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There is something beyond faithfulness… something beyond holding down the fort, so to speak. There is faith! I think its’ possible to call someone faithful, while there may be very little faith present. But it shouldn’t be so, should it? Faithful should mean to be full of faith. It seems to me that we don’t quite mean “full of faith” when use the word faithful. We mean steady. We mean consistent. Steadiness and consistency are wonderful qualities, especially in a culture that seems to be falling away from the principles of yesterday, where we would say what we meant and do what we said. Steadiness and consistency are to be honored. But when we speak of faithfulness (faith – full – ness), there is something more for us! There is actual faith.
I’ve seen people faithful to attend prayer meetings, and those same people lacking in faith that God hears and will move. I want to call you into more than prayer meeting attendance. I am here to call you into faith. We are beloved children of the God who hears and moves. We are connected to the God who acts! I know some people would say that’s it’s impossible to be steady without faith, and there may be some truth to that. But I can say with assurance that I have been faithful to pray for sick people, without possessing faith for their healing. And if you are honest, you may admit that too. The desire of God is to fill you with faith. I’m all for steadiness… but let’s be steady IN FAITH.
I. THE FORM OF FAITHFULNESS THAT DENIES FAITH
2 Timothy 3
[1] But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. [2] For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, [3] heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, [4] treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, [5] having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. [6] For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, [7] always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
A. There is a form of faithfulness that actually rejects true faith. There is a form of godliness that actually denies power. How does this work? When we pray for comfort instead of praying for healing. When we pray for the strength to let sickness ravage us while being a good witness for Christ, instead of contending for real deliverance. We must be very careful in this! We are ambassadors of the impossible. We are conduits of the power of God!
B. It’s not loving to side against God and His expressed Word. It’s not loving to disbelieve the work of the cross. Either Christ has paid for all sins, sickness and burdens, or He hasn’t. What do we really believe? There are things we know and there are things we possess. And there is a difference. I want to provoke you to keep pressing in until the things you know become the things that follow you.
Mark 16
[15] And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. [16] Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. [17] And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; [18] they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
[19] So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. [20] And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]
C. We have be
There is something beyond faithfulness… something beyond holding down the fort, so to speak. There is faith! I think its’ possible to call someone faithful, while there may be very little faith present. But it shouldn’t be so, should it? Faithful should mean to be full of faith. It seems to me that we don’t quite mean “full of faith” when use the word faithful. We mean steady. We mean consistent. Steadiness and consistency are wonderful qualities, especially in a culture that seems to be falling away from the principles of yesterday, where we would say what we meant and do what we said. Steadiness and consistency are to be honored. But when we speak of faithfulness (faith – full – ness), there is something more for us! There is actual faith.
I’ve seen people faithful to attend prayer meetings, and those same people lacking in faith that God hears and will move. I want to call you into more than prayer meeting attendance. I am here to call you into faith. We are beloved children of the God who hears and moves. We are connected to the God who acts! I know some people would say that’s it’s impossible to be steady without faith, and there may be some truth to that. But I can say with assurance that I have been faithful to pray for sick people, without possessing faith for their healing. And if you are honest, you may admit that too. The desire of God is to fill you with faith. I’m all for steadiness… but let’s be steady IN FAITH.
I. THE FORM OF FAITHFULNESS THAT DENIES FAITH
2 Timothy 3
[1] But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. [2] For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, [3] heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, [4] treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, [5] having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. [6] For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, [7] always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
A. There is a form of faithfulness that actually rejects true faith. There is a form of godliness that actually denies power. How does this work? When we pray for comfort instead of praying for healing. When we pray for the strength to let sickness ravage us while being a good witness for Christ, instead of contending for real deliverance. We must be very careful in this! We are ambassadors of the impossible. We are conduits of the power of God!
B. It’s not loving to side against God and His expressed Word. It’s not loving to disbelieve the work of the cross. Either Christ has paid for all sins, sickness and burdens, or He hasn’t. What do we really believe? There are things we know and there are things we possess. And there is a difference. I want to provoke you to keep pressing in until the things you know become the things that follow you.
Mark 16
[15] And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. [16] Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. [17] And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; [18] they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
[19] So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. [20] And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]
C. We have be
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