Defiant Faith: Faith That Sees Beyond The Norm | Pastor Hart Ramsey, Sr.

here the life changing Word of God that creates I choose to believe and I will leave here today faith life and love the three things that that we need and this this word life is not just being live it means that the life of the Lord I want to pick up on this on this topic of defiant faith and I want to kind of define some things if you allow me to be tonight I'm gonna be a little informal because when we speak about faith I'm not talking in general some was called armed abstraction faith is the life of the believer the Bible says now that just shall live by faith put Hebrews chapter 10 verse 38 it says now the just shall live by faith four times in the Bible this statement is made that just shall live by faith and that statement um when you if you've been in church for a while and you've heard it over and over again when you hear that being read or you and you say it doesn't make me anything two years just like the just live by faith what does it mean well um Hebrews 10:38 oh so you get on the screen not be excited to get started with this um what it speaks to there you go give me King James real fast oh I want you to see this and then we're gonna kind of talk about us um before we get into teaching it says now the just shall live by faith but if any man draw back my soul shall pleasure in him this statement is made once in the Old Testament in the book of Habakkuk chapter two and then it's made in the book of Romans the book of Galatians and then right here in the book of Hebrews the just shall live by faith said it out loud but just shall live now look the word just let me tell you how God sees this and thinks doesn't help us the word just is a word that is short for the justified the people who have been made right with God in different translations in reason different ways just flip through some of the translations real quickly and not tell you which ones to stop on um it says my righteous one this is the arm Holman Christiansted about my righteous one will live by faith keep score let's see what as we can find again my righteous one in New Living Translation the message says anyone who is right with me or right with God keep going give me one more if you have it maybe my right just want to get it in the New International Version what's the Amplified Bible say amplified bible says my righteous one is will of the one justified by faith and that's what it is a just justify I said justified by we will talk about that and then give me the passion translation is there I don't know how that says and he also says my righteous once is the same thing what God is talking about when he speaks of the just on my righteous won't other people who receive the gift of righteousness through Jesus Christ they've been justified by faith justification is a legal term it's the legal term and believe me when you stand before God when I stand before God the people have gone on before us to heaven um that that word justified or just was never as important as when they left this body and woke up on the other side because what it means is to be justified is that when you stand before the heavenly tribunal you have no arguments to make all the arguments have been made for you as much as you have struggled in this life as much as you you surpass that just I just didn't get a dot every I and cross a mighty the Lord Jesus Christ took care that for you if your heart is 4207 if your desires the police God then you are among those of the Bible called justified so whenever you see the term just okay a just man the Bible speaks of a just man of the just shall live by faith and said every one that God has made righteous every one that God has settled the accounts with every one that God has accepted because what Jesus Christ has done he says you are now relegated to living by faith you have no other way to live everything that God has for you is in a realm you cannot see well the best part of your lives matter of fact this is not am I put Colossians chapter 3 verse 1 um give me New Living Translation let me see can I work with that Colossians chapter 3 verse 1 and it says this Christ resurrection is your resurrection - that's different passionate okay when we work with the system is gone oh no go back to that well I like that that was worked out good surprising but it was good Christ's resurrection is your resurrection - that is why we are to yearn for all that is above in order he starts talking but above now I want to explain to you whether when the Bible speaks of the heaven above it's not a directional on term now what when I say directional it's not necessarily me in heaven above it and you can make an argument that we on this third Rock from the Sun we a small planet say above means that the heavens are up there but the term above is speaking of a higher dimension you got it so so so on anything like right now we're in the room and the angels are here and really they are above us because then the dimension we can't see is that where - you know I've I lost you this early already I might as well quit are you here okay so when he says in your father is above he's talking about it's above us it's I'll come back to earth for that's where Christ sits enthroned at the place of all our power honor and authority verse 2 it says verse 2 it says yes feast on all the treasures of the heavenly realm that's why I'm looking for that what realm is not necessarily saying that is armed directionally above you you got it it means it's it's a different Rim and so realm that's higher than our realm it's a spiritual realm okay and if it makes you feel better say heaven is up there that's good let's do that that's point a bit and we could do that God is never technically technically he's in a different realm from us when when we die we will float out of our bodies and hit upwards you got it when we when we leave our bodies we go to another dimension another realm the heavenly realm look at your faces he says yes feast on the treasures of the heavenly realm and fill your thoughts with heavenly realities and do not and not with the distractions of this natural realm see it stalk my realms okay so it when we talk about this he said once a person is justified by faith when I'm when God calls me one of his own what he does now he says everything that's gonna help your life everything that's gonna benefit you is not in this world he says now the just shall live by believing everything by faith putting you in leaning the entirety of your your personality your whole world has to be leaning on a realm you cannot see that's what faith is about it that's what I want to begin and talk to you about this is faith people talk about faith we speak about faith so arbitrarily and we talk about it like all either you would say well you know I just have faith that God is gonna do one and when you slow down what you just said I have faith that God is going to there's a lot of technicalities they're going and interplay here like number one on the thing that you're believing for did you get it from the Word of God cuz if it did not come from the Word of God you can't have faith for it faith is not just me saying something and God making it happen faith is me saying what God has said about me you got it I what listen faith is not a voice it's an echo God speaks from heaven and I pick it up in the earth and I equity I hear God's voice that it begins from his world it begins from the Word of God and I want to break it down as simply as I can so uh give me Hebrews chapter 11 verse one we're gonna begin from there to talk about this issue of faith um defiant faith I want to start again with the definition of defy write this down if you're taking knows the word defy that it's a Middle English word I like to go into the word studies in the Middle