We were considering some of the laws of
the spiritual life and we considered how God
has made this universe to run according to
laws and we have many evidences around us
of those who obey those laws and benefit
from them.
Consider the planets for thousands of years they
have gone around in the orbits God determined
for them many many centuries ago, millions of
years, thousands of years ago and they go
so perfectly that we can set our watch
by their movements.
There in the heavens we have an example
of the beauty that comes out of perfect
obedience to God.
They move according to laws that God has
established long long ago and I believe they
are a silent testimony to all of us
that if you live according to God's laws
your life can be just as beautiful and
throughout the centuries the devil has always told
people that it's not worth it obeying God's
laws.
Right from the time of Adam and Eve
man has disobeyed God's laws and on earth
we have another testimony of the confusion and
chaos that is the result of disobedience to
God's laws and we have a choice as
to what we are going to follow but
in spite of this testimony there is in
the beauty of creation that comes through the
obedience to God's laws the beauty in the
flowers and inanimate creation contrasted with the chaos
that there is where man has disobeyed God's
laws in spite of that even believers are
not gripped by their call to obey God's
laws totally to demonstrate to an unbelieving generation
that the happiest life you can live on
earth is one of total obedience to God's
laws.
We saw the law of wholeheartedness the first
day and yesterday we saw the law of
humility.
I want to point out another law to
you today is the law of faith.
Jesus said in Matthew 9 and verse 29
be it done to you according to your
faith it's the story of two blind men
who followed Jesus in Matthew 9 27 and
they said have mercy on us son of
David and the blind men came up to
him and he asked them what they wanted
they wanted their eyes to be opened and
before he answered he granted their request he
asked them a question do you believe that
I am able to do this for you
whenever we go to God with a request
they made a request there because we know
that from a parallel passage in another gospel
that he asked them what do you want
they said we want our eyes to be
opened whenever we go to God with a
request he asks us this question do you
believe that I am able to do this
for you it's only then that he grants
that request when we give the right answer
now notice here they had a great desire
for their eyes to be opened Jesus had
a great desire to open their eyes but
still their eyes would be opened only if
they had faith and I have thought if
one of those blind men had said to
Jesus Lord I believe you can open one
eye of mine at least you know what
Jesus would have told him exactly the same
thing be it done to you according to
your faith he would have gone out with
one eye open and his testimony would have
been to everybody Jesus can open one eye
because that was his experience and when the
other fellow comes out with both eyes open
this man will wonder how in the world
did you get two eyes open he said
well I trusted God for two eyes you
trusted him only for one I thought of
that in relation to forgiveness of sins and
victory over sin like these two eyes one
man comes to the Lord and says Lord
I believe you can forgive all my sins
because your word says if we confess our
sins he's faithful and just to forgive us
all our sins cleanse us from all unrighteousness
Lord I believe it according to your faith
be it done to you your sins are
all forgiven another man goes up and says
I believe not only you can forgive all
my sins since your word says that sin
shall not have dominion over me no sin
will have dominion over me since your word
has commanded me in Ephesians 4 32 to
put away all anger and all bitterness and
all malice and all hatred I believe you
can give me grace to put away all
anger from my life and all malice and
all hatred and all bitterness so that these
things are not found in me so that
these sins do not rule over me what
does the Lord say to him according to
your faith be it unto you and so
you have these two believers like these two
blind men one comes out and proclaims Jesus
can forgive your sins another proclaims Jesus can
not only forgive your sin he can give
you victory over sin and this man wonders
how did he get back was God partial
no there is no partiality with God according
to your faith be it unto you Jesus
died for the sins of the whole world
but there are millions of people here in
our state right here whose sins are not
forgiven why didn't Jesus die for their sins
he certainly did but there's a verse in
Hebrews chapter 4 which verse 2 which says
that the message they heard was not mixed
with faith and therefore they never entered the
land of Canaan he's talking about the children
of Israel who were told I will take
you out of Egypt and I will bring
you into Canaan that's why their sins are
not forgiven the message is not mixed with
faith it's not because Jesus didn't die for
their sins why are your sins forgiven are
you better than those people some of us
are worse than them there are better people
out in the streets whose sins have not
been forgiven much better than you and me
what is it that made you a child
