matt 17:20
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So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying,
“Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.
So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”
And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”
So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
MATT 17:
Back store
Jesus had led 3 of his disciples up what the bible calls a high mountain.
intro:
we starts here at verse 14
And they said to Him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.”
And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying,
matt
mark 14 and 9 say that as he came down the mountain there was a great multitude around them, disputing with the disciples.
you ever notice how when you have had a high time in the Lord how afterwards all hell break loose in your life.
after you have experience God, stain attacks
after being on top of the mountain you are now back in the valley.
which bring us to our focus text
So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
1 The Confusion
1 The Confusion
Matt 17
Let us look at the mountain, what is the mountain?
it’s a metaphor for things in our life that are road blocks.
Thing that you can’t get over.
And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t.
I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.
But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.
I love God’s law with all my heart.
But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.
Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?
romans 7:
How many of us have want to be delivered from something and no matter how hard we try we just can’t shake it...
drinking, drugs,…Sin
these are Mountains in our live.
How do we know
let look at a mountain here…
“Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.
Matt. 17:
He was saying that his son was crazy trying to… If you where to see this person out side you would say look a this crazy man.
How do we know if we have a mountain?
If there is something in our life that we just can get over we want to but we can’t seem to remove it from our life.
look here
So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
matt
the disciples could do it that lets me know I’m not subs-pose to be able to fix everything , I’ll tell you in a min.
Let’s look deeper...
When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!”
And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.
matt 17:
Mark 9:24
Hold up it seems like the mountain in this boys life is a little more deeper then him being crazy, it seems to be spiritual.
did you know that in order to destroy a mountain you just can’t attack. Holes are drilled into the mountain and charges are set off inside the mountain.
See there are a lot times when we focus on the on the outward problem not realizing that it’s a inside problem.
let me break it down…
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Gal 5
don’t this the wrong way I’m not disregarding mental health.
But I am saying that there are things in our life that are the fruit of a spirit and in order to get an break through it to be handled from the inside out.
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
gal 5:19-
Gal 5:
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
see once we start to see our mountains for what they are an internal problem and not a outward problem we can start to tear down our mountains.
2. The Misunderstanding
2. The Misunderstanding
Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”
Matt 17
wow!
So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
matt
If you have faith you will talk to your difficult mountain and it will move
Jesus is saying because of your little faith is why your mountain isn’t moving.
you should be able to say…
Alcoholism;
uncontrollable tongue you can tell it to shut up
Addiction go away
say to this mind I can’t control, think straight
and they will
sounds too good to be true
what is little faith?
It’s when the lie from stain is more believable then the truth from God.
see great faith is trusting God with no limits !!
Little faith is putting things in place just in case God doesn’t come through
Great faith is trusting and believe God even
Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,
which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
matt 13