Where did the Faith Of Christ come from? His Holy Spirit. Remember that faith is one of the Spirit Fruits. Since Jesus and the Holy Spirit are One, Jesus manifested supernatural faith from and by His Holy Spirit.
By receiving the Holy Spirit into our lives and submitting to Him we too can manifest supernatural faith.
If we are to manifest supernatural faith - the kind of faith that performs healings, miracles and deliverance we must have the Faith Of Christ by His Holy Spirit. In each of the above verses we see the phrase "faith of Christ" rather than "faith in Christ".
What is the difference?
- `of` means owned by
- `in` means attached to
When we have Faith In Christ we are agreeing with who He is and what He did. We worship Him by having Faith In Christ.
When we have the Faith Of Christ we have entered that place which Christ Jesus dwells. It is a place of pure faith. Can we see that the Faith Of Christ was His believing who He was? He KNEW who He was. His life was the harvest of knowing who He was. What He accomplished is the fruit of knowing who He was.
To believe that Christ Jesus had some kind of irresistible calling on His life is wrong.
To believe that it was impossible for Him to doubt that calling is wrong.
To believe that it was impossible for Him to sin is wrong.
Such beliefs make Him just a puppet of some sovereign being.
Such beliefs undermine the glory of His faith.
It is the Faith Of Christ which saves and heals us.
It is the Faith Of Christ which imparts Eternal Life and Abundant Life to us.
To the extent that we magnify the Faith Of Christ is the extent to which we experience the glory of Christ In Us.
What does that glory look like? Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. |
So, we see that the Faith Of Christ is what we must receive in order for His glory to manifest in us.
It is not enough for us to have Faith In Christ to experience glory in this age of the world.
What is the Mind Of Christ? It is receiving the Faith Of Christ and making it our own faith. It is receiving His words and abiding in them.
It is eating His flesh and drinking His blood.
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. |
So we understand that Jesus was not satisfied for us to just believe in Him. He wanted us to become Him.
Notice that He dwells in us and we dwell in Him. This is oneness. It is total agreement.
Oneness with the Father and total agreement with Him is what characterized Jesus as a person. It is how He was able to respond to Phillip:
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. |
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? |
Am I saying that we should totally reflect the Father? yes. This is the whole purpose of the gift of the Holy Spirit. Christ ( Holy Spirit) in us is the hope (expectation) of glory (God`s glory manifesting in and through us).
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: |
Once you are baptised with the Holy Spirit the foundation is laid for receiving the Mind Of Christ which comes through spiritual revelation of the Word Of The Lord.
The Holy Spirit and the Word in us ( Christ In Us) enables us to operate in the Faith Of Christ. |
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