of God it was not because you're better
than them God gives us according to our
faith it's a law and then you come
to believers why is it some come to
a victorious life and many do not the
same reason why many their sins are not
forgiven when they come to faith the God
of the world who has blinded the minds
of the unbelieving so that they don't believe
their sins can be forgiven by Christ that
same God of the world has blinded the
minds of many believers that many of the
promises in scripture cannot be fulfilled in their
life that when God says no sin will
rule over you he doesn't mean what he
says they believe Jesus can open one eye
and they live all their life with one
eye and what is worse when somebody says
Jesus can open two eyes they'll call him
a heretic preaching false teaching why because they
have not experienced it you know we feel
that anything we have not experienced is false
teaching that is tremendous conceit just because we
haven't experienced it it's false teaching not at
all if the bible doesn't proclaim it that
is false teaching but if we have not
experienced it that doesn't mean anything and that's
why faith is based on the promises of
God Romans 10 17 says faith comes by
hearing and hearing by the word of Christ
and the word of Christ refers particularly to
the new testament part of scripture faith comes
by the word of Christ now don't think
that the promises of God will automatically be
fulfilled in anybody's life faith must be mixed
with that word turn to Hebrews chapter 4
this verse I just read Hebrews 4 and
verse 2 he's talking about those Israelites who
perished in the wilderness without entering Canaan and
it says here in verse 2 we also
have had good news preached to us just
as they also the good news for them
was that they could enter Canaan bring all
the giants under their feet kill them and
possess the land the good news for us
is not only that we can be redeemed
from sin and satan from Egypt by the
blood of the lamb but also that we
can enter the land of victory where every
giant of lust can be defeated and brought
under our feet but they but the word
they heard did not profit them the message
of victory has not profited many believers you
know why here it is because it was
not united by faith in those who heard
it's not because God did not want them
want them to go into Canaan God said
I desire to take you they looked at
the land and they said this is a
wonderful land we would like to go there
they wanted to go there God wanted them
to go there why didn't they go in
God had promised 40 years earlier rather two
years earlier they came to the borders of
the promised land two years after leaving Egypt
two years earlier God had told them through
Moses a double promise like the two eyes
I spoke of I will take you out
of Egypt I will bring you into Canaan
that was the promise in Exodus chapter 3
but they experienced only one they were like
the blind man who would trust God only
for one eye to be open some Egyptians
may not have trusted God even for that
one eye when Moses said put the blood
of the lamb outside your door post maybe
some fellow said this is all rubbish killing
a lamb and putting his blood outside the
door and they didn't listen and their firstborn
son died and they perished but those who
believed they put the blood outside the door
and the angel of death passed by and
their firstborn son did not die and they
came out of Egypt they were redeemed by
the blood of the lamb they were baptized
in the Red Sea going into the water
and coming out and they were baptized by
the cloud that came from heaven and the
purpose of that cloud was to lead them
to the promised land there are many people
today who have been redeemed by the blood
of the lamb just like those in Egypt
baptized by immersion in water just like the
Israelites went into the Red Sea and out
and like it says in 1 Corinthians baptized
in the cloud the Holy Spirit that came
upon them this threefold experience that all the
believers had in the acts of the apostles
redeemed by the blood of the lamb baptized
in water baptized in the Holy Spirit then
what for many people that's the end of
the journey but God leads his children beyond
Pentecost beyond the experience of Pentecost the whole
purpose of that cloud coming down and baptizing
them was to lead them into the land
of victory and it led them right to
the border of the promised land and God
said go in and out of 600,000
people two had faith to go in by
faith Joshua entered by faith Caleb entered it's
something like that even today among 600,000
believers who are born again two may have
faith that I can live in victory over
sin like it says in Romans 6 14
but like I said the other day Joshua
and Caleb when they preached that message of
victory all the 600,000 wanted to stone
them can you imagine that they were called
the false teachers and the other 10 spies
who said we cannot go into the land
of Canaan were called the true teachers that
is the condition in Christendom today if people
get up and say we will keep on
sinning till the end of our life everybody
appreciates them but if a Joshua and Caleb
get up and say which lust is stronger
than the power of the Holy Spirit most
people will reject such teaching as false teaching
for one reason if we have not experienced
it it must be false teaching that is