English word that means listen to this and make a note of this it means to refuse to make an agreement with when you defy something when you defy the odds we talk about defiant faith or defiant person you refuse to make an agreement with or settle for something you got it so the doctor can say to you or I'm sorry you know um there's nothing we can do you're gonna die in three months well defiant faith refuses to agree with that I mean it doesn't you're not going to doctor liar and inside you know if up being a situation a doctor told me one time I had or suffering from a bone situation called contra Malaysia and the doctor told me says well you never you'll never be normal again and I said to him I said well I don't receive that in my fact that I said like I said first I said that's not true and he looked at me he said are you calling me a liar I said no I'm just saying then I said I don't receive that and he was concerned he doesn't confused even and I said I said my faith will not allow me to receive that because I have other things I need to do with my life and he said well your faith may not allow it but your medical records will always carry it I've tasted something that's funny that's the story so I walked out of it out of this office now my knee was hurting her a bad knee pain and on for two to three years I would confess that the Lord is my healer over this country Malaysia and what it is it's the cartilage in your knee is gone and bone rubs against bone it's excruciating and for two to three years whenever I would travel over an hour in a car I'd have to stop somewhere on the side of the road and get out and stretch my leg on an airplane had to pay for either either first class or sit in the exit row okay it for two to three years when it stopped hurting I've been confessing I was healed for so long I didn't even recognize it so if you ask me when I was healing I don't know just stopped but there's something he said that I blew off that God didn't blow off he said it would always be in your medical records so recently I was applying for VA I won I was trying to get at my arm the VA ID card I'm a veteran and when they when they pulled my record and say well in order for you to do that you have to file a claim I said I haven't claimed a file I said we got to claim something it seems now that language with me we start on my claim in something what we me claim something they start telling me what happened to you physically in the Army when I was hurt a lot in the military but I ain't claiming none of it you got it so so I put in where they said well let's pull your medical records he said the guy asked me said well did he say what about the thing with your knee I said the contramar later I said what is it my record said we will get it based on that you'd have to claim it we'll get it out the record guess what I mean with the doctor said it will always be in your record it was knowing my record and here's the crazy part to me to make a difference I wish God had left it in there you know to be better for me I got my look right but but but but it that insult to God the doctor wasn't trying to be insulting to God but the statement he made the Lord heard it it's nowhere in my record that's sheet that they put in there is no win with my record from the 80s when I was at Fort McClellan so what I'm saying to you is when you start hearing us talking about faith God takes faith seriously faith is not something we ain't made up or or introduced to God it's something that got introduced to us God said the just shall live by faith when you start living by faith you do what God wants you to do not what you want to do so I just don't want to be a burden on the Lord you gonna be a burden on the Lord come on there's not enough of us to be a burden on God collectively amen so the word the five we said is a middle english word that means to receipt refuse to make an agreement with or to settle for that's the first part of the definition the second part of definite definition is to challenge to combat or to argue against or to fight against something to challenge to combat or to argue against to fight against something so when we talk about defiant faith we're talking about faith that is willing to stand up against a report that's against the word of the Lord we're talking about faith that's willing to watch us not accept that this is the natural condition that I'm in but refuse to settle for it and say this is what the way my life is gonna be yes this is what what our life is trying to bring at me but this is not how I'm gonna live you got it and if you start if you start now addressing certain things by faith I believe that by the time you get ready to face them in the natural realm you'd be at an advantage okay for example I started confessing years ago when I'm four so when I first saw that that giving tithe and offering and participating in God's financial plan it all tripped my financial state it did not it did not make me rich but it altered my financial state it put me in a position where it seemed like money always came when right when I needed it so when I saw that I started making this confession I everyone that knows me personally will tell you I always say this um money's not a problem for me I always say that and every time I said some are come to me and ask me for money I want to say well I don't have it is it well music money's not a problem for me no it's not a problem for me how you just got it you're right now now so so button here's what how I altered it so will start to happen when I realize that every time I make the confession publicly people think I got money and I started believing God to have extra money for the people who come to me and I get a witness that I should help them so I always need a surplus so I'll start confessing money is not a problem to me I always have money when I need it and I always have some leftover to share that is my confession I've been confessing for years and i'm mateus right now you'll be surprised at the financial obligation that's on my life but it never bothers me what I deal with the accounting office for this church I never I never asked about money on till it's time for the audit I never see what comes into the church I never I don't look at staff pay none of that when they told me at one point some years ago that my staff budget was 1.7 million dollar my pain I like 1.7 million dollars for real let's close down the church during the week if that's the case but but now watch this so here's the crazy part about it now it's not that anymore of course it's just that we were done with the lien of staff but the thing is I was believing God for all that money and did not even know it because watch this money was not my focus the Lord was as long as I could keep my eye on him and trust him whatever whatever knee came and he took it when the water rose he rose with it is how it works when he went you were you living by faith the key thing is not to see the victory but to see Jesus in the victory I'm gonna talk to him about that so and Hebrews chapter 11 verse 1 on this definition give me King James first we can work our way through some definitions everybody read out loud I want you to feel the room ready read now faith is okay now let's work we're gonna do some academic study because I want to get your head in the game okay it says faith is substance faith is evidence faith is and faith is work so the two things we need to settle right now I say pastor I don't understand faith think here's what you need to know about faith right now faith in God's eyes faith is substance faith is evidence right faith is and faith is to say that lie to get faith is and faith is because that's what that's one part of the puzzle now faith is substance of what okay of things hoped for so now let's define substance okay I'm