Jason Bobis - Class 1: The Importance of Faith and What God Thinks of You Once You Are Baptized

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   Twos and Logan people. That was quite interesting. I’m very thankful to be with you around God’s word and it’s such a lovely thing to be back here. In the Detroit area, with all of you, I love this area and moreover I love the people in this area. You guys are very special to me.

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   So it’s always nice to spend time around God’s word together with you. It’s been useful for me to look again at this topic of faith of biblical faith and really to refine my thoughts since I shared this information with the brothers and sisters at Enfield and South Australia as a pair of Wednesday night classes about seven months ago.

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   Or so I say refine my thoughts because in a very real way I have to admit from the outset that what I hope to share with you really aren’t my thoughts and I think, you’ll think that you’ll soon. See that. These Concepts and thoughts are from scripture, they’re not my thoughts. But I want them to be my thoughts. I know how I naturally think.

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   And what I’ll share with you isn’t natural to me by any stretch, I have to admit that even by knowing and sharing some of these principles which can be helpful for working on our faith daily, it’s still difficult to put these things into practice, but it is worthwhile It’s just something that I’ve been confronted with between the time of delivering.

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   These talks the first time in really. Now this time it’s just important to remember that we’re learning and we’re growing in. Sometimes we do better than others, spiritual growth is recursive, in other words, it’s three steps forward, and it’s two steps back. And three steps forward, and two steps back. And that’s how fighting the flesh is life, is like that brothers and sisters for all of us myself, very much included.

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   And so I have Admit that the thoughts that I’ll share have been compiled from a range of sources in trying to answer really one. Rather fundamental question for myself. And that is, what am I doing daily to develop my faith in God and the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s a question that is so basic that I assumed that everyone in this room and in Australia, had ask themselves that question.

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   It some point very early in their spiritual life. And yet, ironically, the more that I search for answers or materials like this in the Brotherhood, Could the less I seem to find. So you may know that, I teach it Heritage College, which is a crusade, Alfie and school, and Adelaide. And if we were there and we’re not, but if we were, this is what the learning intention would be your really, what the aim would be for this.

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   This session, it’d be pretty straightforward. We are learning to develop biblical, strategies for growing our faith in God and the Lord Jesus Christ on a daily basis. I have to admit that really, this question is come from asking another one first and that is well, what can I do for God? What can I give God?

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   As you know the cattle on a thousand hills are his anyway and if we’re honest and reflecting about what it is that we can give God, will you realize pretty quickly that everything that we have God has given us in the first place. So what is it that we can give him? Well, really the only thing that we can give God, who has created the Earth and all things in it is our faith in him in short my confidence, my trust. And from that, trust comes a love for him that he so desires to see in his children.

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    And so we want to ask, we want to start the weekend together by asking a simple question. Why is the Bible putting so much importance on this topic of faith? And how important is Faith? Why is it the hinge point for every good work that follows? Well in short faith is the very basis of the expression of God’s character in us.

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    It’s the gateway to that. So we take a look at the verse that Paul just read in Hebrews 11 and verse 6. there, it says, But without faith, it is impossible to, please. God, please God for. He, that comes to God, must believe that God is, and that he is, a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. So, so you mean to say that if I give all my money to the poor, and I go and work in a soup kitchen and faith in God, wasn’t the motivating factor.

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    That I haven’t pleased God. Really, without faith, whatever that is. I cannot, please God, it’s impossible. Is what the scripture says, for example, in a most chapter 5 and in Acts chapter 7 we’re told that God took no, notice absolutely zero notice of the Israelites, sacrifices and their offerings in the wilderness for 40 years. Amos chapter 5 verse 25 says, have you offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness, these 40 years, o House of Israel.

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    And in Acts chapter 7 and verse 22. 42. It says, OE House of Israel. Have you offered to me, slain beasts, and sacrifices by the space of 40 years in the wilderness. Hebrews chapter 4, and verse two hints. At the reason, why he didn’t even take any notice. And that’s because the element of Faith was missing. The writer to the Hebrews says that their carcasses, which are akin to dead animals fell in the wilderness and they didn’t enter the promised land because of unbelief. Hebrews 4 verse 2 says For unto us, the gospel is preached as well intended as unto them but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. Without faith brothers and sisters. It is impossible to please God.

