Hello and welcome
to The Missing Peace.
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My name is Jason
Bradley and our primary host is
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Dr. Nadine Joseph-Collins
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a powerful advocate for
effective fervent prayer.
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Dr. Nadine is
committed to equipping others
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with the tools necessary to
make your prayer life go, "Wow!"
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Before we begin,
let's have a word of prayer
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and invite the Lord to join us.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
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as we discuss how to
best communicate with you,
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we ask that you
would please be with us
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that you would
lead, guide and direct us
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and that you would fill
us with your Holy Spirit.
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In Jesus' name we pray, amen. "
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What is the topic today?
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Jason, you look very excited.
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I am excited.
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Today we're going to be
talking about: Praying in Faith.
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Okay.
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The whole
premise is, for us to see
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how faith can
impact our prayer lives
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or how our prayer lives
can be affected by faith.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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And what is the key
text or what is the text
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that usually comes to your mind
when you hear the word "Faith"?
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Hebrews chapter 11 verse 1.
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Right, we all know
that text very well, right?
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"Faith is the
substance of things hoped for...
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the evidence of
things not seen... "
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and usually, when I would
conduct Week of Prayers...
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that's one of the
questions I would ask
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when I do this
presentation, "What is faith?"
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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And guess what the
answers I usually get?
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What?
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Belief... it is belief...
it is believe in something
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or people would usually
point to the head and say,
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"You know, you
have to have faith. "
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It's usually
something that we refer to
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or conceptualize as something
happening up in our minds
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or in our head...
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some people would say
it's about belief... belief...
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and of course we always
end up with Hebrews 11 verse 1,
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dictionary definitions of faith
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does refer to faith
in some extent as belief
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or confidence or
trust in a person or a thing
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for example, they would say,
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"You have faith
in someone's ability"
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and so on...
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and sometimes it is belief
that is not based on proof...
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that's what people
would say faith is.
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Now, one of... the
Bible here says that
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faith is... this version...
it's the Rainbow Study Bible
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the Rainbow Study
Bible says, "What is faith?"
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"It is the confident
assurance that something we want
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is going to happen...
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it is the certainty that we have
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that what we hope
for is waiting for us...
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even though we
cannot see it up ahead... "
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So, whichever
translation we use...
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it is saying that
there is some belief
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that it is based on proof
that we do not have as yet
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so it's belief in anything
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because we can have faith
in principles, in beliefs,
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in institutions and so on
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and the thing is, if
we have faith in anything
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most times it works for us
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and some people actually
say to me, "I don't have faith"
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you believe some
people don't have faith?
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Jason: Oh yes.
Nadine: You think so?
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Jason: Yes, some
people don't have faith
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it seems like some
people doubt everything...
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like negative... unbelieving...
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just-don't-trust-anything-
anybody type of thing.
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Nadine: But these
same people go to doctors,
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some of them
may actually travel.
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Hmmm...
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Every time you do
something like that,
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you are
exhibiting faith or belief
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that the person you are going to
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is going to do what
you're going to them for.
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So, when we go to a
doctor, we are expecting
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that that doctor would be able
to attend to whatever problem
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that we have and
"hopefully" give us
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the healing recipe, right?
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Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm... hmmm.
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When we fly... we
never go to the peer and say,
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"Hey, can I see the pilot?"
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"Can you show me
your credentials?"
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Or what was... you know,
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"How did you
place in your class?"
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We don't do that kind of stuff,
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we actually believe
that we get on that plane...
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some of us say a little prayer
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but we believe that
we're actually going to get
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to our destination safely.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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Because I'm sure that
the folks who went on that
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Germanwings flight...
the 9525 in April 2015
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thought that they were
going to arrive home safely.
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They probably had made
plans already to go to dinner
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with family or friends and
maybe had other appointments.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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But they had faith that
when they got on that plane
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that they were going
to arrive home safely
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so, to a degree,
everyone has a measure of faith
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because we
exercise it every day.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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We go to get our hair
cut and all of that stuff,
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we believe in,
"Hey, this person can do
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what I need them to do. "
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So, we speak about it as well
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sometimes as
doing things blindly
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because we do
not know what it is
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so we are saying,
"Faith is a belief...
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it is something
that we are hoping for
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that we have not yet seen"
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so, sometimes we associate
it with that blind belief.
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Now, if we really
examine Hebrews 11:1
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and just break
down these two lines,
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actually it's one long
line or two short lines...
