We can rest our faith in Jesus on both his teachings and his miracles, as two corroborating testimonies, giving strength to the faith which results. We ought to find faith by this double testimony that Jesus is the human, caring, powerful Lord, appointed by the Father to watch over his disciples, to tend them like a good shepherd tending his own sheep. He can fend off disasters, feed when hungry, give real aid even over huge numbers of people and over vast periods of time: The Messiah, appointed by the Father as topmost human representative of the Father, and ultimate eternal saviour plus judge. He is truly the Father’s own Son. To provide for the deepest needs of his disciples, he had to die as sacrifice for sin. Therefore the Father had to raise him from the dead, since scriptures testified that the Messiah has a greatly abiding, long lasting reign, even eternal, due to his justice, faithfulness, and unending favour from God. He had been promised as the one to reign forever on the throne of David. So now, having provided purification from sin by dying on the cross as sacrifice for it, the Father has raised him to live forever, to reign, and to bring all things under the ultimate kingdom of the Father forever. He died to bring you to the Father and to provide for you to be brought into the one body of all believers. The Holy Spirit brings to the believers all things given as grace to Jesus for salvation. We need to believe, and to follow all these things, living by this grace and truth the Holy Spirit brings from Jesus, given to Jesus by the Father. We live by the new Law of Jesus Christ, not by the Law of Moses.