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    Later in Zechariah, God took absolutely, no, notice of the Jews ritual fastings for 70 years, they did this. And so the prophet is sent into rebuked them. And to correct them to do the fasting with humility, which will find is the very basis of faith. And so as we work through this, stay together, what we going to find is that if we want to increase our faith, we have to decrease our self-importance. We have to be humble.

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    That doesn’t mean being downtrodden and wallowing in the mire. That doesn’t mean you having long faces and being miserable. It simply means that we have to see ourselves as we truly are If Christ said, I can do nothing of my own self. Why should we ever think to ourselves, right? I’ve got this.

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    Without Christ, we are nothing but through Christ, we are made to ride upon the high places of the earth. We can do all things through Christ, who strengthens us? In fact, we are more than conquerors. We are the sons and the daughters of the Living. God. We are Mighty ones and how is that possible by faith? So why does the bible put so much importance on this concept and how important is it?

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    Well, you probably know Paul’s famous dissertation about love and First Corinthians 13 and you’ll know that he ends that passage with this he says. And now abideth faith, hope, and love these three but the greatest of these is love. And what I want you to consider is that Godly love is born out of faith. In other words, you cannot demonstrate the love of God unless you first have faith that God exists, you can’t extend the love of God to others until First perceive through faith, the love that God has towards you. And so the range of what we think and know, and thus, what we can do is limited by what we fail to notice. And appreciate this is exactly what Jesus taught in. John chapter 5 and verse 19.

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    He says the son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the father, do for what so everything he does. These also, the son does likewise. It was about what the sun notice, the father doing and the point here, Is that that Faith proceeds Love. Therefore, it’s clear that without faith. It’s impossible to love like God loves.

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    You can have compassion people who don’t know God by all human definitions love their children. For example, but the quality of the love that God is looking for. In his children is one that is inspired by his love and that’s the love of First Corinthians 13, that kind of love mother never fails. It doesn’t get tired.

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    It’s energizing it’s without limit because its source Is unlimited and if you can tap into that kind of love, he won’t be weary in well-doing because the energy comes from faith in God. Who Powers Your Love, sure we may lose the plot sometimes and need to be stirred up by way of remembrance, but the love of God is a force without limit.

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    It won’t happen without faith first. In Ephesians 2 at verse 8, this is what we read. We read for by Grace, you are saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not by works. Lest any man should boast. And so four times in this verse God reiterates to us, that it is his work by grace. But the role of Faith does play an important part. In other words, we cannot be saved by God’s grace, unless we have faith.

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    That’s the process. That’s how important faith is without it. Not only can we not, please God, can we not manifest his love, but there is no no salvation.. And that’s exactly what Paul told his son in the faith. Timothy and second Timothy chapter 3, verse 14 and 15, he says, but continue thou in the things which thou he has known and has been assured of knowing of whom thou Hast learned them 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. Now, you probably know that the just shall live by faith, have a cook and Hebrews 10 and numerous other scriptures tell us that the just shall live by faith.

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    But, but did you know that? It’s by faith that we Gentiles were brought in The family of God. And how do we know this? Well, Peter spoke to the judaizers in Jerusalem, when they questioned him about the Gentiles and he told them that God had purified. The Gentiles Hearts through faith and the evidence of this was that God gave the Gentiles, the Holy Spirit.

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    And there was no denying the Miracles that were wrought in them. And that’s in Acts chapter 15 verse 9. He also said to the Jews that the circumcision doesn’t make you special and it doesn’t make you righteous before God Paul would later get go on to say that it was the circumcision of the heart that matters and as we will serve him soon. Learn the heart is where Faith takes root the heart. But Peter said, the only thing that avails you anything is Faith working through.

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    Love. That’s what matters not outward signs of religion. Now, it probably comes as no surprise that we find Faith as an integral part of the atonement turn with me. If you would to Romans chapter 3 and we’ll start at verse 23 and will read through to the end of the chapter. And what I want you to do is I want you to look for the concept of faith.

