Faith 2.0 Unlocking Your Faith

Hebrews 11:1 AMP

NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].

The key to unlocking your faith, is finding the locks, and unlocking them.

Lock #1 Uncertain Hope

Lock #2 Mental Assent

John Wesley once said, “the devil has given the church a substitute for faith; one that looks and sounds so much like faith that only a few people can tell the difference. This substitute is called mental assent.”

Lock #3 Sense Knowledge Faith

John 20:24–29 NKJV

Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.” And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

“Real faith is acting on the Word independently of any sense evidence.”

Two types of Unbelief:

Lack of knowledge

Refuse knowledge

Hosea 4:6 NKJV

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Hebrews 4:11 KJV 1900

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

unbelief= disobedience (unpersuadable)