Thru
“Eye’s that See”
Many people
miss the application that Scripture is a “continuous” revelation with all
topics flowing from Gen. 1:1 to Revelations 22:21. “All Scripture is God
breathed” and thereby God applied from start to finish for the same
understanding with like subject matter. Faith being one of these subjects.
Heb.11:1
says “now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things
unseen.” “All” mankind has need of faith, first for “salvation”, then for
“application.” Both “kinds” of faith have only one performance and that is to
produce miracles. Saving faith for the miracle of salvation in Jesus Christ,
and application faith for all the rest of the miracles that the Holy Ghost
would perform thru us for the Glory of the Father. Miracles in the name of Jesus, miracles thru
prayer, miracles thru prayer cloths or the laying on of hands. Faith is
involved in all miracles. “Aside from faith it is impossible to please God”. So
all applications of Christian faith lead to miracles and please God.
There are
different levels of faith, they are:
No faith:
The unbeliever or believing ignorant: 1 Cor 14: 23, “ If therefore the whole church be
come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?” In this Scripture the unlearned Christian,
(or one who doesn’t believe in, or has never been instructed in the gifts of
the Holy Spirit), are put into the same arena as the unbelievers. They are
saved but like the unbelievers they have no faith that will make a difference
when it comes to “Glorifying their Father in heaven.”
Matthew 17:
17, Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse
generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you?
bring him hither to me.
Mark 9: 19, He
answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how
long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
Both Matthew and Mark
bring out the fact that the disciples were faithless (in some things) after
walking with Jesus for several years and having been sent out to “work
miracles” with success, they still didn’t have faith in some situations. These
were called by Jesus “faithless and perverse” because they perverted the Word
of God and couldn’t manifest His power allowing satan in this situation to be
victorious. No wonder Jesus used such strong words on His disciples. What would
He say to this generation?
Little faith: When someone says that they
believe and cannot manifest the Glory of God:
Matthew
8:26, “Oh ye of little faith, why are ye fearful? Then He arose and rebuked the
wind and the seas”.
Matthew 6: 29-30, Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day
is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you,
O ye of little faith?
Luke 12:
28, If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to
morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Matthew
16: 28, Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among
yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
Little
faith happens when you know the promises of God and fret over whether or not
God will bring them to pass. Food, rainment, finances, protection, and divine
guidance are part of the promises that quite frankly make most of us “of little
faith”.
Then there
is great faith: These are those who hear the Word of God and believe without
understanding or reason, just because God said it “so be it”.
Matthew 8:10 KJV When Jesus heard it, he marvelled , and said to them that
followed , Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith,
no, not in all
of Israel
Matthew 8:26 KJV And
he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then
he arose , and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm
Then Jesus answered
and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be
it unto thee even as thou wilt . And her daughter was made whole from that very
hour.
When Jesus heard these
things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about , and said unto the people
that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith,
no, not in Isreal.
Great
faith takes place when one who “talks” with Jesus, and hears His voice, acts on
His words whether alone or in a crowd. Every Christian (that means all who call
upon His name) is required to develop Great Faith. It is our promise from God
and a command to perform at that level. What part of “go ye into all the earth”
performing miracles and defeating every bondage of the enemy is a suggestion?
Are we willingly part of a perverse and faithless generation? Does doctrine
disarm us? Does fear bind us? Or do we just not believe the Word of God and know
better. Oh, some say, that ended with the Apostles. Well if breaking one of
these commands makes you a sinner in the same manner as all sinners then God
breaking/ending one command makes all His commands void and thereby salvation
is of no effect. Excuses don’t work in the Kingdom of God. Let’s look at it in
another way, God only requires of us that which He has already promised to do
for us. Let me reiterate this: God only requires us to give back to Him what He
already promised to give to us. This is called “Obedience.” He never asks of us
what we cannot do by His love and power.
Be Saved!
Be
Baptized!
Be Filled
with the Holy Spirit!
Find your
calling and election then receive the Gifts that the Holy Spirit empowers you
with!
Then “Go
ye into all the earth!” Preach the Gospel, Heal the sick, raise the dead, cast
out demons!”
If we say
we believe the Word of God then we should perform the word of God. The consequences
of not doing so makes us like other powerless religions that “lay heavy burdens
on man and doesn’t lift a finger to help them”. God made sure that Faith in
Christ and believing the Gospel came with “power”. Inexplicable power to set its
message apart to all the earth as being the only True Faith. One that sets
free. “You will know the truth and it will set you free.” “I Am” the way the
truth and the life”. Jesus proved who He was by the “miracles” He performed
that He seen His Father in Heaven doing and said “if you don’t believe my
words, believe the miracles you see me work.” What set Jesus apart in preaching
and teaching from other sects of the time (Pharisees, Sadducees, and Herodians)
was “power” and “Truth.” Let’s also set to remembrance that the Priests were
the original “doctors” in the OT. People with health issues were to go to the
Priests to “do what they say in accordance with the law” and healing was to
take place giving obedience and faith in the Law power to manifest God’s
presence. This is why the powerless sects of the time took offence to Jesus
because He was backed up by God His Father in His preaching by “signs and
wonders” and the sects had lost their power or proof that God was with them.
There is nothing new in all the earth, we are repeating history if we don’t “manifest”
God’s power promised to us in this generation. What then makes us different? No
wonder this nation and the whole world is getting darker and darker, “we have
put our lamp under a bushel.”
Today the
muslims are gaining numbers over every other “religion” simply because they
have bigger families. We are being outnumbered because we fail to “inherit the
earth” by not allowing God to open and close the womb. The odd thing about this
one phenomena is that most of the reasons for being disobedient in this area is
health and finances, the very things that God promises us to make a difference
in our lives. If we are commanded to “go out, heal and deliver” then what about
our own healing and deliverance? Why are we bound to be ineffective if this
great power is promised to us?
We may
not see it but the whole world does…………….
Other
religions laugh at our “ineffectiveness”. We have the “sure” promise of “power”
they have dumb idols, which hear not nor speak not, and their influence is
greater than ours. Today we Christians rely on “My Word will not come back void”
as the only hope we have. We have broken the “Word of Truth” and caused the
power of God to be of none effect. We
have “ruptured” the Word of God and the Revelation of Jesus Christ by our lack
of faith.
What can
we do?
2 Chron
7:14
If my people, which are called by my name,
shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked
ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal
their land.
Seek my
face=believe My Word, turn from their wicked ways=be obedient, then I will hear
from heaven, forgive their sins (of disobedience) and heal their land (all the
earth)=and manifest Himself in power to prove the Truth of the Gospel that we
preach/live.
Preach/live
is a good point to make also. Preach the Truth then simply live what you
preach. I have always believed that when God gives a message to the pastor to
preach it first is for him then the congregation. Here is why: “the student
will only be equal to his teacher”, teachers with limitations will produce
students with limitations. Jesus said this about Himself in relationship to us,
and we are being “conformed to His image and likeness”.
This is
God’s goal for each of us. Each of us should be more and more like Jesus, “we
must decrease He must increase”. It is a continual process that takes the Holy
Spirit working in us to accomplish.
Believe
His Word and continue in the Spirit and faith thus fulfilling the heart of God
to all mankind.
Love
J&E
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