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    I count seven times. If you want, you can put a circle around the word faith or believe which is the same concept. So faith is an integral part of the atonement. Romans, 3 verse 23. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God being justified, freely by his grace through the Redemption that is in Christ. Jesus, by whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, why to declare his righteousness, for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God to declare.

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    I say at this time, God’s righteousness, that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. It’s verse 27. Where is boasting then? It is excluded by what law of Works, nay, but by the law of Faith. Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the Deeds of the law.

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    Is he the god of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles. Also seeing it as one God which shall justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith by no means. Yea, we establish the law and this is the critical passage about the atonement.

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    This, this is how God is reconciling. The world unto himself in seven times in seven or eight versus the term faith and that Concept of faith comes into it. This is how we’re saved brothers and sisters. Now, what are the weightier matters of the law? If I was to make this a pop quiz, I wonder if you could answer that question. It’s in Matthew 23, verse 23, and this is where the Lord, the Lord of braids are religious leaders for focusing on small, things like mint, and anise, and cumin. And they miss the importance of the weightier matters of the law.

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    And here they are judgment, mercy and faith. Eighth. The Lord says these Bochy have to done sorry these. These you ought to have done and not to let him leave the others undone. In the first Epistle of John. What is the victory that overcomes the world? Our faith. Whatsoever is born of God, overcomes the world.

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    It says, and this is the victory that overcomes, the world even our faith who is he that overcomes the world but he, that believes that Jesus is the son of God. And it just goes on and on. And on. Why was the Gospel of John written? For example, tells us clearly at the end of chapter 20, John 20, verse 31 says, but these things are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that believing continuous. You might have life through his name. It simply wasn’t written for our learning and our admonition, but for the development of our faith, or our connection to God, Now, this is an interesting one, Paul opens, and he closes the book of Romans with this phrase, The Obedience of faith. And while many translators make that the obedience to the faith, which implies that, this is the way the one true Faith. Walk you in it.

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    It becomes very powerful when the article, the isn’t there, the diag lot, and many other translations. Renders it The Obedience of Faith. Now why is that so interesting? Because it instructs us that our obedience Is a direct function of the reality of God in our lives. Our obedience is a function of our faith. In other words, without belief without faith, you just can’t be obedience.

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    I believe Paul is saying I am writing this letter to you to inform you. Yes, of the way to life in Jesus Christ, the faith, the one true faith, and he’s saying, but I’m also writing it to you, to bring you into to obedience. And how does that happen? Brothers and sisters by law?

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    No, by faith. Later towards the end of the book of Romans. Paul says in some matters of conscience your conscience has a severe impact on whether or not you sin and if you don’t act in faith yusin he says for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. And there are so many other additional verses that we could add to show the importance of this context.

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    In this content Concept in scripture, and if you’re actively listening, you’re probably your minds are probably ticking over with all sorts of other ones to add to the list. East. But what’s the point that the topic of faith is a theme that is woven throughout the entire Bible will will clearly it is that you now agree with me and I have your attention moving forward.

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    Well, I hope so but that’s not the point. The point is as a man thinks in his heart. So he is that’s from Proverbs 23 verse 7. It sure seems like the point and the intention of scripture is to fundamentally change the way that we think that. By reading the scripture daily, God’s words and Christ sayings are intended to change the way that we think.

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    And what we think about and what we dwell upon and those things will always have an impact on our reality. The more we live in, the more we learn our minds, we figure out that our minds are generative and our minds are creative. And unless we actively choose what it is, we think about, we end up living in situations. We don’t desire In other words, we create our circumstances and by what it is, we think about and what it is that we subconsciously believe or have faith in. Now, we’ve all experienced that very same thing. We’ve made some bad choices, perhaps we didn’t even realize it at the time and we’ve had to live with some consequences that we wish we wouldn’t have to we wish we were more conscious of of when we made the moment made the decision at the moment. You see what we have faith in brothers and sisters and what we actually believe regardless of what it is. We profess to believe creates our reality for as a man thinks in his heart.

