Face to Face With God: The Ultimate Quest to Experience His Presence by Bill Johnson

Author:Bill Johnson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Christian Life - Inspirational, Spirituality, Religion - Christian Life, Christian Life, Christian Life - Spiritual Growth, Christianity: General, Religion, Inspirational, Christian life & practice, Spiritual Growth
ISBN: 9781599790701
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 2007-08-20T22:00:00+00:00

And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.

—Hebrews 1:3–4, emphasis added

Some may ask, “What about Job?” I would respond, “I’m not a disciple of Job. I’m a disciple of Jesus. Job was the question, and Jesus is the answer.” The entire Old Testament painted a picture of the problem so that it would be easy to recognize the answer when He came. If my study of Job does not take me to Jesus Christ as the answer, then I never understood Job. The Book of Job, along with all other questions about God’s nature, are not meant to provide a revelation of God that would preempt the clear revelation of God through Jesus Christ.

For the believer, it is theologically immoral to allow an Old Testament revelation of God to cancel or contradict the perfect and clear manifestation of God in Jesus. I’m not denying that God displays anger and judgment in the Old Testament, as did Jesus to some degree, but by and large Jesus came with a display of extraordinary compassion. This is the revelation of God that believers are responsible to teach and model. This was made clear in Jesus’s statement, “As the Father has sent Me, I also send you” (John 20:21).

The only justifiable model we have is Jesus Christ. The job description is fairly simple: heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, and cleanse lepers.4 If you say you are not gifted in such things, then I say, “Find out why.” Most of what we need in life will be brought to us, but most of what we want we’ll have to go and get. God has made these realities available. We must pursue them. These gifts are the overflow of the face of God encounter.

The Lord’s Prayer

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