With God, Seeing is Believing

[robert derrick]

And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.

With man, faith can be imaginative thinking only, but not with God, nor with men of judgement who know a talker when they hear one.

Only when God sees the righteous substance of His faith, does He justify the believer.

If God does not see the working of faith on our part, God does not see the faith we say we have.

If God does not see the blood working to cleanse ourselves within through His faith, He does not see the blood of His Son at all.

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Where no faith is seen, no faith is believed by God or man.

Only a person of vain imagination thinks he sees what God cannot see working in the spirit, nor man can see working in the flesh.

Men knew Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, because they saw He had power with God, and so it is today with Him coming in the flesh and bones of His pure in heart and righteous saints.

 

[robert derrick]

But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

The works of faith man sees is in the flesh, but the first works of faith that God sees is within the heart.

The first works of faith, that justifies the believer as being righteous with God, is purifying our own hearts of lust, and doing the good work of continually renewing and cleansing our minds from the unwanted, unrighteous, and vainly imaginative thoughts of the world.

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

So long as the heart continues with lust of the world, and the mind is left open to the unrighteousness of the devil, without the good fight to resist him, then there is no works to be justified with God, nor faith for God to see, being alone and dead in imagination only.

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

If we believe Jesus is the Christ, then God imputes knowledge and desire for His righteousness, but until we are obeying Him to cleanse our spirit of thoughts from the devil, then we are not believing Him from the heart unto righteousness of the soul, and He is not supping with us in the fellowship of His Spirit.

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.