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    So is he? Advertisers know this. And so what they do is they layer things over and over, and over into our subconscious mind, to get us to believe lives such as it really doesn’t matter. If we do, what we know feels good. Now even though later down the track, it’s going to harm us and wreak havoc on our on our lives.

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    And when we can’t also help but ask the question in the Bible, why is God angry with what are called Sorcerers or magicians? We know that there is no such thing as magic or sorcery in the Bible. We know that there’s only one power and all the universe. Isaiah 45 tells us that concept eight times But why is God so angry and condemning a man like Simon the Sorcerer. For example, in Acts chapter 8, well what he was doing is he was bewitching people with his sorceries and all that that means is this man was meddling with the gateway to God. This man was meddling with people’s beliefs. He was toying with people’s beliefs and that’s serious stuff.

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    That is not something that God lightly dismisses. And so we understand that this world is very, very capable of shaping our beliefs and that’s why we should have nothing to do with it. That’s why we should guard our hearts. And that’s why also Christ in his first public speech in The Sermon, on the Mount, in Matthew, 5, 6 and 7 addresses, the heart of the issue and he teaches us that we have to get our thoughts, right?

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    It’s where it all begins. We have to subject. Our thoughts to God’s thoughts, and we have to seek God’s Direction and in ask her his in, Insight in prayer to direct our steps and then we actually have to believe that he does direct our steps. We have to look for God’s hand at work after we pray. See sometimes I think we sometimes, I get the impression that we the way that we approach living the truth is that if we can, simply refresh our mind with Godly principles enough. When the challenges of life arise, all we have to do is simply pick the right principle and we have to apply it in love. And that we’ve done the right thing by God. And the In the great frustration comes in. When we don’t seed widely enough or remember enough biblical principles to make better decisions, we miss the mark and we just didn’t know our Bibles better and we self rebuke. And so to keep ourselves from falling, all we really need to do is just get down to the study desk, more and develop a wider perspective.

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    In other words, the problem is that we’re just not disciplined enough. And that exhortation, the one that says you really aren’t trying as hard as you could, is one, that is always true. We could do more. And each of us would be fools to decry discipline, but but you try it, and if you’re anything like me, you’ll find that it is not about self will. It’s actually about belief, I should be better, but I’m not. And that’s why I need Christ, because I’m not who, or what I want to be.

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    I’m trying and I assume that you already All are trying to keep yourselves from sinning to, but so often would I tell myself and what I hear an excerpt ations and in class is it is that we need to try harder to the best of my ability. Well, let a man examine himself but when I do, I am dismayed with my ability to lead a Godly life.

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    I’m sick with myself, so I can’t help, but ask myself the question, isn’t there a better way? I have little to no power to be the man that I want to be in Christ. Unless Unless I apprehended in faith, you see there is a better way and that is the way of faith in Christ Jesus. Our lord who can work in me and do things that I just can’t do. Surely, I’m not the only one who feels frustrated by The Daily Grind of fighting the Flesh and there’s an irony to this because we of all mankind, should be most happy. We are supposed to be, liberated free from sin because of the sacrifice of Christ and sadly we can go on for a long time without feeling the joy of being free from sin and I know that we’re still in this body and we’re going to fight it. Don’t get me wrong.

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    Sometimes I do feel that Joy, a feeling feeling truly forgiven and free from sin. And that’s the joy that Christ talks about in the upper room. And this usually happens for me at the breaking of bread and in the love of Christ, breaks my heart. But I want to live liberated from sin. Not just in the Kingdom age, I want to serve god without fear in faith now, but what happens for so many of us. Anyways, that week by week, we come to the table of remembrance and we fear with a grave fear that we don’t condemn ourselves. By disrespecting, the Lord’s table. And so on very solemn self-examination, we scour our mind and we reflect on every rotten thing that we’ve done and we’re really hard on ourselves.

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    And rightfully, so we should hate sin and we walk away committed to try harder in the next week to not keep making the same mistakes and sometimes brothers and sisters, our willpower rides high. And we do, in fact, do better and sometimes by Sunday afternoon, we feel ashamed yet again that we have fallen short of the glory, A of God and we say to ourselves what a Wretched Man that I am.

