1
00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:04,100
Thank you for singing The Way 
You Sang today. 

2
00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:05,600
Wasn't it? 
A blessing? 

3
00:00:06,300 --> 00:00:08,000
I could have kept going. 
Amen. 

4
00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:15,000
Amen. 
It's a privilege to be in a 

5
00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,000
house that loves the Lord with 
all their hearts and I know that

6
00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,700
you don't just love singing, you
love singing the word of God and

7
00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:26,400
because of that God is honored 
and we are edified and we 

8
00:00:26,407 --> 00:00:28,300
continue to Worship in the word 
of God. 

9
00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:32,400
So meet me in Mark chapter 7 in 
verse 24. 

10
00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,500
We will read a few verses and 
we'll see what the spirit of the

11
00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:44,400
Lord has to say to us today. 
Mark 7:24. 

12
00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:49,900
And from there, he arose and 
went to the region of Tyre and 

13
00:00:49,900 --> 00:00:55,000
sidon and he entered a house and
did not want anyone to know yet.

14
00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,300
He could not be hidden, but 
immediately a woman whose little

15
00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:03,600
daughter had an unclean Spirit 
heard of him and came and fell 

16
00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:08,000
down at his feet. 
Now, the woman was a gentile a 

17
00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,900
syrophoenician by birth and she 
begged him to cast The Demon out

18
00:01:12,900 --> 00:01:15,600
of her daughter and he sent to 
her. 

19
00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,900
Let the Don't be fed first for 
it, is not right to take the 

20
00:01:19,900 --> 00:01:24,500
children's bread and throw it to
the dogs, but she answered him. 

21
00:01:24,500 --> 00:01:27,300
Yes. 
Lord yet, even the dogs under 

22
00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:31,400
the table, eat the children's 
crumbs and he said to her, for 

23
00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:37,400
this statement, you may go your 
way, the demon has left your 

24
00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:42,000
daughter, and she went home and 
found the child lying in bed and

25
00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,900
the demon gone. 
Among all the fears and all the 

26
00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:49,400
concerns that our culture is 
facing today. 

27
00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,400
None can be more unsettling than
that, which relates to the 

28
00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:59,900
safety, the Purity, the 
development of our children. 

29
00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:04,600
I'm not speaking about the 
natural concerns and anxieties 

30
00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,400
that we might have for our 
little ones. 

31
00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,400
That is not the primary voice of
concern that we are hearing 

32
00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:14,000
across this nation. 
I'm speaking about a disturbing 

33
00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:20,800
notion that is Raising protests 
from people all across This 

34
00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,900
Beloved Country. 
And as you know, there is a 

35
00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:27,500
gross level of evil and 
perversion that is being pushed 

36
00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:33,400
on in our classrooms, in our 
libraries, in our media, outlets

37
00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:38,500
and they are preying on the most
vulnerable Among Us, the most 

38
00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:42,700
impressionable. 
And those who defend such an 

39
00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:49,200
agenda, identify this type of 
movement as being Progressive as

40
00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:54,100
being educational. 
But anybody who has a basic 

41
00:02:54,100 --> 00:02:58,400
biblical worldview can attest 
and discern. 

42
00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:01,900
That this is something much more
cynical. 

43
00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:06,800
Much more concerning that there 
is a force behind this 

44
00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,200
propaganda. 
It's more than a political plan.

45
00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,500
It's more than liberal ideas. 
it's even more than demented, 

46
00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:19,300
people in power who are imposing
their Twisted lust, On those 

47
00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:24,700
that we love deeply. 
Know what, we see what we 

48
00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:27,300
perceive, because of what we 
have in our hands, the word of 

49
00:03:27,308 --> 00:03:31,900
God, we can safely conclude that
at the center of it all is 

50
00:03:31,900 --> 00:03:37,800
demonic Powers at work. 
Unseen forces influencing the 

51
00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:43,800
minds of people to adopt 
doctrines that are deadly and so

52
00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,100
many ways. 
And it seems unprecedented, 

53
00:03:47,100 --> 00:03:49,400
right? 
Like we haven't seen this before

54
00:03:49,700 --> 00:03:52,100
and there are some aspects to 
that that is true. 

55
00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,200
But the concept the possibility 
of unclean spirits harassing 

56
00:03:57,900 --> 00:04:03,000
preying on influencing 
tormenting children is no new 

57
00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000
idea, concerning the word of 
God. 

58
00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:08,600
It's throughout the scriptures 
and one of the strongest 

59
00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,500
examples of that. 
Tragic reality is what we have 

60
00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:16,000
here before us in this text. 
Here we have an incident here we

61
00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,100
have a testimony of a young 
little girl who's under the grip

62
00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:23,000
of the evil one. 
And more than that. 

63
00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,900
We see here that there is 
lessons instructions, insights 

64
00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,100
that proved more than just the 
highlighting of demonic 

65
00:04:31,100 --> 00:04:35,300
activity, that is an example 
more than just, what the Lord is

66
00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:38,700
able to do over these dark 
Forces, something that we've 

67
00:04:38,700 --> 00:04:42,100
covered over and over. 
Again, know what we have here, 

68
00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:45,400
primarily something that I hope 
will inspire you and it is this 

69
00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,700
how one's faith? 
Properly exercised. 

70
00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,400
Can actually overcome these 
forces of darkness in the lives 

71
00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,100
of those, that we deeply care 
for. 

72
00:04:57,300 --> 00:05:01,900
That's the essence of the story.
You have a mother, resilient a 

73
00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:07,100
mother courageous, a mother 
Fearless who goes to Great 

74
00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:11,600
Lengths to stand in the gap for 
her precious little baby and it 

75
00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:15,100
really shows simply that your 
faith can go beyond what God can

76
00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:18,300
do for your own life. 
But what he can do in the lives 

77
00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:20,800
of those that you desire to see 
changed. 

78
00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:25,100
And my prayer in preparation for
this message is to fold, it's 

79
00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:28,200
very simple. 
Number one, if you have lost 

80
00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,800
your grip, if you have lost your
Zeal, if you have abandoned your

81
00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,500
post in the place of 
intercession. 

82
00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:36,600
That you would be freshly 
inspired by the word of God. 

83
00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:40,400
To put your hands back on the 
plow and to believe him again 

84
00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,700
that through your faith, things 
can happen. 

85
00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:49,600
And if you are praying, if 
you're still believing, I pray 

86
00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,500
that this message would serve 
which serve you like the hands 

87
00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:57,800
of air and Earth who kept the 
hands of Moses up, while he was 

88
00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:59,900
standing in the gap for Joshua 
while he was fighting the 

89
00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:03,700
amalekites. 
And so what we have before us is

90
00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:07,300
quite simple. 
What we have before us here is a

91
00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:12,200
teaching about a woman's Faith, 
a woman's faith that has certain

92
00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:15,900
qualities. 
That make it not just Faith, but

93
00:06:15,900 --> 00:06:18,900
great faith. 
The best way to go about this 

94
00:06:18,900 --> 00:06:22,100
teaching is to have marks 
account with Matthews, version 

95
00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:24,100
opened before us. 
And so I encourage you even from

96
00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:27,500
now, go to Matthew 15 and tuck 
your hand there while you have 

97
00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:30,600
Mark chapter 7 with you because 
we're going to go back and forth

98
00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,200
between these two together. 
Get a holistic view of what's 

99
00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,400
Happening Here. 
And if you don't think that this

100
00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,100
is worthy of our time, if you 
don't think that we need to dig 

101
00:06:39,100 --> 00:06:42,800
into this, I want you to let 
Christ concluding statement 

102
00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,500
about this woman and her 
encounter with Christ to settle 

103
00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:48,500
the matter. 
Look there in verse 28 of 

104
00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:51,100
Matthew 15. 
What is Jesus exclaim? 

105
00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:54,400
He says Hear o woman. 
Great is your faith. 

106
00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:59,800
Great is your faith. 
What About This Woman's Faith 

107
00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:04,400
was so great. 
And why is it important for you?

108
00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,800
And I to know, well I can only 
think of one main reason why 

109
00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,400
it's important to know because 
Hebrews 11:6 tells us that with 

110
00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:13,200
him. 
It is impossible. 

111
00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:17,700
It is impossible to please him 
without faith. 

112
00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:20,400
So, here's the point. 
If you are a person in this 

113
00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,100
place who desires, who 
experienced the regenerating 

114
00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:27,900
work of God and including in 
that work, is this desire to, 

115
00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:31,700
please? 
God to actually give him Joy. 

116
00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:34,900
A to bless him, then you'll be 
concerned with this message, if 

117
00:07:34,900 --> 00:07:37,300
you don't have that ambition in 
life, then this will mean 

118
00:07:37,300 --> 00:07:39,400
nothing to you, absolutely 
nothing. 

119
00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:41,800
So I hope that it will touch you
to consider it. 

120
00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,300
And so we want to know what it 
is that pleases God, it's Faith,

121
00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:48,500
okay. 
But there is a measure of faith 

122
00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:52,800
that Christ commends, there are 
different levels of faith. 

123
00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,900
And what we want to strive for 
is the greatest because he is 

124
00:07:56,900 --> 00:07:59,400
worthy of the greatest. 
And so this is more than just 

125
00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,800
examining a woman's Faith. 
This is actually looking at the 

126
00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,900
qualities of great faith, great 
faith. 

127
00:08:07,300 --> 00:08:11,700
And for my personal study, we 
will draw five qualities. 

