Thursday - By Faith, Sarah - Pt. II

[Music] good morning class hi I'm Keith Moore and this is faith school the place where our spirit is fed our faith grows stronger and we learn how to be overcomers God's will is that we be overcomers and your you don't just come into the world knowing everything when you're born again you're not just born again fully developed individual the Bible said is newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby and we believe we have a directive from the Lord to have faith school and emphasize the foundational truths and principles of faith and so we that never discuss Miller select this that that's not something you ever get past no matter how much you develop you don't get past the principles and the foundation if you get off of that then you get askew so in any art or any sport or any profession that requires skill you'll find people always looking back at the basics because that's the foundation everything else is owned and so we're believing God that people that just got born again yesterday or today will get what they need but by the Holy Spirit's amazing ability people that have walked with God for years can continue to see things about the basics that they've never seen because it is inexhaustible so let's release faith right now that you will get just what you need in today's class father we all agree together those in the class in the room here and those everywhere asking you for uh trous for the anointing for grace and strength for answers and help open our eyes our ears our mind and our spirit to receive an embrace and lay hold of your good good things we ask for it in Jesus name we thank you for it amen if you would turn in our great textbook the Bible to Hebrews 10 hebrews chapter 10 and we'll begin in verse 38 again talking about what we're calling by faith a study of the great Hebrews 11 chapter Hebrews 10:38 says now the just shall live by faith but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him but we're not of them who draw back unto perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the soul now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen if you look up those words this could also be translated the confidence of things expected and the conviction of things unseen so faith has to do with what is expected what is not yet and what is not seen the scripture says we second Corinthians well we look not at the things that are seen but at the things that are not seen and he went on to say for we walk by faith not by sight so faith is the confidence of things expected faith is the conviction of the reality we could say of things unseen not seen how can you be sure of something that hasn't happened yet in the natural faith how can you be sure and convinced of something that you you can't see you can't perceive with the senses faith and faith is the hand that receives from God he goes on to say by it faith the elders obtained a good report then we see this recurring phrase throughout the chapter by faith this individual that individual did these different things by faith Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice by faith Enoch walked with God by faith Noah prepared an ark to the saving of his house by faith Abraham obeyed went out not knowing where he was going and we've made our way in the study down to verse 11 by faith Sara also herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age because she judged him faithful who had promised it matters a great deal as far as the affects on your personal life how you judge God now that might sound strange you may think well I mean judge God you are judging God you already doing it what do you mean you have an idea of who he is and what he is in your mind some people don't even believe he exists so they judge God is non-existent they judge God is a fantasy a religious crutch that's not even real well does that affect their life and what they get from God this is saying Sarah had an astounding miracle happen in her body and in her life and the key to it was how she saw God how she esteemed him and what she judged him to be and what did she judge him to be faithful reliable trustworthy praise God can you and I do the same if you back up to the sixth verse there just a few verses prior to this it talks about without faith it's impossible to please him for he that comes to God must believe so this you're judging God that he is we have you made up your mind God is he exists I judge God is real right and does that affect your life so much and not only that I judge God as a good God he's a rewarder he's real he's powerful he's good he's a rewarder he's faithful hallelujah just like Sarah did that we can and we should do that in our own life go ahead and sit out loud I judge God faithful I call God faithful I didn't who you he's the scripture said he's the faithful God that keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations Oh does that bless you or not what does that mean it means one of the greatest favors you ever did your family and the future family is to serve God if you obey God and you trust him and you walked with him he'll never forget it and if he tarries his coming 20 generations down from you he'll still remember you and do things for your great great great great great great grandkids is he faithful or not the Bible said he's if he's faithful God faithful hallelujah that's how Sarah got this amazing miracle go with me to the book of Genesis and let's look at some more details about this godly woman this woman of faith Sarah go to the 12th chapter of Genesis I want us to see the progression of how this happened in Genesis 12 verse 1 and 2 we see what we're told of the beginning of this story we're told that who Abraham's father was and and you see in the previous chapter genealogy in chapter 10 and chapter 11 but in chapter 12 it says verse 1 the Lord had said to Abram get you out of your country and from your kindred and from your father's house unto a land that I will show you and