gonna go through this this is a academics to there by says academic because if I could get you if you can get your head in the game and get you understanding what you're dealing with you'll start to make sense to you enough so it says faith is substance faith is substance what is substance well by definition let's make a note of this in your dictionary if you look it up and says substance is matter ma TT ER substance is matter it's something that you could touch something that what just now is something that is that is tangible it's not something I can't see faith I mean I'm sorry substance is matter also in a definition or a dictionary substance is shape of substance has weight substance is something that is solid it's it's not substance if you can't touch it you got it is if not substance if it doesn't have shape it's not substance if it if it if it's not if it doesn't if it's not matter substance means matter okay now so it says faith is the substance of something of substance of what things so questions now say if I'm not hoping for anything if I'm not hoping for if I have enough to hope for that means I can't have faith I'm just in faith in faith for what I'm just in faith that that right there tells me you don't know what you're doing the enemy does not worry about you as matter of fact he understands if you can't put myself if you too afraid to speak the matter that you believe in God for the thing that you're hoping for you're not an issue with the enemy he'll just I'm what about this I'm believe believe me God for healing that's something that can take matter something that could be solid it could take shape it's the rush it's not it's tangible you get it now so let's look at different translations give me New Living Translation real quickly the New Living Translation says faith is that is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen now the Greek does not say this what we're the translators are doing is trying to is trying to make it understandable for the person that's been what live by faith but this is very good so now what we we learn not only is it substance but the substance is not out there it's in here because confidence is not out there is it rest confident what does confidence manifest where in my heart so watch this now so if so the translators are taking the air for the entirety of this inter context came up with the idea that a substance is confidence so it says faith is the substance of things hoped for you I said it's matter it's something that has shape it has a weight it's solid so the first thing we tend addition look for it out there but know how you know you have faith is because it manifests on the inside of you watch is now as tangible solid confidence you begin to know you begin to know you just know that God is gonna do it you just know that God is gonna do it you just know that God is gonna do it now I've had people sitting I remember some person one time they were getting relief um Chuck and sediment you set it in the office with me and that's and I said why do you leave if there's something we need to fix I'll fix it here's what the person said to me sitting in the dome they said well pastor you have any vision stop there sitting in the conference room of the nine million dollar facility that we built by faith that I have to see it first and draw it first and they tell me I have no vision you know I said to myself self you are looking at a fool because people sit in a church and say for you I just need to go to church I fit and you everything you see around you came from faith because the the confidence for the thing you hope for it begins in your heart everything you want from God has two beginning your heart every victory you win gotta happen inside first i'm mateus right now you cannot beat the enemy at anything you can't defy him if at first listen your conference and seeing Jesus and understanding that Jesus is for you if it doesn't do something in your heart if you always have to run for focus it agree with me Agrippa no no you guys to come to a point where don't nobody agree with you I don't care if you don't agree I'm gonna up listen if you have thick nama not just at times the God will give you people as training wheels they're gonna be people come alongside to help you but it has to come a point where the business that God is giving you has to be comfort if there be confident about it in your own heart you'll have to call the business by name I stuck on this turkey affectionately ncc when we were six months old it had to be probably fifty of us what do you pack my pastor MCC what is it stand for know if you Christian Church I start calling the NCC family like with some big tribal everything when you walk my faith would it because you call it here's how it works when you call it it comes what did I just say when you call it it could and a lot of times because we don't understand that premise we call things to us that we don't really need or when he want I have a friend that every time I call him every time you time I call him I get afraid to ask him how is it going well how are you doing well I wanna complain well I prefer listening if you starting this statement with I don't want to complain chances are there's a good chance I don't want to Clint I want to complain but if you don't get yourself I don't want to complain and stop right there if you don't want to complain I have a word for you here's the word of the Lord if you don't want to complain don't everybody sit I say if you don't want to complain don't it wasn't nothing bad but don't I ain't saying God is a faithful but know he is you see how this works now so I want to walk you through this I want to work in this I want I'm gonna stay on this first part faith is the confidence that what we hope for it and this one hope is critical because when I say hope you here wish and hopeful living is not wishful thinking hopeful living is not what you're thinking you have to understand I've got it every every incarnation of this church when I teach this lesson I got to bring people to the place where they differentiate between the wishful thinking and hopeful living a wish is something that you want to happen but in your mind in all likelihood it never will so you say I wish I had more money as if to say I never will but it would be nice think about it you know you mayor yet I wish it was now listen no you something like that or on what it but I wish this headache will go away and I wish I did have to do it migraine but I just do wishing is not wishful thinking is not hopeful living the difference between what a wish enough of the Greek word for this word of hope is what elf is ELP is write it down Altus and what Elpis is it's a confident expectation of good from God it's a confident expectation versus now the word hope is a future word say I like the word hope is a future word when I speak when the Bible speaks of Hope it talked about a future that God has has for me and he promises to me now and what I begin to do in the now is I begin to turn that hope into matter I begin to give that hope shape I begin to make that hope tangible I begin to give it weight I begin to make it solid where in my heart in my heart what I begin to do is I begin to keep it before my eyes watch this now I keep the word that promises it before my eyes it's coming out of my mouth it's going into my ears and that's the cycle it's because before my eyes out of my mouth in my ears I'm constantly changing the way I see Life watch is not until I could speak about the thing I'm looking forward to as if I'm living it right now so I wish I could say something like money is never a problem for me and I'm telling you when I first was saying this to believe God for hundreds of dollars was a big deal my first pay hey by time I don't preach what preachers take people but let me