Have Faith in God

Jesus notices empty worship

The disciples wanted other believers to see them as superior.

The Religious leaders wanted God to see them as superior to congregation

God’s people wanted to God to exalt them over other people.

Bartimaeus only want to see Jesus and Follow him.

The rich young ruler want to go to heaven, but he wanted to carry his stuff with him.

Arrogance, Pride, covetness, greed, and self sufficiency never deliver happiness.

Happiness is never found in making other people into who we think they should be.

We could be happy only if everyone did as I do!

Jesus condemns fruitless faith.

Jesus condemn empty worship. All hat and no cattle. All leaves and no figs. All dress and no witness.

Jesus is the Spiritual Temple that brings the happiness of forgiveness.

1 Corinthians 6:19–20 NASB95

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 3:16 NASB95

Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 5:7 NASB95

Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

1 Peter 1:19 NASB95

but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

Hebrews 7:25 NASB95

Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

Jesus commands us to “Have Faith in God.”