Sunday January 22 2017

 Pastor Kim's Sermon Notes

Do You Believe?

Definition of believe

1. A : To have a firm religious faith 
   B : To accept something as true, genuine, or real <ideals we believe in> <believes in ghosts>

Believed
BELIE'VED,  pp. Credited; assented to, as true
  
Believing 
BELIE'VING,  ppr. Giving credit to testimony or to other evidence than personal knowledge.

KJV Dictionary Definition: believe

believe

1 BELIE'VE, v.t. To credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of something upon the declaration of another, or upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by other circumstances, than personal knowledge. When we believe upon the authority of another, we always put confidence in his veracity.
When we believe upon the authority of reasoning, arguments, or a concurrence of facts and circumstances, we rest our conclusions upon their strength or probability, their agreement with our own experience, &c.
2. To expect or hope with confidence; to trust.I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Psalms 27:13
BELIE'VE, v.i. To have a firm persuasion of any thing. In some cases, to have full persuasion, approaching to certainty; in others, more doubt is implied. It is often followed by in or on, especially in the scriptures. To believe in, is to hold as the object of faith. "Ye believe in God, believe also in me." John 14:1 To believe on, is to trust, to place full confidence in, to rest upon with faith. "To them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." John 1:7 Johnson. But there is no ground for much distinction.

Important!! Please Read 2 or 3 Times!

John 17: 20-26   “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, ²¹ that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. ²² I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— ²³ I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
²⁴ “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
²⁵ “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. ²⁶ I have made you^[e] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

The Disciples In The World 

John 17:13-26 (NASB)
¹³  "But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.
¹⁴  "I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
¹⁵  "I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.
¹⁶  "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
¹⁷  "Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
¹⁸  "As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
¹⁹  "For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
²⁰  "I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;

Their Future Glory 
 
²¹  that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
²²  "The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;
²³  I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
²⁴  "Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
²⁵  "O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;
²⁶  and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."