power of God rather than your own inadequacies. Have you bailed out already? It was available, but they didn’t appropriate it. Keble has written, “If ever on the mount with Thee/I seem to soar in vision bright/With thoughts of coming agony/Stay Thou the too presumptuous flight/Gently along the vale of tears/Lead me from Hermon’s sunbright steep/Let me not grudge a few short years/With Thee toward heaven to work and weep.”. You may never know the full promise of God. God uses all kinds of people of different … Activate the power of God through faith and miracles will happen for you. Nice to have that child whole for the father’s sake. If you do, you miss the power of God. We believe the Sermon on the Mount was spoken to the multitudes, but also to His disciples, as is indicated in chapter 5. – frustrated. But the same lesson is true. It’s an aorist imperative in the Greek. The principle of the mustard seed is that it is little, and it does what? This is the fourth point, the power of faith. And so, the father comes and he pleads. He has given them a revelation of His person as King. I mean the disciples are in confusion. I mean it doesn’t make sense.”. Now go to chapter 8 and verse 26. But this time, He was away. Faith gives me the power Hear the Unheard. The father’s in a state of tremendous grief. Because faith is the ability to believe God when there are no human resources. And then He teaches them about offending. Majesty. “Then came the disciples to Jesus privately and said, ‘Why could not we cast him out?’, “And Jesus said unto them, ‘Because of your unbelief. And then He says it at the end, in verse 20, “Nothing is impossible to you.” But that nothing, it’s conditional. On the mountain, the majesty of God was seen in Christ, and no less was it seen in His power over the demonic world. And when He speaks to them, and particularly in verse 30, “Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field which today is and tomorrow is cast in the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?”. But when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs and becomes a tree so the birds of air come and lodge in the branches of it.’” And what you’ve got in the mustard seed is something that starts very, very small and grows very large. You can imagine, can’t you? But as soon as the storm came, their faith quit. Expectation which is readiness to receive compels God to move and manifest His power on behalf of a man. And I believe it could change your life and mine if we learn it well. And he said, at the close of is article, “Frankly, I think Jesus had a lot more class than most of His agents.” And so, in a sense, they’re not unlike – the father, rather, is not unlike the world in seeing the impotence of the Church and wanting to press often past that to get to the Savior Himself. 21 Sermons By Evangelist Billy Sunday With Biography, Photos, Newspaper Articles, and More Compiled From Internet Resources by Bennie P. Blount Table of Contents 1. How long will I bear with you?” You’re really seeing into the heart of Christ the pain of His heart, the disappointment that comes out of His lips. But before it comes, we’ve got to get back to reality. You don’t get very many glimpses into the heart of Jesus like that one. Now, what’s He saying? GDPR is the new European privacy regulation, which will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK and the equivalent legislation across the EU Member States. And have you noticed that that very often happens with new Christians? And so, he has a request in verse 15, “Have mercy on my son.” A simple request. Without faith it is impossible to please God. “‘And I say unto you, “Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needs.”‘” You know what “importunity” means? Enter your email address and we will send you instructions on how to reset your password. He’s starting to cut the cord, see? We sent you an email. He could speak; he could hear; he could think. Well, in this case it is what you hope for. Maybe they said, “Come out.” Didn’t come out. You see, they said, “Come out.” Didn’t come out. It was the choice of the demon, perhaps not even the choice of the child in terms of any moral choice. And so, the trials and testings that God gives us get longer and harder as we go, because that’s how he continues to strengthen us. Why couldn’t we do it? They say, “Lord, save us; we perish; we’re going to drown.”