'Since we have this confidence, we can also have great boldness before him, for if we ask anything agreeable to his will, he will hear us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we also know that we have obtained the requests we ask of him. I’ve written this letter to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you will be assured and know without a doubt that you have eternal life.' - 1 John 5:13-15 TPT.
LESSONS:
We are confident that we have eternal life (we share God's DNA) because we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
As a result of the above, we have the mind of Christ - seeking the things He seeks and desiring the things He desires.
So we are confident that He hears whatever we ask of Him, and because He hears us, He grants our requests, because our desires and requests are in alignment with His.
Therefore, let's seek to know God more (to be more acquainted with His ways), by renewing our minds with His word so that we may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God (Romans 12.2).
'Since we have this confidence, we can also have great boldness before him, for if we ask anything agreeable to his will, he will hear us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we also know that we have obtained the requests we ask of him. I’ve written this letter to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you will be assured and know without a doubt that you have eternal life.' - 1 John 5:13-15 TPT.
LESSONS:
We are confident that we have eternal life (we share God's DNA) because we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
As a result of the above, we have the mind of Christ - seeking the things He seeks and desiring the things He desires.
So we are confident that He hears whatever we ask of Him, and because He hears us, He grants our requests, because our desires and requests are in alignment with His.
Therefore, let's seek to know God more (to be more acquainted with His ways), by renewing our minds with His word so that we may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God (Romans 12.2).
The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact image of God's nature (Hebrews 1:3), which he expressed through setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Torah, the way to believe in/trust in exact image of God's nature as being the model for how we should live our lives is by following his example, which is also the way to seek the things that He seeks and desire th things that he desires. Likewise, in Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him His ways that he might know Him and Israel too, which was done through teaching the Torah (1 Kings 2:1-3). This is also why Jesus said that the commandments of the Torah are the way to have eternal life (Matthew 19:17, Luke 10:25-28).