how the God of the world blinds so
many believers and leaves them in a substandard
defeated condition content with their defeat it's sad
the Bible says here in Hebrews 4 let
us be diligent to enter verse 11 into
that rest lest any one of you fall
through the same example of disobedience and unbelief
so faith is a very important thing and
faith comes by hearing and hearing by the
word of Christ now we live in a
particular time in church history where everybody is
talking about faith you go to the Christian
bookshops and most of the books are books
on faith but faith for the wrong thing
they're not talking about faith to help you
to enter the land of Canaan you hardly
find a book on that how you can
enter into a life of victory how you
can live 365 days at home with your
wife without ever raising your voice or quarreling
or shouting or yelling or getting bitter it's
not that type of faith they're talking about
is that an impossible standard which I just
quoted let me read you a verse Colossians
3 19 it says husbands don't be bitter
against your wives does God give us a
command that is impossible to fulfill do you
believe in a God who's such a horrible
father that he makes us carry weights that
we cannot carry will I ask my son
to carry a five ton weight on his
head is it possible for a husband to
live without being bitter against his wife well
people say well that means generally most of
the time well the same God also said
don't commit murder what does that mean don't
commit murder most of the time once in
a while if you do it it's okay
the same God who said don't commit murder
also said don't be bitter against your wife
how many times are you permitted to commit
murder in a year how many times are
you permitted to be bitter against your wife
in a year have you decided that some
commands of God you put on a higher
scale and some are on a lower scale
who are you to determine whether God's commands
are to be obeyed or not when it
comes to the commands of God it's it's
not a question of what the commands are
the question is who gave the commands if
you don't have faith of course it will
never be true in your life but if
you have faith it can be true in
your life now who in the world will
be happy if you are bitter against your
wife God or the devil you know the
answer if the devil is going to be
happy that's why he believes that's why he
makes you believe that that's not possible when
the Bible says Ephesians 4 and verse 29
sorry verse 31 Ephesians 4 31 let all
bitterness and all wrath and all anger and
all clamor and all slander be put away
from you along with all malice what does
it mean if all anger has been put
away from my life how much anger is
left in my life if I say put
away all the cigarette packets from your home
how many cigarette packets are left in your
home if I say put away all the
pornographic books from your home throw it away
are you permitted to keep one or two
when God says put away all anger from
your life is that in your Bible by
the way have you read it have you
ever taken it seriously have you ever believed
it is possible faith comes by hearing and
hearing by the word of Christ the question
is not whether you can manage it the
question is what the Lord asked those blind
men do you believe I am able to
do this for you do you believe that
I am able to do this for you
do you believe that I am able to
give you grace so that there is no
anger left in your life that is the
question and you can say well Lord I
believe you can help me most of the
time according to your faith be it unto
you why do you stop another brother from
entering the promised land and saying Lord I
believe you can do it all the time
according to your faith be it unto you
it is a law the law of faith
and each of us receives from this impartial
God according to the measure of our faith
it is like when it is raining if
one person puts a little cup outside another
person puts a bucket another person puts a
huge tub do you think they're all going
to get the same amount of rain of
water no the amount of rain falling outside
their homes is exactly the same but the
amount each one gets is different it depends
on the size of their vessel according to
the size of your vessel you will get
water in the same way these promises are
in scripture it's in your bible it's in
my bible but not everybody experiences it and
the books on faith that you read off
in the bookshops that you find in the
bookshops are not telling you how to have
faith for the things written in scripture it's
telling you how to have faith for houses
and cars and tells you to specify to
God which color car you want and stupid
things like this and for things that have
no eternal value things which are not promised
in scripture things you may like to have
I'd like to have hair on my head
sure and no matter how much I read
those books on faith and trust God and
claim it I'll wake up in the morning
with perhaps a little less hair than I
have today I'd like to take off my
glasses I don't like wearing glasses all the
time but I have seen people who preach
healing God cannot heal their eyesight they wear
glasses they are supposed to heal cancers and
fantastic things but a simple thing like their
own eyes God cannot heal it's amazing I'm
not against healing I'm against dishonesty somebody asked