. And so, she came and troubled him and kept coming, and kept coming, and kept coming. Don’t let me get so caught up in the second coming and so caught up in the glory that is to come that I forget the pain that must be dealt with here. And then into chapter 20, about position and compassion. Because the scribe standing there, they didn’t believe either. Well, let me give it to you as simply as I can. We can believe God, “Oh, yes, I trust the Lord; I believe the Lord.” And then we hit the storm, and we cannot see any way out, and our faith comes to a halt, and we enter into despair. After all, the ordinary man seldom finds any necessity to remove a mountain. Sermon Files (Pdf) Click on desired file to open file in a new window and read sermon of that date. Sermon Focus: Listeners will be challenged to place their faith in Jesus. When faith stops, doubt begins. Thank you for a great, great insight that the apostles were like we are, even though they had unique gifts, they had to come to that power source the same way we do: by persistent prayer that can reach beyond what it has in its hand and cry out effectually, fervently, for that which it desperately needs from Thee. It says he is epileptic. When Peter’s faith faltered, he reached out to Christ, the only One who could help. It’s in Matthew 13. “Show compassion on my son.” The father is in deep agony. Luke says the demon threw him down or slammed him down. “If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say unto this mountain, ‘Move from here to yonder place,’ and it shall move, and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”. It’s wonderful. “And immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand, caught him” – and here comes that same speech again – “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” And we see it again. And it says about him, “He was kneeling down to Him” – that is to Jesus Christ – “and saying.” Now, here is a man in a posture of reverence. You see, He was saying to the apostles, “Nothing is impossible to you, which was in the framework of my promise to you.” Right? Let me tell you something, if you’re not a Christian, you don’t have to do anything to get like this, because you’re ruled by the prince of the power of the air who can dispatch or permit or allow or not prevent his demons to do anything to you that they want to do. Log In b. I love that statement in verse 17, “How long shall I be with you?” You can see Him starting to get anxious to go back to the Father, can’t you? For example, He teaches them, in chapter 17, about faith. They needed food for themselves, for another crowd that had gathered. He sort of senses the end. And as you look at the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, that great chapter of faith, the Bible tells us it was faith that enabled Abel to offer a better sacrifice. And maybe they said, “In the name of Jesus Christ be gone.” He didn’t go. But Jesus always had that power. By faith Moses (v. 24). That’s obvious. The completed registration allows us to send order and donation receipts to the email address you provided. No more convulsions; no more seizures; no more wallowing; no more foaming at the mouth; no more foul, evil, vile, wretched vocabulary if there was anything to come gutturally out of his dumbness. 1. And maybe they said it one more time, “In the name of Jesus Christ be gone,” and he didn’t go. They didn’t appropriate it. In the entire Bible there is no clearer instruction on faith than Hebrews 11. Use these sermons on faith to help guide you in your sermon preparation. But now He left them on their own, and He’s giving them a sample – listen – of the way it is going to be pretty soon when He’s gone. You see – follow now in the text and look what happens, verse 20, “You couldn’t do this because of your little faith.” And then He says, “If you” – and He says it seriously – “Verily I say unto you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you could say to a mountain, ‘Move,’ and the mountain would move.”, And, you know, you read that, and you say, “Now, wait a minute. That’s right. It was faith that caused Abraham to follow the call of God. 2:8 tells us that faith is “the gift of God.”God enables us to believe in Him for salvation, then He gives every believer some “measure of faith”, Rom. And nothing shall be impossible unto you.” And then the authorized version adds, “Howbeit this kind goeth not out except by prayer and fasting.”, Now, this is an exceedingly interesting passage, and I think before you’re done, you’ll see the clarity of the Lord’s message in it to His disciples and to us. And then He teaches them about forgiveness. Heb 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks. And in verse 14 we read, “And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man” – we’ll stop there. Like when you start lifting weights, you start with a little bit, and you see it right away. By: Mark Uzupan. The Power of Prayer (Video) Notes. – prayer. THE POWER AND IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER Today I want to begin a series on the importance of prayer and the power of prayer to change our circumstances and situations in life There are many blessings that flow out of us having a strong and consistent prayer life i) … The point of the whole passage, in many ways, is a summary of the whole testimony of the people of God through all of history: that God moves powerfully when we believe. And the child was cured from that very hour.” What a marvelous scene, isn’t it? It really wasn’t faith at all, was it? And we’ve been following through Matthew, and we’ve seen it in chapter 4, we’ve seen it in chapter 8 twice. THE POWER OF UNITY 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. No, most people misinterpret that mustard seed. 2. To be moonstruck. Faith can move mountains. Jesus can understand