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"Now faith is the
substance of things hoped for,
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the evidence of
things not seen. "
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We may discover
that faith has much more
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than just that belief...
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that blind faith or
that trust and so on...
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and that's where
we want to go today.
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Okay...
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Because when we
examine faith of the Bible,
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we will see how
it becomes practical
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in that habit of
praying every day...
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that hope that
we want to develop
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so we can make our
prayer lives go, "Wow!"
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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Substance... when we
are in Elementary School
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and we learn about substance,
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we learn about
something that is tangible...
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from an English perspective,
it's something real...
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something physical...
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something that we call, "Matter"
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you can feel it
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so, it consists of tangible
solid presence... it's substance
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when we look from
the Hebrew perspective,
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substance also
denotes something you can see,
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you can hear, you can taste,
you can feel, you can touch...
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again, it all refers to
things that we could actually...
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that could actually materialize.
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Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm... hmmm.
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And the Bible is saying,
"Faith is the substance... "
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Okay.
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So, let's keep
in mind "Substance"
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in these two contexts
which is really the same
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that we are looking
at something tangible...
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something
physical... something real...
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faith is the substance...
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Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm... hmmm.
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Then when we talk
about things hoped for...
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when we are hoping for
something it is not abstract...
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so, yes, I am
hoping, for example,
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to let's say...
have a nice sandwich.
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The reason why I can
hope for that sandwich
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is because I probably
had it before already,
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and I can associate that
taste in my mind and in my mouth
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so, when I'm hoping for
it, it is something that I know
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that I could actually get.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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It's just that I
don't have it yet
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but we can
picture it in our minds...
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some foods that we like...
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we salivate when
we think about them
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because we could hope for it,
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because we already
know what it's like.
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Tastes like... yeah we
know what we're missing, yeah.
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Exactly, so if I'm hoping to see
the Eiffel Tower, for example,
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Is it something that
is tangible or intangible?
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Jason: It's tangible.
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Nadine: Because
what I would have to do
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is to buy a plane ticket
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I need to check, of course,
if I need a visa to get to Paris
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then, I will have to
look at getting a ticket
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to go up the Eiffel Tower,
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or I could just stay
down and I could admire it
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but the thing is,
what I'm hoping for
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is something that
could actually happen
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but it has not happened yet.
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Yeah, hmmm... hmmm...
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And so, we are
talking about things hoped for
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and then when we
look, for example,
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at the evidence
of things not seen,
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but before I go there,
I want to say something,
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you know the Bible tells us,
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you know that there
is the tree of life...
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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It's something that we
are hoping to see, right?
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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We are hoping to
see the sea of glass,
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we are hoping to walk on
the streets of gold, right,
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but we are able to conceptualize
these things in our minds
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because these things...
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God has given us physical
representations in our life
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so we know what
a tree looks like
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so now we can
visualize a tree in heaven
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so the tree on earth is
just a physical representation
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of the Tree of Life
that we have not yet seen
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but now we can
make an association.
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We know what gold is, we
know what streets look like
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so we can only imagine
now gold on the streets
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so instead of
having what we use now,
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we use gold instead
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and we can imagine
people playing at that gold
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and the tractors pass on...
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just like when we
see a road being laid out
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so now we can visualize
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so that the streets of gold
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is a representation of
something we have not yet seen
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but now we can visualize it
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and the same thing with the
Sea of Glass or anything else,
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so these are the thing
that we are hoping to see
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but God has given us
physical representation
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so we can get a
taste of what is to come
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and then we have the
evidence of things not seen.
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So, if I had never seen
the Eiffel Tower, right,
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I was watching a movie
and this is actually real
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so I was watching a movie and I
said, "Hey, I want to go there"
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so I went ahead and made plans
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so I could actually go
to see what Paris looks like
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really and
truly the Eiffel Tower
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I wanted to visit,
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so what
happened is, I got there,
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when I got to the bottom of it
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there were so many
people, the line was so long,
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I'm like, "I'm not taking
this line to go us this thing"
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so I stayed, I
walked underneath it,
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I looked up, I took pictures,
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then I did other sites in Paris
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and from different distances,
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of course, you can see the
Eiffel tower in the background,
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so I took pictures,
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so, now I have evidence
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of the thing
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that before I had not yet seen
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now, I have the
evidence with the pictures
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and they say
"Pictures don't lie"
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but in this day and age people
do a lot of photo shopping.
