the power of faith sermon pdf

And the further you read in the story, and when you add the narrative of Matthew – of Mark that parallels it in the narrative of Luke, that parallels it, it becomes obvious why the Father was so wrought in His heart with the matter of his son. “O ye of” – what? Amazing. 3. And that’s what perverse means, to be crooked or to be twisted. They didn’t have any resource. It was faith that called Moses to reject the pleasures of sin for the reproach of Christ. Jesus had power over wretched, fallen angels. 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. 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) … They all used to get in the same bed to keep warm. I mean they’re really happy they can’t do it. But before it comes, we’ve got to get back to reality. Did He prove to them they could do it by allowing them to do it? Intro: Genuine, biblical faith is a miracle!Faith in God is something we do not possess naturally. We have a word that we use rather frequently for people who act strangely. And the way it is for you and me. For example you may have faith that God’s kingdom is going to be restored on earth, but it is not here yet. And some of us who’ve been a Christian a long time, and we ask the Lord for something, and it seems like He’s not even there. It was the choice of the demon, perhaps not even the choice of the child in terms of any moral choice. First is the pleading of the father. “‘“My door is shut; my children are with me in bed.”‘” And that tells us a lot about how they used to sleep. We believe God because we can see what He’s done; it’s right here. c. Hebrews 13:5 – “For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." Now, in all these four incidents of little faith, the Lord was present. You see, His contemporaries were disastrous failures, and even His own disciples were continually having to learn the same lessons over and over and over and over. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons.’” Hey, they had been given the commission to do this. More than half-a-century ago, George Mueller, prince of intercessors, began to pray for a group of five friends. Faith is the And maybe they said it one more time, “In the name of Jesus Christ be gone,” and he didn’t go. Get out of bed and give me some bread.”, And the guy inside says, “Hey, don’t bother me.”. Great faith says, “I believe God without anything in my hand. “Oh, yes, I believe God. Mark and Luke add other symptoms. The power of faith. The other Gospel writers tell us more about this crowd. Where were they going to sleep? PROPOSITION:: To present a sermon outline on faith to teach the Bible’s definition of faith in opposition to the denominational world’s. Where there is no faith in the future. He has given them a revelation of His person as King. And so, she came and troubled him and kept coming, and kept coming, and kept coming. 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. Now, let me just tell you something about this verse, please. And the writer of Hebrews leads into the great opening of the twelfth chapter and says, “Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses” – and to what are they witnessing? And, you know, we fall into that category. 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. It has to be qualified somehow, and it’s qualified by the promise of God, “I promised you’d could do this, and you can do it if you have faith that grows. No wonder there was a sense of frustration. And as he brought the boy, Mark says, “The demon in the boy saw Jesus. – “it would grow and increase.” And that’s an indictment portfolio them. They didn’t have the faith to believe the Lord could supply it. The Curse of Liquor! His faith shall be tried many times and in many ways (I Peter 1:7), but faith will always be vindicated, because it is … Matthew 2:19 says, “This is not a time for fasting when the Bridegroom is present.” And verse 21 isn’t even in the best manuscripts of Matthew; it’s borrowed from Mark’s account. 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. Right? And then He teaches them about forgiveness. And He’s given us power in the Spirit of God. “I brought him to the disciples, and they couldn’t do it.” Does that seem strange to you? I mean the guy just says, “Please? Would you look with me at Luke chapter 11 as we wrap up our thinking with just a few closing thoughts? By the way, Luke adds a wonderful little footnote here. 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. Oh, my. If you do, you miss the power of God. And this is his only son. B. Now, that’s a very interesting word, and in the Greek language, it basically means to be moonstruck. Now verse 18, “And Jesus rebuked the demon, and he departed out of him. What a picture. And maybe they said, “In the name of Jesus Christ be gone.” He didn’t go. That’s being totally – what? After clicking 'Register', you will receive an email with a link to verify your account and to complete your registration. Through faith move God to work for you. 1) Faith receives Gods righteousness. What is He really saying? For that fifth friend, he prayed 52 years. 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. There was a judge, who feared not God nor man, and a widow. Do you remember he says, according to Mark’s Gospel, when in conversation with Jesus in this same incident, he said, “Lord, I believe; help Thou my unbelief”? And now it’s time for Jesus to speak. In each time He took care of it, provided for them, gave them what they needed, met their need, took them at the point of their little faith and did what they couldn’t do. It doesn’t square with what you told us in chapter 10. II. Faith is the key to unlocking the supernatural power of God. Luke says the demon threw him down or slammed him down. And they couldn’t do it, and He wasn’t there. And he knew he was at his Waterloo, too. Nice to have that child whole for the father’s sake. And now the disciples don’t have anything to eat, and they’re concerned about that. The nature of the Kingdom of God is: a. Now listen, let me sum all four of these up. is the nature of the kingdom of darkness . He believed a little bit, but not much more than a little bit. So, they had the promise, and they had the power. The Power of Holiness 2 Timothy 3:5-5. And it’s not enough for me to say that; I’ve got to get a handle on that, and I think you do, too. And running through the end of chapter 20 – that is chapter 17, 18, 19, and 20 – we find the Lord’s special instruction to the Twelve. b. But that power will never be tapped until you have the faith that starts small, and when it meets with resistance, and when you don’t see it happen, the faith doesn’t die small; it gets larger and larger and larger. 