128
00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,300
Of great faith. 
That come from a desperate 

129
00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:18,800
mother. 
Let's read again in verse 24 and

130
00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,400
preparation for this encounter. 
Mark informs Us in great. 

131
00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,200
Detail of the whereabouts of 
Christ. 

132
00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,300
We're told her that he went to a
home, that's not uncommon Jesus 

133
00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:30,800
visited many homes, but what is 
strange and interesting to us is

134
00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,000
the location of this home in the
region of Tyre and sidon which 

135
00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,700
is modern-day Lebanon. 
And why is that interesting? 

136
00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:41,700
Because and this mission for 
some reason, Jesus goes beyond 

137
00:08:41,700 --> 00:08:46,200
the borders of Israel and stays 
within Gentile territory. 

138
00:08:46,900 --> 00:08:49,200
Why? 
Well, from the impression of 

139
00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,400
this tax, it is not for Ministry
purposes and we know that Jesus 

140
00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,400
primary mission was what To the 
lost sheep of Israel, not to the

141
00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,200
Gentiles. 
And so from that, we can 

142
00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:02,100
conclude that Jesus is not there
to necessarily do what he did 

143
00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:04,200
within the boundaries of Jewish 
country know. 

144
00:09:04,300 --> 00:09:08,600
Jesus is there for some kind of 
repose, he's seeking some kind 

145
00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,500
of solitude. 
He perhaps is even seeking a 

146
00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:14,600
place where he can instruct his 
disciples privately, something 

147
00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:19,600
that he can barely do within the
cities of his upbringing and 

148
00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:23,400
around Israel itself. 
But what's more with meditation,

149
00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,500
here is Mark's additional phrase
because Matthew tells us he goes

150
00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:30,200
to the tyre and sidon but Mark 
add something else to verse 24 

151
00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,700
and it is this yet, he could not
be hidden. 

152
00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:39,100
I love that. 
And that's to be expected. 

153
00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:41,600
And the reason why it's to be 
expected is because the people 

154
00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,200
of Tyre and sidon according to 
Mark 3, you've been with us in 

155
00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:49,200
Mark, came to Jesus in Israel 
because they've heard of him, 

156
00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,800
his influence went beyond the 
borders and you had some of 

157
00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:57,200
these Lebanese people, right? 
Coming into Israel and seeking 

158
00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,500
for a touch from this Jesus that
they have heard of. 

159
00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,700
And so it is no surprise that 
when Christ comes with his, his 

160
00:10:02,700 --> 00:10:06,000
group of disciples that he was 
noticed, they were able to 

161
00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,600
recognize him and As we know the
new spread very quickly, he 

162
00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,400
could not be hidden the 
commentary for this context but 

163
00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,800
a principle that lives on today,
isn't that right? 

164
00:10:19,900 --> 00:10:22,400
Christ cannot be hidden in many 
places. 

165
00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,600
History. 
Has to acknowledge Him. 

166
00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:33,500
Philosophers cannot ignore him. 
World, religions and cults. 

167
00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:39,100
Cannot silence him. 
And you have even those who with

168
00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:43,600
all the faces of different 
faiths, choose to use his name 

169
00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:48,700
to Proclaim, dishonorable 
blasphemies Christ, can't be 

170
00:10:48,700 --> 00:10:51,500
hidden. 
They've tried to buried him, 

171
00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:56,100
they try to bury his book and he
still dominates history. 

172
00:10:56,100 --> 00:11:00,900
He influenced time itself. 
And if that is true with the 

173
00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:04,300
things around our world, how 
much more true is it? 

174
00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:10,100
When Christ chooses to abide in 
the heart of the repentant, how 

175
00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:12,900
much true is it? 
That when Christ lives in the 

176
00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:15,900
home of your soul, he cannot be 
hidden. 

177
00:11:16,700 --> 00:11:21,000
He cannot be ignored. 
Something happens those around. 

178
00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,400
You will recognize something 
about you. 

179
00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:26,000
You know, Paul said, many 
astounding things in his letters

180
00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,800
and one of the things that I 
believe are just remarkable, 

181
00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:32,000
Able as a statement, something 
that we memorize in the danger 

182
00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,900
of memorization to become 
familiar and familiarity can rob

183
00:11:34,900 --> 00:11:37,600
us of the power of such 
statements. 

184
00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:42,400
And he says this, I'm crucified 
with Christ. 

185
00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,300
Nevertheless, I live and who 
lives? 

186
00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:51,000
It's Christ, who lives in me? 
It is no longer I who live but 

187
00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,800
Christ who lives in me, lives in
you. 

188
00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:59,100
What does that mean? 
Or you can have a series of 

189
00:11:59,100 --> 00:12:01,600
messages on what that means. 
Christ lives in me. 

190
00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:04,900
No wonder this man was 
unordinary. 

191
00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,800
No wonder he was different. 
No wonder. 

192
00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,900
He interpreted life itself with 
a different frame of mind 

193
00:12:10,900 --> 00:12:13,600
because this unordinary man had 
an extraordinary person 

194
00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,800
animating him and energizing and
Christ lives in me. 

195
00:12:18,100 --> 00:12:21,000
That cannot be a statement made 
without there being implications

196
00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:26,500
observable implications. 
He cannot be hidden when he has 

197
00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:29,600
received things change. 
When he has received people 

198
00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,200
perceive and they'll do a better
days than others. 

199
00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,900
When we walk in the spirit, the 
fragrance of Jesus, surely 

200
00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:39,400
remains on us, but that's not 
the main point of the message. 

201
00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:43,700
What we have here is this woman 
now in this setting coming to 

202
00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:45,700
Christ, and you heard me say 
that, we're going to look at 

203
00:12:45,700 --> 00:12:49,600
five qualities of great faith. 
And here is the first quality of

204
00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:50,500
great. 
Faith. 

205
00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,600
Number one, Faith that is put 
into action. 

206
00:12:55,300 --> 00:13:00,100
When the news of Jesus is 
arrival became known this woman 

207
00:13:00,100 --> 00:13:03,100
according to Mark with this 
very, very, very familiar word. 

208
00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:08,000
In Mark's gospel immediately 
went to him She did not delay. 

209
00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,900
She did not wait and this is no 
insignificant detail. 

210
00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:14,700
Because it highlights her 
urgency and her urgency 

211
00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:18,500
communicates. 
The high honor that she held for

212
00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:22,100
Christ, the great trust that she
had in Christ. 

213
00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,500
She came to him as soon as she 
could and I believe it's because

214
00:13:26,500 --> 00:13:29,200
this woman knew that the 
opportunity at hand would be 

215
00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,800
soon, quickly lost. 
It's not very common for Christ 

216
00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,100
to come into this place and I 
will not miss out on this 

217
00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:38,000
opportunity. 
Must find them because of Christ

218
00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,700
says who he says he is and if he
can do what he says, he can do 

219
00:13:40,700 --> 00:13:42,800
what other people says he can do
that. 

220
00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,400
I must come to him before. 
I lose this opportunity, I will 

221
00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,600
not wait, any longer, and it's 
clear that she had some level of

222
00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,000
understanding of who he was as a
person because Matthew versions 

223
00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,500
tells us what that when she came
to Christ, she identified them 

224
00:13:56,500 --> 00:13:59,600
as the son of David. 
The son of David. 

225
00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:04,300
This is a Canaanite, this is a 
gentile, this is the one who 

226
00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:09,000
lived among pagans and idols. 
And this is someone who 

227
00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,300
acknowledged and understood 
Christ in a way that the Jews 

228
00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:15,200
didn't even acknowledge the Jews
called Jesus, many things. 

229
00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,400
And a rarity was the son of 
David. 

230
00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,600
And yet this woman confidently, 
approaches Christ and 

231
00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:24,600
acknowledges his Messianic 
title. 

232
00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,700
You are the one that the Old 
Testament for told you are the 

233
00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:30,900
one that was Aside about I see 
you as such. 

234
00:14:31,700 --> 00:14:36,300
And so with this knowledge, she 
acts on it, that's the main 

235
00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:41,700
point with what she knew she 
acted upon, and she did not 

236
00:14:41,700 --> 00:14:46,000
delay and I'm afraid that the 
posture of this woman's heart is

237
00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,200
rarely imitated week after week.
How many people hear about 

238
00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:53,300
Christ? 
Week after week, how many people

239
00:14:53,300 --> 00:14:54,900
hear about, who he is, what he 
can do. 

240
00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,500
The promises in the rewards that
await for those who turn from 

241
00:14:57,500 --> 00:15:00,900
their sin and embrace him. 
And yet, with all of that in 

242
00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:06,400
our, in our free country, how 
much of what we learn is applied

243
00:15:06,500 --> 00:15:09,700
with urgency. 
If applied, at all, let's be 

244
00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:12,000
honest. 
Let me give you a test, my 

245
00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,500
brother. 
Let me give you a test my 

246
00:15:13,500 --> 00:15:18,100
sister, if you remember, I 
challenge you at the end of this

247
00:15:18,100 --> 00:15:20,800
message at the end of this 
message. 

248
00:15:21,900 --> 00:15:27,100
Pause and listen to your heart. 
What will they say? 

249
00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,000
Will it be something along the 
lines of that was pretty 

250
00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,000
thought-provoking? 
I never heard a sermon on this 

251
00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,500
syrophoenician woman like that 
maybe won't be impressed at all.

252
00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:42,200
Or will your heart turn to the 
Lord and hopeful confession? 

