John 8:56<\/a>,
\n\u201cAbraham rejoiced to see My day and he saw it, and was glad.\u201d Faith is
\nthe eye of the spirit, which views and enjoys what the Word of God
\npresents to its vision. In the Gospels, Acts, Epistles, Revelation, God
\nhas told us about the exaltation of His Son; those who receive by faith
\nwhat He has there declared, \u201cSEE Jesus crowned with glory and honour,\u201d
\nas truly and vividly as His enemies once saw Him here on earth \u201ccrowned
\nwith thorns.\u201d<\/p>\nIt is this which distinguishes the true people of God from mere
\nprofessors. Every real Christian has reason to say with Job, \u201cI have
\nheard of Thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye SEETH Thee\u201d
\n(42:5). He has \u201cseen\u201d Him leaving heaven and coming to earth, in order
\nto \u201cseek and to save that which was lost.\u201d He has \u201cseen\u201d Him as a
\nsacrificial Substitute on the cross, there bearing \u201cour sins in His own
\nbody on the tree. He has \u201cseen\u201d Him rising again in triumph over the
\ngrave, so that because He lives, we live also. He has \u201cseen\u201d Him highly
\nexalted, \u201ccrowned with glory and honour.\u201d He has \u201cseen\u201d Him thus
\npresented to the eye of faith in the sure Word of God. To him the
\ntestimony of Holy Scripture is infinitely more reliable and valuable
\nthan the testimony of his senses.<\/p>\n
Arthur W. Pink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cBUT WE SEE JESUS\u201d How do we \u201cSee Jesus?\u201d Not by means of mysterious dreams or ecstatic visions, not by the exercise of our imagination, nor by a process of visualization; but by faith. Just as Christ declared, in\u00a0John 8:56, \u201cAbraham rejoiced to see My day and he saw it, and was glad.\u201d Faith is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-arthur-pink","category-taught-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}