Sermon Tone Analysis

We’ve *been teaching* *on* the *Names of God* for the last few weeks and I have more that I can cover, but I just *felt* that we *need* to *teach on* the *subject of **faith*.*

I **don’t know how long** I’m going to be teaching on faith, but I just have to be **obedient to the HS**.*

*I.

*Again *(HEB 11:1)* Says, *“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”*

*A.

*The *Moffatt’s* translation says, *“Now faith means that we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see.”*

*1.

**Another translation* says, *“Faith gives substance of what we do not see.”

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                                  *a.

*The *NEW Century Versions* of (*Hebrews **11:1*) Says, *“Faith means being sure of the things we hope for and knowing that something is real even if we do not see it.”*

NCV

                                  *b.

*The *New Jerusalem Bible* says, *“Only faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of realities that are unseen.”*

*(Hebrews 11:1)* NJB

                        *2.

*You could even say it this way; *“Faith is the Guarantee that the things we’ve hoped for are already ours.”*

*a.

*1 of the *best definitions** of* *“Faith”* is *also* *found* *in** the **Word* of God.

                                  *b.

**PRO 3:5*

                        *3.

*You *might hope for the finances* to pay some bill, *Faith says**, **“It’s already mine,”* (the Finances are mine), *Faith* *says it,* *sees it,* *and* *knows that it’s mine,* *BEFORE you’ll see it* in the natural.

*a.

If you put* *(PRO 3:5)* *together** with* what *(HEB 11:1)* *says*, then you’ll says *this **about your finances.*

*i.

**“I am going to trust the Lord with all of my heart that He will provide for me.

I’m not going to look at what my head or my understanding tells me, God will meet all my needs.”*

*ii.

**That is faith.*

Sometimes *your **head* *or* your *understanding* *may tell you* that you’re *not going to make** it*.

*iii.

But* *God’s Word* is a *higher authority.*

*a.

**(Numbers 23:19)* Says, *“**God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it?

or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?*

KJV

                                                              *i.

God* will *bring* His *promises to pass*.

*b.

*Look at *2 Corinthians 1:20*

                                  *b.

*The *doctors may say* that *your sick,* *but **God’s Word says* in *(1 Peter 2:24)* *“By His stripes ye are healed.”*

KJV

                                           *i.

Your **bank account may say* that you’re *not going to make it,* *but* *the **Word* of God *says*, *“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

**(Philippians 4:19)* KJV

                                  *b.

*It’s *faith* that *brings the unseen promises** of God** **into the realm of reality.

*

                                           *i.

*It’s *faith* that *brings it into this realm,* where we can *see it and touch it.

*

                                  *c.

**You might hope for healing,* but *faith says,* *“It’s already mine.”*

*i.

**How** **can we say* that it is *already mine?* *Because the Word* of God *says it is.*

*i.

*The *Word says,* *(1PET 2:24)* *“By whose stripes ye were healed.”*

*ii.

**Notice* that, *that **V said,* *“By whose stripes ye WERE healed.”*

(past tense)

                                  *d*.

*That’s how faith sees it.*

*i.

**Faith says* that *it’s already mine* *before you see it* in this realm.

*ii.

**Faith is a spiritual force* that will *bring thing into* this realm of *reality*.

*3.

*Turn with me to *ROM 12:3*

                        *a.

*What I *wanted you to see* in that *V* was that *God* has *given each Christian** **THE measure of faith*.

*i.

Some* have tried to *say* that *God gives each person a different measure of faith*, some more and others less.

*ii.

*But that’s *not the character of God**.*

*iii.

*(*ROM 2:11*) Says, *“For there is no respect of persons with God.”*

                                  *b.

*Our *V* in *(ROM 12:3)* says, *“God has dealt to us “THE measure of Faith.”*

*i.

God has predetermined to give each Christian a set amount of faith*.

We’re *all** given **the same amount** of faith*.

*ii.

*Now, *what you do with that amount of faith is up to you*.

*B.

(ROM 10:17)* Says, *“So then faith {cometh} by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”*

                        *1.

*Your *faith will grow and be strengthened by hearing the Word* *and* by *using your faith*.

(*Muscle*)

                        *2.

*So *exercising your faith will help your faith grow*, but you’ve *got to hear the Word 1st*.

*a.

*and just *hearing* the *Word* is *not enough*.

*3.

*In *(LUKE 8:18)* Jesus said, "Take heed therefore how you here."

*a.

*You have to *earnestly listen to the Word* of God.

          *C.

**LUKE 8:11-15*

              *1.

*The word *“KEEP”* here in (*V15*) means *“To hold or to hold fast, to have, to take possession, seize.”*

*2.

*The *only way* the *Word* of God *will cause faith to grow* in our lives, *that will produce fruit*, is *by earnestly listening to the Word* *and** **by Keeping** (Holding) **it in our heart*, *giving the Word** **1st** **place*.

*a.

Seize on to it*.

                        *i.

*I found *something interesting* when I looked up the word “*Seize*” in the *dictionary*.

*ii.

One* of the *definitions* of the word was *“To lay claim to for oneself** **or** **as one’s right.”*

*a.

*We need to *“Lay claim”* *to the Word* of God *for ourselves*.