253
00:15:43,300 --> 00:15:45,400
And utter something along the 
lines of, oh, God. 

254
00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:49,500
If that is what great faith is 
to you. 

255
00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:52,600
I want it. 
You see the difference? 

256
00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,000
Do you hear the difference 
between hearing truth and 

257
00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,800
letting your faith connect with 
that truth? 

258
00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,600
You see the difference between 
it, reaching your ears and it 

259
00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,600
coming down into your heart and 
possessing the seat of your will

260
00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,900
and your affections. 
There's a great difference. 

261
00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,000
Hearing something about Christ 
is not the same as linking, your

262
00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,600
faith with it and linking your 
faith activating. 

263
00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,200
Your faith is not some passive 
thing that awaits emotional 

264
00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,800
stimulation to engage in. 
It's a conscious choice. 

265
00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:31,200
If this is true, I will believe 
it and I will act on it and 

266
00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:36,000
whatever this truth demands will
demand my obedience that's Faith

267
00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,600
whether your emotions accompany 
it or not. 

268
00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:46,800
What we do with what we here, 
greatly matters to God. 

269
00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,100
Greatly matters to God and 
ultimately our faith is 

270
00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:55,800
demonstrated and materialized 
with exactly that. 

271
00:16:56,100 --> 00:17:01,900
Here's what I will do based on 
what I just learned be ye doers 

272
00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:05,599
of the word and not hearers. 
Only what kind of command is 

273
00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:08,300
that, that's a command that 
indicates that we are very 

274
00:17:08,300 --> 00:17:12,400
susceptible to just being. 
Here's this woman was not such a

275
00:17:12,408 --> 00:17:16,400
person, she heard about Christ. 
She knew something about Christ.

276
00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,500
And when the opportunity came, 
she moved on it. 

277
00:17:20,500 --> 00:17:22,500
And she said, this is my faith. 
That's the basis. 

278
00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:24,900
Not just of great faith. 
That's the basis of faith. 

279
00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:27,800
Faith without works is 
absolutely dead. 

280
00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,800
It's lifeless, it has no breath 
in it. 

281
00:17:30,900 --> 00:17:32,900
And so we see this woman who 
acts on her faith and all. 

282
00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:35,100
There's a desperation. 
All, there's an urgency. 

283
00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:39,800
Oh, she prioritizes this moment 
and this is something that Jesus

284
00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,300
Will recognize as great because 
it will be built on which brings

285
00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:46,700
us to the second Point. 
Her faith was not only acted on 

286
00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,600
the second element is second 
aspect of great. 

287
00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:53,100
Faith is seen here. 
Her faith was humble. 

288
00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:56,700
Great. 
Faith is humble faith. 

289
00:17:57,700 --> 00:18:01,500
And here in verse 25, we see 
here that this woman not only 

290
00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:06,600
came to Christ but fell down at 
his feet and in Matthew, 15 22. 

291
00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,800
We realized that there's a full 
of picture provided about her 

292
00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:11,600
humility and it is in her 
statement. 

293
00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,100
She says the first thing, she 
says, when she comes to Christ 

294
00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:20,600
she says have mercy on me. 
O Lord have mercy on me so you 

295
00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,100
have the physical posture of 
humility and you have what is 

296
00:18:23,100 --> 00:18:25,500
abiding in her heart overflowing
out of her mouth. 

297
00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:27,300
Have mercy on me. 
O Lord. 

298
00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:31,200
Lord, This Woman's Faith was 
great know this because her 

299
00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,500
request was presented on the 
basis of the mercy of the Lord 

300
00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:39,700
Jesus Christ. 
Prayer alone does not guarantee 

301
00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:43,400
God's ear. 
It's the heart behind the 

302
00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,600
petition that determines whether
we win his attention or not. 

303
00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,600
And there are so many clear and 
explicit versus about that, but 

304
00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,300
one of the most striking 
teachings is from the Lord 

305
00:18:53,300 --> 00:18:56,300
himself from the Lord himself, 
who gives a teaching about 

306
00:18:56,300 --> 00:18:59,400
prayer that inspires those who 
are discouraged but also 

307
00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,400
provides warning and gives us a 
fearful possibility of what can 

308
00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,600
happen to prayer to what we do 
with prayer. 

309
00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:10,800
And this is where, if you don't 
have the ESV, it will be more 

310
00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,300
clear, but if you if you do 
still, you can still follow 

311
00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:17,100
along but quickly go with me to 
Luke 18 and I want you to see a 

312
00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:19,100
verse. 
There's actually a phrase in a 

313
00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:23,700
verse that is often missed. 
And if you have something like 

314
00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:27,100
the King, James of the new King 
James or the NTSB, it's going to

315
00:19:27,108 --> 00:19:32,600
be more obvious, Luke 18, and 
verse 11, Jesus teaches about 

316
00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,900
prayer. 
Any teachers here in this 

317
00:19:35,900 --> 00:19:38,400
chapter about the Pharisee and 
the tax collector and he 

318
00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,600
Compares and contrasts as the 
two and here, in verse 11, we 

319
00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:46,700
have the Pharisee and it says, 
the Pharisee standing by himself

320
00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:50,200
prayed. 
Thus God, I thank you that I am 

321
00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,800
not like the other men 
extortioners unjust adulterers 

322
00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,400
or even like this tax collector.
Okay. 

323
00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,900
Do you see The annotation there 
by the word parade if you have 

324
00:19:59,900 --> 00:20:01,700
the ESV? 
See, the number one there. 

325
00:20:02,300 --> 00:20:04,900
When you look at the reference, 
you'll notice that there is an 

326
00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:08,000
additional phrase and the 
additional phrase is something 

327
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,400
that was actually added by those
translations that I just 

328
00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,000
mentioned to you. 
And it is this prayed with 

329
00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:19,300
himself or prayed to himself you
see that some of you are nodding

330
00:20:19,300 --> 00:20:23,000
your head because you see that 
prayed with himself, pray to 

331
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,400
himself. 
The ESV for some reason, 

332
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:29,100
translates it as standing. 
By himself prayed res. 

333
00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:33,000
The other transistors would say,
standing prayed with himself, or

334
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,200
pray to himself. 
There's a big difference. 

335
00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:40,500
I don't think that this is being
given to us to indicate that the

336
00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:45,000
man prayed in audibly. 
Or that he prayed at a distance.

337
00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:49,400
There's something here that 
distinguishes, his kind of 

338
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,600
praying, it was 
self-congratulatory praying. 

339
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,700
It was a recitation of his own 
goodness and his own 

340
00:20:57,700 --> 00:21:01,700
righteousness and his own 
worthiness, it was words 

341
00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:05,400
packaged. 
Yes to deliver to God, but 

342
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,900
ultimately for him to open up 
himself in to enjoy himself. 

343
00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:12,600
What you have here is a man. 
Essentially, you ready for this 

344
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:20,000
in his praying talking to 
himself, God didn't recognize 

345
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,200
it. 
God didn't hear it. 

346
00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:27,000
Oh sure, he addressed God in it.
But how much of our praying can 

347
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,200
actually be addressed to God, 
but for other people to hear, 

348
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:37,000
you see, he prayed to him self. 
And I read that and I thought to

349
00:21:37,008 --> 00:21:41,600
myself, Lord, how many people 
who are actually praying are in 

350
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:49,600
reality talking to themselves? 
What a frightful miserable 

351
00:21:50,500 --> 00:21:53,300
possibility? 
I don't want that. 

352
00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:55,800
Look at this. 
We're told that this man came to

353
00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,700
the temple. 
We're told that he stood. 

354
00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,500
We're told that he took him time
to, I guess verbalize something 

355
00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:04,300
some kind of spiritual 
discipline and the Lord 

356
00:22:04,300 --> 00:22:09,400
overlooked it completely. 
This man's fruitfulness, and the

357
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,200
effectiveness of his praying was
as good as somebody talking to 

358
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,200
themselves in a room by 
themselves. 

359
00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:19,800
Wow. 
How do we assure ourselves? 

360
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,400
That this is not something that 
we fall into? 

361
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,700
How do we assure ourselves that 
our prayers will actually reach 

362
00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:27,200
the throne of grace, instead of 
just remaining in the chambers 

363
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,400
of Our Own Heart? 
Well, you don't have to fear, 

364
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,600
Jesus gives us the key and it's 
not what this Pharisee. 

365
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,400
It's with the tax collector and 
you scroll down and you see in 

366
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:39,800
verse 13. 
But Luke 11, 18 rather verse 13,

367
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,600
but the tax collector standing 
far off with not even lift up 

368
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:47,000
his eyes to heaven. 
But beat his breast saying, God,

369
00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:51,300
be merciful to me. 
A sinner. 

370
00:22:53,900 --> 00:22:57,400
We're told later that this man 
went away Justified and the 

371
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,800
Pharisee didn't? 
And what was, what was the key 

372
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,500
that swung open the doors of 
Heaven? 

373
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,300
It was this man knowing that he 
deserved, absolutely nothing 

374
00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:11,500
that he asked for. 
That's the difference. 

375
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,000
If there's going to be any self 
awareness in your praying, Let 

376
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:21,400
It Be An acknowledgement of your
absolute unworthiness and God's 

377
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,000
willingness out of his kindness 
to Grant you what it is that you

378
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,800
are seeking him for and if we 
come with the confidence of our 

379
00:23:29,808 --> 00:23:32,300
own Merit and the false notion 
that we are deserving of what 

380
00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:36,000
God Can give as though we're 
doing God. 