I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing and I will bless them that bless you and curse him that curses you and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed this is the source of Abraham's faith and also Sarah's faith this is you'll see verse 2 he says I will make of you a great nation now they might not have known exactly well they didn't know exactly what that meant but they can believe it being accepted by faith but down in verse 7 verse 4 says Abram departed he obeyed God like we read in Hebrews 11 but verse 7 the Lord appeared to Abram in another passage the Lord said of Abram he started talking to a king he said he's a prophet God called Abraham a prophet and he has obviously had visions and dreams from God heard from the Lord the Lord appeared to Abram and said unto your seed will I give this land and there he built all to the Lord who appeared to him now you'll find in walking with God that light is progressive the Lord doesn't show you the whole thing or even close to the whole thing he says something to you that puts a seed in you that if you'll receive it and if you water it it'll grow and it'll become greater and develop we get the benefit of looking at the whole account we know already that Abraham and Sarah had a child of their own when he's mean he's a hundred and she's ninety we know that from the scriptures and don't let somebody tell you that's symbolic that that's not real people and really happen if it's not real people you don't need to be reading this no Abraham and Sarah are individuals that lived all these years ago you gonna get to meet him in heaven you're gonna like him you and I are called also his seed he's called our Father because of our faith in Christ we're family hmm one of these days you'll get to hug Father Abraham's neck I'm telling you you're gonna like him you're gonna like you you're gonna like Sarah maybe you sit down with her and spend some time hmm we should have plenty of it but what I want you to see is back here they didn't see that it's coming through Sarah because God hadn't said that yet now with me Francis they can only believe what he told them what they can believe is that God's gonna bless them and make of Abraham a great nation and I didn't say specifically Sarah at that point but then before the chapters over verse seven God appeared to Abraham and told him mentioned his seed so now he can believe he's going to have offspring now I'm sure at that point they're thinking in he and Sarah his wife but the Lord didn't specifically say Sarah at that point faith can only be faith in God I said like that can only be based on what he said and you can't believe for God to do something beyond what he told you he would do for you this has been a source of confusion not understanding this people in our camp so-called work people faith people many have learned some principles of faith you don't believe in your heart say it with your mouth but some have tried to exercise this apart from a living fellowship with God and they've had faith in faith which is not the same as faith in God hmm if you two asked Abraham at that at that moment after you know just a few days after God spoke to them are y'all faith people here too probably said what said right are y'all faith people he didn't think like that there were no faith churches there were no there was no faith school hmm not to knock it obviously we believe in it but what I'm saying is there's a difference between trying to do something by faith versus faith in God because there been a number of cases where people have said I'm gonna believe for this and so they start trying to say they believe it there start making confessions about it but the truth is God never told them he would do that specific thing for them they just started with it off the top of their head or out of their desire even a natural desire and they're trying to make what they won't happen with faith principles well that's trying to do something by faith but it's not the same as faith in God how does faith come help me out in faith faith students Romans 10:17 since what so then faith comes by what by wanting it real strong in and just I'm gonna have faith for this now know how does faith come come on help man it only comes by hearing and hearing by the anointed the the Rhema Christos the anointed spoken word Abraham and Sarah didn't have a Bible they had no school to go to there was no there were no seminaries there's no church but they had faith faith so amazing we're talking about it today where'd they get this faith where'd they get this faith how does it all start first verses in Chapter 12 how's it all start God spoke to Abraham come on can you see this he spoke to him he told him something and why are we reading about him well the same reason God spoke to him instead of somebody else he knows the hearts of men he knows the end from the beginning later on he said about Abraham he said I know him he'll teach his children he'll pass this down to the next generation God knew his heart he called him his friend why here's a man remember later on when he added to the revelation took him out and showed him the night sky and told him not only is he going to have seed he's going to have seed as many as the stars of heaven in the sand on the seashore he just looks that and says I believe it I believe you and the Bible said such faith was accounted to him for righteousness and that's exactly how it works in the New Covenant today it works exactly the faith that's never changed Abraham's not operating under the Old Covenant he's not operating under the law he heard God told him something and he knew it was him and he chooses to believe it when he doesn't understand it at all when you can't see any way that it could ever happen he just said you said it you can do it I believe it and God smiled it's the best my friend he believes me and this kept going all the way Abraham and Sarah obeyed God obeyed God obeyed God obeyed God obeyed God till they got the miracle