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    How is it that we end up at the breaking of bread week by week with the same or similar sins? Now I imagine I’m not the only one here that’s had this sport sort of experience in living the truth. And what I want to get across in these studies is that it is not a willpower issue, it is actually a faith issue and yet strangely, we are not talking about fighting the good fight of Faith with faith.

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    And that’s exactly what I believe Paul is talking about when he says at the beginning in the end of Romans The Obedience of faith. You see faith in Christ has to be the way in which we could become obedience. It has to be the way in which we overcome our natural desires. And so, what I want to do in our time together, this weekend is I want to talk about fighting the good fight of Faith by faith.

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    And so that’s the aim. That’s that’s the learning intention. We are learning to develop strategies for increasing our faith in God, and the Lord Jesus Christ on a daily basis. And so what you see on the screen in front of you is simply a roadmap for how we’re going to do that. That as you can see right there, we have a tree which is illustrative of the principle that, if you get the root of the tree, right?

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    It will bear fruit. We know that Christ is the root, the root and The Offspring of David. Sometimes we have to focus sometimes what we end up doing is we focus on the fruit of the spirit and we wonder why it’s so hard to see it in ourselves when what we should be doing is focusing on the route or abiding in the vine is John 15 says, it’s a simple analogy. Our route in Christ is our faith. And then above the line, You’ll see, those are the roots down there and then you see a line in. So above the line are our good works. And those are produced by faith in Christ, The Works, and the fruit But sometimes brothers and sisters are things that choke our faith, thorns and thistles so to speak. Yeah, they’re small and very Insidious and sometimes we don’t even know that they’re there.

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    Which is why David says in Psalm, 19 Lord reveal unto me. My secret faults. Now, I think it only makes sense to talk about these Thorns to our faith because we can know how God generates faith in us and we can know what we should do to cultivate our own faith. But if we have thorns choking our faith, or if we Have sticking points or obstacles are roadblocks. The other bits might make all the sense in the world and Theory, but they won’t be received. The principal is sometimes.

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    We have to sweep the house clean. Before we can put something better back in. And so we will look at Thorns through our faith in ways that God generates our faith and our time together, Lord willing. And So eventually in our time together will do is we will look at ways in which God works on our faith and ways in which we can increase our faith day by day until our faith is turned to sight. And finally, what we’ll do together. Lord willing, we will remember the Lord Jesus Christ. Tomorrow morning is, we’re going to see how all these Concepts come together in our master.

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    But first, we have to ask the question. What are we even talking about? What, what is Faith? And it’s easy to say? Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of Things Not Seen, but I’m not necessarily sure that that’s clear. So, we’ll begin with the question. What even is Faith and the most simple way I can put it is Faith. Is your thoughts?

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    Your thoughts, which have substance, your faith is your connection to God and Christ. Your faith. Is your connection to what I’ve said what they promised and everything that we read in scripture, your faith is your belief. It’s your trust and to put it in a modern term or modern parlance. It’s your signal strength to God.

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    One little question is, can it be literal can these things actually shape? Our daily experience? Can our faith have a literal effect on our lives because you wrap your probably remember, the scripture talks about having faith to move mountains. First Corinthians 13, averse to, and for example, in Matthew 17 and verse 20, the disciples were not able to heal a boy, who was having his epileptic seizures, and they wanted to know why and Jesus said unto them because of your unbelief for The, I say unto you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say unto this mountain, remove, hence To Yonder place and it shall remove and nothing shall be impossible. And to you.

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    Faith to move mountains. Is that a metaphor must be a metaphor? A mountain is an is an obstacle, for example. And if you have faith that you can do all things through Christ, who strengthens you? Well, well, you will be able to overcome those obstacles that are in your path, but can it be taken literally.

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    And I think that it actually can brothers and sisters because of scripture Zechariah 14. Verse 4 tells us that our feet shall stand with his on the Mount of Olives in that Day, which is before Jerusalem on the East and the Mount of Olives show. Cleave in the midst thereof toward the East and toward the west and there should be a very great valley and half the mountain to remove towards the North and half show removed to the South.

