WHOSE LIFE OF FAITH ARE YOU COMPLETING ON YOUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY?#1364/ WITH DR. GEORGE WATKINS

WHO ARE YOU COMPLETING ON THIS JOURNEY OF FAITH?

Have you ever considered the cloud of witnesses mentioned in Hebrews chapters 11 and 12 as personal in your walk of faith? In Hebrews 11, we have been given a list of men and women in the old covenant who walk by faith and hope in the future of God's promises. They lived in hope without receiving the fullness of what was promised them.
In the first verse of chapter 12 of Hebrews, they are called witnesses or martyrs that surround us like a cloud. Then, the Scriptures tell us that we have a responsibility now that we live in the new covenant to fulfill their journey because of Christ's cross and resurrection.
This idea of fulfilling the life and ministry of someone who has already stepped over into eternity is a powerful thought. The writer of Hebrews is first concerned about the shift from the old covenant to the new covenant. The old covenant saints could not be fulfilled because the cross and resurrection had not happened yet. However, they walked by faith that it would happen and hoped that God was faithful to his promise.
Another way to look at this experience of fulfilling what the Saints could not fulfill intrigues me. Contrary to the theology I was raised on, I believe we can interact with the saints of old by God's direction.
If we are operating by the "spiritual rule of thumb," that is what Jesus did, we can also do because as he is, so are we in this world.
We understand that on the mount of Transfiguration, Jesus interacted with Moses and Elias, saints that had gone on before.
I also remember that when Jesus rose from the dead, over 500 saints from the former covenant were resurrected and seen by many in the city. The clouds that Jesus ascended on were the witnesses or the Saints of the old covenant going up with him.
I hear reports from spiritual leaders worldwide that I respect who interact with Enoch, Moses, David, and others.
The test of this, of course, is that everything leads to Christ.
Another way to view the fulfillment of the cloud of witnesses on the other side of the veil is in our personal lives and what God has called us to. Paul reminded Timothy that he was a generational person of faith. His grandmother had faith that she passed on to his mother. His mother's increased faith was passed on to Timothy.
Because of that, Timothy was fulfilling the life of his grandmother and his mother through his actions of faith and the power of the Holy Ghost.
So be aware that you first have the responsibility to walk in the new covenant and fulfill what the old covenant people could not.
Second, because the veil between us and the spiritual world is so thin today, God is allowing some of those witnesses to come and speak to us about the kingdom.
And thirdly, in your personal walk, you are fulfilling what your forefathers started. Your faith is a magnification, a supernatural increase of what they planted in you as spiritual seeds.

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