Thursday - Faith For Healing: #13 The Healing Of The Lunatic Boy Pt.II

[Music] [Music] this ain't no time to turn [Music] good morning class hi i'm keith moore and we welcome you to faith school faith school is the place where my spirit is fed where my faith grows stronger and where i learn how to be an overcomer be sure and say this with us when we kick off the class because we're not just doing it to because it's you know a habit we're doing it to release faith we want to get the most out of our time together we we don't want to get halfway through and then decide okay now we're going to start getting something let's get something from the very beginning get your bible get something to make a note with come on into the classroom and let's lay hold of it today father thank you thank you thank you for all you've already given us all you've already said to us and shown us and you know what's the most needed most relevant pertinent things to see today we ask for those and we ask for the heart that can discern it in jesus name amen amen would you look again please in mark 9 as we continue our study in what we're calling faith for healing taking one by one these individual accounts of healing in the ministry of jesus and we there you know there are different things emphasized on each one of them a lot of similarities but then you'll see the spirit of god emphasizing a thing more in one than another so what's he emphasizing to us in this one this 13th in our study the healing of this so-called lunatic boy well let's read it again mark 9 verse 14. it said when jesus came to his disciples he saw a great multitude about them so a big crowd had gathered around this situation of the man bringing his son and then the disciples failing to get him delivered the scribes then questioning with them they had shown up and actually i guess reveling in the disciples failure and endeavoring to make them look bad to the people there was a number of things going on jesus asked the scribes what questioned you with them one of the multitude answered master i brought to you my son which has a dumb spirit wherever he takes him he tears him or dashes him and he foams and gnashes with his teeth and pines away i spoke to your disciples that they should cast it out and they could not he answered him said o faithless generation how long shall i be with you how long shall i suffer you bring him to me and they brought him to him and when he saw him straightway the spirit tear him and he fell on the ground and wallowed foaming and he asked his father how long is it to go since this came to him he said of a child and oft times it's cast him into the fire and in the into the waters to destroy him but if you can do anything have compassion on us and help us and jesus said to him if you can and actually the construction is such that the next phrase is all things are possible to him that believes and and i believe he's not so much asking him if you can believe because you can believe anybody can believe if they'll choose to the emphasis was on the if you can jesus is repeating his words back to him and you see another great revelation the man was not previously taking any responsibility for the outcome of this he brought him to jesus and couldn't find jesus so he you know said to the disciples you know help us and so they rebuked and bound and and did what they did and nothing happened and so then when jesus shows up he he ends up by saying well if you can do something they couldn't but if you can if you can have compassion on us help us and jesus says if you can it's not a matter of if i can even the disciples if they could they could but they didn't and then he says all things are possible to him that believes come on say it out loud all things are possible to him that believes say it again let's sit together all things are possible to him that believes what's possible things that you were told were impossible are actually possible not for everybody but to those that believe that'll have faith and so we see jesus pointing out that the father has some responsibility here can you see he's trying to put the responsibility for the outcome of his boy's situation totally in jesus hands if you can can you see that jesus you know the disciples couldn't do anything but if you can have compa help us and jesus turns right around and hands it back to him can you see that and he says what do you mean if you can if you can because why because it's always been god's will it's always been within god's power jesus is just as anointed now as he was yesterday just as authorized now as he was before right none of that's true what do you mean if you can if you can it's not the issue right if god can is not the issue can the power do it never the issue god's will is not the issue it hasn't changed so the man tries to give it all to jesus and the lord turns around and says if you can all things are possible to those that believe and when he said that that must have hit that man strongly because what does it say straightway the father of the child cried out with tears so i mean this the words of jesus went right through him didn't they and he got a revelation he hadn't had before he he's trying to make it all about what the disciples could or couldn't do he's trying to make it all about what jesus can and can't do and when the lord says what do you mean if you can all things are possible to him that believes and when that hit that man he just a response out of his spirit he said i believe help my own belief i believe and here's good news the man was not what we'd call a spiritual giant right he wasn't somebody that had it all together before he got to jesus he he's learning and growing and even at this point when he responds correctly he still indicates he's having some struggle right because he says i believe help my unbelief and here is good news did the boy get delivered or not huh here's good news faith is of the heart not the head then romans 10 says for with the heart man believes is your heart different from your head it is proverbs 3 says trust in the lord with all of your heart lean not to your own understanding got to be different i said they got to be different you your heart and your head here's wonderful news faith will work in your heart with thoughts of doubt in your head hallelujah that's worth you coming to class today for right will it or not did it work with him or not did the lord look at him and say no no you've got something going on in your head we can't work with this huh because the man admitted didn't he he admitted so what does it mean help my unbelief what does he mean by that he doesn't mean assist my doubt help help my doubt get stronger what's he saying help me deal with this i believe help my unbelief what what is unbelief hold your your place here and go over to uh romans the fourth chapter there's you know there's a couple of words used in describing these things one is uh unbelief we've seen it repeatedly and then also there's the word doubt doubt and there are different words in the in the greek language that this was translated from and the um oftentimes the word unbelief means excuse me yeah unbelief means lack of faith an absence of a lack of faith whereas the word doubt and there are more than one word i'm just giving a general thing the word doubt can have to do with double-mindedness even the word doubt is similar to duo and duo is is double or two two and you remember the lord said on one occasion through the prophet how long do you halt between two opinions