tape up my first page because you see y'all understand how this works the first pay I got from this church was a hundred dollars a week for groceries the the agreement between me and the board was I will I will preach out prepare preacher pastor the church for a hundred dollars a week and the at the end of the month the the church if I didn't have rent money they will pay the rent on the house I was living in and when they said that you know what I said good deal and I began I began to confess my God shall supply all my need according to his riches just in glory in Christ and then I get my check one hundred dollars before taxes when I realized that this arrangement would mean that I may have to get a day job and it was impossible to get a day job seeing the thing I was seeing in my heart so when I went to the Lord I began to pray and to consecrate myself before the Lord just to find out what God wanted I found myself not just saying that the law of supply all my need but started be specific we have we have more than enough coming in request the church couldn't pay me so you know started happening money started coming in the mail people will tell me I get these letters there brother Ramsey I saw you in the spirit I'm in Germany and I saw you sitting at a piano that you didn't have and when I woke up it was the weirdest thing I saw I'm sitting at a piano that you didn't have and the Lord told me send you money for the piano that's how we got our first instrument in church it a letter in the mail tide was coming from everywhere from people whoever is one person I saved my ties for six months because the Lord showed me six months ago he was to tell you to start a church all that was stored up for me watches now and it didn't get released until I said yes Lord I'm gonna do it yes I see what you see if you call me the past JP I'm gonna do it and my faith because they're watches now trigger some things when the more confident I became then the thing that I was hoping for became physically real but before it became real out there it has to be real where you fought on this okay give me one more give me the passion translations I just want to give you as much to work with as we can I'm not gonna move too fast on this it says now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we longed for it is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen how does it let me share it works so by the time a person gets finished encountering you so you know how I even met people and you tell what God is gonna do and they look at you you crazy but there comes a time when your when your confidence for it back to our New Living Translation for a minute but your confidence in what God is telling you is so real inside of you that when you speak it inward when people hear it they believe you to the first service we had in this room this very room nothing was here the man had gotten together and built a wooden platform from the existing wood that was here that you should get staged back in the corner over there that they used to have male exotic dancing on we took that would we report me baptize it in oil we literally just poured order then began to pray in tongues other thing really the place was nasty we just clean up as much as we could as a big fan there was no drop seeing nothing nothing but everything you see here I had written it on a paper when my elders were here and I gave we had 10 our couples ten elders and whether they were rotate when people come to the door they will take him under told the whole building in and show them what pastor I'd written on the paper that he had seen by the time all the people came in and sat here in front of me the question I asked them was after after having him gone everyone you could not be in a century if you had not been on a tour a tour of a building that wasn't finished there was nothing but we took him on a tour and imagine imagine that the people who are to tour their paper in their hand they're going and right here is gonna be a children's church and they're coming I said when you look up at the ceiling this is the drops in is gonna be white with white speakers and they were like crazy people telling people for real but here's the crazy part now up to that point up to that point how many how do you remember that up to that point check this out after that point um our highest offering on a Sunday morning was two thousand dollars that's God we're gonna get this money to do all this stuff from and the Spirit of God would not speak a word to me I just did exactly what God told us to do when when everyone said that it may have been maybe 200 people here's the question I asked what do you see that's of course on accident what and when I asked that question this place ignited a kid could have preached in here in this room was so tangible and people started bringing money and threw it under author that Sunday was the first Sunday I often went from two thousand eight thousand on a Sunday morning now now that's not a big deal but back then it was huge because I didn't even know when I when I found out how much money was giving that Sunday the next Sunday that was mad I said your head is money the whole time I'm stressing out and you're sitting on them and here's what happened here's what happened the Monday they had what was needed to make things happen but check this out they hadn't heard any faith and when I began to tell them now repeat to them was on the paper with a rhythm from a little torta they had checked this out all of a sudden everybody in the room everybody in the room saw what I saw and felt what I felt not all of a sudden I want you to see this it wasn't just one person that had confidence before God was gonna do in the future in a single moment and multiplied by 200 the force of that on the spiritual realm Satan can stop it it was so strong we went from one person believe in God or sharing a vision with ten people who I guess they believed in and it took faith to grow up and I tell people that stuff I mean you can wear with a paper looking crazy dumb and Church or the bathroom gonna be right here and we have this on the floor no nothing nowhere we were broken and have nothing but when they shared it it multiplied and as I said it put a force on the spiritual rim and from that moment I could feel change the word says we were doing everything back cash the banks started calling us things starts changing in the heavenly realms from this from this simple thing right here faith is the confidence that what you hope for let's talk about hope for a minute is that when you strum I hope so um I want to give you a bunch of Scripture I don't know where to begin with this but well let's that's it is in the Bible hoping is not like wishing I give you before I want to reiterate to wish for something means that you want it to happen but you understand the model more than likely it won't okay so we say things like I wish had more money I wish I wish my life was better understanding that the things the things in my life are the way they are and they're not likely to change again we call this wishful thinking wishing is an unsure way to look at the future because because by just wishing but just saying I just wish it was different it doesn't mean it's gonna change there's no pressure on it to change okay but God has given us a better way to approach the future and this way is called hope how important is hope how powerful is hope but let me show you the opposite of it there's only one reason that people commit suicide 1 1 hopelessness you don't think hope is powerful people on when you by the time the enemy starts telling you you should end your life your life is not worth living you know what you know that shows you your by the time the enemy has the courage the gumption to suggest to you to do for him what he can't do if he