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Fresh Faith Review
We have taken this summer to look at the battle of Faith.
Not that faith should be a battle, but our enemy sure makes it to be.
We said that satan wants to destroy our walk with the Lord.
He has no right to do so, but if we don’t have the faith in our God that we should, he can find it very easy to do so.
Without faith, it is impossible to please God - and the enemy has a foothold to rob from us, kill things in us and destroy the power that we should have in our walk with the Lord.
But God is faithful.
He never turns his back on us.
He can restore everything and anything that the enemy has stolen, robbed and even destroyed
Not only is he powerful enough to do that, but he can take away the lingering effects of what Satan has done to you
In our lives, and in the future of our families
He is the God who wants to make us forget all of our troubles
And he is the God who can make us fruitful in the land of our sufferings.
Did you hear that?
He is the God who can make things out of the junk that you are going through in life.
But we need to feed our faith and trust God to grow our faith in him
We need to continue to be students of His Word - To learn who he is
To know what he has promised
To mature to be able to take him at his word.
We need to allow God to tear our crumbling foundations out from under our feet and install his firm and steady (Foursquare) foundation under us
We need to trust God in where he has placed us - in our body, our church, our gathering of God believers - We need a kingdom mentallity
We need to put God first in our lives.
- that he is the center of everything
everything we believe
Everything we live
Everything we experience
And then we will have faith in this mighty, restorative, Overcoming, trustworthy and powerful God.
And it will change our lives.
We need to have faith in the God who supersedes time - this is to trust that His timing is perfect, even if it means it operates when our time is up.
Last week, my brother David, shared about the battle in having this faith
How satan likes to use the situations and hurts of our lives to bring doubt and discouragement.
But how in the midst of that, God is still God and still able to do all that he said he could do.
Because the reality is God is at work, even in our chaos and hurts of life.
He is working out a greater praise
He is working in us a greater testimony
And he is wanting us to raise up a greater generation
Turn over with me to
Waiting For What?
This morning I want to ask you what you are waiting for.
The message is entitled, Waiting for What?
I spoke a message, probably a long time ago that compared the two disciples of Peter and Judas
They both deny Christ - Yes Judas sells him out for a little silver and with a kiss, but Peter’s denial was just as bad
They both are running from their demons
They both are feeling pretty bad about what’s happened
But only one is affected by the Cross of Christ.
Why?
Today in our churches, we have Christians going through the same mess
They have denied Christ with their lifestyles
Sin and compromise are knocking at the door
We are not all where we need to be (if we were honest)
And not all of us will be affected by the cross (all that Jesus died to give us in life)
Why?
I think it all depends on what we are waiting for.
Peter seems to give up, but he is still hanging with the old gang
I don’t think he is the same man
I think he is broken and probably putting himself down
But I believe that at the back of his mind was a thought that things could change
Judas evidently doesn’t sense that things can change and he goes and hangs himself.
Judas wasn’t going to wait for anything.
Peter waits for the hope that is in his heart.
So what are you waiting for my brother and sister?
Has what we have been talking about for the last nine weeks affected your heart?
Is there faith arising in your heart
Is there a greater understanding of what God can do?
Can you see that He wants to do it for you?
Is the God whom you believe in more powerful than your enemy and your situation?
Than I want to tell you today, to wait on him, because the reward is worth it.
Wait for the Truth!
We know from previous weeks that the enemy is thief and killer.
But we also know that He is a liar.
This chapter in the book dealt with our moral standing with God.
I want you to know that there are two truths today
There is the truth about you without God
That we are sinners and broken
That mans heart is always wicked
That mans heart is always rebellious
That there is not good in us, no righteousness or holiness in us outside of God.
Verses 9-10 in our reading speak to this
1 Cor 6:9-11
This is truth isn’t it?
And it’s not a very popular truth.
It doesn’t bring very much hope into our lives
And unfortunately as we see with Judas and many in our society today, if this is the truth that you are waiting on, a life becomes very easy to take.
But, as I’ve told you, there is also a second truth.
That is the truth about you with God
That you are a child of God
That your sin has been washed away, buried in the deepest sea and removed as far from as the East is from the West
That is verse 11
So which truth are you waiting on?
Why is there such a problem between these two truths today?
Because the enemy had used his deceitfulness to trick us into thinking that they are two different truths and against one another.
He uses the first truth to tell us that because of it and how sinful that we are that the second truth is not attainable.
He works on our hearts with his condemnation to make us believe that they are two truths, when in reality they are only part of one truth.
You see, if there is confusion in your truth today, then you are not getting the truth of God
God does not bring confusion, but through his love and patient grace for us, clears the confusion of the enemies lies.
Look at
Galatians 3:19-
The enemies truth says that we are forever broken, without hope.
We are lost to sin and brokenness with no hope of ever being anything different
He says that because of how far we have gone in sin, that God cannot love us, will not love us and will not forgive us.
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