Turn over to Mark Chapter 9, verse 24.
Mark Chapter 9 verse 24. It says immediately the boy's
father cried out and said, I do believe, help my unbelief.
Do you know, you can have belief and unbelief, but unbelief is
dangerous. I said it's dangerous.
Now, I initially took the platform when Apostle Marsha was
under the unction of the Spirit and was reading from the Bible
the things that the Lord had spoken to her.
And so, you know, I had a desire to want to release something and
you know that as it just continued on, I'm like, well,
seems like the Lord says wait till you get the minister.
And so here I am. I'm going to release it now.
John 11 says in the beginning was the Word and the Word was
with God and the Word was God. Do you know that if we don't
watch out, we can miss that when someone comes up as Apostle
Marcy did, and open Scripture and began to read, what you
should visualize in your mind is the throne of grace, and that
the King Jesus is seated, seated on it next to the Father, and He
is speaking to you personally. We cannot see with natural eyes.
We must see with the eyes of the Spirit because when the
Scripture is being read, it is God speaking to you in that
moment, specifically in that atmosphere.
If you could have seen in the spirit, you should have been
able to imagine she disappears because these are not the words
of men. And all of a sudden you're, you
fix your gaze on the author and finish your of your faith and
you conclude the King is speaking to me, his beloved.
And when the King is speaking, what would you do?
I mean, what would you do if he just broke out of heaven and
manifested himself on this platform in the natural?
Now that's not more Jesus than the reading of the word.
You have to hold the reading of the Word with the same value as
if Jesus showed up, shows you his hands, showed you his feet,
showed you his side, and then began to speak.
It was the same Jesus that showed up in the planet from a
resurrection, spoke to a woman, and the woman went and ran back
to the apostles and said Jesus is alive, I've seen him.
And they did not believe. Although Jesus said to them with
them seeing his face, they will arrest me, they will scourge me,
they will kill me. But on the third day I will be
raised up right and Martha ran back.
Is that right? No.
Who was that? Mary Magdalene.
She had gone to the grave on the third day, came back and said I
have seen the king, he's alive. And they were stuck in a natural
instead of believing the word is much truth.
So when he showed up in A room that Thomas finally made the the
dinner, he said, Thomas, did they not tell you I was alive?
Shall I show you my hands and my feet?
You want to put your hand in my side?
And he says, Lord, I believe. He said, you're blessed 'cause
you believe, 'cause you saw more.
Blessed are those who believe and not not seen.
How do how can we be more blessed because Jesus does
should not have to show up for us to value his word as if it is
him Hallelujah. So if we will make just that
small adjustment there when the word is being when I just read
Mark Chapter 9. That is the word of God.
That's as if the king just stood up, leaned out over heaven and
said, I know you believe, but don't you want me to help your
unbelief? That's good.
Same in Hallelujah. So Mark Chapter 9, verse 24, he
said immediately the boy's father cried out and said I do
believe, help my unbelief. Jesus asked him, do you believe
I can do these? He says I do believe help mine.
I like the honesty of this father because if the truth be
known, all of us have experienced times of unbelief
and we need to be honest and say Lord, I do believe, help my
unbelief. Now I'm going to bring this in
from something we ministered on Wednesday.
So if you're here Wednesday, these passages of Scripture will
be familiar, but they're applicable.
It's amazing how we can just connect the things of God.
And you know what I love about the Word of God?
The Word of God was never designed for you to pull
principles out and isolate them alone.
They were always to stay within context of the whole and we need
to make sure we maintain that. All right.
So in John chapter 15, we'll start in verse one.
It says this. Jesus said I am the true vine
and my father is the vine dresser.
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away and
every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it so that it may bear
more fruit. Just stay right there for a
second. Notice the vine dresser is
examining his own branches. The branches are in him.
They're not saying they're in him and not no, they are in him.
They are literally connected to God.
They are of God. So they are born again.
Yet if the born again believer does not bear the fruit of the
Kingdom, the king himself will cut it off.
And fruit is seasonal, which means you do not bear fruit in a
season of your life and then retire when God says, well, it's
been good. You've done a lot of fruitful
things. Look what all you did done for
me. I'm so excited.
You know, I'm glad that we are Co laboring together.
I'm glad that you're hearing and obeying my voice and look at all
the things that have we've been able to accomplish by the Spirit
through you. However, here's a couple of more
things that I want to shave off your life.