me once brother Zack do you have the
gift of healing I said no I have
the gift of honesty and that's what I
want I want to speak the truth I
don't want to deceive people I don't want
to claim things which are not true there's
a verse in proverbs which says like clouds
without water so so is a man who
boasts of gifts that he doesn't have don't
be deceived by all these things my dear
young people there's a tremendous amount of deception
going out there and going on out there
in the christian world and gullible simple believers
just swallow all that if you want to
have faith have faith for the things promised
in scripture for the things that have eternal
value you know when we are babies children
we don't understand what has eternal value we
have faith for the wrong things it's like
you know there is a game called monopoly
I played it with my children you throw
a dice and you move from one place
to another and you buy property and that
becomes your property and you get money so
many dollars and all that and if somebody
comes on my property he has to pay
me rent and it's a very interesting game
and small children can be very intense on
it and say no you got to pay
me rent for that and they can be
fighting over this and and no that money
is mine and they're fighting for these bits
of paper now an adult plays that game
he says okay take it he knows that
thing doesn't have any value it's just paper
he knows that the money which has real
value is the currency notes we get from
the reserve bank not these thousand dollar notes
and all in the monopoly game he knows
that in half an hour the game will
be over and the board will be folded
up and that's the end of the game
all these papers have no value I feel
that the angels in heaven when they look
at us it's like a big monopoly game
going on in the world today people are
buying property here and you've got to pay
me rent here and fighting for this money
and that money and the angels are amazed
when believers start fighting for all these things
because the angels know one day god is
going to fold up the board and say
well that's the end of all your property
and all your currency notes and all your
bank accounts and that's the end and then
only the real currency that has value for
eternity will last and if you spent your
time on earth having faith for all these
things that are going to perish you'll have
nothing left for eternity god wants us to
have faith for the things that will give
us those things that have eternal value that
will last forever those are the things promised
in the word of christ in the new
testament and I want to encourage you my
dear brothers and sisters get to know the
promises of god in the new testament and
the things that god has commanded in the
new testament are things he wants you to
have faith to believe that you can get
them when the bible says be anxious for
nothing that's in your bible philippians 4 6
it does not mean be anxious for some
things it means be anxious for nothing you
should never be satisfied until you come to
a life where you're anxious for nothing and
i want to tell you that will not
come overnight i found it's a like a
climbing a mountain but i must have faith
god will lead me to the top of
this mountain because it is in his word
instead of having faith for green cars and
blue cars and red houses why not have
faith for be anxious for nothing that's got
eternal value here it doesn't whether you live
in a yellow house or a white one
or in a hut it won't matter in
eternity whether you rode a scooter or a
car it will matter in eternity whether you
lived on earth being anxious for nothing and
demonstrated to an unbelieving world that you've got
a loving father in heaven who cares for
you and the number of people you could
have influenced by that life of faith so
don't waste your time for things that have
no eternal value seek to have faith for
those things that have eternal value the bible
says rejoice in the lord always according to
that verse we could say it is not
god's will that a christian should ever be
depressed he may be tempted and under pressure
paul says he was under tremendous pressure at
times jesus was in great agony of soul
in gethsemane but yet he had joy in
his heart enough to give to his disciples
to say my joy i give unto you
if you have faith that philippians 4 4
rejoice to the lord always again i say
unto you rejoice is god's will for us
you will never be content till you come
to such a life the will of god
is you know what it says in 1
timothy 6 godliness with contentment he's talking about
material things is great gain and i understand
it like this i must always be content
with the material things god has given me
i don't have to ask him he knows
what my need is and he'll give it
to me but i must never be content
with what i have attained to spiritually this
is godliness with contentment godliness is never to
be content with the heights i have reached
spiritually like paul said one thing i do
i press toward the mark i've not yet
attained i still haven't reached there i'm still
not perfect i'm pressing towards the mark that's
godliness with contentment for all earthly things perfectly
content with the material things god has given
me the size of my house my income
my intelligence my physical features my everything perfectly