could kill you he would but he can't so what he does he steals your hope from you and he gets your hope levels so low like all in a car that's low and he tells you he said you said that feels does they feel like deaths he might as well just end your life he wants to kill yourself washes down my audience doing this he's put a black drape of smoke in front of your eyes so you can't see past the future that God you can't see past the present rather to the future the guys for you and he he drapes this in front of you and he doesn't long enough to get your hope depleted then he says to you do for me what I can't do I wish I could kill you I hate you so much I was like a kiddy but since I can't do for you what you do it for me and if you say no he will put the pressure on you and God help you if no one around you understand how faith works this word hope is not just some word this what hope means God says matter of fact the Bible suggests in one spot that that if you don't have hope then you have life a part of living is hope because we listen do you know I don't care what how you could have 2010 vision you got the most the most perfect vision you can't unless you're prophetic you can't see a second into the future you don't know what we don't know is what happen the next second a minute we don't know you got it so hope is a tunnel that goes through now to the thickness of our now into the future God shows us the possibility and here's the crazy part ten of us could read the same scripture and see a different future based on how God made us but here's what's happening with but a lot of people do whenever start talk about hopelessness I could see it in your eyes you I arrest your attention because the enemy has been to your house he's been to your house he's telling you your life is not worth living he's telling you that things are too hard you'll never have enough you'll ever be enough this is the best is gonna be and if watch this night and if all you can do is wish if you can't hope if got a biblical hope is that in your heart that means you are fighting for your life right now and you watch this night you'll have enough weapon power enough firepower to be the devil the crazy part about it the crazy part about it is that some people say well I never killed myself no you won't kill yourself quickly but you'll drink yourself to death but you'll give your body away trying to feel better because the whole issue is you what you're trying to defeat is that nagging gnawing pain of a life that's not worth living because you can't see past the moment you saw anybody anything happens to preachers if Satan to get you in a vortex where all you could see is what he's showing you if he can get you there he could tempt you to throw away your potential and settle for a job that you don't even like working with people you don't even like when God had called you to be entrepreneurs and in business owners and he will get you to tie your net worth or tie your value rather to your net worth he will get you if something fails and you don't have hope you don't you don't even have the wherewithal to stand up again and do and try something else cuz you think because that failed and you're done the enemy's clever you understand this and if if porpoise don't teach the pews about this hope what are we gonna do so let me give me give some more about this arm about this biblical hope for good Romans 15:13 real quickly I want to read the scripture I didn't intend to go to the net but since the Holy Spirit on this Romans 15:13 here's what Paul says to the Church of Rome listen to the language he said I pray that God the source of hope here's what he said was a source mean if something as a source where does it mean talk back to me what does it mean huh if it's the source okay if I say or if I say um you say well to be on that's where you get that from and I say to you will what I got it from may Caesar from whatever then I'm just giving you my source you got it and so now you can go to the same place you know there's some places that for the sale of certain name-brand right and I don't care God never shop at all at Macy's then there's certain things you can't buy because only makes he sells it you see them saying so so if you know the source is of a brand or product you can go to the source God's brand is hope you can't get it nowhere else you cannot go to a conference a motivational speaker can't give you all God the Bible is a part of you I pray that God the source of hope will fill you completely with what and what why because you what if I told you that you're chasing joy but don't have hope and you can't get joy to you get hope what am i that you're chasing peace and you're gonna never find peace because peace is a product of having hope what if I told you that it says this he says then you will overflow with confident hope through what the power of the Holy Spirit that's why we read the Bible that's why we come to church that's why we hang around people that name faith the enemy says very sudden he'll tell you you have to go to church to be saving you don't and you'll have to read your Bible to be saved but to have hope because you have gonna save something faith is the substance of hope in other words you can't touch hope you can see it but if you wanted to become real to you only faith and my father the laurel hair washed him before you dad used to tell me heart he said all faith isn't trust you trust the thing that God shows you really you trust the doctor showed it to you okay now give me the passion translation I'm gonna wear you out with this tonight I'm not gonna step further I'm gonna just send you home with this now make God the inspiration and foundation of Hope fill you to overflowing with uncontainable joy watch this you have to work it up you don't have to go looking for joy your joy comes sudden you really what joy is is the love in your heart laughing failures are overflowing with uncontainable jour and perfect peace as you do what as you trust or have faith in him so watch this now when God shows me remember now for it starts with a picture of who God shows and God gives me a picture of hope and when I see it and I embrace it and I said this is mine I began to speak it up my mouth I begin to let it go socket hear it in my ear meditate or until it fills my heart and was beginning to happen is God is reconditioning me and the more I do this the more my joy and peace increases I'm so depressed depression is above listen regardless of whatever whatever else we call it you saved some people in the psychological professionals a pastor what I tend to disagree with that and I think it would you be careful telling people ah let me happy our theology is not the child of psychology psychology is the baby of theology theology then sisters and aim brothers theology the study of God is the mother of the study of the mind you got it you can't study the mind unless you study God and I'm here to tell you right now if wouldn't people or when a person is depressed and before it becomes clinical before it starts to wear on your physical body it's been in your heart for a while eroding your resources and shaping the way you see until watch it's not even the lightness in you is darkness that's what the enemy does get you to the place where you can't say anything good you can't see anything good all your seats what's wrong oh you Caesar you you actually believe that you are destined to fail like God sent you to the earth the only person that got ever sent to the earth and your whole only purpose is to fail how arrogant is that then all the people in the universe of all time God sent you to the earth to fail that's the line that ever tells you you believe it I'm a being to order you I'll try harder I'm kidding no I'm trying to a got to shake you out of this listen to this now to