381
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,300
A favor when we come to him, all
right? 

382
00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:39,100
Lord. 
You want us to pray? 

383
00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:42,800
Okay, here I am. 
Let's see what you can do. 

384
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,400
Ah, aha. 
No. 

385
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,900
You're gonna be praying by 
yourself and to yourself. 

386
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,600
The know we're no better than 
the Pharisee in this story. 

387
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,300
But this woman, this woman 
reflected, the attitude of the 

388
00:23:56,300 --> 00:24:00,200
tax collector. 
I am not appealing to my own 

389
00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:04,400
Holiness or my own godliness. 
I'm not coming in my arrogance 

390
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,700
to assume that just because you 
are God, and you have this power

391
00:24:07,700 --> 00:24:10,300
that nobody else has that. 
You have this responsibility to 

392
00:24:10,308 --> 00:24:15,500
do something for me, I am 
appealing solely upon your 

393
00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:19,100
mercy. 
In other words, if you're not 

394
00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:22,400
merciful to me, there is no 
point in me praying. 

395
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,500
Might as well pack up my stuff 
and go and never show my face in

396
00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:33,000
the temple again. 
The Prophet Daniel was, and is 

397
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,100
one of the most recognized men 
of Prayer in Redemptive history,

398
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,000
and the holy spirit. 
Gives us one of the most 

399
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,900
astounding prayers ever recorded
in all of holy writ. 

400
00:24:43,700 --> 00:24:45,900
And there in Daniel 19, you 
don't have to turn there. 

401
00:24:45,900 --> 00:24:47,700
This is how he concludes his 
prayer. 

402
00:24:47,700 --> 00:24:50,800
For we do not present are 
pleased to you because of our 

403
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,100
righteousness. 
For we do not present our please

404
00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:54,800
before you because of our 
righteousness. 

405
00:24:55,000 --> 00:25:00,000
But because of your great Mercy.
It's your mercy. 

406
00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:04,200
It's you being willing to give 
me what I don't deserve. 

407
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,600
And so if you come to the Lord 
great but come to him, broken 

408
00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:13,800
come to him needy, come to him 
with a realization that apart 

409
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:19,000
from him, overlooking your sin, 
overlooking your faults, 

410
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,900
overlooking your inconsistencies
because you are clothed with 

411
00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:26,800
Christ, then there's no praying.
There's no point to it at all. 

412
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,800
But if you do have that, you'll 
arrive that much closer to great

413
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,900
faith. 
Faith. 

414
00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:39,700
That has action faith. 
That is humble thirdly, what? 

415
00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:40,900
Makes This Woman's Faith. 
Great! 

416
00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:43,900
That makes us Inspire to see 
great faith. 

417
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:48,100
Her faith was persistent. 
Verse 26 of Mark. 

418
00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:51,500
Now the woman was a gentile and 
we're told they're in the second

419
00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:56,200
part of the verse, she begged 
him begged him to cast The Demon

420
00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:01,000
out of her daughter. 
The persistence is here in the 

421
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,700
begging and other instances. 
The Lord is willing and has 

422
00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:07,800
answered prayer answered request
answered, please. 

423
00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:11,900
Almost immediately, but he knows
exactly what to do with each of 

424
00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:15,300
us. 
And for most of us, if not, all 

425
00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:19,700
of us, if our faith is going to 
be great, if it's going to be 

426
00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:23,000
stretched, if it's going to grow
that, it must be met with some 

427
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,900
kind of challenge. 
There must be adversity, there 

428
00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:31,900
must be something that demands 
us to lean in demands us to push

429
00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:35,800
forward. 
The man's ass to, to shine a 

430
00:26:35,808 --> 00:26:38,300
little bit brighter as things 
get Grimmer. 

431
00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:43,600
And in This Woman's case was she
experienced that called for 

432
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,300
greater faith is something 
you're very familiar with. 

433
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,500
I'm sure of it. 
I'm no Prophet nor my son of a 

434
00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:52,600
prophet. 
But I have a feeling. 

435
00:26:53,900 --> 00:26:57,200
What was she met with that? 
Caused her to beg sound in 

436
00:26:57,208 --> 00:26:58,700
Matthew? 
15 23. 

437
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,400
But he did not answer her a 
word. 

438
00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:07,400
But he did not answer her a word
and his disciples came and 

439
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,200
begged him. 
Now, the disciples are begging 

440
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,600
saying, send her away for she is
crying out after us. 

441
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,200
Many reasons why we grow faint 
and prayer and I think one of 

442
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,100
the most devastating blows to 
consistency. 

443
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:27,800
Is divinely ordained delay. 
When God chooses not to answer 

444
00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:31,500
as quickly as you would like, 
and how discouraging is that 

445
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,100
when you give days and weeks to 
something? 

446
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:40,800
Only did see no change. 
Only for the Lord to seem to be 

447
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,600
indifferent or maybe even in our
gross, interpretation 

448
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,700
distracted. 
But I looked at the store and I 

449
00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:51,300
thought to myself, there's 
another perspective on this. 

450
00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:55,300
If I'm experiencing that 
suspenseful Silence from the 

451
00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:59,700
Lord. 
I should not see this as a 

452
00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:03,300
discouraging thing, but as a 
opportunity, what do I mean by 

453
00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:07,600
that? 
If it was not for this delay we 

454
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,500
would not have this display of 
great faith. 

455
00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:13,100
Do you realize that It was 
through the Lord. 

456
00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:18,700
Choosing not to answer that this
woman was able to be pulled into

457
00:28:18,700 --> 00:28:22,100
Greater Heights of trust, and to
Greater Heights of worship. 

458
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,700
The Lord silence here is not a 
sign for her to give up. 

459
00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:28,400
Nor is it a sign for you to give
up? 

460
00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:32,200
See it as an opportunity to even
give him more pleasure. 

461
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:38,500
Look at it this way when he 
chooses to remain mute, it only 

462
00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:40,900
pulled something more out of her
and it is no different for you. 

463
00:28:40,900 --> 00:28:45,400
And I if we choose to give faith
in that moment, what happens 

464
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,700
here in Matthew 15:24. 
It says in 23, he did not answer

465
00:28:48,700 --> 00:28:50,100
a word. 
Look at what happens. 

466
00:28:50,900 --> 00:28:55,200
She doesn't decrease, she 
increases she doesn't pull away.

467
00:28:55,300 --> 00:29:01,900
She moves forward, she doesn't 
stop, she succeeds and verse 24.

468
00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:04,900
He answered, I was sent only to 
the lost sheep of the House of 

469
00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:09,000
Israel, but she came and knelt 
before him saying Saying Lord 

470
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,500
help me. 
And he answered it is not right 

471
00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:14,800
to take the children's bread and
throw it to the dogs. 

472
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,500
She said yes. 
Lord, yet even the dogs eat the 

473
00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:19,400
crumbs that fall from their 
master's table. 

474
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,700
Okay, you're not going to answer
me things actually look like 

475
00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:23,300
they're going in the opposite 
direction. 

476
00:29:23,700 --> 00:29:25,900
I'm sure you felt that too. 
I felt it. 

477
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,800
It's as though my prayers are 
putting things in reverse and 

478
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:35,600
yet this woman still has the 
faith to call him Lord Your 

479
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,100
silent. 
The answers are not coming the 

480
00:29:38,100 --> 00:29:40,700
way I thought they would come 
Lord. 

481
00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:48,100
Lord, You're Still Lord. 
I think for many people when 

482
00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:51,000
they don't see God doing what 
they want, they they reconsider 

483
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,800
the lordship of Jesus Christ. 
Now, here's this woman 

484
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:59,200
reinforcing it doubling down. 
Remain. 

485
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,300
Absolutely unshakable. 
I'm sure you've noticed 

486
00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:05,500
something here. 
That's not easy to ignore that. 

487
00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:08,400
We have to address Jesus 
reference to dogs, right? 

488
00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:12,400
All the enemies of the Gospel 
love to use this text to show 

489
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:13,800
some kind of fault in the 
Saviour. 

490
00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:16,800
So let's look at it. 
It's not a derogatory term, it's

491
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,500
not a term that the Jews often 
use to identify the Gentiles 

492
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:22,200
know. 
If you look at the Greek, it's a

493
00:30:22,208 --> 00:30:25,100
unique word and it's a word that
describes a little dog, a 

494
00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:28,300
household pet, something that 
was cared for by families. 

495
00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:32,900
So Jesus here is not speaking 
about necessarily her identity 

496
00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:36,400
as a dog more. 
So as an analogy of priority 

497
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,500
that if you're in a house, the 
food is going to come to the 

498
00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:42,400
children before it comes to the 
animals. 

499
00:30:42,700 --> 00:30:46,000
And the response of this woman 
gives us the assurance that she 

500
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:51,100
understood the illustration, the
Gentiles are second, and this 

501
00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:54,900
period of Redemptive history and
this part of God's program, the 

502
00:30:54,900 --> 00:30:58,200
Jews are to receive a chance and
accepting their Messiah. 

503
00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:02,200
And so, she sees that right? 
Because even, Jesus alludes to 

504
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,200
that. 
It says, here about the children

505
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,300
being fed first, this is not an 
outright denial. 

506
00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:13,700
This is a matter of delay and 
this woman saw that. 

