True faith
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12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
The Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than two-edged sword.
Thw Word of God has power, The word of God is a weapon that can destroy every spiritual foes,
The word of God is able to give life since it is living.
2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
“profit” means benefits
In order for for us to witness and be partakers of the benefits of the Word of God, we have to mix it with faith.
“mix with faith” means that their faith was not upon the word of God.
We have to believe the word of the lord.
True faith is, faith is is rooted in the Word of God.
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Authetic faith, faith that moves God, faith that brings the supernatural to the natural is faith that comes from the word of God.
True faith does not come from seeing it comes from hearing, and not any type of hearing but hearing the word of God.
Distinguishing Faith that is based in the word of God and faith that is based on what one sees.
The people of Israel they had faith, but their faith was not on the word of God. it was on what they saw.
There were times where the people of Israel believed God, but this belief is not accounted to them as faith by the Holy Spirit in Hebrews 4 ;l
Their faith was not based what they heard but based on what they saw.
Their faith was not based on the Word of God but based on the expererince of the sight.
Exodus 14:31 (NKJV)
31 Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses.
The people did not beleive because of the words they heard.
They believe because of what they saw.
Let us see how long this type of faith last?
Exodus 15:22–26 (NKJV)
22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
23 Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.
24 And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
25 So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them,
26 and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”
they complained because they did not belief.
Since their faith was based on what they saw, when they saw dificullty they faith crumbled.
Notice, how God emphasis to his people is “diligently heed the voice of God”.
God wanted his people to pay attention not on what they saw but what they heard
Even when he did a miracle among them, did wonders among them, his emphasis was not on them seeing but on the hearing.
When God does a miracle in your life and wonder in your life, he does not want you to focus on what you are seing but on what you are hearing. Your faith should not be on what you see but on what you hear.
God gave them plenty of opportunity to have faith in the Words that were being spoken to them rather than they were seeing.
Those works were to point them to the power of his word, so that their faith should not be on what they experience but on the word of the living God.
Likewise, when God does wonderful works in our life, it is always to point us to the power of his word so that our faith should stand in the word of God.
Falctuating faith
If our faith is based on what we see and experience, then we will have a faith that flactuates depending on the situation. According to the ups and downs of life.
This type of faith is not the true faith.
When faith is based on the word of God. it is unwavering, it is unrelenting, it is anchored down. It does not change based on the circumstance.
Above all it is not changed or in fluence by the circumsatnce of your surrounding but rather it chnages and has an impact on the circumstance of your environment.
If we find ourselves that our faith begins is challenged and begins to crumple in the face of our circumstances, than we need to evaluate if our faith is really in the word of God.
7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Road to Emaus
Luke 24:13–27 (NKJV)
13 Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem.
14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
15 So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.
16 But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.
17 And He said to them, “What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?”
18 Then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, “Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days?”
19 And He said to them, “What things?” So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him.
21 But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.
22 Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us.
23 When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive.
24 And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see.”
25 Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
26 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”
27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
jesus did not reprimand (rebuke) them because of they did not belief what the woman had told them that they had seen, but rather their unbelief in what the phrophets have spoken.
Those things that took place was to point them to the phrophets, so that they should believe the word of God.
Sometimes we can be slow of heart to believe. Let us believe the word of God.
The Nobles Son
John 4:46–53 (NKJV)
46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”
49 The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”
50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”
52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.
The man believe not in a sign but rather in the spoken Word of Jesus Christ.
If we coukld just go our way believeing what the Lord is speaking today, what he has spoken in our life.
When the man mixed his faith in the spoken word of Jesus Christ, in that same hour his son was made whole.
God will always give you a word to overcome the problem that you face.
When you mix your faith with the spoken word of Christ, the power of that word will be manifested in your life. You will see if it is the Word of God that has power or your circumstance.
This man’s son was made whole because of the Word Jesus spoke and the man’s faith in that spoken Word.
Matthew 8:5–13 (NKJV)
5 Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him,
6 saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.”
7 And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”
8 The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.
9 For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
10 When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!
11 And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that same hour.
Jesus marveled at this man faith, because this was true faith.
This man never saw sign or wonder but purely believed that if Jesus spoke, it will happen.
We have to be able to say from the deepest part of our soul “onlt speak a word and my circumstance will change, my problems will be resolves, my sickness will go away”.
Le us put our faith in the word of God .
Jesus will speak to us and say “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you”
Notice same word “Go your way”, believeing in the word of God. As you do it will be done as you wish.