Sermon Tone Analysis

What is the Gift of Faith?

How do we get it?

How do we use it?

Happy Mothers day to all the mom’s out there.

The ones who are, or want to be.

Its great we can take a day and reflect on such a vital part of our society and culture.

No one is here, without a Mother,

So thank you mother’s for your love and sacrifice.

We all know you do a whole lot without getting noticed, or even appreciated.

Today we want to fix that, Thank you for all you do.

Each on of you is Loved and appreciated:

Quotes

If evolution really works, how come Mothers only have two hands

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford.

Then I want to move in with them

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen.

When they’re finished, I climb out.

If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says ‘keep away from children’

It’s not easy being a mother.

If it were, fathers would do it

Transition

Traditionally the song faith of out mothers is sung in churches on Mother’s Day

but instead of a song I’d like to continue our series on living the supernatural Lifestlye

Specifically dealing with the aspect of Faith.

So what is Faith?

Good for us the Bible defines this word for us.

Its the ability to know something is going to happen even without see the proof of it.

There are many types of faith:

Natural Faith

This is a characteristic every human being has and exercises.

Now some may argue and say I do not believe in faith, I only believe what I can test with my own senses!

Really?

When you go and sit on a chair.

Do you have absolute certainty it going to hold you up?

Or are you simply believing it will hold you up without testing the chair 1st?

When you turn the key or press the button on your vehicle, do you know how it starts the engine.

Or just believe it will.

When you power on your laptop, do you know every aspect of how the A/C power is converted to DC power,

How the Bios tells the boot process where to to get the bootloader, which pulls the kernal into memory so it can look at all the hardware in the system so it can load the operating system which loads the drivers and the Gui, and enables applications to run so you can watch your cat videos’s

Or when you press the power button do you just believe it will do all that for you without you even knowing

That’s natural faith, and its a necessary part of everyday life.

Whether its ordering a meal in a restaurant, or driving on the whitemud.

There is alot of information we do not know, and would be very debilitating if we had to know everything before we proceeded.

That’s where faith comes in.

It fills in the gaps of the things we don’t know.

everyone operates in natural faith.

But let’s move on to the supernatural.

There are still many types of faith .

Saving Faith

Its the faith you have to come to Christ in the 1st place

There are certain things we are required to believe about Christ, namely, that He is the Son of God, that He is our Savior, that He has provided an atonement, and so on.

One can know about the Christian faith and yet believe that it is not true.

We might have a doubt or two mixed with our faith, but there has to be a certain level of intellectual affirmation and conviction if we are to be saved.

Before anyone can really trust in Jesus Christ, he has to believe that Christ indeed is the Savior, that He is who He claimed to be.

Genuine faith says that the content  is true.

Knowing and believing the content of the Christian faith is not enough, for even demons can do that

Faith is effectual only if one personally trusts in Christ alone for salvation.

It is one thing to give an intellectual assent to a proposition but quite another to place personal trust in it.

No-one can unequivocally prove Jesus died and rose again, sure there is a lot of evidence for it, but its not like we can each go back in time machine and watch it for ourselves.

Beyond evidence requires faith

So intellect alone, can’t get you saved.

It requires faith.

Today I’d like to look beyond natural faith, and saving faith and look at the fruit of faith as described in Galatians 5

remember our definition of Faith is believing something even if you don’t have the proof to back it up

I was watching a video a few weeks back of a street evangelist, claimed he was a Pastor, but the whole video revolved around him demanding his rights from a police officer so he could use His bull horn to preach on the streets.

He was so proud of putting the officer in His place and demanding his rights.

There was absolutely no love displayed.

It broke my heart, This channel has 840 videos and 162k subscribers and go by a name that would make you think they are christians.

I started watching another video, and it was even worse.

They were bashing another church.

and began with this statement.

God made us logical and intellectual, we should be able to understand everything God does.

If we don’t understand it then it’s not from God.

My heart just sank at this heretical statement.

But this person is not alone in this thinking.

We’ve had people leave this church because they shared this same belief.

It’s like this.

I have my little box of beliefs, If something happens that does not fit within this Box, then it must not be from God.

But what does the Bible say about this?

The rebuttal usually comes in, we Now have the mind of Christ so we can understand all God does.

I believe That to be true, But having the mind of Christ does not limit God to whatever you are comfortable with!

rather it expands you thinking to encompass God thoughts!

Many theologians have made statements like:

First, it’s critical to note Jesus is using an illustration.

He’s not literally talking about moving mountains and uprooting trees.

There’s no example in Scripture of mountains disappearing because someone had faith.

The reason why no mountain has disappeared is because that has not lined up with the will of God.

Not Jesus was just using a illustration

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I believe the number one thing limiting God today is not the devil, the government or non Christians but actually unbelieving believers!

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WHAT Faith is Not

Faith is NOT name it and claim it

“In Jesus Name”: Not just a conclusion to a prayer

Has to be in accordance to Jesus’s will

ie.

Ambassador being recalled

Faith is NOT everything going perfect in Life

Faith is NOT being comfortable

We focus to much on our own comfort, and not enough on God’s plan of redemption

The next area of faith we want to discuss is the Gift of Faith

The gift of faith found in 1 Cor 12 is a little different,