Prune out of your life. It's not a priority.
I left it alone in the last season and you were able to bear
this fruit. But in this next season for us
to get more, I'm going to prune here.
And you want him to prune you now notice in both verses you're
getting cut either way. So you want to be cut to be
pruned, not cut off. All right, verse three, you are
already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Abide in Me as I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit
of itself unless it abides in the bond, so neither can you
unless you abide in Me. That means you have to make your
abode. You have to be diligent to be
about the Father's business. His thinking must be first and
foremost in your mind. You are to seek first the
Kingdom of God. Verse five, I am the bond.
You are the branches, He who abides in me and I in Him.
He bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
If conditional statement anyone does not abide in me, He is
thrown away as a branch and dries up, and they gather them
and cast them into the fire and they are burned.
If conditional statement you abide in me and my words abide
in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you now.
That is not ask whatever you wish.
You're asking whatever He's placed in your heart to ask.
Because first John 5 says this is the confidence that we have.
If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us and we
have that which we asked for. So this is not you being born of
God, and now God becomes your genie in a bottle.
Will you get your wishes what you want?
And many have taken the one Scripture out of context, but it
says, well, God will give you the desires of your heart like
the desire originated with you and you're telling God what you
want. No, God gives you the desire in
your heart. You are to die to self.
And then he gives you a desire in your heart and that's what
he'll give you that desire. And then if you ask it, you'll
have it. Amen.
Why? If you abide in me, in my words,
if you abide in me in my, if you abide in me in my, If you abide
in me in my, if you abide in Me in my, I can't hear your port,
St. Joe.
If you abide in me, in my, thank you abide in you.
So words from God cannot just trickle past your ear gate.
They have to have a habitation, they have to live there.
They have to be a well of something that you can draw up.
It's of you all right. So if you abide in Me and my
words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for
you. Verse 8 My Father is glorified
by this, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my
disciples. Notice being born again alone
does not prove discipleship. Bearing fruit proves you are a
disciple. You can be born again and fail
to bear fruit, but a disciple will bear fruit.
Can I get an Amen? Now let's connect the dots in
order for us to understand why branches are being cut off, why
pruning is occurring. Do you understand this is not
the only time God uses an analogy of a plant of God being
a vine and there's branches. Turn over to Romans Chapter 11.
Shout Amen. Romans Chapter 11, verse 16 says
it this way. For if the first fruit is holy,
the lump is also holy, and if the root is holy, so are the
branches. Well, is the bond holy?
I said, is the bond holy? Jesus is holy.
He is separated from the things of the world.
He's separated from darkness, He's separated from sin, He's
separated from ungodliness, He's separated from unrighteousness.
He's holy, right? And if the root is holy, so are
the branches. Now you as a branch, you don't
have to be holy in and of yourself.
You just have to release what you already are in Christ.
But it's your responsibility to release it.
Look what it says, how is it released?
Look what it goes on to say this verse 17.
And if conditional statement. And if some of the branches were
broken off, and you being a wild olive tree, were grafted in
among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and
fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches.
But if you both do boast, remember that you do not support
the root, but the root supports you.
Now Paul is doing an analogy of Israel and the Gentiles.
He is saying the Israel was the nation God chose through Abram.
Abram was actually a Gentile originally.
He was a man from the land of Ur.
He was a Chaldean, but when God moved him into covenant, he
changed his name to Abraham. Abraham gave birth to Isaac.
Isaac gave birth to Jacob. His covenant carried through to
his sons. When he spent some time with
Jacob, Jacob wrestled with the Lord, and the Lord changed his
name to Israel. And that nation is still in the
earth today because God said to Abram, I'll make you a great
nation, not a religion, but a nation, a holy nation.
In fact, I'm going to bless you, and all the families of the
earth are going to be blessed. And so he carved out a people
for his own, where he was their king and they were his nation.
And man, when they followed the king, man did that nation
prosper. It was amazing how well that
nation conquered and and and overcame.
And it was a sad day in First Samuel chapter 8 when the nation
came to the prophet and said, we want to see our king like the
rest of the Gentile nations. And Samuel said, you don't want
this God is your king. So he goes to the Lord And the
Lord is saying, says to him, says Samuel, give the people
what they want for they've not rejected you.
This is first same in chapter 8 verse 6.