507
00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:17,600
And she, and this place 
recognizes what Christ is 

508
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,300
saying. 
And that's again, something that

509
00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:24,100
is unfamiliar, unfamiliar in the
sense that Jesus experienced so 

510
00:31:24,100 --> 00:31:28,000
much of the Jews. 
Who did not understand his 

511
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,800
sayings and here's a woman with 
great Insight, she was able to 

512
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,500
perceive it. 
And based on what Christ said 

513
00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:37,100
that positions, her not as the 
priority. 

514
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,800
Not only does she understand the
saying, unlike many of the Jews?

515
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:45,300
She was willing to accept it. 
How much of the encounters that 

516
00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:48,300
Jesus had with the leaders of 
the Jewish people especially 

517
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,700
aroused, arrogance, and pride 
and self-righteousness. 

518
00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:55,700
Not. 
So with this woman, So as Jesus 

519
00:31:55,700 --> 00:31:59,900
resist in a way all it does is 
highlight her humility. 

520
00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:02,800
Even more highlight. 
Her faith, even more you and I 

521
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,600
had the same opportunity to 
remember that. 

522
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,500
Again, that's a conscious Choice
Gaylord. 

523
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:10,700
If I'm going to be challenged 
here, that I'm going to continue

524
00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:13,600
to pray and I will continue to 
trust in you. 

525
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,800
She accepted it. 
Okay, I'm second place. 

526
00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:22,200
Let me be second place. 
I'm not even going to argue for 

527
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,400
the full meal. 
Is there crumbs left for me. 

528
00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:29,500
Do you have any crumbs? 
Anything from the table that I 

529
00:32:29,508 --> 00:32:32,400
can have? 
Because the crumbs of your mercy

530
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,200
are enough for me. 
If your power comes to me in 

531
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,600
crumbs, I know that it's enough 
to heal my daughter. 

532
00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:41,200
Do you see the faith? 
Doesn't it move? 

533
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,200
You aren't we inspired? 
Yes, and you should be, but what

534
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:49,800
did it require delay? 
What did it require not 

535
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,800
immediate Jeannie like answers 
resistance. 

536
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,900
Time. 
Pressure circumstances that seem

537
00:32:56,900 --> 00:33:02,800
to contradict. 
And then in that moment, we have

538
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,600
an opportunity to demonstrate 
and develop. 

539
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,700
A beautiful thing of worship. 
This woman here. 

540
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,600
Essentially saying, I may be 
wrestling for an answer, but you

541
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,400
are still Lord. 
And I'm not going anywhere. 

542
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,400
Now, I don't think that point is
new, you know, this point, 

543
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,900
prayer, perseverance, prayer 
persistence don't give up 

544
00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:27,500
praying, we all know that. 
Okay, I'm sure of that. 

545
00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:31,300
But over the years, I've heard a
very common question and usually

546
00:33:31,300 --> 00:33:34,000
from those who actually do pray.
And this is a question that I 

547
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,700
really appreciate a question 
that I've thought about, and the

548
00:33:36,700 --> 00:33:38,000
question goes something like 
this. 

549
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,300
Well, what do I know when to 
stop? 

550
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:48,200
How do I know that God's silence
in this season of prayer is him 

551
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:49,400
demanding? 
More faith from me? 

552
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,200
Or is it him? 
Just asking me to move on. 

553
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:58,300
Do I continue do I intensify do 
I put more energy into this? 

554
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,800
Is there any indication? 
Is there anything in the word of

555
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,800
God that instructs me to know 
when to see spraying? 

556
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,900
You know, what's fascinating? 
That is not even an instruction.

557
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:18,500
In the Bible, the emphasis is 
always to continue to strive to 

558
00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:22,600
be fervent. 
Not to give up to ask seek the 

559
00:34:22,699 --> 00:34:26,699
there's very little to work with
that would encourage and or 

560
00:34:26,699 --> 00:34:30,300
entertain the concept of 
calculating and estimating when 

561
00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:34,199
it is that we should stop. 
You see the opposite? 

562
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,600
To continue to press on but it's
still a valid question. 

563
00:34:40,300 --> 00:34:43,300
It's still a valid question and 
here's the thing. 

564
00:34:43,699 --> 00:34:46,500
According to my own studies, 
there are one maybe two 

565
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:49,699
instances in all of the Bible 
where you get an explicit 

566
00:34:49,699 --> 00:34:55,400
command from God not to pray, 
and it's not given and didactic 

567
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:59,600
literature, it's given in a 
unique instance, does anybody 

568
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,800
know one specific? 
The clearest example, where 

569
00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:09,900
Someone was told not to pray. 
Jeremiah. 

570
00:35:11,100 --> 00:35:13,500
I want you to see it for 
yourself in Jeremiah 7:16. 

571
00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:16,300
This is not the only time 
Jeremiah was instructed by the 

572
00:35:16,300 --> 00:35:19,700
Lord, not to pray, but it is the
first one and notice what the 

573
00:35:19,707 --> 00:35:40,100
Lord says to Jeremiah, Jeremiah 
7:16. as for you, do not pray 

574
00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:46,300
for this people or lift up a cry
or prayer for them and do not 

575
00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:50,300
intercede with me for. 
I will not hear you. 

576
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,100
That is the most explicit 
example of God. 

577
00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:59,900
Telling a servant not to pray. 
You go to the New Testament. 

578
00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:04,300
You see the exact opposite? 
So how do we reconcile these two

579
00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:07,600
things? 
Well, it's not clear but this is

580
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,500
what I believe we can make of 
it. 

581
00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:13,400
That if you want to know when it
is that you need to see sprang 

582
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:14,700
for something one, you got to 
ask yourself. 

583
00:36:14,700 --> 00:36:16,000
Is it even according to the will
of God? 

584
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,700
Many of us are praying about 
something that God has already 

585
00:36:17,700 --> 00:36:18,300
made. 
Clear? 

586
00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:21,100
Okay. 
Should I keep praying? 

587
00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:22,900
Yes, you should have stopped 
praying a long time ago. 

588
00:36:22,900 --> 00:36:25,500
Actually, God made it already 
clear. 

589
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,100
His word says what it says 
besides that. 

590
00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:32,800
For the unknowns, right? 
For the gray areas for things 

591
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,100
that are not necessarily mapped 
out, in the Bible concerning my 

592
00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:37,200
life. 
How do I know? 

593
00:36:37,700 --> 00:36:39,600
Well, based on this and the rest
of scripture, I think the best 

594
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,000
way to know is when God lets, 
you know, when he makes it 

595
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,600
abundantly clear, whether you 
should move forward or not, and 

596
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,500
he can do that. 
Super naturally, I believe that.

597
00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:52,500
And more often, he does a 
providentially where you will 

598
00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:55,300
know the spirit will give you 
wisdom to know, okay? 

599
00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:57,900
This is where I stop. 
Let me give you an example. 

600
00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:01,300
If you're praying about that 
person being your spouse. 

601
00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:05,100
If you're asking the Lord is 
this, the person I am to marry. 

602
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:11,500
And that girl gets married. 
You can stop praying. 

603
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,100
Okay, you don't need to know. 
Why should I stop praying? 

604
00:37:16,100 --> 00:37:19,600
It's not move on. 
If somebody else. 

605
00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:23,300
All right. 
Many examples, we can we can we 

606
00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:26,000
can look at how do I know if I 
keep praying for healing? 

607
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,100
How do I know if I keep praying 
for his healing? 

608
00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:31,600
Well, you keep praying you keep 
playing until God, heals or God 

609
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,000
takes him home, you keep 
praying. 

610
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,400
And I think that is the attitude
that the Bible gives us and 

611
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:42,000
calls us to persistent 
immovable, constant prayer, 

612
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,400
until he makes it known. 
Here's another example, with 

613
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,000
Paul in second, Corinthians 12 
and verse 8, three times. 

614
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,600
I pleaded with the Lord three 
times. 

615
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,300
I pleaded Are you speaking about
the sort thorn in his flesh? 

616
00:37:53,300 --> 00:37:56,400
Three times. 
I came to God and he said to me,

617
00:37:56,700 --> 00:37:59,600
what did he say to me, right? 
Then he tells them about how his

618
00:37:59,607 --> 00:38:00,800
grace is. 
Sufficient. 

619
00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:03,500
I wonder if the Lord did not 
speak to him three times. 

620
00:38:03,500 --> 00:38:05,100
How many more times Paul would 
have prayed? 

621
00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:09,700
It's on the third time that the 
Lord chose to reveal says look, 

622
00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:12,200
this is not going anywhere. 
My grace is sufficient for you, 

623
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,400
this is staying, but you're 
going to know my power in your 

624
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,000
weakness. 
So I see another example there. 

625
00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:20,900
Paul kept praying until some 
kind of answer came, some kind 

626
00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:22,700
of clarity, some kind of 
Revelation. 

627
00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:30,400
And this woman was persistent, 
she believed and even in Christ 

628
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,800
answer that seemed to be a no it
wasn't really a no? 

629
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:37,100
Remember it was the children 
must be fed first. 

630
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:42,200
And so she saw an Open Door 
there with those piercing eyes 

631
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,900
of faith. 
Okay, fine. 

632
00:38:44,900 --> 00:38:48,700
But they're still crumbs. 
Can I have some? 

633
00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:55,800
That doesn't offend God. 
It moves, God persistence. 

634
00:38:57,100 --> 00:39:00,900
Did you lose your persistence? 
Did you receive clear indication

635
00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:04,200
that you should stop? 
Or did you just lose heart? 