the heart of this father. He believed a little bit, but not much more than a little bit. Although we start out with good intentions, sometimes our faith falters. He teaches them a rather important lesson. Verse 20, “Because of your little faith.” That’s the original text. Now, what is our Lord saying? And in almost every one of these teaching incidents that run through chapter 20, the Lord uses a living situation as the illustration for the principle He wants to communicate. Now, that’s a very interesting word, and in the Greek language, it basically means to be moonstruck. It is something hoped for but not yet seen. “Then Jesus answered and said, ‘O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? You see him worshipping, kneeling. By faith Isaac (v. 20). Look at verse 7, “As you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand. The insecurities of other types of faith will be contrasted by the consistency a faith in Jesus provides. By f… Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons.’” Hey, they had been given the commission to do this. Has no resource. He could believe God until he saw the wind, until he saw the storm. And Jesus is asleep. Accordingly, we have updated our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions in order to comply with GDPR. They had a very difficult time handling what they didn’t have but knew they needed. Well, it’s very simple; they didn’t appropriate the power. And he, from within, shall answer and say, “Trouble me not.”‘”, I mean you’re saying, “Look, I’ve got a guest; he just arrived. And so, the Lord asks us to persist and persist. What He meant was, if you have faith enough, all difficulties can be solved, and even the hardest task can be accomplished. And their faith ran out at the point they couldn’t see the provision. He did it over and over and over again. Now, faith moves mountains. Let’s go back to Matthew chapter 17 there. Bring him here.”. And it’s not to say that this child was evil; this child was possessed from his childhood, from his young childhood. So, we see the pleading of the father, and the powerlessness of the followers. And the lesson for us is, beloved, God is giving us promises. Now verse 18, “And Jesus rebuked the demon, and he departed out of him. And when he saw Jesus, he threw the boy into convulsions. Did He? God created the world with faith filled words. Five friends. Their faith ran out at that point, and they quit. I mean they’re really happy they can’t do it. They’re gloating over the inability of the nine disciples to heal this young boy. It was just part of His ministry to cast out demons. The principle of the mustard seed is not that it’s little, no. And as he brought the boy, Mark says, “The demon in the boy saw Jesus. “O ye of” – what? And it, by the way, is the very same word that Peter uses in 2 Peter 1:16 when it says, “We were eyewitnesses of His majesty on the holy mount.” This, too, revealed His majestic glory. Give us a heart of persistence in prayer, for the glory of Christ, amen. And she came, and she wanted vengeance. It’s a great lesson. THE POWER OF BIBLICAL FAITH. And though we do not have apostolic gifts in terms of miracles and healing, we are too dependent on the power of faith. A. What is our Lord saying, “O ye of little faith”? I mean it all – it’s been going on for years, and it just ended [snaps fingers] that fast. And he knew he was at his Waterloo, too. If you don’t share your faith in Christ, something isn’t right. It doesn’t square with what you told us in chapter 10. Faith is essential to the man that wants God to intervene in his life. And it was faith that came, in the time of crisis to Gideon, and Barak, and Samson, Jephthah, and David, and Samuel and the prophets, and many, many others. It’s figurative. Read James 1:22; 2:14; and 2:21-22; and see how faith and deeds work together. We’ve seen it in chapter 9. The disciples. His persistence. Build strong faith in God and through faith change what you want changed, and get what you need in your life. He is saved by faith (Acts 16:31), he is kept by faith (I Peter 1:5 “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation”), and lives by faith (Gal 2:20). We say, “It’s a nice story, glad for that child. It just – it can’t be done; it can’t be done.” So, they gave up. It isn’t that they had to batter down heaven to get his attention; it is that God knew exactly what he was going to do, but He withheld it in order that they might continue to stretch their faith. That leads us to what we’ll call the perversion of the faithless in verse 17. This was pretty routine behavior for them. þ³‹œÈë=u³Þ€¯Øpg_‚•Æ/:kðϕëÙÜóf†ßˆr¯_QU5tõ³Ž¦,«°qAôgçÑ-¹s’Œœz¶F?ÃúÍ\N¹kòºIÏ®ÈffEÚ2WjÂ?