I believe it is maybe a little bit left, maybe a little bit
further. But in first Samuel chapter 8,
he said do what the people have said because they've not
rejected you as, but they've rejected me as their king.
Now we know Jesus as a savior. Savior is what Jesus did because
Adam fell from dominion. But Lord he's always been.
And Lord is not a religious word.
It means supreme and authority. And so here Jesus has come back
in order to establish a pathway for all humanity to be back in
the position God originally intended for them according to
Genesis 126. Let us make man in our image
according to our likeness, and let them have what dominion or
rule. And so God was opening up His
Kingdom for all humanity to be able to be a part of it where
they can rule and reign with Christ because He is the King of
and the Lord of who are those kings we are.
And so there's this time that the nation of Israel, because of
an issue we're going to read very clearly are broken off.
And this to tell you why John 15 is letting us know what breaks a
branch off, why the Lord would break you off, because it's
really not the Lord as much as it is you.
You put the Lord in a position that he never wants to be in.
So it says this. You will then say branches were
broken off, that I might be grafted in.
Well said. Because of why?
Why? Because of unbelief.
They were broken off. Unbelief is dangerous business.
Unbelief will cause a a secure relationship to be fractured.
Unbelief is not a quip of the lip.
Unbelief is not something we just like.
That's no big deal. It is very serious in God's
Kingdom. It is a hindrance for the
Kingdom of God to flow through you unbelief.
So these this nation that is God's people.
You understand we say we are with Israel, we are for Israel,
we pray for Israel, but you understand not every person that
is born of Israel are we standing with because those that
are in Israel that are not living for God are not following
God or living like the rest of the world.
God's having a problem with them.
We obviously have a problem. We want them to repent and come
to know the King. But the nation as a whole will
be always around. Just like I can pray for our
president, not because of the individual but because of the
office, I can pray for Israel. Even if the nation itself by
majority could be running from God, we still are to pray.
And you want to pray for their peace.
Now, the Antichrist soon will be offering peace of which they
will accept it. But it will be troubled times
because they accepted. And if you don't see the signs
of the times and all the the stuff that's going on in the
Middle East, it is it is getting ripe for someone to come in and
say I'm going to bring peace. I mean, it's becoming a
buzzword. So things are are happening and
an accelerated level and everything that needs to be for
the Antichrist is already in the earth.
And many believe he's alive now. Many believe that, which means
if he is, yeah, you can rejoice because you could be the
generation that hears the sound, the sound of a trumpet, and that
you are changed in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye.
Now I know people say, well now nobody knows a day or hour.
I understand that. But we do know the season.
And at the end of the day, it would behoove you to believe
it's in your lifetime, then to go through your lifetime
thinking it is not. I'd much rather die in belief
then be left behind in unbelief. All right, so their unbelief is
the reason they were broken off. And you stand by faith?
Faith is not unbelief. Faith is belief.
It's a firm persuasion. It is.
It is this way. No matter what I believe.
It's this way. I'm firmly persuaded I will not
be moved off. So the guy said to Jesus, I do
believe I do have firm convictions concerning you and
your ability, but help my unbelief.
Do you know what most I could walk almost into any church that
has Jesus where they're where they recognize him.
And I can say, do you believe that Jesus can raise the dead?
Do you believe that Jesus can heal the sick?
Do you believe that Jesus can cast out devils?
Do you believe that Jesus can bring provision?
And they would all say, yes, I do believe.
But when it comes to Jesus doing it for their life, they would be
an unbelief because many know what God can do.
They just don't believe he will do for their life.
That's the difference. So you can believe something yet
still sit in unbelief. He goes on to say then do not be
haughty but fear meaning just because someone and you've been
given an access now to the Father through Jesus Christ the
Son. Man, you don't want to get
sideways with Israel. You don't want to get it
sideways with the plan of God. In fact, you actually do not
want to get sideways with. It's anyone who's actually in
unbelief and have been broken off and have been pulled to the
side. Hallelujah, 'cause he said, for
if God did not spare the natural branches, he may not spare you
either. Because if you start going,
well, look, we're in man, they're out.
Look at us now. You're moving into some
attitudes that are not of the Kingdom, and there were
attitudes they picked up that were not of the Kingdom that
moved them into unbelief. And you can easily move into
unbelief as well. Says therefore consider the
goodness and severity of God. Now we don't talk about the
severity of God. We only sing songs about the
goodness of God. I've not heard of praise song on
the severity of God recently, but there is a severity of God,
and we paint this picture in this dispensation as if there is
no severity. But this is Romans 11.
