Rekindling the fire of faith

THE QUESTIONS OF OUR FAITH

The unquestioned reality should not be trusted…

We question the reality of God and He gave us an answer as a sign (Luke 2: 11 – 12). It is in your power to accept the knowledge of the sign or disregard it.

Faith is a choice. You choose to be or choose not to believe.

I grew up as an inquisitive child. The configuration of my mind is to seek knowledge. I ask questions to know what I am supposed to know. If I do not get the answer to my questions, I repose into deep meditation. Somehow, the answer finds reaches my thought like a flash of light.

What you are looking for is it out there, or in you?

Emphasizing true faith from my standpoint of inspiration, there are some questions, we cannot run away from answering. These questions cover the knowledge of our identity, our position in God and our mission with God. However, we have gone far off. The more we run away from answering the questions of faith in God, the more we run into errors. I will begin the quest, with the big question in our hearts. However, I will personalize the questions.

1. Who are you?

John 8: 25

Then they said to Him, “Who are You? And Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true, and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.

John 9: 58

Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”

Exodus 3: 14

And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”

And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, “I AM has sent me to you.’”

I AM that I Am is a common English translation of the Hebrew phrase, meaning, “I will become what I choose to become”. “I am what I am”, “I will be what I will be”, “I create what(ever) I create”, or “I am the Existing One”. I think with this background, we can now dive deeper into the deep things of God, which may not be palatable for scholars who would want to depend on their carnal knowledge to interpret the Word of God.

Who is I AM? If Jesus said, “I AM”, who is Jesus?

We cannot run away from these questions, they are the questions of our faith.

The world confronts you to know your identity and until you have an identity in this world, you have no position to stand in.

We can only know who you are when you know who your creator says you are.

Acts 19: 15

And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?

God created Adam; did He know who he was in God? If he does, how comes, something told him that he was naked?

The answer to the question “Who are you?” confronts our identity and until we identify with either God or the devil, we have no place. If you do not identify with God and still claim not to be with the devil, you are with the devil, because not with God is with the devil. Therefore, God came down and man was no longer in the position where God has placed him.

Genesis 3: 9 - 11

Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and hid.” And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”

I have come to realize that the major we face in our faith work with God is knowledge base. We have told many things about who we are whom they told us Jesus is and many things, that has now left us to confuse, not even knowing what truth is. We now live in a parallel world, where truth is independent of the thinking mentality of every man.

However, is this what it is supposed to be? We are now stepping out from being moral beings into immorally liberal beings. The immorally liberal people are those open to new ideas and are willing to depart from the established opinions or conventions. Such is the liberal leftist. However, the liberal rightist can depart from the established opinions or conventions when it does not align to the wholesome truth, but will never depart from any opinions or conventions that aligns to the wholesome truth of God’s Word.

Therefore, the question “Where are you?” points us back to where we were that we have left and it reveals the position of our faith that has its revelation in the question of if you can see deep into the things of the spirit. Let me assist you to reach the revelation. When you pick each letter of each word that makes up the sentence “Where are you?” and combine it as one word, you will know where we were before we left. We were in the WAY and that way is the TAP of God called the ancient path (Jeremiah 6: 16).

“Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

Why would Jesus ask His disciple the above question?

Can you imagine the answers of what Jesus’ disciples were at the general question?

The knowledge of what they heard from people about Jesus was, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” (Matthew 16: 14). Was Jesus Christ any of the identity mentioned by His disciples as connected to what men were saying He is? The question of our faith hinges not on what people are generally saying. It simply base on personal encounter through revelation knowledge. Therefore, Jesus knowing that the reality His disciples are supposed to experience, has nothing with what people are saying about Him, but with what they must come to know by revelation knowledge of Him. He had to ask them, “But who you say that I am?” (Matthew 16: 16). However, this question brought forward the knowledge John the Baptist had established. Therefore, it will interest you that what Peter said about Jesus Christ was what John the Baptist in John 1: 34 has stated. People can ever come to the revelation of whom Jesus is by scrutiny or searching, but by the Father’s revelation of the Son to them. There is the initiative of God and human’s response. Until there is an alignment (the initiative of God and the response of men), we end up wallowing in ignorant thinking our initiative is God’s. Where are we in our knowledge of who Jesus is? Until we make progress, we can never reach the destination God wants us to reach. However, the destination we are to reach is not a place, but a person. Scientists have been trying to reach that destination, but still have not…

The answer to the question of our faith has not based on what people are saying that Jesus is, but who He says He is, not even what we think He is. We think He is the Son of God that is in the confine of knowledge the written word (letters). However, the revelation span the fulfilment of prophecy. John the Baptist came to set the platform, the very standard, which becomes the form of the office every son of God must occupy until Christ comes.

The platform of our faith is the firm foundation. Jesus Christ is our firm foundation. Nevertheless, can you live in a foundation? We are to build upon the Foundation, but must build by the approved pattern. If the final building does not reveal Christ and Christ alone, you are on the wrong course.

If the foundation of our faith is “Jesus is the Son of Living God”, it is not the finished building of our faith. However, without the foundation, the building cannot stand. The full revelation of whom Jesus is depends on the true revelation of our faith. When we reach this revelation, the mystery of God is finished (Revelation 10:7).

You cannot know how the building will look when you do have not the structural design. Therefore, the reality of our faith in God involves putting together the bits of truths to have the wholesome truth of whom Jesus is.

It is a rare privilege for me to write on this subject and I do not take this privilege of grace for granted at all. I know it is a rare divine opportunity to write what I am inspired to write and I will write to reveal deep truth even as led straight from eternity to time. I will not try to paint a picture from my imagination or what I think should be, but in God, I will depend to reveal His mind, even at this perilous time.