hope is to place your confidence and expectation right these four things down number one in the goodness of God we're not when I talk about hoping I'm talking about you put your confidence in the goodness of God you said the past I'm not a good person we're not talking about you right now we're talking about God so number one when you hoping you put your confidence and your expectation in number what's number when I said is what say that light is what the goodness of God number two to hope is to place my confidence and expectation not only the goodness of God but number two in his willingness to provide for us or for you or for me however you wanna write it down to put to place my confidence and expectation in God's willingness to provide for me listen to what I'm saying not only yourself pastor I've just been asking God to do things he hasn't done it yet I promise you this and this is I'm Way ahead of myself the reason you're saying that is because you don't understand how the faith process works the Bible says through faith and patience we inherit the promise right so what happens to you you acts garden faith and then it's doing the flu the waiting period where's the process of patience you bail you bail on God and here's what you think you think because God did not meet your deadline that God failed you know I'm not found that in Scripture I've searched God has never made a deadline no no be honest with you I went through the Scriptures I try to see that you will say he's on time god yes but do you know what the crazy thing is he's an untimed god but he makes his own timeline and when Joshua was in a battle one time when Josh was in a battle and when Justin realized God told him to Bush go smite this nation and he's smart he's fighting him and he realized that God is actually allowing the Sun to go down he's like wait a minute how can you tell me to attack them - breaking up day and then you won't give me more time so you know just within when he realized that God did not care by the time he pointed to the Sun and told us at a standstill and you know Guardian got honored it's God honor this because here's the thing in scripture I don't know what Bible they'd be reading about me and no no I don't care how much it God has never made a deadline he is he does not care about deadlines a matter of fact when he thinks he's gonna be early you know he does he waits this is a message Lazarus your friend is dead remember that last those are friends then whether Jesus did he kept on playing spades he like like deal deal another hand what you got you know BAM you know listen nonetheless he and then when the time ran out when Lazarus died he waited an extra day even he waited till he was dead for four days he says time for us to go he's never made a deadline because he does not care about deadlines he gives glory when he shows up after the time and does what he wants to do anyway he wants me listen he God walks in the room bossing he comes in the room like people say well it's too late now they're like lord have you been have you been here you were gonna die and the Lord that you don't even understand but even now you know we believe whatever you actually look at the father foe he'll do it for you and Jesus said to him says he says Martha um he said do you believe that your brother will live again and Martha goes out in the last age but the resurrection is with Jesus he would you know he gonna live in the resurrection he said I am the resurrection Tomba but Lord if you if you if you if you're giving the money time to make the hospital was I am the house note huh you talk about you know if you just show you say the relationship the loss I I am the relationship and what the Lord is trying to show you is I would get glory in anyway because the whole thing is watch it's not my job is to bless you your job is to glorify me okay so number that's number two number three so to hope is to place your confidence and expectation in God's goodness number one number two and his willingness to provide for you and number three in his commitment to take care of you in his commitment to take care of you even in the face of trouble even in the face of trouble he's committed these things I'm telling you you hope will not make a difference if you're not willing to be you bypassing you don't know my story let me tell you some what were the most aggravating of situations for me to counsel as a pastor I will just tell you cuz I'm about a year or two foot away from retirement I'm gonna tell you right now I could tell you now somehow sometimes you aggravate me one of the most aggravating things in the world is when I want to spend all my time with God and then come to you to tell you what the law won't do for you and you list the whole 30 minutes of my counseling tell me but you just don't understand my situation I don't care how I look in my face everybody smiling I could be nodding my head and I could even talk to you now darling I want you to understand I don't care how don't don't let that fool you or the inside thing them I said what is wrong with these people you got it this isn't us now this is what we do you will hear the word of the Lord you will hear the promise of God then you turn around till the Lord why your situation is different why your situation is special you don't understand where I came from you all know how running my family and when you start making yourself special in a negative way it's a testament to how much of a hole the enemy has on you and Dom don't make a mistake about it if the enemy has a hopeless rope around your neck he plans to use it hopelessness is the way you abort your destiny you cannot play with it I went to the doctor today for a checkup and you know I suggest that you do so I go to doctor all the time I type in my doctor's paid I got good insurance I go to the doctor so I went for a check of your checking my levels and stuff make sure because I go a lot and begin the year I would like to do it and they start doing this thing I don't to be sorry to have a paper where you fill out to check your mental health and I'm you seen it I've never had to feel one of those out before and so I asked me are you depressed I'm like well first I'm thinking about son I'm gonna tell you but but the questions are the acts were amazing and I'm glad they started doing the screening to check where you are because it makes you think about the things that happen that you blow off for example when you become so depressed or so hurt by situation that you come home take your clothes off or not and just get into bed reporter covers over you and don't even realize that what you're doing is manifesting hopelessness manifesting a lack of faith manifesting that you acting as if your God is dead and that's City you are on I don't see you in church pants I'm just I just can't come to church because I'm just so depressed no no no you know it's like I like have you eaten not gonna eat why I'm so hungry they use garden I mean you just missed it yes is what you get if I ask you did you eat and you say no and I actually why not you say because I'm so hungry but you set what you're telling is you don't understand that the only way to fix the hunger is to eat if you don't come to church because you depressed you don't understand the way to get out of depression is to come to church and personal feels of people say well you don't understand I go to a chocolate people just mean could you come to church for the wrong reason I don't keep listen missing you you know mean messages I have preacher people out there looking to crazy I don't be care about them man listen you you ain't coming here for them tell you they don't tell your neighbor I don't come in for you no no no no y'all playing y'all ain't mean enough y'all took you to country I need you I need some hood people look at