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The thief of Disbelief
Current price inflation.
Meat is going higher.
Cost of goods is rising.
Gasoline is at a seven year high.
California leads the nation with gas nearing $5.00 a gallon.
In one small town they hit a record $7.59 for regular unleaded.
Any one else feeling a little pinch?
It could be worse.
It could be like the city of Samaria in 2 Kings 6.
Ben-Hadad had come, and with him the army of the Syrians.
The city of Samaria found themselves in terrible conditions.
A famine had gripped the city.
Lack of food and water was an issue.
If you think the 20% increase we have seen on some beef is high.
Imagine walking into the grocery store, what is being offered is a donkey’s head for 80 shekels, or dove droppings for 5 shekels.
To put that into understandable terms, 5 shekels is around $100.00.
Dove droppings was selling for $100 for a quarter of a pint (kab), $400 for a whole pint.
The whole donkey head was going for over $1600.00
If that does not impress upon you the desperation of the moment, women were eating their children.
The king put all the blame on Elisha and threatened to kill him.
So the king sent a messenger to find Elisha.
The messenger was one of the kings men, an officer whom he depended on.
When the messenger found Elisha sitting in his house surrounded by elders of the city.
The Lord had already given Elisha a message for the king.
A seah = 8 gallons of flour for one shekel.
Twice as much barley for the same price.
The situation is about to turn around!
When God decides to do it… He can turn it around.
Overnight!
There is always hope as long as God can work!
(go off on God making a way, turning lives around.)
Look at someone next to you and tell them… As long as God is there, there is some hope!
Thief of Disbelief
2 Kings 7:2 (NKJV)
2 So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “Look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?”
This man could not believe that God could or would do such a thing.
Unbelief was going to cost him.
2 Kings 7:2 (NKJV)
And he said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”
You will see it, but you will never taste it.
Four lepers
God chooses to use four lepers to do the miraculous…
(Tell the story) They are getting fat and full… we better tell the people of Samaria.
Enemy scatters, there is enough food for everyone.
The miracle was done for everyone!
It touched every life in that city, the poorest to the wealthiest.
From the leper to the king, each one could experience what God was doing.
This was not some hidden miracle.
This was not God doing a miracle for a single person.
God was making the miracle available to everyone.
All but one person.
The thief of disbelief cost this man his life and experience of the miraculous.
He saw it, but never ate it.
John 10:10 (NKJV)
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
He doesn’t have to kill or destroy you.
But if he can rob you through a lack of faith… The thief of disbelief will keep you from eating and tasting of the good things of God that he has done right before your eyes.
Return of Jesus
There will be those who witness it, but because of unbelief they will not receive.
Everyone, both alive and dead will come know who He is and will confess Him as Lord… yet because of the thief of disbelief they will see it, but never eat it.
It is no different than when Jesus was walking in Israel.
He went to Nazareth and taught in the synagogue, ready to do miracles but because of unbelief...
Only four miles from Jesus first miracle of turning water into wine in Cana… many had witnessed that miracle.
He had healed the withered hand in Matthew 12.
He had delivered the demon possessed and caused the mute to speak in Matthew 9.
He had healed the blind.
He had raised the dead daughter of Jairus.
But He did not do many mighty works because of their unbelief.
The thief robbed them!
But if you can believe!
Your story might be more life the father of Mark 9 instead of the officer of Samaria.
If you can believe, all things are possible… The problem is never with God’s ability.
I am doing everything I can to believe!
I believe!
help my unbelief!
Promise of the Holy Spirit
Even now God is doing the miraculous… but the thief of disbelief is keeping people from taking part in it.
The baptism of the Holy Spirit is a promise for every person who believes.
Jesus promised it to all that believe in Him.
But the thief of disbelief keeps some from eating it, you see it happen to others, but unbelief keeps you from having the same experience.
( Is that for everyone?)
It’s not necessary… The thief of disbelief steals from people what God has intended for them to receive.
This is nothing new.
When God birthed His church by pouring out His promised Spirit all people there witnessed it.
It was not a hidden thing.
The multitude witnessed what God was doing.
Peter confirmed what they were witnessing.
Jesus is doing this!
The miracle worker that was crucified, He is alive, glorified and pouring out this promise of the Holy Spirit that you are seeing and hearing.
There were those who could see it, but they never would get to enjoy it.
The thief of disbelief robbed them of the experience.
Like the officer of the king in Samaria, they could see what God was doing but would never eat of it.
Even now as Jesus continues to pour out His Spirit on people… I have directed people to that promise to have them shrug it off, never receiving.
The thief of disbelief.
But if you will believe!
If you will be obedient to the scripture...
Repent, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ… you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues.
The promise of deliverance given by Elisha to Samaria was for everyone… the lepers up to the king.
The promise of deliverance, the miraculous in your life… It is the same miraculous God!
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