This is a new covenant writing that he's talking about the
severity of God, he said. Therefore consider the goodness
and severity of God on those who fail severity but towards you
goodness if conditional statement you continue in his
goodness. Otherwise you also will be what?
Come on, y'all doing all right, come on, help me.
Please do not get stuck in in in moving me into teacher mode.
OK? I mean, I I need expectation.
I mean I need you to believe you're going to hear something
that sets you free so that you'll be able to live a life
that's overcome and victorious that no matter what you face,
you can say I only believe. I only believe.
This is not lecture time. I'm not here to lecture you, I'm
here to inspire you by impartation of the Holy Spirit.
But it is requiring you to think a little bit.
It's requiring you to think Hallelujah.
We cannot go through this life mindlessly.
He's empowered our Spirit to be connected to a holy root by
which our mind can be renewed to produce the fruit of a holy
root. It does not happen just because
you can interfere with the harvest of your fruit.
We're trying to help this process.
OK, so therefore, verse 22, right?
Verse 23. So otherwise you'll also be cut
off. What would cause you to be cut
off? Thank you.
Unbelief is the answer. If the ones that were naturally
of the tree are cut off because of unbelief, what's he saying?
You weren't even supposed to be here, but now you're in here.
And if what caused them to be cut off, cut them off.
Don't think that you can't be. How can you think the grace of
God allows you to live any way you want to live?
And that's bearing fruit of the Kingdom.
All right, verse 23. And they also if the a lot of
ifs in here because again, as much as you want to teach only
the God side of the Bible, there is a man's side of the Bible and
God will not override your will. He will not.
As righteous as he is, and as righteous as He's made your
spirit in the new birth, He will still not override your will.
He wants you to want Him, and it would be an easy flow.
It's not hard when you yield to the spirit, but if you're not
yielding to the spirit, then unbelief can creep in.
And unbelief is dangerous. I said it's dangerous and they
also, if they continue, do not continue in unbelief.
So there's a cure for unbelief. I said there's a cure for
unbelief. This is good news.
That's why the man said I do believe, help my own belief.
You have the cure. You have the cure that keeps me
from being broken away from the results of your word.
All right. So he said if they do not
continue in unbelief will be grafted in, for God is able to
graft them in. Man, this is so good shout Amen.
So unbelief is the issue that occurs.
Unbelief is what it What is unbelief?
Unbelief is entertaining a thought that is an alternative
to the word of the king. Unbelief is a thought that you
are entertaining. That is contrary to the word of
the king. That's unbelief.
Let's say a few more things about unbelief.
Unbelief is not ignorance. Unbelief is not ignorance.
Now it says my people perish due
to lack of knowledge. But unbelief is not ignorance.
Unbelief actually is having heard and even entertained
seeing the word come to pass, yet disregarded still.
Unbelief is faith present, but one is overcome with a lack of
trust and confidence to see faith to completion.
So faith is actually present. Faith comes by and hearing from
the faith is present. You know that that is, but you
lack trust and confidence actually in God, the one who is
speaking, and you begin to consider alternative thoughts.
So this is not I don't know. This is I know, but I know.
But the minute you get a but in your faith, this is a problem.
It is the IT is that road or the door that opens to unbelief,
cause unbelief is having a belief that you're undoing.
Come on, it's if you look at the Greek word, it has the root
word, a Greek word, pistus, which is faith.
So it means faith is there. You know that.
You know what God says he will do, can do, should do, Yet
you're still going to say I'm not going to believe.
This is why unbelief is dangerous because unbelief is
not someone who doesn't know. This is someone who knows and
still chooses to not accept what he is saying.
And have we not been in circumstances where this has
occurred in our lives? I mean, I can start spouting out
all kinds of little statements that the King has said, the king
said, and I am my God shall supply all my needs according to
his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
But then all the sudden a bill shows up and you say but and you
start looking your plan and not seeking his way of accomplishing
that. That is unbelief.
Everything we should do should be launched from the position of
faith. And faith is hearing from the
king. And whatever you say, however
you say, that's how I'll do. And an alternative.
I'm not even going to entertain. I'm not going to entertain.