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That's very
true... that's very true.
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But the point is,
I walked around there
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and I was able
to take the pictures
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so now, faith is the
substance of things hoped for
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evidence of things not seen.
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Now, as we unpack it
like that, we can see
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that faith really is
not an abstract thought.
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It is not something in our head,
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because in all
of these instances,
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first, you have substance,
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you can touch, you
can feel and so on...
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the things hoped for...
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you could
actually get them later...
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you could
actually see them later,
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you could experience them later,
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and you can
also collect evidence
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as in the example of having
the photos of the Eiffel Tower
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so, in legal terms, for example,
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evidence is that
which tends to prove a fact
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but not the fact itself,
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so, it says, any matter of fact,
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a legal definition is:
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Any matter of fact that
a party or lawsuit offers
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to prove or disprove a case.
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So that's what evidence is,
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and so, it's a
System of rules and so on
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so, if we have an accident,
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generally when
you have an accident
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you never hear the two
people saying the same story,
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there's always disputed facts,
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one person will say
it happened like this
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and another person will
say it happened like that
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because everybody
wants to be in the right
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so, evidence now,
will take into account
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these testimonies that
these two people are giving
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but more so, the
police officer would come in
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and they would collect
a bunch of information,
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they would look
for eye witnesses,
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they would look at distances,
they would look at the weather,
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they would look
at a bunch of stuff
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as they try to weigh
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on what really are
the facts of this case,
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Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm... hmmm.
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Okay, so, evidence now is
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what would be
accepted into the equation
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to say, "Hey, this will help us
to know actually what is factual
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so, faith cannot be abstract
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because if you
collect all that evidence,
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if you go get eye
witness testimonies,
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you look at the weather reports
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you look at all of the different
things in the car and everything
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you are collecting things
that you can actually see...
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that you can
actually write and so on,
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so you're collecting evidence,
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so, faith... it
goes beyond abstract,
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when we look at the Bible,
it's filled with promises.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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These promises
are actually facts,
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these are the facts
that God has laid out
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in the Bible for us,
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now, as we go
through our experiences,
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as we develop our prayer life,
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part of our
prayer life should be...
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really claiming those facts
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and the evidence
would be our testimonies...
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how these promises,
these facts in the Word of God
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are actually true,
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because now we have
the evidence to prove
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the Word of God,
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we have the evidence to prove
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the facts in the
Word of God to be true.
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Jason: Yeah, and if God says it,
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you know... I
mean... well, you should know
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that it is... that it is true.
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Nadine: Yeah, exactly and so
that's why Law... has given us
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Law... I'm talking about like
the legal aspect of things...
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I love Law, by-the-way
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but Law has
given us a clear path
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from reading to
understand Hebrews 11:1 more,
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and as we work on
developing our prayer life
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because you see the thing
is, eye witness testimonies...
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or first-hand testimonies
are the only testimonies
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that are actually
accepted in the Court of Law.
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Hmmm...
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So, hearsay
evidence is not accepted...
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so I cannot tell you
how good a sandwich tastes
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until I have tasted it myself.
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I cannot tell you
how nice a perfume smells
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until I have smelt it myself.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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You see, I cannot
tell you how good God is
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and how true He is to His word
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until I have
experienced Him for myself.
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Yeah.
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So, you cannot take my story,
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or you cannot take
stories in the Bible
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which is what we
usually do... which is fine
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we can use the
stories in the Bible
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when we want to talk about God
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but if we meet somebody
who doesn't believe in God,
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how are you going to convince
them that your God is true?
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that will come from
your personal testimony.
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From the evidence
that you have collected
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that your God actually works
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and nobody can contend
with eye-witness testimonies.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Nobody can contend
with the fact that,
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"Hey, God did this in my life"
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and we are living in a
world where people are open,
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they call it the
Post-Modern World
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and thing... but one good
thing about the Post-Modern Era,
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is that people are open
to other people's stories
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so now, our
stories as Christians
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make more sense
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because people are open
to your personal testimony
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so, while they
might disregard the Bible,
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and give us all types of excuses
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why they do not want to have
anything to do with the Book,
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when it is...
you are able to say
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how God is real
in your experience
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because God
answered these prayers,
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because God did
this or God did that
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they cannot contend with that.
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Yeah...
