Content with Crumbs Micheal Durham

i would rather preach to you actually than about anyone else and there's a reason for that the reason is not necessarily because you're the most responsive church i preached to i was in a sovereign grace church not too long ago and i thought they were going to shout me down they like to say amen it was it was a it was a little different that's not the reason i love to preach to you because you're a demonstrative responsive church i love to preach to you because you are of me and i am of you god has knitted us together whether you claim me or not you're stuck with me i'm one of you and you are of mine and the lord has put us together severally as he will he has ordained that you and i be together in his great redemptive enterprise think of that you and i are joined together in what god wants to do in denton in the surrounding area and i believe to the outermost parts of the earth and he's doing that he's doing that and we get to be a part of that what a blessing hallelujah let's pray our father and our god we come now because we need to hear you as we have heard the exhortation we need to see you we also need to hear you and we thank you for this word that is a lamp unto our feet and the light and to our path may you shine and expose lord with your light may your light give us comfort may we come to it because we love the light and we do we love you lord jesus forgive us for our low view of you how little we see and know so increase our understanding anoint me holy spirit i'm yours do with me as you please so long as jesus is glorified help these who are here lord god we are together i'm not a preacher preaching there a congregation listening we're a body and you're our head and we need you to speak to us so help us now in jesus name amen well the text i pray the lord be pleased to speak to us from is the gospel of matthew chapter 15. matthew chapter 15 i want us to look at verses 21 through 28. matthew 15 21-28 i want to speak on the theme content with crumbs content with crumbs matthew 15 beginning with verse 21 then jesus went out from there and departed to the region of tyree inside them and behold a woman of canaan came from that region and cried out to him saying have mercy on me o lord son of david my daughter is severely demon-possessed but he answered her not a word and as his disciples came and urged him saying send her away for she cries out after us but he answered and said i was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of israel then she came and worshipped him saying lord help me but he answered and said it's not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs and she said yes lord yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from the master's table then jesus answered and said to her o woman great is your faith let it be to you as you desire and her daughter was healed from that very hour this is a remarkable text of scripture it's remarkable in that it is quite unusual and uncharacteristic of our lord in the way he treats this sorrowful syrophoenician woman for a god who is faithful and unchangeable he has a lot of surprises about him doesn't he i mean you sometimes don't know what to expect jesus in this case with his heart sick mother first he ignored her he refused her request and he called her a dog now i don't know about you but it's not the suggested soul-winning technique i was taught and i don't think it's very effective at least i don't think it would be for you or me to try because he said it wasn't right to give god's blessings to gentiles he was excluding people by their nationality and ethnicity and in our culture today people would say jesus was being a racist that jesus wasn't woke yet the words of our texts ring offense even it's so unlike jesus until you get to verse 28 and then when you get to verse 28 it's like he snaps back and here he is the one we expect the one we've come accustomed to there he is the compassionate one the loving one the gentle one the powerful one the mediating inclusive unbiased jesus however in the culture of our lord you need to understand that his behavior was not abnormal in the least it was very normal the racial tensions between jews and gentiles were perhaps at their highest it was extreme it was not an uncommon thing for jews to call gentiles dogs in fact the apostles even encouraged jesus to shoo her away get rid of her it was the jewish way of life but friends you know the truth jesus was not a racist he was anything but that in fact what he's doing here is he's exposing the sin of racism he defied racial hatred for in the end what did he do he granted the woman's request and to boot he complimented her oh woman great is thy faith now here's a question i want to ask that we want to spend time on why why was her faith great she pleaded for crumbs and not the whole loaf why did we compliment her faith as our lord did when she told the lord all she wanted was a few crumbs great faith it seems to me if she had great faith she would have sought the whole loaf right she wouldn't stop for the crumbs on the floor she would have got to the table set up and was ready for the meal so why does he call her and her faith great but there's more to it than that there's a second question we also need to understand why jesus ignores her and then insults her why does he treat her this way because she was a gentile woman jesus called her a little dog as i said a moment ago that was not uncommon for jews to call gentiles dogs but then jesus heaped insult upon his insult and he says you're not even a very important dog you're a little dog but the insult doesn't put her off it causes her to press in all the more if she's going to be a dog and a little one that that and if the crumbs are all that the little dog should expect then surely she would not be deprived crumbs she would have and with crumbs she would be content but again why does jesus deal with her like this and why was her faith great but then there's another question i want us to also look at today what about we who are god's children why are we who sit at his table not expecting more than crumbs why are we the children of the master who has set the table for us why are