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. Go back to chapter 10, verse 1, when Jesus called His disciples, “He called unto Him the Twelve” – verse 1 says, Matthew 10 – “He gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all types of sickness and all types of disease.”. But as soon as they were hearing from Jesus, “Follow Me,” and, “Come after Me,” and, “I want you to know there’s going to be no place to lay your head,” and all of this and all of that, and the Lord says, “Now, don’t worry about it. a. there is no power in the present. And Jesus is asleep. And I brought him to Thy disciples, and they couldn’t cure him. We say, “It’s a nice story, glad for that child. That’s obvious. In Mark chapter 6, it tells us that He sent the Twelve forth to preach and to heal. 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. This article is also available and sold as a booklet. And though we do not have apostolic gifts in terms of miracles and healing, we are too dependent on the power of faith. Activate the power of God through faith and miracles will happen for you. If you don’t share your faith in Christ, something isn’t right. 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. By the way, the word “mercy” – eleeō – basically means to show or demonstrate compassion. So, to some degree, the whole bunch of them were faithless and twisted and diverted from trust in God. How long shall I bear with you? The longer you’ve been a Christian, the tougher the test has to be – right? It’s used of objects made by a craftsman that turn out lousy because he’s a clumsy craftsman. During that time, all Noah's neighbors laughed at him. 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 who were the specific ones who weren’t exercising faith? What was missing? I believe god though the wind is howling. And the father is struggling with faith. Yes. And their faith ran out at the point they couldn’t see the provision. “All were astonished at the majesty of God.” Do you know why Luke uses that phrase? By faith Moses’ parents (v. 23). You see him worshipping, kneeling. And we can’t help but be moved by the sense of urgency of this father. Oh, this is a brand new test for them. Does He mean, “Well, you don’t believe down deep, in some subjective way”? They wanted to know why they couldn’t. This, then, is lesson number one in this series of lessons. All rights reserved. For example, He teaches them, in chapter 17, about faith. And that’s fine, in a sense, because it is the ending of the story in Mark 9:29. This is the fourth point, the power of faith. Now, one thing they worried about was the matter of clothing and food and drink. The pleading of the father brings us to the powerlessness of the followers. Always. Demons know Christ. Well, you know, the demon knew where he was. Faith in God is a life-saving power. The test is how long are you going to stay there? And the disciples had failed to exercise the faith they need to heal the young boy, even though they had the promise and the power. And we’ve been following through Matthew, and we’ve seen it in chapter 4, we’ve seen it in chapter 8 twice. The crowd is thrill seeking. He cried saying, “Lord save me.”. And now, just a few hours after that, they descend into the reality of the sin-cursed world at its worst. A. Mark tells us it included scribes, Jewish legal experts – just the normal, run-of-the-mill gang of people that populated the northern Galilee area – and also the nine other disciples who weren’t there at the Mount of Transfiguration. Faith gives me the power Hear the Unheard. 2. Abel understood intuitively how to give an acceptable sacrifice - because he had faith. B. Did you get that? That leads us to what we’ll call the perversion of the faithless in verse 17. The disciples started on the project, but they ran out of faith, and they didn’t see their answer immediately. Faith that initiates – Mark2:2, 3 • There was a large crowd comprised of three basic groups: (1) ordinary folks, (2) Jewish rulers, and (3) Jesus and His disciples • Luke 5:17 – Luke makes an important statement; “…and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.” There is no evidence of this “power to heal” until the paralytic 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.”. Please? The term is used only one other place, and that’s in Matthew 4:24. 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. It was faith in God’s protection that enabled Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to stand on the edge of the fiery furnace and say, “Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning, fiery furnace. And when he saw Jesus, he threw the boy into convulsions. Nice for people to see the power of Christ, but it has nothing to do with me.”, Oh, but it does. They always were indicted for that. I think we’ve heard that many, many times. Because faith is the ability to believe God when there are no human resources. All of these are profound lessons for living the kingdom principles. I believe God though there’s nothing on the cupboard. Now, let’s leave that for a moment, and we’ll come back to that. And we’re going to find out what all this is meant to teach. I want us to take our Bibles now and look at Matthew chapter 17. Matthew chapter 17 And I want us to look at a lesson taught by the Lord Jesus Christ on the power of faith. We sent you an email. 