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I want to share this
Bible verse with you,
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it comes from
Hebrews chapter 11 verse 6,
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and it reads, "But without faith
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it is impossible to please Him:
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for he that cometh to
God must believe that He is,
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and that He is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek Him. "
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As we're sitting here and we're
talking about faith and prayer
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and faith and prayer,
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this Bible verse right here
shows the importance of faith,
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how important it
is to have faith,
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without it, we... it's
impossible to please God.
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Yes, that's the thing, you see,
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and that's why
your own faith story...
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your own personal journey...
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you're own story
cannot be argued with
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because it's not a
second-hand report.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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It's your evidence of faith.
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The Apostle John actually said
in 1st John 1 verse 1 he said,
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We proclaim to you the One
who existed from the beginning,
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whom we have heard and seen.
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We saw Him with our own eyes
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and touched Him
with our own hands.
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He is the Word of life. "
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So, here they
were talking about God
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from their own
personal experience,
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remember we spoke about
substance and things hoped for
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so they were able to see Him,
they were able to touch Him,
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they experienced
Him, they felt Him,
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He was real, they
were eye-witnesses
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and these are the
only types of testimonies
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that are actually
admitted in the Court.
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We're talking about,
now, evidence as well,
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so they had the
evidence to prove.
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One guy by the
name of Hodge said,
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"Faith must have
adequate evidence
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or else it is
mere superstition. "
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Hmmm...
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So if your faith is
just a talking faith
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or faith in your head
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but you have no
evidence to prove that faith,
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then it's mere superstition
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and that's why the Bible
filled with over 3,000 promises
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gives us ample opportunities
to continue to collect evidence
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to prove that the
Word of God is true,
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to prove that God
actually answers our prayers,
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to prove that we
actually have something...
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evidence to back up what
we are saying about our faith.
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So, our prayer
lives or our faith
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is activated by
our prayer lives,
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that is why they are connected.
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How else can we claim
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the promises or the facts
outlined in the Word of God
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unless we spend time with God.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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How else can we
collect that evidence?
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How will we know that God is
actually answering our prayers
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when we take the Word of
God... we claim these promises
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then we get the
evidence to prove it
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but we must spend
time with God doing that.
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So faith is not an abstract
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when it is actually an
intelligent holy response
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to God and His Word.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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So, faith goes
beyond that blind belief,
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it goes beyond just the things
that we think happening up here
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to us searching for
ways to get evidence
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to prove that
God actually exists,
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so, it's in a deeper
sense... faith is an action word
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because we are digging
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and that's the
direction we are taking now,
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Faith as an action word.
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Yes.
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Right, so when we
examine the Hall of Faith,
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Hebrews 11 that
we've been looking at,
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every time one of
these heroes were mentioned,
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we see an action following...
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So if we look at, for
example, the Bible says,
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"By faith Abraham... "
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then an activity
follows, "he obeyed... "
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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"and he was
tested... " and so on,
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so, every time we
see the name of the hero
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and they are
saying, "by faith... "
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we see the action happening,
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Sarah... in Hebrews 11:11
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"by faith... " an
activity followed,
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the Bible says, "she received
strength and bore a child. "
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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Then we have Isaac,
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when it says,
"By faith Isaac... "
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an activity followed,
he blessed Jacob and Esau
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so, he did something...
so there's an activity.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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We look at
Moses, the Bible says,
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"By faith Moses... "
an activity followed,
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look, his mother hid him...
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she took... she did some action,
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she took him and
she hid him there...
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and we know his story,
so an activity happened
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then in his adult life,
we see him mentioned again,
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"By faith Moses... "
an activity followed,
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he stood up,
00:19:05.44\00:19:06.78
"he refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter. "
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Hmmm... hmmm...
00:19:08.98\00:19:10.31
so he had that activity
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then we saw him later
on when he struck the rock
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because he wanted
water to come out,
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then we saw again, when
he stood by the Red Sea,
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he didn't just stand there
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waiting for God
to open it and stuff
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and say, "I have faith,
God led me in this direction
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and He's going
to open the Red Sea"
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he didn't just
stand there waiting,
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he actually began to walk
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and as he began to
go toward the Red Sea,
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the Red Sea parted and
all of that, again, is action
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we see every time... by
faith action is happening
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an activity is following.
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We look at Abel,
"By faith Abel... "
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an activity followed,
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what did he do? He
offered a sacrifice,
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so, an activity happens.
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I think about when Peter stepped
out of the boat onto the water
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and started
walking towards Jesus
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but as soon as he
took his eyes off Christ,
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he started to sink.