636
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,300
Persistent, faith is great faith
but it's not the only thing that

637
00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:15,800
makes Faith grade. 
We see here in Matthew now, In 

638
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,600
the same verse that I quoted to 
you about the Lord, not 

639
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,100
answering her word. 
Look at Matthew, 15:23 for the 

640
00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:22,300
fourth. 
Mark of great faith. 

641
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,400
It says your, but he did not 
answer her word and his 

642
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,600
disciples came and begging him 
saying, send her away for. 

643
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:34,300
She is crying out after us. 
So this is close to number 

644
00:39:34,300 --> 00:39:36,800
three, but it's not really. 
Number three, is her. 

645
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,800
Faith was persistent and the 
battle with her persistence was 

646
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,200
mainly between her and the Lord.
But here in point number four, 

647
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,900
is her. 
Faith was immovable immovable, 

648
00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:49,300
not by her own doubts, not by 
her. 

649
00:39:49,300 --> 00:39:51,900
Own sense of discouragement by 
outside forces. 

650
00:39:51,900 --> 00:39:53,400
This is actually my favorite 
point. 

651
00:39:55,100 --> 00:39:57,300
Her faith was a movable. 
So, what happens here is that, 

652
00:39:57,300 --> 00:39:59,700
this Lord, that this woman is 
clearly coming to the Lord, in a

653
00:39:59,707 --> 00:40:03,600
way, that's very, very obvious. 
And so obvious was that the 

654
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,900
disciples were right there, and 
they were engaging in this 

655
00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:09,500
moment, they were aware of it 
and it annoyed them. 

656
00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:14,300
I don't know how she did it but 
I just try to imagine there's a 

657
00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:17,100
lord. 
Slightly leaning over to the 

658
00:40:17,100 --> 00:40:18,600
other side. 
And here's this woman trying to 

659
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,100
get his attention and they're 
the disciples around saying when

660
00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:25,000
is this woman gonna stop? 
We came here, not for this. 

661
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,500
All of that kind of stuff is 
back there in Israel. 

662
00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:31,900
We're here on a little vacation 
and Lord do something please. 

663
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:38,100
You got to put an end to this. 
And I realized you that this 

664
00:40:38,100 --> 00:40:41,400
woman was not just challenging 
her faith by silence, or by 

665
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,800
Bleak, hope it was confronted by
the lack of spirituality of the 

666
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:50,500
Disciples of Jesus Christ. 
Magic coming to Jesus with your 

667
00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:53,700
problem, hearing those, who 
traveled to them, those who were

668
00:40:53,700 --> 00:40:58,700
closest to him treat you in this
way, Express how annoying you 

669
00:40:58,700 --> 00:41:03,800
are. that your presence is 
actually a pesky thing in that 

670
00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:07,700
you just want her to go away. 
Whether her problem is solved or

671
00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:12,000
not, imagine being a gentile. 
Holy heard from a distance of 

672
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,700
this Messiah and what he could 
do. 

673
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,200
And when you were visited by his
Representatives, this is the 

674
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:23,400
kind of stinking attitude. 
They give is it a strange 

675
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,900
concept for those who claim to 
follow answer Jesus to 

676
00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:27,500
demonstrate disappointing? 
Behavior? 

677
00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:33,000
Answer? 
No, no it's not a strange thing 

678
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,900
at all. 
Unfortunately too common That's 

679
00:41:35,900 --> 00:41:37,700
exactly what this woman is 
facing. 

680
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,400
You know what's so sad? 
Is that that's all it takes for 

681
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:47,300
people to lose faith. 
That's all it takes for people 

682
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,800
to cut their commitment with 
Christ just because some of his 

683
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,400
disciples treated you or said 
something about you. 

684
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,300
Write your parents come to 
church. 

685
00:41:58,300 --> 00:41:59,200
Hallelujah. 
Amen. 

686
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,600
When they go to, when they go 
home, they cuss and throw things

687
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,500
at each other. 
This is Christianity. 

688
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:09,600
This is Christianity. 
Mom and Dad. 

689
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:10,200
Come in here. 
Amen. 

690
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:11,100
Brother. 
How are you in the car? 

691
00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:12,800
They were eating each other 
alive. 

692
00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:17,500
This is Christianity. 
Are you coming to this place? 

693
00:42:17,500 --> 00:42:19,100
And you see people worshipping, 
you see? 

694
00:42:19,100 --> 00:42:21,100
Even people may be in Ministry 
and then you go on their social 

695
00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:22,900
media during the week and they 
look no different than the 

696
00:42:22,900 --> 00:42:26,000
heathen. 
They post worldly things, they 

697
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:30,700
look worthy, they sound worldly.
This is the same person at 

698
00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:32,000
church. 
And here is this, what? 

699
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,600
Christian, I don't think I want 
anything to do this. 

700
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,300
If this is Christianity, 
especially if they're serving in

701
00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:36,700
Ministry teams. 
No, thanks. 

702
00:42:37,900 --> 00:42:40,700
Huh. 
Or how about this one? 

703
00:42:40,700 --> 00:42:41,900
This one might hit close to 
home. 

704
00:42:41,900 --> 00:42:46,500
Forgive me. 
You know, my friends don't go to

705
00:42:46,500 --> 00:42:53,000
Prairie meeting anymore. 
Not really worth it. 

706
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,200
If they go, I'll go. 
But they haven't been in a 

707
00:42:57,207 --> 00:42:59,900
while. 
I think I'll just hang out at 

708
00:42:59,900 --> 00:43:04,900
home. 
It's not great faith. 

709
00:43:08,100 --> 00:43:10,900
That's bottom of the barrel 
faith. 

710
00:43:12,900 --> 00:43:18,900
That your commitment to the 
cause of Christ vacillates based

711
00:43:18,900 --> 00:43:23,300
on your environment, namely the 
people around you. 

712
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,500
Here you have these disciples 
begging Jesus, to send this 

713
00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:30,400
woman away. 
Can you imagine that? 

714
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,700
You don't want to my first 
exposures as a born-again 

715
00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:35,100
Christian when I went to a 
meeting. 

716
00:43:36,300 --> 00:43:40,400
As I went there, freshly fresh 
out of the oven saved. 

717
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,900
And somebody in this room can 
attest to that because they were

718
00:43:44,900 --> 00:43:49,300
there with me, there are people 
there openly making fun of me. 

719
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:51,600
During that I'm not trying to 
like poor on that. 

720
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:52,600
There's not like counseling 
session. 

721
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:59,700
I'm just trying to make a point.
And I couldn't believe it. 

722
00:44:02,100 --> 00:44:05,700
This happens. 
This happens. 

723
00:44:06,100 --> 00:44:09,500
What are you going to do? 
Are you going to let your faith 

724
00:44:09,500 --> 00:44:11,700
be dependent upon what other 
people claim to be Disciples of 

725
00:44:11,700 --> 00:44:16,900
Jesus do to you? 
Nothing of the sort with this 

726
00:44:16,900 --> 00:44:19,800
woman. 
This woman did not allow the 

727
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,900
poor attitudes of others, even 
Christ closest followers to 

728
00:44:23,900 --> 00:44:27,100
deter her prize. 
Run Christ, her eyes were on 

729
00:44:27,100 --> 00:44:30,100
Jesus. 
Her eyes was on his power, his 

730
00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:35,300
character, his word, his will. 
And so she stayed laser focus on

731
00:44:35,300 --> 00:44:38,600
him and him alone. 
And that is what Grace Faith, 

732
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,500
entails that you stay. 
The course, no matter what other

733
00:44:41,500 --> 00:44:44,600
people do there and with their 
Lane, you just stay the course. 

734
00:44:46,500 --> 00:44:50,000
And you trust. 
That as Christ Caesar 

735
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,700
conviction. 
Being unmoved. 

736
00:44:54,900 --> 00:44:58,800
That Commendation is on the way 
Commendation is on the way 

737
00:44:59,500 --> 00:45:02,600
immovable faith, not dependent 
upon people grow or not grow, 

738
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,900
whether people are consistent or
inconsistent with pure people 

739
00:45:04,900 --> 00:45:07,400
are hypocritical or faithful who
cares? 

740
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:13,000
This is Christ in me. 
I will be held accountable for 

741
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,900
the Lord. 
He is worthy of My Worship. 

742
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,700
Let the world go in a different 
direction, let people in my 

743
00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:20,700
church, Go a different 
direction. 

744
00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:24,800
This is between me and my master
is their Mutual accountability. 

745
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,800
Yes. 
Is there a called for us to look

746
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:28,600
at each other and to call each 
other out? 

747
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:29,900
When we need to it? 
Yes. 

748
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,300
Does that mean that we should 
tolerate people's sin? 

749
00:45:32,300 --> 00:45:36,200
No. 
But your faith is your faith. 

750
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:43,100
Is it a movable? 
we see here the last and final 

751
00:45:43,100 --> 00:45:46,800
point of great faith and it's 
really perhaps to us a strange 

752
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:51,900
characteristic but it has 
biblical verification Great 

753
00:45:51,900 --> 00:45:54,100
faith is not only faith that 
moves in action. 

754
00:45:54,100 --> 00:45:56,400
It's not only a faith. 
That radiates humility. 

755
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,300
It's not only a faith that is 
persistent. 

756
00:45:58,300 --> 00:46:00,100
It's not only a faith. 
That is immovable. 

