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NOTES ON JOHN 2:!3-25<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

THE WORDS OF THE BIBLE, THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES, AS FOUND IN THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN, CHAPTER 2, VERSES 13 TO 25:<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:13\u00a0 And the Jews\u2019 passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:14\u00a0 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:15\u00a0 And when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers\u2019 money, and overthrew the tables;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:16\u00a0 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things<\/em> hence; make not My Father\u2019s house an house of merchandise.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:17\u00a0 And His disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of Thine house hath eaten me up.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:18\u00a0 Then answered the Jews and said unto Him, What sign shewest Thou unto us, seeing that Thou doest these things?<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:19\u00a0 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:20\u00a0 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt Thou rear it up in three days?<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:21\u00a0 But He spake of the temple of His body.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:22\u00a0 When therefore He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:23\u00a0 Now when He was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in His name, when they saw the miracles which He did.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:24\u00a0 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because He knew all men,<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:25\u00a0 And needed not that any should testify of man: for He knew what was in man.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

(b)\u00a02:13-22\u00a0\u00a0 In the temple at Jerusalem, the Passover at hand<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:13\u00a0 And the Jews\u2019 Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

John is careful to tell us that what in Old Testament times was called the Feast of the Lord, has now become the feast of the Jews.\u00a0 Sadly, the festival had become man-orientated, and God\u2019s interests were secondary.\u00a0 This can happen with believers today.\u00a0 The apostle Paul rebuked the Corinthians because the Lord\u2019s Supper had become their supper, 1 Corinthians 11:20,21.\u00a0 Instead of being for the glory of God, the assembly gathering had become a social occasion.\u00a0 We should guard against this self-centredness creeping in amongst the assembly.\u00a0 It can do so in subtle ways, such as by hymns that constantly use the word \u201cI\u201d, when in the assembly gatherings it should be \u201cwe\u201d, the collective thought.\u00a0 Also by occupation with our blessings and privileges, rather than upon the one who gained them for us at such a cost.
\nThe temple services had become man-centred, but this is about to change, as Christ intervenes as one who has His Father\u2019s interests at heart at all times and in all ways, and He becomes central.\u00a0 John has already referred to Christ coming to His own things, 1:11, and here is a case in point.\u00a0 The temple is His Father\u2019s House, and as the Son of the Father it is His house too, although He does not claim this now.\u00a0 Malachi spoke of a day when the Lord would come to His temple, Malachi 3:1, and here is a preview of that day.\u00a0 He had been tempted to come suddenly, when the Devil suggested He should cast Himself down from the pinnacle of the temple, Matthew 4:5-7.\u00a0 He had refused to tempt God by doing this, but now comes to the temple as guided by His Father, and not provoked by the Devil.\u00a0 Jerusalem was ideally the \u201cPlace of the Name\u201d, where God was honoured, but that name was tarnished.\u00a0 Christ goes to Jerusalem to remedy this.
\nIt was required of Jewish males that they appear before the Lord at three seasons of the year, at Passover time, Pentecost, and the Feast of In-gathering, for the seven feasts of the Lord were clustered around these principal feasts, Deuteronomy 16:16,17.\u00a0 The Lord Jesus magnified the law and made it honourable, and so was found faithfully appearing before God at these times.\u00a0 Whilst for the Christian set feasts and a religious calendar are not the order of the day, yet there should be the exercise of heart to gather with the Lord\u2019s people in accordance with the New Testament.\u00a0 \u201cNot forsaking the assembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some is\u201d, Hebrews 10:25.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2:14\u00a0 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

John\u2019s Gospel especially emphasises the burnt offering side of things, so it is significant that he mentions the three classes of animal that were offered as burnt offerings, the sacrifice of a man who was devoted to God.\u00a0 It is as if the Lord is \u201ctaking away the first\u201d, that He may \u201cestablish the second\u201d, see Hebrews 10:5-9.\u00a0 The expulsion of the animals is the act of One who knows that His Father has no pleasure in them, since they are offered by the law, and offered in circumstances that are not glorifying to God.\u00a0 He Himself mentions His body in verse 21, but there as a temple, in this section it is a potential sacrifice.