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Yes, yes, because faith is
really about believing in Him...
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following Him,
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so, when he
began to look at self,
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then he began to sink.
00:20:05.30\00:20:06.74
And another thing
00:20:06.77\00:20:08.64
faith without
action is mere profession,
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so just like Christianity,
00:20:11.54\00:20:13.38
if you are a
Christian in name only,
00:20:13.41\00:20:15.08
there's nothing
different about your lifestyle
00:20:15.11\00:20:17.81
than that of a non-believer.
00:20:17.85\00:20:19.48
And that's why Paul
says, "If we have faith,
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without the actual
evidence, it's superstition
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so we look at, for
example, people like Noah
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the Bible says,
"By faith Noah... "
00:20:29.69\00:20:31.73
he prepared the
ark... so he did an activity,
00:20:31.76\00:20:35.76
he built this huge
boat, so he did something.
00:20:35.80\00:20:38.73
We look at Joshua, "By
faith... " the Bible says,
00:20:38.77\00:20:42.80
"he led the children
around the city seven times"
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that's a lot of action
00:20:46.84\00:20:48.34
and then all those
walls came crumbling down.
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So, we look at Gideon,
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you remember when
Gideon wanted to go to war,
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the Bible says, "By faith... "
00:20:55.28\00:20:56.79
of course an activity follows,
00:20:56.85\00:20:58.29
"he trusted God
for the small army"
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so, you remember,
he had 135,000 men
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and God told him, "No,
you cannot take all these men"
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he gave them
reasons... he gave them...
00:21:06.26\00:21:07.66
he told them,
"You could go home"
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and so on until
he went down to 300
00:21:09.30\00:21:11.27
and they were able
to defeat the armies,
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then we look at
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
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the Bible says, "By
faith... " an activity followed
00:21:15.50\00:21:18.37
they chose not to bow,
00:21:18.41\00:21:19.91
so they made a
decision not to bow
00:21:19.94\00:21:22.18
and we saw what
happened with them,
00:21:22.21\00:21:24.35
even when they were
thrown in to the fiery furnace
00:21:24.38\00:21:26.98
that became an
evidence of God being...
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of God really being true to them
00:21:29.68\00:21:31.52
and God really existing
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because Nebuchadnezzar himself
was able to see and identify,
00:21:33.09\00:21:36.83
"Hey, I just
threw three men in there
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but the Son of God is
also there with them...
00:21:38.29\00:21:39.89
there's a fourth
one. " Jason: Yeah.
00:21:39.93\00:21:41.26
So, you see,
activity happens every time,
00:21:41.30\00:21:43.73
then we have Esther,
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the Bible says,
"By faith Esther... "
00:21:45.13\00:21:46.80
she was rewarded for her bravery
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remember she
went before the King.
00:21:48.80\00:21:50.44
Hmmm... hmmm...
00:21:50.47\00:21:51.81
So, she didn't just stay
there fasting and praying
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and was in the palace,
00:21:53.31\00:21:54.71
but she asked
permission to see the king,
00:21:54.74\00:21:57.38
she took some
steps, she did an activity,
00:21:57.45\00:22:00.12
so that the children
or the Jews... her people
00:22:00.15\00:22:03.52
could have been saved
00:22:03.55\00:22:04.89
and there are some more stories,
like, unpopular stories,
00:22:04.92\00:22:07.82
when we look at, for example,
00:22:07.86\00:22:09.46
the un-named leper
of Matthew 8:2 and 3,
00:22:09.49\00:22:12.73
he went and began to worship God
and ask God to make Him clean
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so, he didn't
stay wherever he was,
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he went in search of
Jesus and he was healed.
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Then we have the Roman Officer,
he went to God and said,
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"I'm not worthy for you
to even come to my home...
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but I want you to
heal my servant... "
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so he had so much faith,
he went looking for God...
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that's activity
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but he's also saying, "You
do not need to come to my home,
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I believe you so much,
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I know that you can heal
him right here, right now,
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even though he's
not in your presence"
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so we have these
unpopular stories,
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so the Centurion's
faith... this Roman soldier
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impressed God so much, He said,
I never even saw so much faith"
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because here was this
guy not just coming after God
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or after Jesus, rather, but
he is saying, "I believe you
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I've heard what you have
done and I would like you
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to just touch and heal my
servant right now at home"
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you know, and then, we have the
woman with the issue of blood.
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Oh yes.