something you know looking up with an attitude so any come here for you you playing you measure I mean I choke you to sleep right here in your seat okay no no no I come here for you I'm coming here because I need the word of the Lord I need God to move in my life you claim you want to come and come and look at me look at me crazy in the water but you can watch me get blessed because I ain't here for you alright about senior y'all ADK is not here don't tell her I cut her for tonight she could be that what did you say alright so number three number four so number one - pleasure hope I mean - hope it's the pressure confidence an expectation in guard number one in his goodness his willingness to provide for you his commitment to take care of you even in the face of trouble and the last one number for his faithfulness to his people in general that's a powerful one that what did what that means is his pattern of keeping his word his pattern of keeping his word God always keeps his word you said you said what he didn't do what I wanted to do known I didn't say he gonna always does what you wanted to do I say he always keeps his word he determines the timing he determines the manifestation of it and but i'ma tell this right now I said this on watching like the bit that don't building when in the first six months of this church I was on my knees before the Lord and I saw this boy I was in I was um you know on the mountains of Georgia I was with three other worship leaders you ever heard of Jesse Duplantis and Jesse Duplantis worship leader but there's a minister named happy call will you ever heard any a happy call well it was happy call as minister of music myself um just as plans minister music and another guy I didn't remember who the guy was and there's a for warship passes we were interceding and praying and then we were sit to meet and when they were all talk about what God is gonna do in their life when I told him about this thing that God showed me they looked at me like he's this poor guy that's what he said fast forward here's the crazy part fast forward 20 years I don't know where they are but everywhere you look you see me I don't know what they did but everything I told him God built I'm gonna tell you how much what you need to understand sometimes it's not that people are better is that they have more faith every single person in Hebrews chapter 11 how to define faith that means they refuse to go along and settle the issue I want to be I want to leave you with one thing go back to Hebrews chapter living I want to show you this this is so I wish I had more time I didn't cover anything tonight Lord so you can say I did cuz you don't have the whole outline it for you that you gotta cover I got I got a five page outline I got clever I just covered two sentences now let me show you let me help you with this I want to sow in Hebrews chapter one right now faith is the substance of things hoped for if you flip it to the New Living Translation it says a new faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen in the in the passion the passion translation of the New Testament it says faith brings our hopes into reality and become the foundation needed to acquire the things we longed for this is interesting when I was reading this faith gives substance to hope say that out loud faith gives by definition if we take the definitions I gave you okay substance means matter substance means shape substance means weight substance means that which is solid okay faith gives substance to hope that means if we spoke substitute the word substance for offer these four words hiss out sounds faith gives faith gives matter to hope or faith makes hope matter it makes hope real faith makes hope important it makes hope count when I express my faith through my words to the words of my mouth or to the works of my hand it makes my hope matter it gives my hope shape it gives my hope wait it makes my hope solid faith makes hope visible I knew a guy one time and um he came to the church and said pastor he said the doctors said that they think the same thing my father died off I'm gonna die off and I'm gonna die at the same age and he said um can you pray for me I said before I pray for you and actually a question and he said yes I said the words that I've been teaching do you believe him he's every word of it I said what have I told you that you could beat the odds he started to cry and I said I'm not gonna let my hand on you because when this changes I don't want you to say that man of God I said but it's almost over you you wouldn't live and not die and you're gonna fulfill your purpose you're gonna be an old man he started playing thank you passing wipes his face and I hugged him and he left here's the crazy part I remember looking out for looking for him in church was another the brothers brother go what I didn't know was he was in the military and they deployed him they deployed him he went somewhere over-seasoned when he comes back he comes in the church I know I was preaching I see this guy right there I go they look so familiar to me he was bigger and you know he was healthier something was different about him he waited for me at the church when I came out he was telling people he's gonna talk to persons and they say well pastor listen let me talk just said but I know you from and he said yes and I say okay so were you in Germany I started I thought somewhere you know in and he laughs and says no I came to your office one day he said I was sick and the doctors told me I was gonna die from the same thing at the same age my father died and he began to tell the story and said you spoke called me said and you know what happened history told me listen to what he said I believed you he said I believed you he said so what did you do he said nothing he said I left and I kept going back for my checkups and all of a sudden the doctor told me my body was getting stronger I said did you change what you're eating he said I don't think I did he said I think and try to do anything different he said just start feeling better he said but one thing I started doing was watch this now I stopped begging God to do it I started thanking God for doing it he said I start I start thinking he said he said when you told me what God's gonna do I left and said God thank you he knows funny about that moment when I told him that I didn't hear that from the Lord at the moment you know I got it from the pages of scripture Scripture I've been staring that morning I will live and not die and proclaim the goodness of the Lord that's where I got it from but I spoke that word and what happened was the hope that was in me I transferred to him this hope that's in you you could transfer you give it to a person you can literally give a person hope so much they pass away you always online you think I'm online or him running no I'm giving him hope you give hope you can speak hope to people you can impart hope to people faith makes hope matter what's hope the thing I see down the road think the different me I see faith gives substance of the story I want to send you home with this and I didn't have time tonight to go over all of it but I think it will help I'm gonna give you like a thousand shares in five minutes but but Romans 15:4 real quickly on his favor Romans 15:4 just follow me on this Romans 15 chapter 4 i'ma chapter 15 verse 4 yeah whatever was written beforehand in scripture is meant to instruct us in how to live the Scriptures impart to us what encouragement and what why stop give me a different translation New Living Translation real fast New Living Translation such things were written in the scriptures long ago to do what and the scriptures give us what and what you when you go to the Bible you'll be surprised you said past I just fees what will open your Bible just begin to read even when you