm going to follow. No. The Bible's own witness is that they did not know Him, even though they saw Him.
Just because one sees does not mean that one is going to believe. That is because, in the biblical sense, there is a spiritual aspect to seeing and believing. The scripture here indicates that there was not even a flash of recognition as to His true identity.
Now look at Jesus Christ for just a minute in your mind's eye. The most unique Personality that ever lived in the history of mankind! A one of a kind. The only human being who ever lived life sinlessly. And, yet, He could not be identified even by those who saw Him. He was not recognized when God was in the flesh and sharing life with the people of His generation.
All of this seems to indicate that one has to be predisposed to receive this belief - this ability to see. It is interesting, in the context of verses 12 and 13 especially, that those who exercised this faith…
That is, to enter into a relationship with God that results in nothing less than the creation of a new being.
John 1:12
Excerpted from: Freedom and Unleavened BreadIn John 1:12, it says—and you really have to see this in its context, because at the beginning of the chapter, Jesus is identified as the Word of God, the Logos. A little bit later He is identified as the Light of the world. The Light of the world is the truth of God. It points the right way. His word is truth. Then in verse 12, it says that we are given the right to be sons of God.
I want to change that word "right." It's not that it's wrong, because it is an accurate translation. But in the margin you will see "authority." Let me change it to another word: "empowered," because that's really what it means. We are empowered to become part of the kingdom of God. That empowerment has come by means of His calling, and the revelation of His purpose through His word, and all the other instruction that is necessary for the accomplishment of that great purpose that God is working out.
John 1:12
Excerpted from: Do You See God?Just because one sees does not mean that one is going to believe. That is because, in the biblical sense, there is a spiritual aspect to seeing and believing. The scripture here indicates that there was not even a flash of recognition as to His true identity.
All of this seems to indicate that one has to be predisposed to receive this belief - this ability to see. It is interesting, in the context of verses 12 and 13 especially, that those who exercised this faith…
That is, to enter into a relationship with God that results in nothing less than the creation of a new being.
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