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She didn't just sit by the
road waiting for Him to come,
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she didn't just believe that
somebody would carry her to Him,
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she pushed and
pushed through the crowd...
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she crawled, she did
whatever she had to do
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because in her mind, "I know,
if I just touch any part of Him"
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and in this case she was
able to touch just the hem...
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Jason: Of His garment.
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Nadine: And she was
healed because she had faith,
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so, you see, but the
faith is followed by action
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for that woman to have
put herself through that
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it means she believed
even before she touched Jesus
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that He was going to heal her.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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But she knew that she
needed to act on her faith...
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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And so, she moved
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until she touched
just the hem of His garment
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and she was healed and that's
why He said, "Virtue left me"
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because He knew that
the person that touched Him
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had such strong beliefs
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and so, she
could have just said,
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"Hey, I believe God can heal me"
and that's it... no, no, no, no
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she acted toward her healing.
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We had the two blind
men as well in Matthew 9,
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they came to
Jesus asking for healing
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from wherever they came, they
came to Him asking for healing
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so, activity happened every time
faith is mentioned in the Bible,
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in terms of people
acting toward their faith
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and one of my favorite
stories is the story of Rahab,
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because you see,
when Rahab was considered
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and called the harlot of
her community in Jericho,
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so, no one would have thought
that when these Bible Workers
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were coming to her home,
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or when these
men came to her home
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that they were Bible Workers,
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they would have
thought otherwise
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but Rahab had heard about Jesus,
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she had heard about
what He had done already
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the testimonies of Joshua
and Moses and all of these guys
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were in her mind
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and that is why she was
able to receive these guys,
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that's why the Bible has her,
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imagine, we
call her a prostitute
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but she was in the Hall of Faith
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because she did an action too
"By faith... " the Bible says,
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"she welcomed the
spies into her home. "
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So, not only did
she welcome them there
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but she actually
made a negotiation...
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actually she negotiated
with them for her salvation
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and the salvation of her family
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and for the
salvation of all of us
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because through her
experience, we know for sure
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that God's blood...
that red scarlet thread
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that she was supposed to hang
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is deliverance
for every one of us.
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Hmmm...
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And I believe that
she's a reformed...
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we need to call
her by a different name
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because her story actually
gives hope to all of our stories
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that God can do
anything, so, faith is an act
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it is not...
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it is not an abstract
thought, it is an action word
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it is a behavior... it's not
an invisible thing in our head.
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It's doing and more than doing,
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it's more than speaking
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because faith
without action is dead,
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you know, we say,
"Faith without works is dead. "
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Yeah.
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Faith without action is dead
because they are the same thing,
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you show me your faith
and I'll show you your works.
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Yeah.
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So, the take-away
points that we can have
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is that a person full of faith
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is a person that
is full of action.
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Hmmm...
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So, if you say you have
faith, show me your actions,
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I need to see
the evidence of that,
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I need to the action behind that
faith that you say you have.
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The Bible says, "By their
fruits you shall know them. "
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Exactly, so we must
always have evidence
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to prove the faith
that we are talking about.
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The Bible is not
concerned about the quality
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or really, the quantity of
faith... the how much we have
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because the Bible says,
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"If you have
faith of a mustard seed,
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you can move a mountain,
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so He's more
concerned about us demonstrating
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whatever little faith
that we believe that we have,
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right, and everyone, of
course, has a measure of faith
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because the Bible
says in Romans 12:13,
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according to the
measure of faith,
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God has given you
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which means, everyone
has a measure of faith
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and He gave it to
us in Galatians 5:22,
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He talks about the spirit of
love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
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gentleness,
goodness and faith. "
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So we know for sure
that faith is an action word
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and there is more
I can say about faith
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and so many testimonies
that I can share about faith
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but because we had such a good
time... we didn't get to that
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so we're going to
say a quick prayer,
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"Father, we thank you
for the examples in your Word
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that show us that
faith is an action word
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and if we say that
we are people of faith,
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then we need to
have the evidence
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that would prove that
our faith is real, it's alive
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and it's moving.
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Give us, Dear Lord, the
spirit to continue to seek you
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that our faith can become real
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and our stories and
our evidence would declare
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that your Word is true,
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we thank you, in the
name of Jesus, amen. "
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"Amen. "
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Thank you so much,
faith is a powerful thing
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and remember that without faith,
it is impossible to please God.
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Join us next time
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when Dr. Nadine
brings the missing peace.
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