ù¶Öõ7ÓvÔa{¤CU4®Ç¬4hˆÉ¿w_Áév;˜§JPn4ÑèæÉo. Well, you know, the demon knew where he was. And I have to let you out a little bit at a time. Where there is no faith in the future. DOWNLOAD SERMON (.DOC) DOWNLOAD SERMON (.PDF) VIEW ONLINE (HTML) This Sermon has a related Background: DOWNLOAD IMAGE PACK ... General Stewardship Spiritual Growth Holiness Faith New Year The Sabbath is not just a day of rest, but it is a time of Sacred assembly. Please? Sermons (By Author) Sexuality. This, then, is lesson number one in this series of lessons. That leads us to a second point in the narrative. My God is going to take care of everything, and God who clothes the grass is going to clothe you; and God who feeds the birds is going to take care of your food,” and all of these kind of things. And now the disciples don’t have anything to eat, and they’re concerned about that. Did you get that? How long is this going to last, when I’m so used to working through angels? How were they going to get fed? We call them lunatic. Even these apostles, with their apostolic uniqueness and their gifts of miraculous healing, casting out of demons, were dependent on the prayer of faith to see the power work. – “little faith.” Remember I told you that was the subtitle for the disciples? It was the particular inability of the disciples from which He generalizes to the whole inability of the generation in which they lived. Watch, “If you had the faith that is illustrated in a mustard seed, you would start out small, but your faith would” – do what? Here at Grace to You Europe we take our data protection responsibilities very seriously and, as you would expect, have undertaken a significant programme of work to ensure that we are ready for this important legislative change. Oh, yes, the Lord provides; here it is, and I’m hanging onto it.” That’s little faith. Where were they going to sleep? It’s the kind of stuff that doesn’t know how to persist in prayer. And so, you have throughout holy Scripture the testimony to the life of faith, to the power of faith. And the father himself was weak in faith. The power of faith. – Romans 1:16 2) Confession is made of His salvation. It was faith in God’s care that enabled job to say, in the midst of personal disaster, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him,” Job 13:15. However, we can have faith that Christ has the power to heal, that He is mindful of us, that He will strengthen us, and that if we endure well, we may qualify for eternal life. So, you have the disciples, the scribes, and the multitude of people, and they’re there to wait and to meet Jesus and the three who come down from the mountain. And it says in verse 13, “They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them.” They had done it before. Further, it says, “He is greatly vexed” – and that’s Old English for saying, “He is tremendously afflicted.” It is not a mild case of epilepsy, it is a major case; it is perhaps grand mal at its most serious level. We’ve seen it in chapter 12. Right? When the disciples first saw this child, the father brought him. But He says, “Because of your little faith.”, You know, if they had one problem, what was it? It doesn’t know how to persist in prayer. And so, they said, “Well, it’s too difficult for the Lord. Backsliding 2. He says to Him, “Lord.” And you could see that he really held Jesus in high esteem. Just like the demons in the maniac of Gadara knew Him, he knew Him. Now, as we look at the narrative, I want you to follow four key elements in this narrative text. Jesus had power over wretched, fallen angels. And we can’t help but be moved by the sense of urgency of this father. Such a believer — who understands the power of speaking the Word of God with boldness and faith — "shall have whatsoever he saith". D2 Today we’re going to finish our sermon series on God’s Prescription for Your Health by looking at the Awesome Power of Faith. He’s out of the boat; he’s walking on the water. by faith Abraham traveled to the promised land and "looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God," by faith Sarah was able to give birth to a child when she was past the age of child bearing, by faith Abraham offered up Isaac, by faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, by faith Joseph told of how the children of When he saw Jesus, this demon – fallen angel of the satanic host – who had what the New Testament called demonized, daimonizomenos - who had demonized this child, when he saw Jesus, threw him into convulsions. “Oh, yes, I believe God. Now, in our text – and we can look at our text more closely now – Jesus makes one of the great statements in all of the Bible relative to faith when He says that faith moves mountains, and that it makes nothing impossible. The O Ye of Little Faith Association. He was the master of taking life situations and from them teaching and burying indelibly in the minds spiritual truth. You can never get faith by merely praying; you can never get it by any effort of the will; you can never get it by trying to pump it up in any way. The whole incident is merely an illustration of a lesson. Please respond to confirm your registration. I think we’ve heard that many, many times. And if you don’t trust God, and you don’t believe in God, you get twisted. It does, and let’s see why. Faith is the key to unlocking the supernatural power of God. And so, we are reminded again that we come from the mountaintop of the second coming right back down to reality. They couldn’t do, in chapter 17, what they were promised to do in chapter 10. It was faith that caused Isaac to bless his sons, that caused Jacob to bless his sons, that caused Joseph to hope in the future. Heb 11:1 11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. There was a judge, who feared not God nor man, and a widow. Now, the whole scene takes place as the disciples Peter, James, and John, with the Lord Jesus, are coming down from the Mount of Transfiguration. Does He mean, “Well, you don’t believe down deep, in some subjective way”? It’s not a feeling. I believe God though I don’t have any clothing. Not “unbelief,” not “no faith.” “Because of your little faith. To tear up, to uproot, to pulverize mountains were all regular phrases for removing difficulties.”