How I Know Jesus Is God's Son

After decades trying to simply follow the apostles teachings with Jesus' teachings I asked God over and over to do what it seemed Jesus promised He would do for those obedient - I asked that instead of me having to convince myself about God all the time, instead of that God would show Himself to me (in a dream say) as Father and Son and Holy Spirit. Then one night I saw in a dream God standing there in a long gown like you see in pictures and He said "I am God" before telling me things that would happen the next day and what I must do. They happened like He said and I was astounded it was indeed God. Then days or weeks later (Jan 1995 I think) I was going to a river near home in a torrential rainstorm with a huge umbrella up and as I came back a voice clearly said "Put down your umbrella" and as soon as I did that torrential downpour stopped dead. I just remembered the miracle of Jesus giving a great catch of fish and how the disciples said "It is the Lord" and I said the same. I asked that night that if it was indeed Jesus He would do such and such by the morning and amazingly He did and I was stunned. Weeks or months later the Holy Spirit showed Himself to me in an Assemblies of God church when tongues were spoken and an interpretation of the angelic words given me describing how by the authority of Lord Jesus' name all creation persists. To me this proves that Jesus is truly the Son of God, or more precisely, it is God proving in action to me that Jesus is His Son. I was asking God to show me God the Father and God's Son and it was God and Jesus who showed themselves. The Holy Spirit sealed it all by His manifestation too. The fact it verifies teachings like John's shows me too that Jesus died like John says and the fact it verifies Jesus is alive now verifies He is raised by God, and that again shows He is God's Son. This is important since many and even the Muslim interpretation of their scriptures, deny this. Seeing Jesus Son of God need not be with the eyes. A blind man can 'see' a person by perceiving them. Jesus can reveal His power and glory with a miracle and a whisper. He said 'blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe' so when I asked God that God's Son would show Himself to me I was troubled by the loss of blessing it might be so (probably misunderstanding Jesus' saying) I asked not to see Him visibly. He was careful to show me so my inner soul could perceive Him but not my eyes. I 'saw' an awful lot though. Wonderful! I saw Him like a blind man would see Him. I perceived Him because He made me perceive Him.  God, Son of God, Spirit all three (yes, united as one, it is true) showed absolute wisdom in the ways each showed Himself to little old me by overcoming so wisely my obstacles and defenses and proving things I had no idea could be proven like that. This was not me imagining things. They each made that clear. Very very wise and with absolute power but gentleness too. These guys do not mess around! Why not go the way to seeing Him for yourself: Jesus at the last supper was sayingbthese things John 14:20-23 New American Bible (Revised Edition) "On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.” Judas, not the Iscariot, said to him, “Master, [then] what happened that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him."   When I asked Jesus to confirm it was Him I was back indoors. I was about to go to sleep. I saw a dressing gown hanging on a nail in the wall which I had never used because I never got up in the night. I asked that if it is Him who was appearing to me that the dressing gown would be off that wall by the morning. In the night something inside me forced me to wake up and get up. It was like it got past my mental defenses. Like the outer door of my mind was ignored and the inner door knocked on without opening the outer door. I got up immediately and took the dressing gown off the wall and suddenly remembered my request for confirmation. How clever He is. I knew He knew my mind better than I did as having the Master keys. He is the Master of me. Jesus in Revelation 3:20-22 "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

Who Else Could It Be

A voice came out of heaven, out of the sky, at Jesus of Nazareth's baptism. "This is my beloved Son". We know who spoke. Who else could it be.
A voice came out of heaven, out of the sky, as Saul of Tarsus rode to Damascus. "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" Saul had to ask who was speaking but who else could it be.
A voice whispers into our minds teaching us about the fear of God and glorifying Lord Jesus' name but does not introduce Himself and merely speaks out of the blue. Who else could it be but the Holy Spirit sent from God.
God needs no introduction. Jesus needs no introduction. The Holy Spirit needs no introduction. Who else could it be.

Look at Jesus

When God said at Lord Jesus Christ's baptism and later transfiguration that Jesus is His only begotten Son He said to listen to Him. Now Jesus has been crucified as Lamb of God for the sins of the world and is risen, raised from death by God, God shows us still that Jesus is His Son and that we are to look at Jesus. And as Jesus the Son of God was from beginning, and with the first, so He will be to the end and with the last. This the Spirit shows us.