child and even then one last huge testing of faith Abraham said are assuming God said alright you've been doing good boy I tell you what though I want something else give me that boy that you believe God for decades the miracle boy give him to me and there's Abraham proved there's nothing he wouldn't believe God Father there's nothing he wouldn't give him there's nothing he wouldn't obey and without him I don't know how much he saw at the time but he believed for the resurrection hallelujah does it sound familiar somebody loved so much and believed so much that they gave their only begotten Son and believed for resurrection that's what Abraham did as God's covenant friend giving God every right to return the favor can you see this because he's in covenant and do it for Abraham's seed which is all those that will believe in him somebody say praise God glory to God in proverbs 4 notice this just keep you placed in Genesis we're going to look at some more things but proverbs 4:18 says the path of the just is as the shining light that shines more and more unto the perfect day now we just got through reading in Hebrews 10 the just shall live by faith and walk by faith but the path of the just you could say it like this the faith walk in faith path of the just gets progressively brighter can you see that shines more and more it's like from the beginning of dawn until it's mostly dark a little bit of light until full noonday Sun or it's not dark at all it's just bright with light that's how God leads us that describes the walk of faith he'll say something to you it'll spark something in you you'll begin looking that direction but you're not you're not remotely there you're just started he told Abraham leave home of course home and all the family were immersed in idol worship but all of the kind of stuff and he said leave home leave everybody and I'll show you where you're going well that's not the whole picture but he was willing to step out to do that he said you're gonna nations are gonna come out of you then he said you're gonna have seed look if you see in in Genesis here that was the 12th chapter in the 13th chapter and the 14th verse Genesis 13 14 the Lord said to Abram after that light separated from him lift up your eyes look from the place where you are northward southward eastward westward for all the land which you see to you I will give it and to your seed for ever now that's a confirmation you're gonna have seed you're gonna have offspring verse 16 and I will make your seed as the dust of the earth so that if a man can number the dust of the earth then shall your seed also be numbered well you know he told Sarah about this right and so they're believing this they're gonna Abraham is going to have seed offspring descendants and now he knows a lot of them hmm but they still don't have all the details years pass and in Genesis 15 Genesis 15 verse 1 after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision he said fear not Abram I am your shield and your exceeding great reward and Abram said Lord God what will you give me seeing I go childless and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus and Abram said Behold to me you've given no seed and lo one born in my house is my heir can you see where Abraham's at now after God told him you're gonna have seed but years have passed and no seed no descendants we see you know the Bible says if you read Romans 4 it talks about this how that God calls those things that be not as though they were God keeps talking to him about his seed and after years he's going God you know have anything you keep talking about the seed but there is no seed and I'm just getting older is that right every day you know no seed but the it's God upset about this is God perturbed about what kind of time is this to him what's 20 years to God 20 years to God it'd be like a couple of minutes to us we need a renewal of mine to see time more like he does it'll help you it'll help you to relax when you realize I'm never gonna die oh I'm not gonna stay in this body forever but leaving the body is not me dying on its the body you could say it died but it may be a few minutes for I even realize that body's dead I'll be out of here I'll never die when you realize I'm never dying it helps you relax because you're going to be around hmm and faith is a rest we which have believed do enter into rest I know one of the first times I first started traveling ministry I was speaking in another state and I got off work and I had prayed about what to preach on and I didn't I wasn't getting it and so the day came time to travel I still didn't have it I got on the plane when I get to the place I'm supposed to go to the church get on the platform and preach I still don't have what I'm gonna free child and I sat down and in the seat and I looked out the window on a commercial airliner I said Lord you know any time would be good to get to get whatever this this I need to preach and teach he and I don't mean to hurt a voice but he spoke to my heart he said do you trust me I said yes yes sir he said relax hey did you hear that phrase do you trust me what relax well what does that mean the more you're not relaxing not resting is a symptom of not trusting so I saw okay I ordered a ginger ale and he tried to relax well we got there got to the platform they gave me the mic I still don't have it they're introducing me I thought wow but the Lord had said do you trust me really I stepped up to the pulpit when I did he begin to give me a word of knowledge and the gifts the Spirit began to flow and we did that for the whole service I didn't need a message so why didn't he tell you you didn't need a message he didn't want to tell you he wants you to relax and trust him we which have believed do enter interest hallelujah said out loud I'm resting I'm trusting I'm relaxing in you hallelujah practice go well that's our time for today's class we'll see you next time in face [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Mon Aug 19 2019