In John17:3(Amp) Jesus says, "And this is Eternal Life, it means to know, to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand You, the Only True and Real God, and likewise to know Him, Jesus, as the Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent."
As part of His family, we should not only know Who our Father is, but also know Him by His character and His Person. We shouldn't rely on the world or others to find out what His will and His Heart is, for Hi children. We should be able to define our Father, His will and His Heart for us, without depending on what others believe.
I never needed to ask my friends or neighbors who my earthly father was or what his will and heart were for me. I knew my earthly father by my acquaintance with him. I spent time with him and knew what he expected of me. He taught me about good manners and respect towards my elders. He provided all my needs and kept me safe, so I didn't need to be fearful or feel like I didn't belong. I know he loved me, by association with him.
2Peter1:2-4(Amp) says, "May Grace (God's favor and peace), which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, and Spiritual prosperity and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts be multiplied to you in the full, personal, precise and correct knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. For His Divine Power HAS bestowed upon us all things that are requisite and suited to life and godliness through the FULL,PERSONAL knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His Own Glory and Excellence (virtue). By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great Promises, so that through them you may escape by flight from the moral decay, rottenness and corruption that is in the world because of covetousness, lust and greed, and become sharers (partakers) of the Divine nature."
We need to have a "personal, precise and correct knowledge of God and Jesus." Without this, we only have the opinion of what others think about Him. We've been swayed by these opinions, instead of relying on a personal, precise and correct knowledge of Him, which we gain by seeking Him for ourselves. Some might criticize or be hostile towards us, and try to persuade us to conform to what they believe. We've heard so many things that are untrue about our Heavenly Father and have believed these things, because we haven't spent time in His Word and Presence, for ourselves.
Our Father isn't the Author of sickness and disease, even though one of His children falls ill. Sickness and disease are still in this world, but it wasn't our Father Who brought them. I can't find anywhere in Genesis, where Adam and Eve were sick, until they separated themselves from God and His Blessing on and for them. How long do you suppose they walked with Him in Eden, before Adam's fall? It could have taken thousands of years, before satan could deceive them into rebellion against God.
There was no sin, sickness, hunger, poverty, or death before Adam's transgression. Adam and Eve were immortal in their bodies and Eternal in their spirit, like Jesus is now. Jesus came to restore us back to the Father, in the fullness of the joy He had when bringing forth His children. God brought mankind forth, in order to Love and fellowship with us, in all His Glory. During His earthly ministry, Jesus brought restoration to the body and soul of those who needed healing and deliverance. Jesus brought forth the Fullness of restoration by the Spirit into our born-again spirits, by His death and Resurrection. In the day of Resurrection, we will once again be restored to what the Father's Original Intent was, when He brought family into being.
It's not a matter of only when we get to Heaven, like it was in the first covenant. Now, it's a matter of Heaven has come to earth through Jesus. Through Him, we can live here by the spirit while we're still in the flesh, by His Spirit and the Authority given us through the Power of Jesus' Name. God has never changed from His Original Intent, when He gave man the authority and dominion over everything that creeps on this earth in Genesis. This has been restored by and through, the faith in the Name of Jesus.
The Name of Jesus isn't a P.S. we finish our prayers with. Faith in His Name, is the Power by which our prayers are answered. God didn't give Jesus a Name, but THE NAME. I met several people in Mexico who are named Jesus, but that's not THE NAME. We find Paul preaching, with miracles following and casting out demons, in Acts19:13-15(Amp), when some Jewish exorcists began calling on the Name of Jesus too. Thus Verses`4-15 say, "Seven sons of a certain Jewish Chief Priest named Scerva were doing this, but one evil spirit retorted, Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?" They commanded the spirit to come out, but used a name and even the Name Paul had used, but they didn't know Jesus and had no faith in His Name. Knowing Whose Name and having faith in His Name, is what changes things. 2Peter1:2-4(Amp) says we need a "personal, precise, and correct knowledge of God and His Son Jesus Christ." The Name of Jesus isn't magic, but is Power when we know Him. His Name can change anything and everything in our lives, if we will seek Him for ourselves. We need to have personal knowledge of Him, instead of relying on a religious opinion of others.
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