The New Worship

The Passover was only allowed in one specific place of God's appointing because it involved sacrificial killing of lambs. Now we have no such specific place for Gentile believers but Gentiles are included in Christ nonetheless. We have no enduring site for sacrifices. Even the Jews have had centuries without a Temple for sacrifices such as Passover sacrifices. Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, has had blood flow from hands and feet and head and side. This Lamb of God was chosen for this by God as the only worthy pure sacrifice. So no need exists for Passover lambs sacrificed yearly nor any yearly feast requiring male participants to have been circumcised in their body. Hebrews 2:17 "Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people." Yet He could say to them "Before Abraham was, I am" and now He has again the glory He had before the world began. Jesus has taught that the way to live to please God is to worship or serve God in Spirit and truth or as it is written in Philippians 3:3, to worship by the Spirit of God. Does the Spirit teach we who are Gentiles by birth but brought into Christ by faith to keep yearly feasts? No but He teaches the wonder of Jesus' Lordship and Authority and teaches the fear of God the Father of our Lord Jesus. Jesus said in John 4 that worshippers God wants will worship in spirit and truth. At that time the Holy Spirit was not yet given. Now the Holy Spirit is given but not to all. But as then and so too now those without the Holy Spirit given to them can if they believe still worship or serve God in spirit and truth. Jesus' words are spirit and truth. Jesus testified of God's word " Your word is truth". God spoke in the hearing of a few as recorded in the Gospels about Jesus "This is my beloved Son. Listen to Him." This then is truth to live and worship by. The words of Jesus in the Gospels and spoken these days too are all for us spirit and truth to worship and live by. The Holy Spirit brings it closer to home as He manifests Himself to believers. All this is truth and spirit by which to worship God, to serve God and to live to please God. Feasts year on year are not part of it for Gentiles but only spirit and truth. Feasts were only for Gentiles whose male family members were circumcised. This is not the way Jesus teaches to Gentiles. So rather than worshipping God with feasts which for Gentiles and Jews requires circumcision of male family members (Exodus states this) the way for us to worship is by the Holy Spirit or the spirit of the words of Jesus and what God says through Him and by glorying in Jesus. Philippians 3:3 "For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh". This was surely written to both Jews and Gentiles who were believers living in the vicinity of Roman times Philippi. So believing is now so important and vital because it is to believers in the message of God that God gives the Spirit. Through following this way of Christ Jesus we find the truth in which to glory, that God Himself shows to us and demonstrates to us that Jesus is His Son, the Son of God. Then the Holy Spirit leads us into more truth about Jesus being made by God the Lord in whose name all creation fulfils God's purposes and is sustaimed and by this sustenance we too are sustained. And so we glory in Jesus. This is the way to please God in faith as our worshipful service to God whether Jew or Gentile. God makes things sometimes happen in our lives making us exclaim 'It is the Lord' and by the Spirit we then understand and say that it is Jesus who is the Lord. We say 'surely this is the Son of God' and again it is by the Spirit. So we continue and again our continuing is because we hang on the Spirit. All this and feasts not a part of it nor anything requiring anyone to be circumcised in their body but we have the Spirit instead who is all we need to fit us to God's new covenant requirement for this new way of worship that God gives us. 

What to do

The God we call our God is real. Find out lovingly what He wants us to do, how He says to live our lives (bought by Christ's blood) and stick to that.
What it seems to me God wants is our loving responsiveness to what we see: First when we see God and His deeds and words; then when we see His Son and His God-given deeds; then when we see the deeds and needs of His disciples. This is what matters to God.

Stop Sinning

A true perception of Jesus Christ (by faith in Him) is the perception that He is, from God,  a message to you 'Stop sinning'. 

Tell It

The Holy Spirit comes to us in Jesus Christ's holy name and tells us things to shout out so all can hear. 'Shout from the rooftops what is whispered in your ear.' Yet how much of His revelations and the Revelation of Jesus Christ that all the people and governments need to hear is shouted like this? Still there are major things we need all to hear but do not tell like Jesus tells. The ancient sins of humans continue because few acknowledge or know they are sins. Jesus told us all but do we pass it on. If they don't listen then we are blameless but if we hear but do not say we have to accept blame if God intended us to tell it to them. Let us not be blamed merely because we are afraid to tell what Jesus told and the Holy Spirit confirms. 'Let him who has ears to hear, hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'