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    And so yes, those that live lives of faith will see the literal culmination of their belief when the Lord comes to Reign on Earth and we will be with him by his grace in that day. But moreover, our faith does have a profound impact on our daily experience. And so the question we have to ask next is well where does faith? Find Roots?

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    Where is it generated in Romans, 6, 10, and verse 6 tells us the answer. If you turn there with me, I’m going to read about 45 verses Romans 10:8, verse 6 and we’ll read down through through verse 10.

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    So where does faith? Find root? Where is it? Generated the heart? Romans 10. Verse 6, but the righteousness, which is of Faith speaks on this wise, say not in thine heart, who shall Ascend into heaven, that is to bring Christ down from above, or who, shall descend into the deep that is to bring Christ again from the dead, but what?

61. 28:45

    Saith it. The word is near unto you even in your mouth and in your heart, that is the word of faith. Which we preach verse 9, that if Thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus. And shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved for with the heart.

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    Man, believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. And so, where does faith find root? It’s in the heart. In other words, in the Inner Man in your thoughts. And now you see how this presents a problem brothers and sisters because we know Jeremiah 17:9 where it says the heart is deceitful above all things and it’s desperately wicked who can know it and we know it. But if all the challenges to that limit our faith and we’re going to look at these later.

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    Fear, or sin or Pride or looking at oneself. Instead of looking at God wrong beliefs, that choke our faith, or lack of perception, and awareness. The cares of this life, overwhelming us or not understanding our purpose. In our destiny, destiny. The greatest obstacle, I believe to Growing our faith. Is is not believing that God is in every detail of Our Lives.

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    So what limits Faith? What grows Faith, the degree to, which you believe this? The God is active and he is present in our lives. And that’s what I mean. By God being in every detail, God being in everything in the life of a Believer. And yet we know these scriptures brothers and sisters, Psalm 34 verse 7, the angel of Yahweh.

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    Encamps around those that fear him and he delivers them, Isaiah 55 verse 11. So, shall my word be that when it goes out from my mouth, it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that, which I please, and it shall prosper in, In the thing, we’re into ice ended Philippians 1.

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    Over 6 says be confident of this very thing that he which has begun a good work in you. He will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Now I know that it’s hard to believe from personal experience that God is in every detail of our lives. Especially when there were times in the life of a disciple, in which we hit rock bottom, and we feel like our prayers are only going up to the ceiling and no further. It’s especially difficult to believe in the midst of great sorrow and suffering.

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    And I’m sure at one point, especially in the midst of suffering, I would have found what I’m about to say, quite hard to accept quite confronting. Offensive. But nevertheless, it is true that in the life of God’s covenant people who have surrendered their will to him at baptism. He is in every aspect of Our Lives, even the very hairs of our head are numbered, God is in every aspect of our lives.

68. 31:46

    But how either by creating scenarios in which we grow or at the very least, by allowing situations to come into our life to generate and to grow Faith to bring us to receive the end of our faith, the very salvation One of our souls, The more I’ve looked into scripture, the more, I am convinced that what you believe about? This idea has an enormous impact and whether your faith grows, whether it’s stagnates, or whether it shrinks back, and there are numerous examples of men and women in scripture, who believe that God was in everything in their lives, and they are the people that you and I want to be like in moreover, they are the people that God wants us to emulate. Why?

69. 32:25

    Because that’s the level of connection that God wants to have with his children. Now, it’s important Also to clarify from the outside outset what God is not in. God is not in sin. God has nothing to do with sin, and although he has made provision for it in the lives of his children. Because he knows our frame that we are, but dust and that we will, in fact sin, despite our best efforts and intentions, not to let’s be clear, God hates sin The portrait of Jesus Christ on the cross is God’s view of our sin. It is worthy of death.

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    It is not something to be winked at and never should our Liberty in Christ. Breed license to sin. And as we know when we sin we separate ourselves from God, he hides his face from a sort of speak the Caribbean cover their eyes and we are left most alone. We have disobeyed the word of God, it doesn’t mean that God, abandons us forever.

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    He still works with us and reforms us to bring us back to him, but he’s not in sin, he doesn’t permit it, he doesn’t condone it. And although he has made provision for it, let us never forget that that provision is the blood of his only begotten son.