And again. But what do we do?
Sometimes we'll make excuses for our unbelief.
Yeah, but God knows. Just because God knows is not
meaning. He's authorizing you to go down
that path. Does God know how hard it is?
Yeah. Does God know how difficult it
can be? Yes.
Does God know how tempting it can be for you to try to do it
yourself? Yes.
He was tempting on all accounts like us, yet without sin because
he always believed God at His word.
Now look at Hebrews chapter 3 again.
These are examples in another covenant that is being
highlighted in the new covenant to let us know it can happen
over here just like it happened back there, because unbelief is
in every dispensation of God. He said verse Hebrews 3 starting
in verse 12. Take care who who So we talking
to the lost. Come on, we talking to the lost
here. No says take care church, that
there not be in any one of you and say the word, come on, say
the word evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living
God. How would you fall away from a
living God? You would know what he says and
yet choose to disagree with it. That is an evil action.
Oh, yo, no, we don't. We don't want to hear this.
We, we've got, we've got the Western churches too candy
coated, too nice, too nice and nicey, right?
God's not mad at you. God's not.
You know this with you guys. You know he's done everything
for he's done everything for you.
So he's saying, why in the world would you ever doubt me?
Why would you get an unbelief? Unbelief in God's eye is evil.
Why are we calling? Well, you know, God understands
that. You know, I have some challenges
there. God says that's evil, quit it.
Why are we calling stuff that we're doing like it's OK when
God's saying that is an evil, unbelieving heart that falls
away and he's saying, brethren, brethren.
Now again, you get with some people, they're so centered on
the finished work of Jesus that they think that we can't mess up
the finished work of Jesus in our life.
But we can. We can.
I mean, that's why we're with that excuse.
He's like, man, I did a finished work.
All you had to do was believe me at my word and my word will do
the power. But the minute you got yourself
involved and started doing it yourself, you're short
circuiting was already in the spirit realm for you.
Because we can thwart, we can make God's command of null
effect because of our issue. It isn't his issue and yet we've
made this like it doesn't matter what you do, God's going to do
it through you anyway. You're a child of God.
God's going to do it anyway. Yet there's so much scripture
about God saying, listen man, you're without excuse.
I've elevated you to a class of people in the planet right now
that their spirits alive unto me and I put the Holy Ghost on the
inside with you. All you got to do is let my
spirit lead you. So why are you considering
alternative ideas verse 13, but encourage one another day after
day, as long as it is still called, it Is it called today?
I said is it called today? I said, is it called today.
So that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of
sin. Sin will give you competitive
alternatives. Sin is simply a word different
than what God has said. Adam sinned.
Why? Because he accepted an
alternative word from a fallen anointed cherub.
God said do not eat the fruit, for the day you eat you will.
Surely he doesn't need to know anything else.
But the minute that serpent says you're not going to die, he gave
him unbelief. Now you know what God has said,
but I'm telling you, God's holding something from you.
You know what? This is pretty cool.
But if He's holding this from you, what else is He holding
from you? You know how many believers
believe that? Four, We have become partakers
of Christ. If conditional statement, we
hold fast the beginning of our assurance.
Notice, an assurance still has to be held.
You know why I'm secure, 'cause I'm holding, I'm holding this
thing. I'm holding this thing, I'm
holding this thing by the power and the grace of God in my life,
I'm not looking to the left or to the right.
I'm staying my eyes fixed on the author and finish from my faith.
I have an assurance that when I do the word, whoa, man, it's
going to come to pass. Ain't that right, Coach Ted?
So we have become partakers of Christ if we hold fast the
beginning of our assurance firm until the end.
While it is said, while it is it is said today, if you hear his
voice, do not harden your hearts as when they provoked me.
When did they provoke him? Verse 16 For they provoked me
when they had, when he said, for who provoked him when they had
heard? Indeed, did not all those who
came out of Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he?
And whom? Then again, people say, well,
that's old covenant, that he was angry then listen, God's storing
up wrath. Now, God's position and his
thoughts concerning unbelief are no different in a new covenant
than it was in the old covenant, because God's character is
consistent. With whom was he angry for 40
years? Was it not with those who
sinned? Whose bodies fell in the
wilderness? What would they do?
They were cut off. They were cut off from going in.
Look what it says. And and to whom did he swear
that they would not enter his rest?
