Worship call 611 Greater things than these
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What is the basis of your faith?
Is it that you believed once and were saved?
And if it was that moment of faith was so powerful as to save your soul from the eternal lake of fire and bring you life. what more where will believing on a continual basis take the believer who continues trusting in Him
this is another fine day in the Lord.
Point of Application: what you do with what God gives you will determine whether he will show you greater things.
The exercise of Faith opens doors to greater faith.
we get disappointed at others who dismiss us and change the subject when we bring up the bible. they themselves have no capacity for receiving more and this is the reason they close you down.
Proverbs 2:6–7 (NASB95) — 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding. 7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
The question is what do you do with what God has given you? Faith is right application of the truth. Which can also be said about wisdom. All wisdom is of God.
Revelation precedes faith and without revelation there is no faith. Nothing to apply. God gives. The believer receives, metabolize, and applies. It is God’s good pleasure to see the results of His own work in the life of those who are believing. Even to see a response of those who love His word. in so doing he gives greater knowledge for those who seek, to God’s own divine pleasure.
The Lord gave just enough to Nathaniel. Just enough to brought to the table.
Is this the Messiah that my brother believes that He is, or not. At that point Nathaniel could have said to this Jesus of Nazareth, “It was nice meeting you, but I’m going back to the fig tree.”
Nathaniel studied and meditated on God’s word. It was throughout time that the essence of God was present in the word which Nathaniel studied and meditated on. When meeting Jesus Face to face he was already familiar with the person of the Logos (the word) through His written recorded word.
Point of application
You are a professed Christian.
You are believing that you are saved through the work of Jesus Christ on the Cross for your salvation
one day you will be absent from the body and face to face with the Lord. Will the very essence of His majesty be familiar to you?
perhaps not so much for those who have not kept God’s word.
Nathaniel steps forward in faith and thus opens the door to greater revelation and greater experiences with the Lord.
Each and every time we take that which has revealed to our hearts in faith we open the door to greater things because in faith our capacity to handle the things of God grows greater.
John 1:50 (NASB95) — 50 Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
this is a present Active Indicative of the verb
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 4100 πιστεύω
πιστεύω [pisteuo /pist·yoo·o/] v.
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 4100 πιστεύω
1 to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in. 1A of the thing believed. 1A1 to credit, have confidence. 1B in a moral or religious reference. 1B1 used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul. 1B2 to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith. 1BC mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith. 2 to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity. 2A to be intrusted with a thing.
In the present active indicative it is not what Nathaniel did one time and moved on to other things. But it is believing as a continual action.
Corrected translation
John 1:50 (NASB95) — 50 Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, are You believing? You will see greater things than these.”
What are these and what are the greater things?
The these are the veiled images which is presented in the Prophets and the writings which were a mystery waiting to be reveled.
Colossians 2:17 (NASB95) — 17 things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.
1 Peter 1:12 (NASB95) — 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things into which angels long to look.
Hebrews 11:13 (NASB95) — 13 All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
What was veiled and what was a mystery to those in the current age (age of Israel at the time) will be brought to light by those who will be believing in the age that was upon them.
Acts 2:17–21 (NASB95) — 17 ‘And it shall be in the last days,’ God says, ‘That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams; 18 Even on My bondslaves, both men and women, I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit And they shall prophesy. 19 ‘And I will grant wonders in the sky above And signs on the earth below, Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 ‘The sun will be turned into darkness And the moon into blood, Before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come. 21 ‘And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
Those who kept God’s word, His Commandments His statutes longed looked forward to see what the Prophets and the writings manifested, as we do in this age we live. we have the availability of the spirit that reveals to us all things and gives us spiritual discernment and capacity to know things which are of God greater things.
Colossians 1:25–29 (NASB95) — 25 Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God, 26 that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints, 27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ. 29 For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.