we on the floor licking up the crumbs and content to do so when we should be seated at our father's table and feasting our heavenly father gives good things to those that ask him he does not hold out crumbs or excuse me hold out the meat and offer us the crumbs and yet we're content to eat the crumbs and not the meat why and so i say let's pursue the text and let's get to the answers why does jesus say her faith is great why does our loving lord appear to be unloving to the woman and why are we so easily to be content with crumbs so let me direct your attention to an analysis of this woman's faith why did and our lord say her faith was great and the answer is because simply she wouldn't turn jesus loose until he blessed her like jacob of old who wrestled with god at the river jabock who said i will not turn you loose until you bless me with that kind of determination she took hold of our god and she refused any answer but yes that's why today i i fear that so many of us here this morning we're the opposite we make our request known to god we pray we share what we would like to see god do but we can't even remember what we've asked for 30 minutes after we finished praying there's no perseverance in prayer charles spurgeon said in a sermon on prayer please listen brethren how many times we ask of god and have not because we do not wait long enough at the door we knock a time or two at the gate of mercy and as no friendly messenger opens the door we go our ways too many prayers are like boys runaway knocks given and then the givers away before the door can be opened do you get the picture what he's saying we're like a little couple kids pranksters we run up to us some door and we knock and then we turn off and run oh for divine grace to stand foot to foot with the angel of god says purgin and never never never relax our hold feeling that the pla the cause that we plead as one in which we must be successful for souls depend upon it the glory of god is connected with it the state of our fellow man is in jeopardy end of quote may i say without being harsh it's like we don't expect god to answer our prayers oh we know he can but we're always hung up with the question will he do we honestly believe he will answer i think if we did we'd be more like this dirt woman who would not take no for an answer who would press in closer and come nearer and who would take god's delays as an indication there's still hope now that's a very important point by the way how do you view the delays in the answer to your prayers do you see them as an indication to keep praying to keep hoping to keep interceding or rather do you see god's delay in not answering your requests quickly as an indication that it may not be his will to pray you see how we think can view shape our faith do you see god's silence his apparent idleness as an answer no or do you see it as an encouragement to keep praying or do you get disappointed at the first sign of god not answering and you determine that the answer therefore must be no jesus told this woman that his heaven-sent mission was to be a jewish messiah that's what he's saying in essence he says in verse preceding verse 24 that this is why he had come to the lost house of israel but look at what verse 25 says look at her response verse 25 then she came and worshipped him saying lord help me she didn't hear the word no she didn't hear he was just a jewish messiah she did not interpret his statement as a sign that he wasn't merciful no she came and worshipped how do you respond when god tarries and answers to your prayer i want to ask you child of god please listen please ask yourself what i'm asking you can you worship god when god's not acting the way you want him to act there it is that's the that's the question come on you know the answer i don't know what it is for you but you know it and your heavenly father knows can you still worship him you know we claim to be a people that believe in the sovereignty of god but most of the time we act like people who say that god isn't sovereign over all things we take the delay in god's response to our prayers and we interpret that as somehow it must not be god's sovereign will otherwise he would have answered before now and i wonder sometimes if we really really do want a sovereign god now please don't misunderstand me not here to be an accusatory preacher i'm just simply asking the lord to search your heart along with mine do i really want a sovereign god do i want a god that i cannot manipulate that i cannot control can i worship god when god's ordained affairs do not go the way which i would so desire and do i take the delay the unanswered prayers as an indication that i must be praying contrary to god's will i think that's what most of us do because we do and are firm believers in the sovereignty of god we come to the conclusion after praying once maybe twice and the more sanctified among us three times and then god doesn't answer and we conclude well it just simply is not in the sovereign plan of god for my life so be it that's not her response maybe that's why the lord would not say to you o great oh woman oh man great is your faith the foundation of faith is singular it's one thing may i suggest it's the capstone on the foundation and you've got to come to grips with this someone told me the other day it seems like all of my sermons they kind of every time i'm in their neighborhood they come and listen they come follow where i'm going to be preaching and they said to me the other day sounds like every sermon i hear comes back to this same theme and i say well i've always prayed not to be a one note preacher but if the one note is jesus i'll be happy and that's what he said it comes back to christ and that christ is good and it is that's essential to faith and faith thriving faith has an environment in which it can grow in which it can thrive and that is this in the character of god that god is good and he loves to bless you and he loves to delight in you and yet so many of us so many of us in this room right now struggles with that theological proposition you wrestle with the day after day it's on your mind and even when you're not thinking about it it's like a cloud hanging over