\nClearly, the visitors to the temple have not come only to offer a Passover lamb, but to bring their other sacrifices as well, particularly if they lived in foreign lands.\u00a0 These latter would need the service of the money-changers, in order to buy their animals.\u00a0 We might wonder why the Lord expelled them therefore, so the explanation is given for us in the next verses.
\nThese money changers were sitting, for they did not have to move about trying to find trade.\u00a0 The pilgrims had no option but to use the licensed money changers, so all these latter had to do was sit and wait for their customers to come.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2:15\u00a0 And when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers\u2019 money, and overthrew the tables;<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The word for cord means a rope made of bulrushes, so the scourge is symbolical only, an emblem of authority and judgement.\u00a0 The temple was in chaos morally, and this is shown graphically and visibly by the Lord\u2019s action here.\u00a0 We must never think that the Lord did these things in a fit of temper.\u00a0 He had been many times to these temple courts, and had seen what went on, and now, after long years of patient waiting, He moves to expose the wrong in a righteous and controlled way.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2:16\u00a0 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not My Father\u2019s house an house of merchandise.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The dove sellers are especially singled out, because they would have dealings with the poor, (the dove-offering being the sacrifice the poor could make, Leviticus 5:7), and consequently would be more likely to take advantage of their vulnerability.\u00a0 There is no mention of the second cleansing of the temple in John\u2019s gospel, for in the synoptics the idea is of the continuance of the principle of an earthly temple, and the things which must be changed if Messiah is to be at home there in the future.\u00a0 In John however there is an emphasis on the heavenly Father\u2019s House, and fitness for a place there.\u00a0 This is in line with the truth that Christ gave to the Samaritan woman.\u00a0 True worship will be centred on heaven, not any earthly location.
\nZechariah assures us that in the Millenial temple, there will no more be the Canaanite or merchantman in the house of the Lord, Zechariah 14:21, for self- interest will be displaced by the desire to glorify God alone in His temple.
\nNote that whilst he drives out the sheep and oxen, the Lord does not scatter the doves, only commands the dove-sellers to take them away.\u00a0 Sheep and oxen are used to being driven, but He will not disturb the gentle dove.
\nIn this first cleansing, the charge is making merchandise out of Divine things, and thus getting gain for themselves.\u00a0 In the second cleansing, the charge is more severe, that of robbing God of His due.\u00a0 The situation is all the more sad because it was the priestly family of Annas and Caiaphas who leased out the stalls in the temple courts, and these should have certainly known better, for \u201cthe priest\u2019s lips should keep knowledge\u201d, Malachi 2:7.
\nWe should be very careful not to give the impression that the unsaved may contribute anything, including finance, to the Lord\u2019s work, lest it should be thought of as a house of merchandise.\u00a0 \u201ctaking nothing of the Gentiles\u201d should be our motto in this regard, 3 John 7.\u00a0 See also Ezra 4:1-3.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2:17\u00a0 And His disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of Thine house hath eaten Me up.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Note that the disciples are learning to relate Old Testament scriptures to the Lord\u2019s actions.\u00a0 Psalm 69 is not especially Messianic, because it contains a confession of sin and foolishness, and this could never be on the lips of the Holy Son of God.\u00a0 It is significant that Psalm 69:30,31 says that to magnify the Lord\u2019s name is better than an ox or a bullock which has horns and hoofs, and this the Lord Jesus was doing by His actions at this time, as ever, John 12:28.
\nThe duty of the Israelite heads of houses was to purge out the leaven found there, in preparation for the feast of unleavened bread which followed immediately after the feast of Passover.\u00a0 As the Son representing His Father, the Lord Jesus undertakes to purge the leaven from the House of God, the temple at Jerusalem.