72. 33:45

    We have to understand how God generates or creates faith and it’s critical that we spend some time considering what God thinks of us once were baptized, you see, everything changes when we publicly confess at are baptized baptism that we are worthy of death. When we surrender our will to God. And we make an Everlasting Covenant with the creator of all the world.

73. 34:08

    There has been a change of status or his brother. Thomas says, there’s been a change in Constitution. We are a new creation is what Colossians says and is someone that is admitted that there once was a way that seems right unto me but that way LED to death, there has been a significant change. Why is it so important to realize what it is that God thinks of us?

74. 34:30

    Well, sometimes brothers and sisters, we don’t see ourselves as God to sees us and seeing how special we are to God. According to his words, generates faith. Next, what we’re going to have to do is we’re going to have to look at, why that’s so hard to believe that God is involved in every detail of our life and one of the great challenges to our faith comes in suffering. We all know that it’s easy to believe that God is involved in the good things.

75. 34:57

    But what shall we shall? We receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil? Why is it hard to accept that God is in the great challenges of life? Well well fundamentally it challenges our sense of justice. The question we all face internally is why is this happening to me?

76. 35:15

    In other words I’m a pretty good guy. I go to meeting three times a week and I care about the things of God. This isn’t fair and that’s where we get derailed and thinking that we should be able to justify ourselves to God. That’s a workspace mentality and one that cannot bring us to the king.

77. 35:34

    An intellectual level. We know that God is the justifier of them that believe in Jesus, that’s the atonement that come. What may God Is Right that Christ died to declare God’s righteousness and that God is a justifier of him, which believe in Jesus. That’s Romans 3, the first 26 but it’s easy, brothers and sisters to lose perspective when were under stress and so it’s helpful to have a reminder of what it is that God says about his people. And finally, what we Endeavor to do together is to look at biblical examples of lives that are transformed by the belief that God is in everything in their life. These are men and women through whom God has done The Impossible by faith will look at examples from Jacob’s life from Joseph. David Elijah will look in the Psalms and we’ll look at the Lord.

78. 36:22

    Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of faith. And we’re going to look specifically at the mind of faith in the upper room at the breaking of bread. Tomorrow morning. God willing. But before we finish this session, I have some homework to set. And what I’m challenging you to do is to let God in on every aspect of your life.

79. 36:43

    For the next two weeks, put it to the test. Just try it when you struggle with something, however, small pray about it. Pray without ceasing how you do. One thing is, how you do everything. He who is faithful in little will be faithful in much when something good happens to you in the next week.

80. 37:00

    Thank God for it. Praise His Holy. He named connect with him and rejoice in his loving kindness and something challenging happens. Well, ask for his help. I hope this doesn’t sound too touchy-feely for you or to Pentecostal. I’m not looking for a men’s and I hope you don’t roll in the aisle. Just pray fervently with respects and with, reverence, just just test it out.

81. 37:23

    Have faith, that God is in everything and that he is bringing things into your life, for the development of your faith or allowing things to take place in your life too. A shape and develop you and make you fit for his Temple, call upon His holy name, in faith, whatever it is. Your lot is for the next two weeks, brothers and sisters, the scripture abounds with examples of why we should believe that.

82. 37:45

    God not only wants to be involved in all aspects of her life, but he is crafting and even allowing situations and circumstances to prepare us for the kingdom and one objection. You might have that, I had been thinking along these lines, is he is God Almighty, isn’t he too busy running? In the universe, holding the planets in places, putting the the presidents and dictators in place to bring about the battle of Armageddon. Making stars.

83. 38:12

    Do you seriously think that God wants me to believe that he is interested in my little troubles? In short. Yes, he is. Even the very hairs of your head are numbered. And so we have to start by considering what it is that God actually thinks of us, not what we think, God thinks of us.

84. 38:33

    But what the scripture says, and what God thinks of us, when he looks at us through the blood covering sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, we have to see ourselves as God sees us through the sacrifice of his son, and Lord willing. That’s where we’ll begin our next session in about half an hour.