you i know he's good but is he good to me then you begin to analyze your performance you begin to look over your performance this past day did you read your bible did you pray and you go through the the roster of duties and you grade yourself and say well i don't know if i deserve any help from the lord today surely maybe not today oh friends where are we why are we approaching god this way and i tell you it's one reason our view of god is too low we don't believe that god is good and that he wants to bless you we've let these kooks around here and dallas air got a lot of them we've let these people steal our theological view of god our biblical view of god the foundation of faith is that god is good the implication of that is this listen all that he does must be good because that's who he is that's not to say that all that he allows is good no evil is evil it's never good but thank god we have an omnipotent king who has the power to take anything evil and turn it for our good right i call it the joseph effect remember what he said when he exposed his true identity to his deceptive and malevolent brothers who sold him to the slave traders he said you sold me but god sent me that's what he said to them he said that god you meant evil against me but god meant it for good in order to bring it about this day to save many people alive and so i ask you again do you really believe that god loves you god is good and he knows what's best for you and that you can trust this sovereign god when god doesn't follow your plans i don't believe this woman's request was amiss as james says in james 4 otherwise jesus would have never answered it her request was within the parameters of the providential will of god but his seeming reluctance might have led her to think that she was asking something contrary to the will of god and once again i want to press this a little bit deeper so please brace yourself it may not be comfortable but let let this poor physician of the soul do his work would you would you let me would you let me have your heart for a few moments is our view of god's sovereignty a unbiblical one have we run past the goalpost have we taken this truth beyond the biblical parameters in which god has revealed himself has our prayer lives been affected by this unbiblical view could it be that the sovereign god of the universe has ordained in his enterprise that he will not work apart from the intercession and prayers of his people and that this dear woman is an example for us this is the way you pray this is the way you intercede this is the way you deal with me if your view of the sovereignty of god does not include this woman and her example i say to you your views are unbiblical this woman's theology did not prevent her to believe sometimes our theology prevents us from believing jesus gave her a theological argument let's look at it for a few moments it seemed airtight logically and theologically he said once again verse 26 it's not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs now i believe all god's children should be theologians don't let the word scare you all the word theologian simply means is to study god study god i knew a pastor who was inquiring about a church that didn't have a pastor and he was thinking about it in fact they had actually reached out to him so he calls up the church office one day and he says to the secretary i'm just wanting to find out a little bit more about your theology and she said oh we don't get into that theology stuff we just studied god in his word well little did she know that's what theology and to be a theologian is to study god and his word and every one of us should be students of the lord god and his word we must be theologians we must continue to learn what god has said of himself and about himself but please listen if you're not careful your theology can hinder you in knowing the lord some people let their learning take them away from experiencing the lord jesus rather than draw closer to him this dear woman didn't know much theology about god or judaism but what she did know was this my daughter is demon-possessed and it will eventually kill her i've got to get to this man that's all she knew she probably because of where she lived she was familiar with some of the old testament stories of god's deliverance and she would have by the testimony of others knew something about this jesus of nazareth she had heard that he healed the sick he cast out the devils and so in her simple understanding she put her theology together and here it was the best she knew was that this jesus of nazareth acted like god and he can do something and so she comes she comes and makes her appeal he can do something for my daughter that's all she knew and with it she drew near to god and she even uses theological terms notice what she calls him lord son of david she's not a bad theologian after all even though she's a gentile and a little dog according to jesus now here's my application it's pretty obvious i think you know where i'm going i wonder if our theology helps us draw near and worship jesus or does it get in our way if what you know about god now listen carefully if what you know about god doesn't create more hunger for him then what you need to find out is if what you know is just stored in your brain and not affecting your heart or what you think you believe is right is actually wrong does your theology providence chapel dear brother dear sister does it propel you does it motivate you to press in to his heart his soul his love for you again i warn us not to let what we know make us think that knowing's the same thing as experiencing it what little this woman knew pushed her towards christ and she would not let him go does your theology do that huh does your theology cause you to press into christ and not let him go if not you need a more biblical theology i don't care if it's you'd subscribe to the five solas i don't care if you identify with the westminster confession or the london second baptist confession my friends our theology should drive us to christ because that theology says i have nothing i am nothing but he is he is i am that i am and he has all that i need and i need him do you hear me come