\nToday the House of God is the local assembly, 1 Timothy 3:15.\u00a0 Can it be said of us that the zeal of that house consumes us?\u00a0 Are we totally committed to furthering the interests of the Lord\u2019s people in the assembly, or have we time only for our own interests, and rate the assembly as a secondary matter?\u00a0 And do we ensure that we do not introduce into it anything that can be classed as leaven?\u00a0 The Corinthians had introduced the leaven of immorality into the assembly, and the apostle commands them to purge it out, 1 Corinthians 5:6-8.\u00a0 The Galatians had allowed the introduction of the leaven of evil doctrine, and they are commanded to cut off from themselves those who had done this, Galatians 5:7-12.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2:18\u00a0 Then answered the Jews and said unto Him, What sign showest Thou unto us, seeing that Thou doest these things?<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Note the difference in reaction of these Jews in authority, to that of\u00a0 the disciples.\u00a0 His asserting of His authority had left them amazed and powerless.\u00a0 The Jews require a sign, said the apostle Paul later, in 1 Corinthians 1:22.\u00a0 They wanted proof that He was acting for God in His radical actions.\u00a0 They asked a similar question at the second cleansing of the temple, but then the Lord refused to tell them His authority, for He had given ample proof during His ministry as to who He was and what His authority was.\u00a0 By His actions and words here He in fact ensured they would slay Him at last, and the Divine response to the Jewish demand for a sign is always Messiah\u2019s death and resurrection, Matthew 12:38-42.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2:19\u00a0 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

These are words which would be brought up at His trial, and twisted to try to gain His conviction, Matthew 26:26-61.\u00a0 The Lord is speaking on two levels here.\u00a0 By crucifying Him, they would secure the destruction of the city of Jerusalem and the temple.\u00a0 But Hosea had spoken of a period of three days after which God would raise up His people Israel again from the grave of the nations, Hosea 6:1,2. See also Deuteronomy 32:39.\u00a0 Together with His dead body would they rise, Isaiah 26:19, or in other words, they would be associated with and believe in His resurrection at long last, and gain the benefits which His rising again brings to those who believe.\u00a0 It was the Sadducean party which controlled the temple, and they did not believe in the resurrection of the body.\u00a0 They will recognise this statement by Christ as an attack upon their doctrine.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2:20\u00a0 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt Thou rear it up in three days?<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Not realising He was uttering a prophecy which involved the destruction and fall of the nation and its subsequent rise, they thought only in terms of physically building the temple.\u00a0 They contrast Herod\u2019s labours for 46 years, with the short period of 3 days.\u00a0 Herod commenced the restoration and embellishment of the temple in 20 BC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2:21\u00a0 But He spake of the temple of His body.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There is a vital link between the crucifixion of Christ, and the destruction of the city of Jerusalem in AD 70, and various Scriptures suggest it, as follows:
\n1. Daniel 9:26 speaks of the Messiah being cut off, and then the city and sanctuary being destroyed.
\n2. Jacob prophesied of the time when the sons of Levi, the priestly tribe, would, in their anger, slay a man, and in their self will they would dig down a wall, Genesis 49:5-7.
\n3. The parable of the marriage of the king\u2019s son vineyard involves the city of those who killed the messengers being destroyed, Matthew 22:1-7.
\n4. The Lord also linked the treatment meted out to God\u2019s messengers, with the house being made desolate, Matthew 23:37-39.