content spending my life seeking the kingdom of
god and his righteousness first and all the
time and having faith that what i need
of earthly things will be added to me
do you know how god wants you to
live i thank god i understood this when
i was 21 years old that god wanted
me to live seeking his kingdom and his
righteousness only all my life i was not
to seek for money i was not to
seek for anything earthly and whatever i needed
would be added to me without seeking today
i can testify after 40 years god has
been faithful to the best of my knowledge
and god is my witness when i was
working in the navy and after i came
into full-time christian work 33 years ago
i have never when i was working in
the navy and after i came into full
-time christian work 33 years ago i have
never sought after earthly gain money property
or anything and i want to say god's
taking care of my needs i have sought
to the best of my knowledge the kingdom
of god and his righteousness i don't believe
that's a great feat i'm sure there are
many other people like that i just say
that to you young people so that if
the lord tarries and he doesn't come in
the next 40 years and if you got
40 years that you'll be able to say
the same thing 40 years from now that
i never spent my life like all the
other unbelievers and like multitudes of so-called
spirit-filled tongue-speaking believers who run after
money pastors running after money seeking their own
and saying they are spirit-filled and saying
that all the other people are heretics they
are the biggest heretics of all lovers of
money don't follow their example if you can
say i spent my life seeking god's kingdom
and his righteousness i can give you a
written guarantee a guarantee based on matthew 6
33 god will provide everything you need in
your life live by that faith god has
never disappointed one man in the last 2000
years who has trusted in matthew 6 33
not one person not one person will be
able to stand up at the judgment seat
of christ and say lord i trusted what
you said in matthew 6 33 and you
let me down not one person it's a
law of faith according to your faith be
it unto you you know many people today
use this expression i'm living by faith what
do they mean whenever a man says i'm
living by faith what you understand when a
christian says he's living by faith what he
means is i'm not getting a regular salary
i'm dependent on sometimes it's a hint i'm
living by faith for you to give him
some money sometimes it's a proud boast i'm
not like these other fellows who get salaries
i live by faith but is that what
the bible says when it talks about living
by faith have you read that verse which
says the full-time worker shall live by
faith it's not in my bible in my
bible it says in romans 1 17 the
righteous shall live by faith every righteous person
and the vast majority of righteous people in
the church today are not full time workers
and living by faith has got nothing to
do with money it's got to do with
trusting god for the forgiveness of sins it's
got to do with trusting god for rejoicing
always 24 hours a day it's got to
do with trusting god for being anxious for
nothing it's got to do with trusting god
for being able to put away all anger
it's got to do with trusting god for
never being bitter against my wife the righteous
shall live by faith but what a tremendous
work satan has done to twist that expression
and make every believer think living by faith
means living with an uncertain income as a
full-time christian worker it's amazing the traditions
of the elders that are found in christendom
today expressions which are found nowhere in scripture
i could make a list of expressions found
nowhere in scripture i'm under the blood show
it to me in scripture i'm cleansed by
the blood i'm justified by the blood i'm
under no blood those who are people in
egypt who were under the blood of the
doorpost to the blood of some lamb i'm
not under that you may say what does
it matter well if it doesn't matter then
why do we bother about any scriptural expressions
at all you can use your expressions and
i can use mine one of the first
things i learned when i was born again
i came from the jacobite orthodox syrian christian
church i never knew much of the bible
when i was born again 40 years ago
but when i was born again i became
like a little baby with a tremendous hunger
for the milk of the word and i
began to study this book day and night
in my spare time to understand what god
had promised and i decided i would change
my terminology my religious terminology and make it
fit with scripture in every area and i
decided i would never use expressions that are
by christians which are not found in scripture
there are many many things like that living
by faith and because the devil has made
that expression refer only to money and only
to full-time workers a lot of believers
don't realize that god wants them to live
by faith you ask a believer are you
living by faith he says no i've got
a secular job i've got a salary what
do you mean you got a secular job
the bible says the righteous shall live by
faith are you one of those righteous people
you must live by faith that is god's
will faith in the christian life is like
money in this world you know how comfortably
a man can live when he's got plenty
of money how much he can help other