on somebody look just don't look at me do you hear what i'm saying beloved church god has blessed us with a knowledge of the bible this church is more theologically astute than any church i've been a part of including the one i pastored for 23 years it's an amazing thing to be with you and to hear you i mean we have people who can teach other than five elders and can do what we saw with the children in the bible study hour this is a theologically rich congregation he has given us very much in this regard why then are we content to eat crumbs why are we content to waller on the floor when it comes to experiencing him we eat crumbs up the floor rather than sit at the table and get the full course meal any theology that looks away from the foundational truth of god's good character and his love for us his theology that is improper at best and is simply wrong at worst if you start qualifying god's goodness displayed in answer to prayer by biblical qualifications please be careful let me give you an example what i'm talking about let me say this statement again because that's a little bit to grasp if you start qualifying putting conditions on god's goodness displayed in answer to prayer with these biblical qualifications you've got to be very careful for example if you say to me well it's true god answers prayer but he only answers prayer that's according to his will is that a true statement church we've got a few over here that are awake yeah leslie's awake is that true if we pray according to his will we have this assurance that what we ask we shall receive first john chapter 5 verses 14 and 15. and we all say getting better maybe i'll then discernment everybody will say amen true indeed the word of god says this but don't use the bible as an excuse for your weak faith instead use the qualification for the will of god to be a faith builder just the opposite for that's what it is listen if you pray according to the will you do get what you ask don't use that as an excuse not to pray in faith but to build your faith by saying to yourself the book says if i pray according to his will i get it so let me start praying according to his will and i'll see more answers that's how you the logic of faith thinks not to use the qualification to not pray in faith are you starting to see let me give you another example the bible says god's ways are not our ways indeed it does but don't use that to kill your faith instead use it to build your faith should the lord respond to your prayers with the answer no my ways are not your ways don't be discouraged like some of you are i rejoice in faith at his ways or something better and he has something better in store for you that's the logic of faith instead of getting discouraged because he said no to your prayer request remember when he says no it means he's got something better because his ways are not your ways am i making sense preacher needs to know if you're understanding by me making clear clarity here for you thank you sister here's what happens we use these biblical qualifications from the position of doubt instead of faith and that's grievous to our gracious god grieves him grieves him that woman would not let her theology do that that's why jesus said oh woman great is your faith so what's the lord's intent with the silent treatment the ignorance and even the insult well let's look at that for a few moments our syrophoenician sister knew that she had to press into jesus to get her crumbs in other words she had forced her way into the lord to experience his gracious power and her response to jesus i think is absolutely amazing when he said it's not good to take the children's bread and to give it to the little dogs well he insulted her point simple point blank he insulted her to call someone a dog's pretty low but then you add the adjective little that's just simply cold-blooded that's a almost an act of cruelty but look at her and her demeanor it's awesome she agrees with him she agrees with him she said yes lord yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs from which fall from the master's table or the conrad merle said of this passage when jesus called her a dog she started barking she agrees with him she's not offended she's not put off to play with the words of our lord she had a dogged determination she hung in there she would do whatever it took to get her blessing and so i asked you are you willing to do whatever it takes to get the blessing are you willing to do whatever the lord wants to do in your life to give you the blessing are you will instead to feed off the few crumbs that fall off our father's table at the time of this miracle listen the new covenant's not in effect yet right it's not an effect that's why jesus said it first in verse 24 i was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of israel it's not that he wasn't sent to save both jews and gentiles he's just simply saying my first responsibility is to the covenant people of god it's not that jesus hadn't performed miracles for gentiles either there's the samaritan woman at the well he brought eternal life to her she got a drink that's still satisfying her right now and then there was the roman centurion god answered his request and by the way said the exact same thing that he says about this woman the only two people jesus ever said that about were gentiles oh great is your faith and then there's the samaritan leper he healed him as well and yet he never said anything like this to them he never insulted them he quickly answered so what's going on here why did he do this with her and here i have to depart from most commentators and preachers i think they just simply get it wrong not that i'm smart i just think god has let me see something here and i want to share it with you most commentators and preachers tell us that jesus did all of these outrageous things to develop the woman's faith and i wholeheartedly disagree jesus didn't need anyone to tell him what was in the heart of men he could see from the very beginning what kind of faith she had he's not so much interested in developing her faith no no no it's the apostles faith that he was most interested in you see when god brought these twelve men into his