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Regarding Believing,
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Introduction ~ This
series is about questions involving Jesus.
Some were asked by individuals involved with Jesus Christ while He
walked on earth. Others are questions
that Jesus Christ asked others. We will
look at questions on about 130 topics (some may split into two or more posts). Even so, it is far from an exhaustive
list.
Scripture ~ “If
I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. There is another who bears witness of Me, and
I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true. You have sent to John, and he has borne
witness to the truth. Yet I do not
receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you
were willing for a time to rejoice in his light. But I have a greater witness than John’s; for
the works which the Father has given Me to finish — the very works that I do —
bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me. And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has
testified of Me. Y ou have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His
form. But you do not have His word
abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe. You search the Scriptures, for in them you
think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that
you may have life.
I do not receive honor from men. But I know you, that you do not have the love
of God in you. I have come in My Father’s
name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will
receive. How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not
seek the honor that comes from the only God? Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father;
there is one who accuses you — Moses, in whom you trust. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me;
for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how
will you believe My words?” (John 5:31-47).
“Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It
was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus
said, ‘Take away the stone.’
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, ‘Lord,
by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.’
Jesus said to her, ‘Did
I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?’ Then they took away the stone from the place
where the dead man was lying. And Jesus
lifted up His eyes and said, ‘Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but
because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe
that You sent Me.’ Now when He had said
these things, He cried with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come forth!’ And he who had died came out bound hand and
foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Loose him, and let him go’”
(John 11:38-44).
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Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT
LIFE NOW
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