. It was so severe that he couldn’t eat, that his body was dissipating rapidly. 3. This article is also available and sold as a booklet. 2 Tim 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of . Twisted, distorted, out of shape. Remember Acts chapter 19, verse 15, when the demon said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?” They know Jesus. I want to stretch your faith; I want you to learn to trust me so you’ll be able to trust me in the extreme tests. He begs for an instantaneous healing. And what the Lord says in the end is, “This kind goes not out except by prayer.” And listen to me very carefully then; the antidote to little faith is – what? In fact, when the Jews – by the way, this was a rather common Jewish phrase – when the Jews talked about removing mountains, they used it in reference to the ability to get past difficulties or to remove difficulties. 4. It only went so far until they couldn’t see any human way out, and that’s where their faith ended. Mark says that there was a demon in him, and the demon in him, he says, “Taketh him and teareth him.” Literally thrashes him. 2. And I can’t help but think, at this moment, that there is such a stark contrast - isn’t there? Get out of bed and give me some bread.”, And the guy inside says, “Hey, don’t bother me.”. And Jesus says, “Thirty-three years is about all of this I can take.” And so, in the end of verse 17, He says, “Bring him here to Me. And they will be great lessons not only for them but for us. And who were the specific ones who weren’t exercising faith? All these incidents tell us what little faith is. After five years, one of them came to Jesus Christ. It was faith that allowed Noah to build a great ark and preach righteousness. For example you may have faith that God’s kingdom is going to be restored on earth, but it is not here yet. They don’t have a whole lot of faith in the agents of Jesus, but they sure would like to get past the agents to Him. It is not saying that if you had a little, tiny faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, that you could say, “Mountain be removed.” It’s not talking about literal mountains; it’s talking about mountains of difficulty. Oh, this is a brand new test for them. By faith Joseph (v. 22). And this one knew Him. Other people say, “You know, I’ve been praying for so-and-so to come to the Lord for two months.” Two months? And you have the same thing in the eighteenth chapter of Luke, in that marvelous opening passage there. Oh, you can know it. And yet, very often we don’t experience the fulfillment of the promise in God’s power because we don’t know the persistence of prayer that keeps on praying until God responds. “How long do I have to endure this?”. By faith Jacob (v. 21). By the way, Luke adds a wonderful little footnote here. And in case you think that’s unusual, let’s take a little trip. We’re inextricably tangled in this deal. And that’s what perverse means, to be crooked or to be twisted. And now, just a few hours after that, they descend into the reality of the sin-cursed world at its worst. They have just seen what Paul calls the glory that is in Christ in the face of Christ, and they’ve seen it in its fullness – at least fuller than they’ve ever dreamed it could be seen. Well, let me show you something. Faith in God is a life-saving power. Perhaps there was, in that demon that possessed this young boy, a violent desire for murder. And as they descend from the Mount of Transfiguration, having just had that marvelous and comprehensible experience of seeing the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, they are met by a large crowd. Let me give you just a little background. ... Sermon Manuscripts & MP3s (By Scripture) Sermon on the Mount. I can’t feed the guy. But the longer you do it, the more weight you have to add to do any good. By faith Moses’ parents (v. 23). They come down the mountain. And that’s why, you see, the story ends. They couldn’t heal even though they had available power, because they weren’t persistent in prayer. As He begins to let them go on their own, He starts to teach them a profound lesson. Now, follow my thinking very closely. And to be deaf and dumb, in addition to that, and all the horror of that scene. He doesn’t now have a lot of faith in the disciples of Jesus, but he still has some faith in Jesus. It was also faith in God’s Word that enabled Daniel to survive the lion’s den, as it says in the sixth chapter.