Faith Two
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Last week we started looking at the topic of Faith. Just a quick review.
We saw that faith is needed to please God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out].
And we also saw that goes beyond our senses.
1 NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].
We also saw that we must keep looking at what is not seen
16 Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day.
17 For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!],
18 Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.
So today we are going to continue looking at faith.
35 As evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.” 36 So they took Jesus in the boat and started out, leaving the crowds behind (although other boats followed). 37 But soon a fierce storm came up. High waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water.
38 Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, “Teacher, don’t you care that we’re going to drown?”
39 When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Silence! Be still!” Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. 40 Then he asked them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?”
41 The disciples were absolutely terrified. “Who is this man?” they asked each other. “Even the wind and waves obey him!”
Faith Comes Through the Planted Word!
Faith Comes Through the Planted Word!
This portion of scripture in Mark chapter four comes right after Jesus taught the disciples the parable about the farmer sowing seed. He explained to them that the farmer’s seed was the word of God. You know the parable about seed on the footpath those that hear the word and immediately it is stolen from them by satan, it goes on to the ones that have no root, the ones that let the cares of the world choke the word and the ones who receive and accept the word and produce 30, 60, 100 fold return. Then Jesus plants the word, “Let us cross over to the other side.” He then slept in the back of the boat on a cushion. The storm comes to steal the word and the disciples freak out. They wake up Jesus who rebukes the storm and then asks how come they still don’t have faith. What do we do when “storms of life” come. Stand in faith? Or freak out? We need to receive the word and accept the word.
25 And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years,
26 And who had endured much suffering under [the hands of] many physicians and had spent all that she had, and was no better but instead grew worse.
27 She had heard the reports concerning Jesus, and she came up behind Him in the throng and touched His garment,
28 For she kept saying, If I only touch His garments, I shall be restored to health.
29 And immediately her flow of blood was dried up at the source, and [suddenly] she felt in her body that she was healed of her [distressing] ailment.
30 And Jesus, recognizing in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around immediately in the crowd and said, Who touched My clothes?
31 And the disciples kept saying to Him, You see the crowd pressing hard around You from all sides, and You ask, Who touched Me?
32 Still He kept looking around to see her who had done it.
33 But the woman, knowing what had been done for her, though alarmed and frightened and trembling, fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.
34 And He said to her, Daughter, your faith (your trust and confidence in Me, springing from faith in God) has restored you to health. Go in (into) peace and be continually healed and freed from your [distressing bodily] disease.
Faith Takes Action
Faith Takes Action
This woman had tried everything to be healed of her ailment for twelve years, spent all her money and only got worse. But she said to herself, if I just touch His garment I will be made whole. Faith in the Lord, the Word made flesh, and the action to step out in faith not knowing in her senses that this would work but knowing in her knower. Her spirit.
19 Then Jesus’ mother and His brothers came along toward Him, but they could not get to Him because of the crowd.
20 And it was told Him, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, desiring to have an interview with You.
21 But He answered them, My mother and My brothers are those who listen to the Word of God and do it!
Faith Isn’t Just Saying It but Doing It!
Faith Isn’t Just Saying It but Doing It!
So many times we just confess the word but live life the same way as always. Jesus said that people of Faith, listen and do the word not just talk about it. We’ve all heard the saying that talk is cheap. Let’s be doers of the Word so hour lives produce the kind of faith that gets results.