\nSo there is a vital connection between the destiny of the temple, and that of His body, the temple of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Both will be destroyed, but both will rise again.\u00a0 In the case of Christ\u2019s body the destruction would mean the separation of His body, soul and spirit in death, and significantly, when that happened the vail of the temple was rent. It was as if the destruction of the Temple had begun!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2:22\u00a0 When therefore He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The disciples were slow to learn the truths that the Lord Jesus taught them, and they had to be rebuked for that slowness on more than one occasion.\u00a0 After the resurrection things became clearer, especially when they received the Spirit at Pentecost, for the Spirit took of the things of Christ and revealed them unto them, as the Lord said He would, John 16:12-15.\u00a0 Then they were not only able to understand what He had said to them when with them, but were also able to relate it to the Old Testament, and to do so in such a way as to recognise that His word and the Old Testament are of equal authority.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(c)\u00a02:23-25\u00a0\u00a0In Jerusalem at the Passover<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2:23\u00a0 Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, in the feast day, many believed in His name, when they saw the miracles which He did.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Passover time was a commemoration of the deliverance God had effected for the nation in their downtrodden state.\u00a0 It was also a reminder that Moses and Aaron were able to perform miracles to demonstrate that they were acting for Jehovah, the God of heaven.\u00a0 The prophets had used this ancient deliverance as a symbol of the future deliverance of the nation under the Messiah.\u00a0 Taking all these things together, we see that the time of Passover was one when expectations were raised considerably.\u00a0 When one came who seemed to have authority, even in the temple courts, and, moreover, was able to work miracles, the people began to wonder whether the Messiah was in their midst.\u00a0 Of course, it is true that the miracles the Lord Jesus did were indications that He was the prophesied Messiah, as a reading of Isaiah 35:5,6 and Hebrews 6:5 will show.\u00a0 But it is not miracles alone that present this proof, but miracles accompanied by doctrine.\u00a0 And it is the doctrine that went alongside the miracles, and was demonstrated by the miracles, that the natural heart of man was not willing to accept.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2:24\u00a0 But Jesus did not commit Himself unto them, because He knew all men,\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We might think that this situation was just what Christ was looking for.\u00a0 Not so.\u00a0 His kingdom is a spiritual kingdom, even that aspect of it which will be known upon the earth in a day to come.\u00a0 The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, Romans 14:17.\u00a0 Carnal expectations of a political deliverance had no place in the thinking of Christ.\u00a0 The Lord knew their hearts, that they believed on Him only in this carnal way; the same way in which any political figure may be believed in, as one able to produce results.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2:25\u00a0 And needed not that any should testify of man: for He knew what was in man.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah 17:9,10 reads- \u201cThe heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: Who can know it?\u00a0 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to every man according to His ways, and according to the fruit of his doings\u201d.\u00a0 It will become increasingly evident as the months go by that this is the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

IMPORTANT NOTE<\/strong>
\nIt important to realise that there are different sorts of faith.\u00a0 The ability to believe has been built into man by His Creator.\u00a0 This is seen from two things.\u00a0 First, the terrible consequences of not believing.\u00a0 If a man is not able to believe, how can God be just when He condemns him to eternal damnation for not believing?\u00a0 Second, Paul traces the cause of man\u2019s unbelief to the work of the god of this age, Satan himself, 2 Corinthians 4:4.\u00a0 If man can only believe when God gives Him faith, why does Satan need to blind men\u2019s minds lest they believe?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So the reason there are different sorts of faith is because man is corrupted by sin, and prefers his own thoughts to God\u2019s.\u00a0 When the word of God is made known, however, the Spirit of God applies that word so that true and saving faith is exercised.\u00a0 The Spirit does not produce the spurious forms of faith we shall look at now.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is incorrect faith,<\/strong> when a person believes in their own ability to earn salvation, whether by religious ritual, or by good works.\u00a0 They \u201ctrust in themselves that they are righteous\u201d, Luke 18:9.\u00a0 Or when a person believes about the Lord Jesus, but does not consciously repent and believe on Him in the gospel sense.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there is insincere faith,<\/strong> where a person makes a profession of faith for the sake of some advantage which he believes he may gain from it, or to please Christian parents or friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is the impulsive faith<\/strong> that the Lord Jesus spoke of in the parable of the sower, where there was a plant which grew up in the shallow, rocky soil, and the same sun that caused it to quickly grow also caused it to wither, for it had no root in itself, the root being evidence of life within.\u00a0 Such \u201cfor a while believe, but in time of temptation fall away\u201d, Luke 8:13.\u00a0 The true believer thrives on tribulation, Romans 5:3.