So we are in Part B, and we talked about the Creation of God of the plants and seeds. This is also part of His Creation that speaks about faith, about how it is produced, how it multiplies, what means what in the spiritual sense … but He is still creating physical creation. However, for those who have faith now, and who use it, which means Believers, God created nothing else. Why? Because we don’t need a sign. As you know, faith, once used, doesn’t need any sign. Well, let us go to a few verses of the Scripture.
2 Corinthians 5:7, “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” And again I feel free before the Lord to augment this Word by saying, “We walk by faith and not by touch, and not by hearing, and not by smelling, and not by tasting.” We don’t walk by anything which pertains to our senses or to this physical creation! So we don’t have to look up to the sun, we don’t have to taste something, because we walk by faith, which means we walk by the reality of the spiritual world.
So when we want to talk to the Son, we can talk to the Son, and not to the sun. And when we want to see the Son, we have a spiritual eye to see Him, and a spiritual ear to hear that which our physical ear cannot. So we either walk by what we hear with this piece sticking out of our heads, or we walk by that ear which is inside, and we might not be able to walk by both at the same time. And I would like to say that the reality of the spiritual world is greater than of this physical one. We cannot live in both worlds at the same time, but in our spirit and through our faith, we can taste, see, hear, smell, and touch the reality of the other world, while we are still in this body.
Matthew 12:38, “Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.” They just testified about themselves that they had absolutely no faith, period. Even though they had faith, which the Lord gave them at their birth, they were never after it, they were never seeking it, searching for it. “An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign;”. That was not a very polite answer by the Lord, but it was full of truth. “And there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
1 Corinthians 1:22: This divides the world into two: the Jews (they require signs, and that’s why the Lord created all the signs that they could ask for, and yet they still did not believe); and the Greeks who seek after wisdom. Now Greeks typify Gentiles. Gentiles seek after wisdom, meaning that Gentiles must always first understand before they dare to believe. “And unless I understand what is going on, I will not believe.” … that’s a Greek, which means that’s a Gentile. That’s not only Greek, but Italian, and French and British and Czech and Slovak and Russian and American and everybody else — except Jew! It is the rest of the world. But the Jews, a peculiar nation, require a sign. They didn’t care much for wisdom, but they required a sign.
Gospel of John 4:48, let us go there too. The Lord, being in Galilee, spoke to one man there: “Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.” In other words: “You decided not to believe. Which means, except you see things which I do, you are not going to even search for that same reality which I put within you. Which, in fact, speaks far better than what I’m doing here on earth”.
Now, reading this part in the Book of Romans about God giving faith to every human being, let’s go also to Romans chpt.1, and let us see another thing. You see, people will not be able to accuse God, or even to complain to Him, that they did not have faith or that they could not do anything, or they this or they that, because God will point to them this part of His Word also, and they shall be speechless. Romans 1:17: “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith:”, which means from one reality to another reality, “as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who [these men] hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.”
Eternal power and Godhead, meaning also the Son and the Spirit. The Son created all things to typify, to represent the invisible things of Him, from the creation of the world in Genesis 1:1, and He did it by His Spirit. So all Three are there: God the Father, Who conceived it, the Son, Who did it, and the Spirit, by Whom it was done! … done in such a way that no human being will have any excuse. Isn’t that beautiful?
So, we pray and we receive nothing and we say, “Lord I have no faith.” And so we try something else, and if that fails we say, “well I surely have no faith.” And then we try something else again. And we may be wondering what is going on, and we can’t tell faith from wishful thinking, from personal desires; we just can’t tell. So let us see how this thing works.
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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