people when he's got plenty of money how
many people can be helped when a man
has got lots and lots of money in
his hands when a man sets up a
business how many people get employment because he's
got so much money in the christian life
the exact equivalent of that is faith the
more faith you have the richer you are
the more faith you have the more you
can bless and help and encourage and lead
other people on unfortunately the devil has succeeded
in fooling people even here in convincing people
that even in christian work just like in
the world the more money you have the
more you can do for god it's a
lie do you believe that the churches which
have the maximum amount of money are doing
the maximum for god on earth today the
roman catholic church is the wealthiest one of
the wealthiest organizations in the world if you
believe that money is the most important thing
in god's work well then they must be
the ones who are doing god's greatest work
on earth and i would suggest all of
you join them if that be the case
i don't believe it and in that case
jesus and the apostles who were the poorest
people in their time accomplished nothing no it
is faith that makes a person rich in
god's kingdom and faith has got nothing to
do with money a rich man can have
faith a poor man can have faith a
rich man can be righteous and a poor
man can be righteous the righteous shall live
by faith and it's the measure of our
faith that determines how rich we are going
to be and how much we are going
to accomplish for god on this earth you
know very often what we think that a
man is accomplishing we can be deceived by
because all these things are external the bible
says don't judge anything until the lord comes
when the lord comes he will reveal one
corinthians 4 5 all the hidden things in
darkness and he will reveal the motives of
men's hearts and then every man will get
his praise from god depending on the motive
with which he did things and in that
day you will discover that the man who
had faith was the richest man of all
in christendom not the man who had the
most money not the churches which had access
to the maximum amount of money but the
people who had the maximum amount of faith
so don't envy a christian worker who has
lots of money i've never done it in
my life i have longed i've admired the
christian who has faith not faith for things
that will perish i'm not impressed when a
man says he trusted god and he got
a cycle or a scooter or a car
on even an airplane it doesn't make a
difference to me i'm encouraged when a man
says he trusted god that god would make
him victorious in an area in his life
where he was defeated for years and he
experienced it he experienced the promise of god
i know in my own life how for
years and years i was born again but
i was constantly depressed discouraged gloomy till i
had faith that god could give me a
life where no matter what happened around me
could rejoice in the lord always faith is
a wonderful thing the solution to every problem
that you have is here even physical healing
it's a matter of faith if god speaks
a word to your heart and you trust
him you can experience it i'm not saying
that every sickness is healed like i said
about the apostle paul there are times when
god permits a sickness to continue i won't
go into that subject now why was it
for example when you look at the life
of jesus there was never a single person
who came to him with any problem which
he could not solve there was one case
one man said please tell my brother to
divide the property with me and jesus said
sorry he wouldn't do that he didn't come
for these earthly things but if a man
had a problem in his life lord my
son is being constantly he's constantly jumping into
the fire i brought him to his disciples
they could do nothing and jesus said oh
you unbelieving generation how long shall i be
with you bring him to me and he
healed him in one place it says jesus
wanted to heal the sick but he could
not do many miracles there because of their
unbelief some of the saddest words written in
scripture he could not do many mighty works
there because of their unbelief not because he
didn't want to not because they did not
need it he wanted to they needed it
they wanted it he wanted it but they
did not have faith is it possible my
brother sister there could be situations in your
life where god wanted to bring a solution
to that problem you wanted a solution to
that problem but you could not trust him
and so you lived all your life without
a solution to that problem and one day
you stand before the lord in the final
day of judgment and the lord says do
you know i wanted to solve that problem
in your life long long ago you need
not have lived 30 years with that problem
but you wouldn't trust me lord i wanted
it and the lord says i also wanted
it but i could only do for you
according to your faith and you couldn't trust
me is it possible i have often thought
about that myself i said lord what sorrow
there'll be in my heart if i stand
at the judgment seat of christ and you
look at me and say son there were
so many things more of course you did
something for me but there were many more
things i could have done in your life
and through your life if you had trusted
me a little more i will hang my
head in sorrow there oh god i will
say give me another chance and i won't