fold he enrolled them into the school of faith and up to this moment they hadn't been passing oh now and again they got a good mark but for the most part they were failing in the school of faith and what jesus is doing here is using her as an object lesson of what faith and prayer ought to look like he used a gentile's faith to teach up jewish apostles something about the goodness of god and what true faith looks like in fact i'd like to say and go on the record i'll have to face these guys sooner or later one day but i'll stand by it even in heaven she had more faith than they did he never said of them oh great is your faith and at times they did exercise what i would call pretty good faith i mean peter walking on water is pretty astounding faith but he can't sustain it they think they're pretty pretty powerful in their faith life because they dropped their nets they dropped their trades their businesses and followed jesus that's got to demonstrate great faith yes but friend what does it demonstrate if you can't sustain it they had heard all the great sermons of jesus they had spent time in private with him tutoring and mentoring them they saw every one of his great miracles she had none of those privileges she had only a fraction of what they knew and yet she had great faith jesus knew what he was doing he was purposely throwing obstacles for her faith to hurdle to show the disciples how they were to trust and act in faith they were enrolled in the school and they were not passing and so here they are they're the children they're the children at the table in jesus words to the woman they're the ones who is supposed to be feasting at the table of faith and she's the little dog under the table getting their leftovers but the truth is they didn't have enough faith to pick up the fork and start eating they were the children playing the part of the household pet instead of acting like the air of the house and so jesus takes someone not even a jew not even a man but a woman and he shows them this is what i'm wanting you to be like this is the kind of faith i want you to trust me with the syrophoenician she forced her way to god's dining room table and she said i will not be denied i remember singing to him as a kid in our church i would not be denied i would not be denied till jesus came and made me whole i would not be denied and she the bible says in matthew 11 12 jesus's words and from the days of john the baptist until now the kingdom of god suffers violence and the violent take it by force if a woman who had no doctrinal right to gain the blessing yet by her violent faith forces her way in surely the royal children should be content to sit at the table and eat with her but they weren't and sadly friends were content to get god's leftovers also just like the disciples i want to answer our third and final question settling for crumbs rather than the whole meal how many of you god's people are content to have your sins washed away but you never desire the fullness of the holy spirit too many i fear it's not that saving grace is a crumb i don't want you to think that's what i'm saying no it's not a crumb but the problem is that many are not willing to go beyond this blessed event and experience more more of his goodness more of his love too many of us are content with just a few moments of lightheartedness here on a sunday morning and we're not willing to press to take the time to press in to the throne room of god and wrestle we're all too happy to pay god our tips on sunday morning so long as he gives us our crumbs you know what they are keep our children good and out of trouble keep us well and safe and give us a comfortable life we're settling for crumbs friends we're too content to have a good service hear a good sermon not today perhaps but when the five brothers preach we are content to let those men feed our souls and we walk away satisfied instead of getting on our faces before god and interceding for the miracle interceding for the child that's lost interceding for a nation that's going to hell in a hand basket we leave thinking we've experienced something of god yes the crumbs when we ought to be laying hold of the horns of the altar for revival for our church have we become so content with the crimes that we can't see we're living for so little settling for less i'm not here to be a raw raw preacher to whip up your emotions that's not the point so let me address that that's not why i'm preaching this i'm preaching this because i do believe with all my heart this is what i'm supposed to say to you but i think i know why i'm supposed to say this to you it's too easy to wall in the floor and get a few crumbs what's wrong with this church that we're content with the spiritual status quo an average spirituality that does not impress god or frighten the devil you know what average is don't you the best of the worst and worst of the best it's mere crumbs compared to what we could have god has made you a promise he's made this church a promise listen stand up and listen listen god has made a promise to providence chapel he's promised to spread before you and in front of our enemies a banquet table how many of you would say you feast rather than famish on the stale crumbs of an old experience with jesus you're living on leftover from a day gone by hmm am i speaking the truth it's bewildering to me that we can be so satisfied with a few milestones with jesus rather than see them as stepping stones to better things we live most of our time in the shadow lands of the dingy grays and the drab browns reminiscing of a better time when we could live in the cinematic color of god's glory no different i wish it were not true but i fear that some of us most of us will take from god the lord hanging through rather than take the effort to go for the higher more luscious fruit you say well it seems to me for the mic of the crumb that this woman god was awesome doesn't look like a crime to me a crumb i should say not a crime doesn't look like a crumb to me and i can say to you in return it's because you've settled for a far lesser crumbs that's why this looks like something big to you because you have come to be accustomed to a lot lesser smaller