Frail Faith in a Strong Savior
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Theres always interplay when with our inward journey with God and our outward journey in the world.
We have a inward journey and an outward journey.
Anytime there is a inward revival there is always going to be outward chaos.
Our outward circumstances shouldn’t effect my walk with God, it should be that my inward walk with God effects my outward circumstances.
You can’t be spiritually minded by thinking carnal.
- Moses comes down from Mt. Sinai in the presence of God, to go and confront Israel for there rebellion and idolatry.
Elijah running from Jezebel, his prayers are Lord take my life, I’m no better than my fathers.
the he went to sleep the angel said arise and eat for this journey is too great for you.
40 days Elijah was sustained from the food the angel prepared for him.
His inward journey which is a life before God effected his outward journey which is a life in the world.
After the baptism of Jesus. His inward journey effected his outward journey now He’s getting tempted in the wilderness by satan.
The mount of transfiguration, theres this glorious display of who Christ is, the Father affirms the supremacy of Jesus Christ. But right after they are confronted by a dispute with the scribes and the disciples, and by a lonely father struggling desperately for both the life of his son and the existence of his faith.
Immediately, when they saw Him, all the people were greatly amazed, and running to Him, greeted Him.
And He asked the scribes, “What are you discussing with them?”
So theres a dispute and chaos, you have a crowd, scribes, and scribes all intermingled. A very chaotic scene.
But Jesus immediately directs there attention to Himself.
and said “what are you discussing with them?”
No longer are you directing your questions to my disciples you are directing them to me. Now we are focusing on Jesus.
Then one of the crowd answered and said, “Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit.
And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not.”
Convulsions, foaming at the mouth, outcries, lockjaw, and bodily rigidity followed by loss of consciousness are the symptoms of tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizures, rightly identified as epilepsy
He answered him and said, “O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to Me.”
Then they brought him to Him. And when he saw Him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed, foaming at the mouth.
When He is saying faithless Generation, how long shall I stay with you or bear with you. He isn’t talking about the disciples inability to cast out the demon.
Because Inability is simply a limitation, not a fault. But hes talking about the scribes, Israel.
The doubts and disbelief of the crowd do not determine Jesus willingness and ability to act.
Mark 9:21–24 (NKJV)
So He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.
And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
Jesus can expel demonic forces at a word, but the evoking of faith is a much harder matter.
The man saying “but if You can do anything”.
This father didn’t fully believe but He had a mustard seed of faith.
Maybe we don’t fully believe. But we can start like the father in this story. Lord if you can reveal to me you are true.
