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The Importance of Faith
Lk 9:37-43
Inro: How many times have you been in a place where you really needed something in your life, either physically or spiritually?
But when you talked with the Lord about it you just kind of half heatedly asked for help?
B. Yet when you talked to the Lord about it you just kind of half heartedly asked for help?
a. .
Not really sure that He would help.
a) Not really sure that He could help.
b.
Not really sure that He could help.
c.
So how or why dos this happen to us?
And it does happen more often then we want to admit.
The end result is often failure and this failure stems from a lack of faith.
C. The end result is often failure and this failure stems from a lack of faith.
d.
When you read (HW) it definds faith as substance of things hoped for and the evidence or proof of things not seen.
e.
It is the dependence or trust or confidence in something or someone.
For Christians, its our trust, our confidence in God in every situation of our lives.
f.
So the Lack of faith then would be defined as a lack of dependence or trust or confidence in someone or something.
g.
We exercise faith in some form all the time, everyday.
h.
When you went out this morning to come here you exercised faith in your vehicle.
i. Driving over a bridge.
Set down in a chair.
j.
Over time you have come to trust those things because you know they work for you.
2. The Bible tells us the need for us to exercise faith in God.
A. We are saved by faith.
Ephesians
B. We live our Christian life by faith.
Romans 1:17
II Corinthians
Galatians
a.
He gives us the faith we need to live our lives by faith.
We have no excuse to not live by faith.
b.
We cannot please God unless we live by faith.
1. .
The difficult part of all of this is that we exercise our faith without sight.
a.
We can’t see God.
b.
We have to take His word for it all.
c.
When we fail to act in faith we limit what God can do through us.
Not because of His lack of power, but our lack of faith.
That is what our text is about today.
d.
The Lord begins His final journey to Jerusalem, where He will be greeted with great praise, but things will change.
G.
When we fail to act in faith we limit what God can do through us.
f.
In the time that Jesus has left before the cross, He focuses on teaching the disciples important lessons they need to learn before His departure.
g.
The greatest lesson they can learn is about faith.
h.
What we read/study in Gods word is for us too.
Faith, faith, faith.
We can never have too much of it.
2. Let’s look at this passage in two parts.
d.
That is what our text is about today.
2. Let’s look at this passage in two parts.
a) Helplessness without faith.
b) The Power of Faith
I. Hopeless without faith
A. What a contrast with what had just occurred on the mountain.
1.
The transfiguration is the high point of Jesus ministry and the lives of the three disciples who accompanied Him.
Jesus reviled Himself in His glory, they saw Moses and Elijah.
They saw a cloud overshadow them (God) and heard the voice of God.
“This is my Son, lesson to Him”
a. .
But as they return from the mountain and there is doubt and turmoil.
2. The effect of human faithlessness.
1.
The Demon possessed boy and his father.
a. Matt.
records that he was an epileptic which is the way the demon displayed himself.
vs17.
b.
This resulted in the boy being injured in several ways vs.17-18, 22.
(1) This resulted in the boy being injured in several ways vs.17-18, 22.
c.
It had plagued him all his life vs.21.
b) His father was deeply concerned for his son.
Matthew
2. The disciples were unable to help the boy and his father vs.18b.
(This happened while Jesus, Peter, James and John were on the mountain)
a) He brought him to Jesus but He wasn’t there so he asked the disciples to help and they failed.
b) The disciples were given the power over spirits.
Mark ^;7
c.
Even though they were given this power they were unable to so.
At least this time.
They had been successful in the past.
c.
This was in spite of having been given the power over spirits.
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