crumbs when you when was the last time god just simply came through for you when was the last time you prayed with such fervency that if god didn't come through you were sunk and again i think we're just all too happy to settle for mediocrity i remember what jesus said about a church of mediocrity they were neither hot nor cold and he was going to spew them out of their his mouth they were the church of the almost alive not quite alive to be among the living and not quite dead enough to bury i don't want to be in that category to you we're content in living in god's grace but not in his fullness we're content with being saved ourselves while others around us perish we're satisfied with crimes not the full meal beloved these are perilous times and they're going to be more perilous there were afghan afghanistan christians who died during the night because they refused to hide and they gathered with other saints i don't know how many i've not yet heard but you know it they woke up and they went to an assembly of other saints knowing it might cost their life and they did the math and they said sufficient price for the glory are we willing we may have to someday soon i don't think we're a rail of our own peril everybody seems to be talking about politics and the deplorable state of society and we're not lamenting the deplorable state of our hearts i'm not what i should be but i'm not what i used to be i love that statement but i have found that it can be a crutch for me i'm thank god i'm not what i used to be and i'm not too interested in making much more progress it's hmm that you don't care at all the problem is we don't care very much we sunk into an apathy that keeps us from forcing our way to the table where we deserve and to get what is ours how many of you are simply just quite happy to be spoon-fed by the more dedicated amongst us there are some who still need the bottle rather than a juicy cut of steak and and they complain that maybe sometimes the diges the food here may be a little heavy on their digestive system and then there are some i don't think anybody here i hope not but i'm in churches all the time it's not about eating meat they'll cry if you change their formula we criticize the word of faith movement the kenneth copeland's the benny hymns the joel osteen's and i say they need to be criticized they're not just heretics they're demon-possessed they ought to be criticized yes but we sit in judgment on their abuse of faith with our little faith and we congratulate ourselves for our smallness of faith look at me i'm not trying to believe god for a miracle as if that's somehow commendable if this miracle is a crumb then give me the whole loaf if sitting at the table is better than living on this in the squalor on the floor then my dear friends come on let's get up church let's get up and let's press our way into the table before the feast that god has spread for us let's no longer be satisfied with the crumbs that falls from god's table if god has something better for you and i say to you listen to me he has yes sir god's got something better for you we cannot hear about this jesus as we heard i don't know they sometimes call it the children's sermon but i get something out of it too greater than solomon is here whose wealth is like having half of a nerf gun compared to heaven's riches and he's here do you think he intends for you to limp your way into the kingdom of god into the city celestia do you think he means for you to get in by the skin of your teeth no no the apostle peter said that a wide entrance might be made open to you that's what god has for you then i pray with new determination that you'd be relentless to eat and have the full cuisine of god get out from under the table and be a child of the king because that's who you are i remember an old hymn written by the man who wrote christianity's anthem amazing grace john newton here's what the first two stanzas of that's him said listen carefully and i will conclude come my soul thy saint thy excuse me thy suit prepare jesus loves to answer prayer he himself has bid thee prey therefore will not say thee nay therefore will not be say the nay now listen carefully thou art coming to a king large petitions with thee bring for his grace and power are such none can ever ask too much none can ever ask too much amen and amen let's pray thank you thank you thank you father for your help thank you for your assistance today you have answered my prayer and i am so thankful now lord we turn our attention to what we have heard and we ask that your spirit your precious holy helper but advocate and help us to believe what we heard to believe it for ourselves every one of us in this room father we confess we have enough faith to believe that you saved us from our sins we have enough faith to get into the kingdom but now that we're in the kingdom we confess that our faith is very strong at times to believe you for much more than that but we want to trust you more because we know this pleases you so very much you're a sovereign and an omnipotent god and yet at the same time you love us so much to give us the thrill and the joy and the delight to work beside you in your redemptive enterprise oh lord help us to believe that you are good and that there is more for us we're not asking for a simple life a comfortable life free from pain or sorrows oh god if anyone is hearing that today they've not heard me you know lord what i have said preserve and protect them from that preacher from hell that would twist distort and deceive no but we do believe we are to live a life that is christ in us the hope of glory to live by your faith and by your power take this church lord and help us to get to the next level with our faith help us to get to the table and eat as you have prepared for us to dine oh lord may fellowship communion with you be our meat and our drink for jesus your everything your everything to us you're our treasure our portion our inheritance and we love you so forgive us for our doubts increase our faith o lord i pray in jesus name amen you

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Length: 53min 3sec (3183 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 02 2021