But those who were what? Disobedience.
Why were they disobedient? Verse 19 So we see that they
were UN not able to enter because of unbelief is the first
step. The second step is disobedience.
Unbelief is the first step. The second step when you follow
that path is disobedience. And when you're disobeying, it's
called sin. Say Amen anyway.
So Jesus marveled at this. Now he'll marvel at great faith,
but he'll also be blown away at unbelief.
Mark chapter 6, verse 6, it says he wandered at their unbelief.
He wandered. You know what?
There are people that are praying right now that are
crying out to God. They want to see miracle signs
and wonders. They want to see a move of God.
They want to see a passion. They want to see God move
mightily. And you know, God's moving.
He is moving, but in this case in Mark chapter 6, also in
Matthew's account, Jesus comes with power to do miraculous, but
it says he could not do the miraculous because of their.
And if the USA church is so ignorant of scripture, how can
we expect the power of God to move when it's their unbelief
that's hindering it? Now that can't be with anchor
faith. Churches cannot be with us.
We should not hold back the power of God because of
unbelief. We should not.
We have to say I only believe. I only believe.
And you know what God will tell you to do some crazy.
I mean, out-of-the-box, it makes it will make you look like an
absolute fool to the world. I mean, the world will look at
you when they hear what you're believing for and say this is a
joke. Are you even serious right now?
Are you out of your mind? You say I'm slap out of my mind.
I'm slap out of my mind of the world.
My mind's been renewed by the word my, My mind's been washed.
My mind is transformed. My mind is connected with the
King. My mind has been washed with the
water of the word God. So Jesus wondered at their
unbelief. Good news.
He knew the cure. I said he knew the cure.
And listen, there's no cure. Let's see how he fixes it.
I'm going to throw in a few statements and tell me if it's
right. And he won't put that scripture
back. And he wondered at their
unbelief. And he went around and
entertained them. And he went around and gave them
stories that were relevant to their life only.
And he went around and and spent less time with the flock because
he knew their lives were so busy.
Well, you're just so busy. I know it, God knows it, you
know, can you just read 1 scripture a day?
That's all. That's all God really cares
about. No, look what it says.
And he was going around the villages.
What teaching? Now teaching is line upon line,
precept upon precept. He began to drop Kingdom truth
bombs that were so amazing. He was dropping them so hard.
He would say, he who has ears, let him hear.
Because you know what he said? I'm not going to cast my pearls
before the swan. You want to stay in unbelief,
stay there. But those that are hungry,
they'll come mining the treasures I'm dropping out of my
mouth right now. This is why if you can be
comfortable in a place that is not teaching the engrafted word
of God to the place that they are not withholding the full
counsel of God, then you want to stay in unbelief.
But God says I have a cure. I have a cure.
And that is I'm going to have to teach you.
And you know what? If he's teaching, he's going to
say this. What you're thinking is say that
word again. Say it again.
And you got to accept I'm wrong. It's OK.
It's OK many time. Like, yeah, that's not the way
to do it. I'm wrong.
We're doing it your way because his way is better.
Oh my gosh, this is the answer. Look what it says in Romans
chapter 4 verses 17 to 21. Man, when you get the word of
God spoken to you, says as as it is written, I have made, I made
you a father of many nations in the presence of him whom he
believed. God, who gives life to the dead
and calls those things that do not exist as though they did,
who, contrary to hope and hope, believed so that he became the
father of many nations. According to what was spoken, so
shall your descendants be. And not being weak in faith, he
did not consider his own body already dead, since he was about
100 years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, when a
person's wavering unbelief is present, but was strengthening
faith, giving glory to God, being fully convinced that what
he had promised, he was also able to perform.
He was able to perform. He did not grow weak in faith.
I said He did not grow weak, He would not consider God's way
would not come to pass. He would not even take it into
account. Hallelujah.
Unbelief is dangerous in the Kingdom of God.
Come on, you know this. Romans 1011 to 17.
But let's hear it today. With this attack against
unbelief, there will be no unbelieving heart, no evil
unbelieving heart among us. There will be no evil
unbelieving heart among us. For the scripture says whoever
believes in him will not be disappointed.
Now, I am going to show you today that this is not a
singular expression. We've already did we.
