We've believed that somehow the things of God had to be more complicated than what we were reading in God's Word. God went to great lengths to make His Word simple. The carnal mind tried to make it seems spooky and mystical, but Jesus said it was simple enough that a child could understand it.
If you present a child with a flower pot and a packet of seeds and show him how to plant it, then they will, in child like faith, put the seed in the soil. They will eagerly and expectantly watch for the seed to bring forth the sprout, then the plant and then the flower and fruit of the seed. They don't question how, why or if, they simply believe.
Hebrews 11:1 (Amplified) says that, "Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things (we) hope for, being the proof of the things (we) do not see and the conviction of their reality (faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses)."
The Spirit says that "Now faith is the assurance of things we hope for." It's no longer the Law, the sacrifices, the works of the flesh; but faith. It didn't say we can't have what we hope for, it just says that ,now, faith is how we appropriate them.
We don't have to be put out of the camp if we have an issue of blood and wait for cleansing. We can walk clean before God, by faith in Jesus, as still being clean and sow the seeds of faith for our healing. As we take the seed of His Word from Isaiah 53:1-12 (Amplified) we can , by faith, sow this seed in our heart and expect it to produce what it says.
When you plant a garden, you buy a packet of seed with the picture of the fruit or vegetable on the front of the packet. It's not the fruit, but only a picture of it. By faith, you plant the seed and expect it to produce what the picture has promised. The same is true of God's Word. Hebrews 11:1 (Amplified) says that you, by faith, have a picture of what the results are. You see that "by Jesus' stripes you are healed." You don't see the healing, you only see the promise. He said that "the Word is the proof of what we don't see." We don't see the vegetable, we only see a picture of it. But, if we will plant the seed in good soil, then the proof is in the seed.
We sometimes try reaping the harvest without sowing the seed. We've failed to understand that "Faith is the substance of things hoped for" and we still try receiving the harvest by works instead of faith. You must first plant a seed to get a harvest. Even God demonstrated this when Jesus became the seed that produced a family of children to the Father. God, by faith in His Own Word and confidence it wouldn't return to Him void, sent Jesus to bring sons unto glory. Hebrews 2:10 (Amplified) says that, "For it was an act worthy (of God) and fitting (to the divine nature) that He, for whose sake and by whom all things has their existence in bringing many sons into glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation (should bring to maturity the human experience necessary to be perfectly equipped for His office as High Priest) through suffering."
Jesus had to have faith in what God's Word said about Him when He went to the cross. The only things Jesus had to hold onto was the Word. Psalm 16:8-10 (Amplified) says, "I have set the Lord continually before Me; because He is at My right hand, I shall not be moved." Verse 9 goes on, "Therefore My heart is glad and My glory (My inner self) rejoices; My body too shall rest and confidently dwell in safety." Verse 10 says, "For You shall not abandon Me in sheol (the place of the dead) neither will You suffer Your Holy One to see corruption."
We sometimes forget that Jesus had to walk with the Father by faith in His Word just like we do. The only proof that Jesus would see the fruit of the Word of His promise was by faith in God and His Word. What Jesus was about do on the cross was something that had never been done before...even by God.
You and I are the proof of His resurrection. The world still staggers at the thought of a man becoming sin, dying and being raised up in our place of justification and making us righteous through this one act of faith and obedience. Even the Church still struggles with the full truth of what really happened at Calvary. We cannot get the whole, awful truth of the depth of what Jesus did. We keep trying to make it pretty and obtainable to our senses.
The awful truth is that Jesus, by faith in His Father's Word, gave Himself over into the hands of God's greatest enemy and was willing to do whatever was asked of Him for us. Isaiah 52:14 (Amplified) says that, "(For many the servant of God became and object of horror; many were astonished at Him) His face and His whole appearance were marred more than any man's, and His form beyond that of the sons of men, but just as many were astonished at Him."
According to this scripture, Jesus didn't even look like a man any longer as He hung on the cross. And, even more awful than this, was the fact that Jesus had to be separated from the Father and God would have to turn His back on His Own Son as He became sin an cursed for us. We see this by faith and must receive it as truth.
If God's Word is seed, then we have to look at the seed as proof of the harvest. We can't see the harvest without planting the seed first.
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