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. He is pleading for his son. And it is a lesson on the power of faith. By faith Joseph (v. 22). The Devil's Boomerangs! We know that many people would like to have sermons in a printable format. You just said we had little faith, and that’s why we couldn’t do it. He’s starting to turn them loose, to leave them on their own. And you continue persistently in prayer. And it’s not to say that this child was evil; this child was possessed from his childhood, from his young childhood. Use these sermons on faith to help guide you in your sermon preparation. It does, and let’s see why. Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity (pdf) ... PDF by John Piper. Topics: Holiness. If an unjust judge will do that, what’ll God do, who’s a just and loving God? By faith Abraham (v. 8). It lingers in his mind from the transfiguration. And they said, ‘Why could not we cast him out?’”, “I mean you just came up and [snaps fingers] he was gone. This isn’t the first time that they had tried to cast demons out. Today's sermon is about the power of faith, and it goes through four steps or phases to see that faith realized, from believing in God's dream, being willing to take a risk, being a people of great expectations, and refusing to give up. So, he pulled it over and put it here. God uses all kinds of people of different … 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. The disciples couldn’t heal, even though they had a promise. And then He teaches them about discipline. The pleading of the father. He begs for an instantaneous healing. Give us a heart of persistence in prayer, for the glory of Christ, amen. Verse 21 says, “Howbeit this kind goes not out except by prayer.” Now, let me tell you something about this verse. That everything you want, everything you need isn’t necessarily going to come the first time you ask God. Here’s Peter. Now, his faith got him out of the boat, but as soon as he saw what was going on – in verse 30 he saw the wind; he was afraid; he began to sink. For verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, ‘Move from here to yonder place,’ and it shall move. And in Mark 9:21, the question is asked to the father, “When did he get like this?”. In the entire Bible there is no clearer instruction on faith than Hebrews 11. And He said unto them, “Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith.” There’s that same speech again. Let’s face it; we’ve had a few great weeks on the mountaintop, haven’t we? The promise of guidance, promise of forgiveness, promise of freedom, promises, promises. I get up and everybody’s going to get up. Luke adds, by the way, that the father pled with them, the nine who were down below. The principle of the mustard seed is not that it’s little, no. Build strong faith in God and through faith change what you want changed, and get what you need in your life. They come to Jesus Christ, and they start to pray and ask the Lord for things, and they come very fast. It was faith in God’s power that caused Caleb, the Jewish spy, to look at the land of Canaan, with its giants, and say this in Numbers 13:30, “Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it.” That was faith in God’s power. Maybe they said, “Come out.” Didn’t come out. We start in chapter 17 and verse 14, really kind of a special section, because here the Lord begins an instructional period with His disciples. b. love: agape / divine love . Registered User Oh, yes, the Lord provides; here it is, and I’m hanging onto it.” That’s little faith. What He meant was, if you have faith enough, all difficulties can be solved, and even the hardest task can be accomplished. ... Sermon Manuscripts & MP3s (By Scripture) Sermon on the Mount. Please respond to confirm your registration. And now watch. After all, the ordinary man seldom finds any necessity to remove a mountain. Now, as we look at the narrative, I want you to follow four key elements in this narrative text. So, somebody, some scribe thought it capped off Matthew’s account. And Mark also adds, in chapter 9, verse 25, that he couldn’t hear either. One writer says, “A great teacher who could really expound and interpret Scripture, and who could explain and resolve difficulties was known as an uprooter or a pulverizer of mountains. This was pretty routine behavior for them. Like when you start lifting weights, you start with a little bit, and you see it right away. And so, we are reminded again that we come from the mountaintop of the second coming right back down to reality. In Luke 11, verse 5, “And He said unto them, ‘Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say, “Friend, lend me three loaves”‘” – I mean you’ve got a friend, and you go to his house at midnight to borrow some bread, or buy some – “‘“and a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him”? By faith Jacob (v. 21). 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. A. Hebrews chapter Eleven presents the Power of Faith as superior to the power of a carnal, religious ceremony, or some ritual of good works! Sermon Files (Pdf) Click on desired file to open file in a new window and read sermon of that date. And so, he was always in danger of being severely burned, and no doubt had been severely burned, and always in danger of being drowned. Here is a man in a posture of humility. He’s given them a revelation of His program for the kingdom, and now He gives them a revelation of the principles for living in that kingdom. Because the scribe standing there, they didn’t believe either. At this point, Matthew doesn’t tell us what happened, but Mark does. Did He? “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.”. Handout “PRAYER ISN’T JUST A SMALL PART OF WHAT WE DO AS A CHURCH, IT IS IN OUR SPIRITUAL DNA AS THE BODY OF CHRIST. Did you get that? And what is even more amazing is they’d already been doing it. We’re inextricably tangled in this deal. 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. 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?”. They knew Jesus gave them the power, and they knew they had accomplished it in times past. All the efforts of a human being cannot compare to the abilities of the God whom we serve! Without faith it is impossible to please God. 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. 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