have another chance dear brother sister christian work
is not done with gifts and abilities and
talents and money is done by people who
have faith that god can do wonderful things
through them who can trust him that god
can take a weak helpless person and shake
kingdoms through him it doesn't matter what people
think about you if you can trust god
this is a law according to your faith
be it unto you do you believe that
god can accomplish great and mighty things through
you despite your lack of abilities despite your
low intelligence despite the lack of opportunities you
have don't complain about any of these things
don't say some man is suppressing you no
man can suppress you if god is a
plan for your life and you trust him
do you know how many people have tried
to suppress me and my ministry in the
last 30 years hundreds there are people who've
written books against me papers against me there
are people who spread stories about me all
over this country god will repay them one
day i leave that to god vengeance is
not mine i have nothing against them but
if they have hindered the work of god
god will deal with them one day but
what i want to say to you is
not one of them no book no article
no track no person no demon has ever
been able to hinder what god wanted to
do through me that depends entirely on my
faith where i had unbelief i limited god
and i'm ashamed of those places but no
human being can hinder what god has planned
for you let the whole world speak evil
about you let them all call you a
demon and a devil a false teacher a
heretic it won't make the slightest difference god
will accomplish his purpose through you it depends
entirely on your faith according to your faith
be it unto you if you can trust
this law and live by it and when
some things don't happen don't say oh well
maybe that was not the will of god
you know that is fatalism that is the
teaching of heathen religions that when something doesn't
happen we say oh maybe that's not the
god instead of considering maybe it was because
i didn't have faith remember what jesus said
about that widow who went to the judge
in luke chapter 18 i don't have time
to turn to it saying give me vengeance
against my adversary give me my legal rights
judge said nothing doing get away i have
no time for you she came back the
next day banged away at his door in
the middle of the night early morning afternoon
evening kept on pestering he kept on saying
get out get out get out get out
finally she got what she wanted she got
her legal rights she got deliverance from her
adversary supposing in that parable she had stopped
after going about 500 times and saying oh
well it's no use it would have been
as good as if she had never gone
if she had gone the 501st time she'd
have got something and at the end of
that parable you know what jesus said in
luke chapter 18 verse 7 he said when
the son of man comes will he find
faith like that widow had on this earth
where are the people who will persist and
say lord this is your will i have
to get it i'm determined that i'm going
to have a life free from anger i'm
determined that i'm going to have a life
free from murmuring complaining grumbling i'm determined that
i'm going to have a life where i'll
never be bitter against my wife i'm determined
that i'm going to have a life where
i rejoice always i'm determined that i'm going
to have a life where my life is
going to count for god where my life
is going to be a blessing to others
wherever i go when paul said to the
roman christians in romans 15 i know that
when i come to you verse 29 i
shall come in the fullness of of christ
how did he say that he said it
by faith many things we fatalistically accept oh
maybe it was not the will of god
it was the will of god but it
didn't get accomplished in your life because you
didn't trust him maybe you trusted in men
cursed is the man jeremiah 17 5 says
who leans upon man who makes flesh his
arm who expects man to help him who
runs to man when he's in trouble and
when he's in difficulty he immediately thinks oh
there's that brother who will help me cursed
be that man because he'll be like a
barren tree in the wilderness blessed is the
man jeremiah 17 verse 5 to 8 who
trusts in the lord he will be like
a tree planted by the rivers that's the
difference it's a law many are barren because
they trust in men they trust in human
resources they trust in money they trust in
people they trust in organizations they trust in
earthly things there are others who are constantly
fruitful despite all the opposition of men despite
all the opposition of demons because they trust
in god be one like that my brother
sister and be a living demonstration in this
country of a man a woman who trusts
god and whom god never let down throughout
your life let's pray faith comes
by hearing and hearing by the word of
christ god wants to accomplish a tremendous lot
in you and through you but as long
as you trust in your own resources your
own abilities in money in people in organizations
and in anything human god will never be
able to accomplish that in you he's waiting
for the day to come in your life
where you will trust him and lean upon
him totally heavenly father help us to be
among those who live by faith in your
word every day and to be a testimony
to this land in our generation we ask
in jesus name amen