feel you're worse when you feel down just open the book and start to read pick a spot in the Psalms or the Proverbs just pick a spot in the gospel start pick up a story of Jesus in the book of Mark just start to read just follow him down a road of Damascus Farnham are on Palestine dirty dusty roads just read and you will start to feel a lift in your spirit look at 1st Thessalonians chapter what go down to verse 13 go to verse 13 Romans 4 15 verse 13 I think we just read that it was 15 and verse 13 I won't look at it again if you get to it up I'd be much obliged okay okay take a look at it again do me a favor give me the amplified version of the Bible and then may the god of Hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing to the experience of your faith that's what that's why I want to point out that the power of the Holy Spirit will abounding you give me the message translation what fast if you have it message translation oh may the god of green Hope fill you up with joy fill you with peace so that you're believing lives fill with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit will brim over with what hope so give me um let me I just go forward that's been taking the lamentations chapter 3 verse 17 New Living Translation and will be done did you did you learn something tonight did you get blessed tonight the story here is that is that lamentation is the second book of jeremiah for those of you who study prophetic writings and the Prophet writes the Book of Jeremiah when he's prophesying the destruction of Jerusalem by the time we read the Book of Lamentations what's happening here is that the destruction has happened and now he's weeping this is lamentation means he's just grieving what he seen and this is this listen to the way he describes it this is his life he says peace has been stripped away and I've forgotten what prosperity is that's how bad the situation is next verse says this he says I cry out my splendor is gone everything I had hope before from the Lord is what everybody ever felt like that look at the next verse he says the thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter we thought beyond words he was literally homeless because Nebuchadnezzar had come through and destroyed they destroyed all of Jerusalem and he was left there and the Bible says the next verse he says I will never forget this awful time as I grieve over my loss verse 21 he goes on to say yet I still dare to hope when I remember this can you is there anybody the room that's been through a difficult devastating time where it seemed like successive losses in your family or relationships or your job or something or even your physical body you don't feel the way you used to feel but but you're still dare to hope anybody that's still dare to hope although your life did not turn out the way you thought it would and you wish that things were different but and it's and you could is real palpable as this is just such I mean what you've been through is still on you you still feel it from time to time you still remember it you still dream about it but the Prophet said yet I still dare to hope when I remember this that's what he said I still dare to hope but I remember this what is the visi remembers look at verse 22 he says the faithful love of the Lord never give me King James give me King James because now let's get poetic right here he said when I remember this it is of the Lord's mercies come on here he said he says what is the idea to hope when I remember that is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed why why because what say that not because what because his compassion fails not whenever the Bible talks about the compassion of the Lord it means that God becomes so bothered by what you're going through that he literally enters into the struggle with you he comes in there with you he shows up as people he shows up as words he shows up in a song he's like I'm he's in a movie he was shot somewhere he'll show up his other laws mercy is that we're not consumed why because his compulsive feeling I look at the next verse he said this they are new shouting they're new and then the last party says what great look the reason we have hope [Applause] no no we never believed it till you get stirred you need to be stirred keep playing it you think your situation is bad and it is it's devastating heart that rip run out of your chest and you can keep on looking at it but you got to remember this it is of the lord's mercy it could have been worse but he decided it wasn't going down like that he decided his plan was not gonna be lost for your life yeah his mercies do not fail his compassion is renewed every morning the faithfulness of God the dependability the reliability of God it's not just this word means it means it's something that is otherworldly and verse 24 he said the woman says the Lord is my portion since my soul therefore because what another's he said the law is my portion what does it mean I may have lost a relationship but I still have the Lord the month the money then come in but I said the Lord what's this I didn't make them note in the house I have to move up but I stick out the Lord so make sure the Lord is my portion then he says because the Lord is my portion I will always have the enemy cannot do this to me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all I've needed [Music] [Music] more time great is thy faithfulness great [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] so before we leave tonight it was a Bible study night if you need to reconnect with God I'm just the enemy if he had his way he would take you out if he had his way he closed the deal but he can't have his way because God won't let him he won't let him take you so what I want you to do my time but I'm gonna leave the door open just for just for a few seconds if you say past I wonder oh I know this intimate space and it's a close moment but I really want to make a rededication my life to the Lord I won't ask you to come if you want to come I don't do some ways in there but if I felt I feel my heart abuse tonight to just break out of this thing that Amy's trying to box you in and save me I got to reconnect with my garden that is you just come I don't can you say what everybody looking left forget them you're telling you're not here for them you happy I don't know who it is but listen and don't pressure anybody if God is not moving their heart we're gonna move forth but let me tell you not allow the enemy to steal from you this purpose and you God has something for you and you cannot allow the enemy to steal it from you so father I've stretched my hand over your people I'm a declaration over every person that this is a different year for us it's a different year you're breaking into hearts they used to knock on we give you permission to shove your way in we give you the permission to change the way we see arrest the way we think the things that we think we know concerning the Scriptures of personal faith show us again a new the old wells that were closed up open them the cases that we gave up on open that reopen them cause the things God that we release faithful in the past and didn't see the answer and gave up on bring them up again so that everyone will know that you are the God that will not let your way is not the way to fight you are the Defiant God you're the one that refused to give up on us you're the one that loved us beyond what we were worth you give us value you give our lives meaning you are the source of our future hope tonight we declare that laude that our lives are nothing without you you are the faithful God and we bless you tonight in Jesus name everybody I received that word it was for me and it's changing my life even now in Jesus name Amen come on give her a hand clap

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