\u00a0 We might think that those of Acts 2 were like this, for they quickly responded to the gospel, but the genuineness and permanence of their faith is seen in them being \u201cpricked to the heart\u201d, for the word of God had produced true repentance and faith, Acts 2:37-40.\u00a0 The apostle Paul warned the Corinthians about believing in vain, 1 Corinthians 15: 2, by which he meant believing without due consideration, and with a flippant, unthinking attitude.\u00a0 Those who preach the gospel should preach a solid message, firmly grounded on the truth of Scripture, and one which appeals not to the emotions, (although the emotions cannot be totally excluded from conversion), but to the conscience, (2 Corinthians 4:2), heart, (Romans 10:10), mind, (2 Corinthians 4:4), and will, (Romans 1:5), of those listening.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there is the faith in Christ as a miracle-worker, the sort of faith being exercised in these verses.\u00a0 This is imperfect faith,<\/strong> which the Lord does not despise, but rather seeks to turn into faith of the right sort.\u00a0 Nicodemus was at first one of these, as his words in the next chapter show, (\u201cwe know Thou art a teacher come from God, for no man can do these miracles that Thou doest, except God be with Him\u201d).\u00a0 He was led on to see that it is as one given by the Father to the cross that he must believe in Christ.\u00a0 Surely he reached that point, for he saw Christ hanging on the cross, and immediately came out from his secret discipleship to boldly go to Pilate and ask for the Lord’s body, so that he might bury it with dignity, John 19:38.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Such are the spurious forms of faith for which the Spirit of God is not responsible. There is however, that important faith,<\/strong> the faith that saves, and on the principle of which a person is reckoned right before God, as detailed in the Epistle to the Romans.\u00a0 Now this faith is presented to us in the New Testament in three aspects, for different prepositions are used in the Greek in regard to it. We need therefore to consult our concordance and see the actual prepositions that are used.\u00a0 We should remember as we do so, that Greek prepositions first of all tell of a physical position, and then a non-physical meaning which can be derived from this.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So there are three prepositions used in this matter of faith in Christ.
\nThere is the preposition \u201cEis\u201d, which has to do with motion towards an object.\u00a0 In relation to faith, this indicates that a person has Christ before him when he believes, so Christ is his object.\u00a0 This preposition is used in regard to faith in Christ in the Gospels, the Acts, and the Epistles.\u00a0 Christ is presented to men for their faith, and faith is directed towards Him as the object.\u00a0 In some cases in the Scriptures this faith in Christ is incorrect, insincere or imperfect faith, and sometimes important, saving faith.\u00a0 The context must decide.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is the preposition \u201cEpi\u201d, which has to do with resting on an object.\u00a0 In relation to faith in Christ, this indicates that Christ is the one on whom faith rests, so Christ is the foundation.\u00a0 This preposition is used in the Acts and the Epistles, but not in the Gospels.\u00a0 It is used after Christ died, rose again, and returned to heaven.\u00a0 Christ is rested on as one proved to be a stable foundation.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The following are the scriptures that use \u201cepi\u201d, meaning \u201cupon\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cForasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as He did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?\u201d Acts 11:17.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved\u201d, Acts 16:31.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed\u201d, Romans 9:33.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed\u201d, Romans 10:11.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHowbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on Him to life everlasting\u201d, 1 Timothy 1:16;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on Him shall not be confounded\u201d, 1 Peter 2:6.
\nNote that three of these verses quote from Isaiah 28:16.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is the preposition \u201cEn\u201d, which has to do with being in a place or position within an object.\u00a0 In relation to faith, this indicates that a person is fully surrounded by Christ, so Christ is his security.\u00a0 Such an one believes from within this secure place.\u00a0 This preposition is used 7 times, but only in the Epistles, after the work and person of Christ has been fully manifested, and the secure position of the believer is set forth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The following are the scriptures which use \u201cen\u201d, meaning \u201cin\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYe are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus\u201d, Galatians 3:26.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints\u201d, Ephesians 1:15.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSince we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints\u201d, Colossians 1:4.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus\u201d, 1 Timothy 1:14.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor they that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus\u201d, 1 Timothy 3:13.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus\u201d, 2 Timothy 1:13.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus\u201d, 2 Timothy 3:15.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Note that in six cases the faith is in Christ Jesus, the risen, glorified man in heaven, and once it is in the Lord Jesus, the one with all authority.\u00a0 Faith in Him is well-placed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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