We already took the time to show that when we believe God and He
saves us, saving is. He'll save us from all kinds of
things. Anytime you triumph over a
situation, you are being saved. Salvation is a belief that Jesus
died and rose from the grave, and you come out of the domain
of darkness into the Kingdom of His beloved Son.
That is an occurrence, but that is saving, saving you from
eternal separation. But God will do more than just
save you from eternal separation.
He will save your marriage. He'll save your kids, He'll save
your job, He'll save your health, He'll save your finance.
He'll save all kinds of things. He'll save your mind.
So we have to quit being singular with the Romans.
Rd. 'cause Paul is not only talking
about being born again, it includes it, but it's not
isolated. So for the scripture says who,
whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.
I mean, I'm not disappointed to know that by His stripes I'm
healed. And I believe that there is no
distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same is Lord, the
same Lord as Lord of all abounding in riches, who all
call on him. Again, we've been engrafted in.
We're of a holy root, and we're engrafted in 'cause we believed
in faith, the Scripture said by faith we were engrafted in.
We were not in unbelief. We were not in disobedience.
When we're in, we're engrafted in because of faith.
We believe that Jesus Christ died, rose from the grave, His
blood was shed so that our payment, our our redemption was
bought and paid for. We could not have done it on our
own work, separated from God, but we can do it with God 'cause
God's done it. We just have to believe and
believe is our part. How Then let's go on it says
verse 12. For whoever will call on the
name of the Lord will be If you call on his name and everything.
What did he say? If you ask the Father anything,
not one thing, He said if you ask the Father anything, not one
thing, anything in my name, he'll do it and you'll bear much
fruit. So when we call on the name of
the Lord and anything that we need to accomplish for His
Kingdom, that He's given us that assignment, we will be saved.
Verse 14. How then will they call on him
and whom they've not believed? And how will they believe in Him
whom they've not heard? And how will they hear without a
preacher? Preachers are not sent just so
you can be born again. The church did not show up in
locations just to preach salvation from eternal
damnation. Paul's letters to the churches
covered a lot more subjects than that.
That would save them out of idolatry out of of of all kinds
of former way of living and move them into the Kingdom, He goes
on. Unless how will they preach,
unless they are sent just it is a written how beautiful are the
feet of those who believe, who bring good news of good things.
I mean, I'm giving you good news right now about how to get out.
Stay out of unbelief. Is it good news to know that you
do not have to stay in unbelief? You do not have to run the risk
of being broken off. Verse 16.
However, they did not all heed the good news for Isaiah says
Lord, who has believed our report.
So when he's saying that again, in Isaiah's time, they had a way
to live to be righteous and protected by God.
God had given them through the law of Moses and the prophets of
how they could follow God in that dispensation and be
divinely protected and prosper. All you got to do is read
Deuteronomy chapter 28. That was applicable during the
prophet Isaiah's time. But the problem is they did not
believe the report of the Lord concerning living for him as a
nation. Didn't believe it all the ways
God was saying this is what I'll do for you, and this is what
I'll do for you, and this is what I'll do for you, and this
is what I'll do for you. I just need you to do this in
the new covenant, Jesus said. I've paid it all, I've done it
all, I've finished it all. Now I just need you to believe.
Just believe, just believe, just believe.
But if you have an evil and unbelieving heart, even those
engrafted in can't be broken back off.
So faith. So faith comes from hearing and
hearing from the word of Christ. Every time you come to church,
you're at risk. Every time you stay away from
church, you're at a greater risk.
Every time you come to church, you're at risk.
Every time you're not at church, you're at a greater risk.
Because faith comes by hearing, not having heard.
And today, as long as it's called today, we are here to
hold each other, encourage each other.
We're able to champion one another.
Say listen, His word works what he says concerning us is going
to come to pass what he said concerning this in your life
personally, it's going to happen what he's given us as his
Saints, it's going to it it it overcome.
That's why when we were with the elders were like go to the house
and connect with them because they're feeling it.
They're experiencing an alternative thing to the Word,
but you speak the Word, you prayed the power of God, and you
stay in faith with them and hold their arms up and we'll see the
result of what the Word says in their body.
We just spend a little extra time.
Not well. Hope you get it.
Well. If it's the Lord will, they
will. It is the Lord's will.
It is the Lord's will, but it's through this perseverance, it's
taking every thought captive. It's not allowing unbelief to
show up. It's being honest in our
day-to-day walk. I do believe, Help mom believe.
Let's pray.