757
00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:02,800
It is a faith. 
That knows how to stand in the 

758
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:07,300
gap. 
There are only two places in all

759
00:46:07,300 --> 00:46:09,900
of the New Testament where Jesus
identifies somebody's Faith as 

760
00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:13,200
great. 
Here, we see it in Matthew 15. 

761
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:14,500
We see it in Mark 7, and we see 
it. 

762
00:46:14,500 --> 00:46:17,200
Also Matthew chapter 8 with the 
Centurion. 

763
00:46:17,300 --> 00:46:18,800
What are the both of those 
things have in common? 

764
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,600
Yes, they were Gentiles. 
I understand that fully, I'm 

765
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,000
fully aware that what made these
people's Faith grades that they 

766
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,300
were Outsiders, who showed more 
trust and belief than the people

767
00:46:27,300 --> 00:46:29,500
that you would expect it from 
but there's more to it. 

768
00:46:30,100 --> 00:46:32,500
There's something about these 
two instances right where you 

769
00:46:32,500 --> 00:46:36,000
have the Roman Centurion and 
this woman coming to Christ and 

770
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,500
I believe one of those things. 
Additionally to the fact that 

771
00:46:38,500 --> 00:46:41,100
they were Gentiles is that they 
sought God. 

772
00:46:41,300 --> 00:46:45,600
For someone else. 
The Roman Centurion for his 

773
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:49,100
servant this woman for her 
daughter. 

774
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,100
And I think we can learn from 
this. 

775
00:46:52,100 --> 00:46:55,900
And what we can learn is that 
the Lord is deeply moved and 

776
00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:58,000
pleased. 
When he sees us exercising our 

777
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:05,000
faith on behalf of someone else 
And this is where the message 

778
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:09,400
comes full circle, right? 
What you have here is a young 

779
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:13,900
girl tormented by a demon and 
you have a mother who comes with

780
00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:17,300
absolute trust in the Lord that 
she can experience his grace. 

781
00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:22,400
And we don't know the details of
her condition, but it was enough

782
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,600
for her, as a mother to discern.
This is not erratic Behavior. 

783
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,800
This is not some psychological 
disorder. 

784
00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:38,000
This is Satan attacking my baby.
And so, she obviously Discerning

785
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,100
that knew where to go. 
Evidently whatever she trying to

786
00:47:41,100 --> 00:47:43,700
do in the natural had no 
success. 

787
00:47:43,900 --> 00:47:47,500
It came to no avail. 
And so with what she knew, she 

788
00:47:47,500 --> 00:47:50,600
came to Christ. 
And she said I have no strength.

789
00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:53,800
I have no strategy. 
I have no solution. 

790
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,700
You have to step in. 
Give me some crumbs. 

791
00:47:58,100 --> 00:48:02,300
You need to do something here. 
As I was meditating on this, I 

792
00:48:02,300 --> 00:48:04,800
thought that perhaps many 
parents are feeling the same 

793
00:48:05,100 --> 00:48:09,000
many uncles, aunts, 
grandparents, you've done 

794
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,700
everything that you can and all 
you're really doing. 

795
00:48:11,700 --> 00:48:15,300
At this point, is witnessing. 
Someone that you invested so 

796
00:48:15,300 --> 00:48:18,400
much in slipping away into the 
hands of the evil one. 

797
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:23,400
Their minds being infiltrated by
demonic Doctrine, Satan's agents

798
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:28,400
being sent to entice them away 
from The will of God that you 

799
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,400
would hope that your son or 
daughter would walk in. 

800
00:48:31,100 --> 00:48:36,200
And you've done your part years 
of EBS years of Sunday, school 

801
00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:43,600
years of personal discipleship 
to come to what And so you're 

802
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,200
discouraged and even more 
discouraged because whenever you

803
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,600
sit down with that teenager, 
whenever you sit down with that 

804
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:52,400
college student, you have the 
serious conversation, you tried 

805
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:56,200
to be as as Discerning as gentle
as possible, and all you're met 

806
00:48:56,200 --> 00:49:00,200
with is blank stares. 
Like, you could talk about 

807
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,800
anything else in the world and 
their eyes will light up when it

808
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,400
comes to faith in Christ. 
And his word is, Will you're 

809
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:09,800
talking to a hollow shell, maybe
even worse with others 

810
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:13,000
resistance? 
Rejection. 

811
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:21,300
Mockery. 
And there's this almost Panic as

812
00:49:21,300 --> 00:49:25,100
you're seeing somebody become a 
vessel for the evil one. 

813
00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:29,200
Instead of a vessel for God. 
Let me quote j.c. 

814
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:34,600
Ryle to you and I hope this 
encourages you quote, even when 

815
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:39,000
they being your children, even 
when they will not let us speak 

816
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,300
to them about religion, they 
cannot prevent us speaking for 

817
00:49:42,300 --> 00:49:46,300
them to God. 
That is right. 

818
00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:54,100
Be like this woman. 
All right, you're not going to 

819
00:49:54,100 --> 00:49:58,200
let me talk to you. 
I'll talk to God for you. 

820
00:50:00,900 --> 00:50:02,600
They're up against something 
when you do that. 

821
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:05,700
Let me encourage you. 
That's going to be a lot more 

822
00:50:05,700 --> 00:50:08,000
difficult for them to sin when 
you do that. 

823
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,400
Let me tell you that there will 
be like, lot Divine 

824
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,000
interruptions even though while 
they live in Sodom. 

825
00:50:15,900 --> 00:50:18,200
That's that's the whole point. 
I love that story about Abraham 

826
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:19,800
and lot. 
Here's a man who does not know 

827
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,200
whether he wants to evade 
judgment or stay with the people

828
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,100
that are going to experience the
judgment. 

829
00:50:26,300 --> 00:50:29,100
And we're told there in Genesis 
that it was because the Lord 

830
00:50:29,100 --> 00:50:31,500
remembered Abraham that law was 
delivered. 

831
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,700
Not because of lots Faith. 
Abraham's faith. 

832
00:50:37,500 --> 00:50:40,400
Have you lost that? 
Hope are you seeing them going? 

833
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:44,800
Wayward do you see no sign, no 
pulse of Life, are you praying? 

834
00:50:45,500 --> 00:50:47,500
I'm not trying to beat you here 
over over your head with a 

835
00:50:47,508 --> 00:50:48,400
Bible. 
So you better be praying. 

836
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,100
Trying to give you hope. 
I'm trying to get you excited 

837
00:50:50,100 --> 00:50:51,900
not to condemn you into the 
closet. 

838
00:50:53,100 --> 00:50:56,300
Are you praying? 
Have you called upon Heavens 

839
00:50:56,300 --> 00:50:58,800
resources? 
Have you called upon the holy 

840
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:03,200
spirit as an agent to come and 
to knock on their hearts and in 

841
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:07,500
a holy way to hunt them? 
until they realize their need 

842
00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:11,400
Great faith knows how to 
intercede. 

843
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,500
Great faith says, I'm not just 
believing what God can do for 

844
00:51:14,500 --> 00:51:15,600
me. 
I'm believing that what I can 

845
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,500
do. 
Yes, poor little me. 

846
00:51:17,700 --> 00:51:21,200
What I can do in prayer because 
of God's greatness, and mercy 

847
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:27,100
can change somebody else that 
moves God, you believe that if 

848
00:51:27,100 --> 00:51:30,600
you pray for someone so I can do
it, watch me do it. 

849
00:51:32,700 --> 00:51:35,600
It's a wonder to God. 
It's a spectacle. 

850
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:37,900
It's something that he actually 
Praises. 

851
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:39,800
You know? 
What's so sad? 

852
00:51:40,900 --> 00:51:43,200
The opposite is just as much as 
a Wonder to God. 

853
00:51:43,300 --> 00:51:46,800
Let me prove that to you and 
Isaiah 59. 16, we're told them 

854
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:49,400
that verse he saw about God, he 
saw that. 

855
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,600
There was no man he saw that. 
There is no man and wondered 

856
00:51:53,700 --> 00:51:56,700
that there was no one to 
intercede. 

857
00:52:00,100 --> 00:52:03,300
When Judah was going to hell in 
a handbasket. 

858
00:52:03,300 --> 00:52:06,200
You know what are the one of the
things that made God Wonder as 

859
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:13,100
he looked down whose interceding
Who has the faith, who has the 

860
00:52:13,100 --> 00:52:15,500
heart to actually believe that. 
If they stand in the Gap, in 

861
00:52:15,500 --> 00:52:18,700
prayer, I can do something. 
And it says, here that no one, 

862
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:26,800
no one. 
No one to intercede. 

863
00:52:27,700 --> 00:52:32,100
He wondered How is it that 
nobody's taking advantage of 

864
00:52:32,100 --> 00:52:34,600
this weapon? 
How is it that? 

865
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,900
Nobody is actually boldly coming
to my throne and believing that 

866
00:52:38,900 --> 00:52:41,900
I can do something from my 
Throne, how is it? 

867
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:46,000
He wondered but in this case 
with this woman, he wondered of 

868
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:52,500
her faith because in love she 
came and prayer. you know, 

869
00:52:52,500 --> 00:52:56,500
someone cleverly made a contrast
between Mark chapter 6 and Mark 

870
00:52:56,500 --> 00:53:01,700
chapter 7, In Mark, chapter 6, 
you have another mother. 

871
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,500
Who influenced her daughter for 
evil, remember herodias. 

872
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,700
She encouraged and stimulated. 
Her daughter to sin for her 

873
00:53:11,700 --> 00:53:13,900
selfish pleasure. 
And then you come to Mark 

874
00:53:13,900 --> 00:53:16,200
chapter 7 and you see a 
completely different mother. 

