“Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.”
Luke 7:22
There is often an order of His work in us: “the blind see” followed by the “lame walk” and the “lepers are cleansed.” Our new life is accompanied by Him giving us spiritual vision. The essential result of being “born again” is that we “see the Kingdom of God.”
The Work of Jesus – The Blind See
VISION
“Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:3
Through the regenerative work of God, we are afforded vision. In its early stages, it is an embryonic understanding like that of Jacob of old, who declared:
“Surely the LORD is in this place;
and I knew it not”
Genesis 28:16
In this place, our entire view of the world is shaken by the realization that He is near and has promises and purposes for us. Just as Jacob, we are introduced to a walk and a journey with Him.
Through the “born again” experience, we SEE the Kingdom of God and our walk and life in this world are radically changed. This experience does not come by reciting a phrase or formula; it is the reception of His Life into our own.
“Whoever has the Son has life;
whoever does not have the Son of God
does not have life.”
1 John 5:12
“Beware of resting in the word of the Kingdom, without the spirit and power of the Kingdom of that gospel, for the gospel coming in word only saves nobody, for the Kingdom of God or the gospel, where it comes to salvation, is not in word but in power.”
– John Bunyan
“For the kingdom of God is not in word,
but in power.”
1 Corinthians 4:20
The Work of Jesus Series:
The Work of Jesus – Spiritual Vision
The Work of Jesus – The Lame Walk
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Brian Troxel
A person is either indwelt by God or is not a habitation of His. A person either has and is one in Spirit/spirit with all of the perfectly undivided, completely unitary Deity of God or has not and is not as pertains to same.
The One and only true and living God is the One Beautiful Triune God, the Holy Trinity of loving, living Infinity.
God is the uncreated, Self-existent Father of all; Christ is the Word incarnate; the Holy Spirit is the Personality and power, the character, nature, and attributes of the Father and His Christ. All three Persons are One Existence, One Entity, One God, co-equal eternally. The demonstration of God by His expression and the manifestation of Himself is never less than the royal Kingdom of God in absolute actuality and everlasting reality.
Most certainly, this entire statement is very grossly inadequate, falling severely short of the glory of God due Him. Even so, I cherish and enjoy meditating on and sharing as best as God, our forever first Love, our all magnificent Obsession enables mercifully in the now of Who He Is.
Being born again begins to give us access into the sight of the Kingdom, and priase God for it, for without it we are blind, deaf and lame. We would not be able to see it, we would not be able to hear it, and without it we could never enter into the Kingdom of God.
Blessings Brian.
The purity and simplicity of devotion to Christ is precisely and preeminently this: pure and simple. Such is actively elevating, enormously enabling, and holy ennobling for the chief cause of Christ, for Christ Himself no less. Reckonings and reasonings that do not spring from the simplicity of devotion to Christ ruin the purity and, therefore, relinquish the peerless power of devotion that is childlike faith, so cherished and commended by Christ.
Deeds described in the Book of Acts were directly done as the Holy Spirit consequence of childlike faith, powerfully practiced as pure and simple devotion to Christ Himself.
Mere multiplication of words can and do betimes undermine this unassuming heart attitude and unpretentious mindset by wandering way of the self-deception that is self-striving sans the Spirit beneath the subtle, slippery, serpentine guise of enlightening precepts, Christly comprehension, and Deific doctrine.
Allow the little children, those who do not have an overblown sense of their importance or wherewithal, to come to Christ, as He, the Fountain of living waters, so purely and so simply but most passionately enjoins us to do.