875
00:53:17,700 --> 00:53:22,000
One who came in, love for her 
daughter, and prayed for her. 

876
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,300
This week, we were away for a 
funeral. 

877
00:53:26,700 --> 00:53:33,400
Had a chance to sit with Some of
jewels family members to hear 

878
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,400
different just hearing different
testimonies, you know, the one 

879
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,800
thing I came away with those 
conversations. 

880
00:53:39,900 --> 00:53:42,600
Is that those Saints those early
Saints? 

881
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,100
The saints that had less 
distractions in life. 

882
00:53:46,700 --> 00:53:49,900
They prayed. 
They put that's why I took they 

883
00:53:49,900 --> 00:53:54,600
prayed very simple people. 
Nothing Fancy no big churches. 

884
00:53:54,900 --> 00:53:57,800
But boy, did they have 
testimonies and the common 

885
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:02,400
denominator was? 
They prayed a lot, they prayed a

886
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:06,200
lot. 
One of the stories I heard was 

887
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:10,900
how one of the men. 
Whenever a guest would come 

888
00:54:10,900 --> 00:54:13,900
over, he wouldn't do anything 
before they prayed together. 

889
00:54:15,100 --> 00:54:16,900
If anybody came or if you're 
going to somebody's house, 

890
00:54:16,900 --> 00:54:19,100
you're going to pray with that 
guy before you do anything else.

891
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,600
And I thought to myself, he 
jokingly said that made some 

892
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:25,300
people not want to go over to 
his house. 

893
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:31,900
But they had testimonies they 
had stories. 

894
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:37,800
And I was convicted. 
I was convicted. 

895
00:54:40,500 --> 00:54:43,900
And one of the things that touch
me as well. was from one person 

896
00:54:43,900 --> 00:54:47,600
who said, To this day, I'll 
never forget. 

897
00:54:48,700 --> 00:54:53,900
Waking up every single morning 
as a teenager and hearing my 

898
00:54:53,900 --> 00:54:59,600
father in the other room. 
Pray, and the way he prayed some

899
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:03,100
mornings made me weep the way he
talked to god. 

900
00:55:03,900 --> 00:55:09,200
Father mother What kind of 
Legacy are you going to leave? 

901
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:12,900
Look at this woman. 
She pray. 

902
00:55:12,900 --> 00:55:15,100
Look at her tortillas. 
What she made her daughter 

903
00:55:15,100 --> 00:55:17,800
worldly. 
She made her daughter since she 

904
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:19,700
encouraged her daughter to go 
out to dance. 

905
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:23,500
In an evil wave before an evil 
man. 

906
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:27,300
And you come to this mother 
while her baby was sick. 

907
00:55:27,300 --> 00:55:30,500
She went and prayed. 
I'm sure that when she came back

908
00:55:30,500 --> 00:55:33,700
home and she found her daughter 
lying on her bed that they had, 

909
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:37,100
an amazing conversation of that 
encounter with Christ. 

910
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:43,700
I wonder what the relationship 
became like after they learned. 

911
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,200
Of a mother's faith and a 
daughter's need. 

912
00:55:49,900 --> 00:55:54,500
Be encouraged today. 
You and I can graduate in faith.

913
00:55:54,700 --> 00:55:57,900
You've been given the curriculum
you've been given the answers. 

914
00:55:57,900 --> 00:56:02,200
You got a cheat sheet. 
You and I can do great faith by 

915
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,700
five simple elements. 
I'm sure there's some you can 

916
00:56:04,700 --> 00:56:06,800
add, but let me give you five 
from this chapter again. 

917
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:10,000
Fate that is acted upon. 
Let me remind you of the test. 

918
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,300
What will your hearts say when 
we say Amen? 

919
00:56:13,300 --> 00:56:18,500
Today will say, well, Pastor did
better than last week. 

920
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:24,200
Will you say Lord if that's what
great faith is. 

921
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:28,000
I want it. 
Are you humbled today? 

922
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:31,800
Because Christ is attracted to 
humility. 

923
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:35,500
Or is there a part of us that 
says I believed in you, I walked

924
00:56:35,500 --> 00:56:37,700
away from my family. 
I walked away from my sin and 

925
00:56:37,700 --> 00:56:38,900
this is how you're going to 
treat me. 

926
00:56:39,300 --> 00:56:44,600
You're praying to yourself. 
Persistence the hardest thing, 

927
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:48,900
trust me it's hard. 
The persistence have I given up 

928
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,700
I've given up, why did I give 
up? 

929
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,900
Here's the beauty of it. 
If you get back if you get back 

930
00:56:55,900 --> 00:56:57,900
he is so merciful to hear he 
does not condemn us. 

931
00:56:57,900 --> 00:56:59,800
He does not frown upon us. 
He encourages us. 

932
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:02,500
He knows how fickle we are. 
He knows how far away we are 

933
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:04,300
from time to time. 
He knows that's why we have his 

934
00:57:04,300 --> 00:57:05,700
word. 
That's what we have sermons like

935
00:57:05,700 --> 00:57:06,500
this. 
To remind it. 

936
00:57:06,500 --> 00:57:10,600
Hey, get back. 
Her faith was immovable, 

937
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:14,600
immovable, the disciples, didn't
influence her, even the fact of 

938
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,200
her Gentile neighbors. 
Imagine that in a pagan place, 

939
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:19,800
she comes to Christ when she was
essentially, doing is turning 

940
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:22,000
her back on these Idols. 
They do nothing. 

941
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:26,000
I'm coming to the Living God. 
So you have enemies of this God 

942
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,300
and you have people who claim to
be for this God being your 

943
00:57:28,300 --> 00:57:30,700
enemy. 
What are you gonna do? 

944
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:34,400
Say, I'm never gonna go to 
church again and watch Facebook 

945
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:37,200
live and that will be my church.
That's not the will of God. 

946
00:57:40,100 --> 00:57:42,600
And her faith was so big, so 
great. 

947
00:57:43,900 --> 00:57:46,100
That it could not stay for 
herself. 

948
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:50,200
I believe that my faith 
connected to God's mercy can 

949
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:53,500
touch that person. 
I'm going to pray for my son. 

950
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,800
I'm going to make through my 
prayers and God's goodness. 

951
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,100
Him absolutely miserable in his 
sin. 

952
00:58:03,900 --> 00:58:07,800
A Praying mom is a scary mom. 
Trust me, I know. 

953
00:58:09,700 --> 00:58:13,900
And so be encouraged, leave this
place to say, great faith. 

954
00:58:14,100 --> 00:58:16,500
Lord, this is what I desire. 
Enable be my, your mercy, to be 

955
00:58:16,500 --> 00:58:20,200
able to do it to walk in and to 
grow in it, and he will do it. 

956
00:58:20,500 --> 00:58:22,500
Amen. 
Amen. 

957
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,200
But we thank you for this word. 
Oh, we bless you, Lord. 

958
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:28,700
We bless you. 
Thank you for reminding us. 

959
00:58:29,700 --> 00:58:33,800
What great Faith Can Do. 
Thank you for reminding us that 

960
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,500
great faith is not dependent 
upon societal status. 

961
00:58:37,100 --> 00:58:43,400
Not even based upon knowledge. 
Just by taking you by your word.

962
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:47,200
And remaining there in your 
word. 

963
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:52,800
Lord, we ask that if names have 
come to us That you would help 

964
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:57,500
us to Target them again. 
Lord, we ask that when we feel 

965
00:58:57,500 --> 00:59:00,700
weak. 
That these words would remind us

966
00:59:00,700 --> 00:59:03,900
again that in those moments of 
testing and trials and delays 

967
00:59:03,900 --> 00:59:07,300
and circumstances, that 
contradict what we're asking 

968
00:59:07,300 --> 00:59:10,200
for. 
Then those moments is an 

969
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:14,100
opportunity to say I will give 
you my faith still, I will give 

970
00:59:14,100 --> 00:59:18,000
you my worship still, I will 
acknowledge my unworthiness and 

971
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:21,900
your worthiness still and in 
those moments where I don't see 

972
00:59:21,900 --> 00:59:24,400
what I need, I will ask you for 
the crumbs. 

973
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,300
And Lord, we pray that in the 
disappointments of people in the

974
00:59:29,300 --> 00:59:33,900
Church of Believers, a family 
members helped us put our faith 

975
00:59:33,900 --> 00:59:36,100
in you. 
Not them, you, you alone? 

976
00:59:37,500 --> 00:59:40,400
And to be a testament to the 
world, a watching world that you

977
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:45,500
are worthy of our devotion. 
At all times and all places, 

978
00:59:46,500 --> 00:59:50,800
Lord, a word like this can 
easily condemned, but that is 

979
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:54,600
not our desire. 
We pray to be inspired Not our 

980
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:56,700
obedience from this place would 
be from Love. 

981
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:01,800
We asked, oh God, that you would
help us to hear your voice of 

982
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:05,200
love and to give you back our 
love and Jesus name. 

983
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:06,400
We pray. 
Amen. 

984
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:08,800
Well, let's stand together and 
Worship the Lord shall we? 

985
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:01,800
We asked, oh God, that you would
help us to hear your voice of 

986
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:05,200
love and to give you back our 
love and Jesus name. 

987
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:06,400
We pray. 
Amen. 

988
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:08,800
Well, let's stand together and 
Worship the Lord shall we?