right if the lord if god is the lord serve him if baals god serve him but you've got to get off the fence right get off the fence make up your mind quit being duo when jesus walked on the water and the disciples saw him and peter said if that's you bid me come and he said well come on and peter got out of the boat started to walk on the water and yet he got to looking at the wind and waves and started sinking and said lord help me and reached out and the lord grabbed him and what he said to him why'd you doubt and that's that word duo why did you duo and what was he duoing about as jesus he says come there's the wind and waves right the jesus he said come he's still saying i'm still here come on and but there's the wind in the waves but there's jesus but there's the wind and the waves that's doubting can you see that and what was going on with the man well see they have lived with this tormenting situation with this boy for years now this since he was a child and now he's not a child and so you you learn to tolerate things you learn to put up with things and if something has been a part of your life for a long time you know the walking by sight is so strong and the tendency is to expect it to be the same tomorrow as it has been the last many many many many many days and so when the lord says what do you mean if i can all things are possible to him that believes when the lord said that to him it hit him like a like a a blowing wind that they can have a miracle here today come on can you see that it hit him what's he saying all things are possible what does that mean it's possible for my boy to get free totally be free not have this again it's possible and in his mind jumps in and goes yeah but they've prayed and they've tried and all this can you see that and so you got this you've got to shut down the voice of doubt you've got to shut down the voice of questioning and what if and what about and walking by sight and so what you do is you make a decision in your heart that no matter what's coming against you out here i'm not moved by that i know it's there i know it's there but i have decided this is what i believe and he must have been able to do that because they got the result they got the result let me say it again faith is of the heart amen not the head and faith will work in your heart with thoughts of doubt pestering your head faith will still work in your heart when you make that decision no i don't care what i'm hearing and what's trying to mess with me because the enemy will try to bother you and say well no if a thought of any country or thought ever crossed your mind well then that's it you're wavering you won't get a thing he's a liar he's a trickster it's not so because he's the one going to keep on bringing that stuff trying to distract you but you don't choose that you know it's there you but every time it tries to pull you away you go no no no let's remember the scripture said casting down imaginations right and bringing into captivity every thought that exalts itself against the knowledge of god no you you just grab it and go ah no that's not right i believe a lot of times you need to keep saying uh-uh i believe nope nope i believe nope i'm convinced nope i'm persuaded can you say amen in the fourth chapter of romans it talks about abraham who's called the father of faith and whom we're told that we're to walk in the same steps of faith just like he did and it said when god told him that he would be the father of many nations and actually renamed him and called him that before he ever looked that way or felt that way or had any evidence that that would be so verse 18 said against hope abraham believed in hope now the word hope we'd call expectation today against expectation he had no reason to expect to be a father much less a father of many nations at his age and sarah at her age and sarah couldn't conceive when she's young he had no reason in the natural to expect something to happen and yet he expected anyway against hope believed in expectation that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken so shall thy seed be and being not weak in faith now i'm elaborating on what this man said to jesus i believe help my unbelief what does he need help in jesus said excuse me the spirit of god through here said that abraham was not weak in faith so he got to a place where he didn't need help he got to a place where he settled and he did it by considering not his own body and he did it by when he was about 100 years old neither in other words neither did he consider the deadness of sarah's womb he had to decide which one to look at right you got what the lord told him i've made you the father of many nations whether you see it or feel it or don't that's what it is or every morning he gets up he's still old right and sarah's old and they don't look like anybody that's going to father or conceive or carry or have a child so what did he have to do he had to stop looking at his body classes are with me or not he had to stop talking about how she was barren and how she's old and how she's gone through the chain he had to quit if anybody tried to talk to him about it he said we ain't considering that can you see that he wasn't saying it wasn't there he's not denying its existence he just saw how did he stop being weak in faith now you've got to remember abraham and sarah didn't start off strong in faith right both of them had a really rocky start in this deal you know when god told abram that he was going to have a child you know and through sarah he said lord you know we got ishmael let ishmael live before he he's thinking really and then you know when when the angel of the lord showed up and and said sarah's gonna bear a child about this time next year and sarah broke out and laughed right in the tent to herself she thought that was crazy funny right and so much so the angel of the lord said why'd you laugh and man she got scared she said i didn't laugh he said yeah you did does that sound like strong faith to you that's a rocky start but both of them wind up with their own verses in hebrews 11 the great famous hall of fame of faith both of them both of them got their own verses when you got your verse your own verse in hebrews 11 you ain't playing you're a faith man is it right you're a faith woman who can deny that how'd they get their class come on help me out they started off rocky and it took years years but how'd they get there we're told right here are you there in verse 19 are you there how did abram quit being weak in faith he con set out what he considered not he considered not what does that mean he considered not he won't he won't talk about it huh he won't meditate on it he won't listen to you talk about it come on can y'all see this he's not denying that it's there he's not pretending he just knows i can't believe both right and if i try what am i going to do duo duo i'm going to waver is that a problem major problems right if you're undecided in your heart that's what james talks about if you're wavering you'll be unstable and you'll be double-minded and unstable and you won't receive anything we don't want to do that and that's not a matter of having made the decision in your heart and having thoughts continuing to try to bother your head we're not talking about that that's you're still undecided in your heart half the time you're thinking this and other times you think well yeah but and jesus but when in waves right when anyway but jesus but when in ways how many understand you can't do that indefinitely one of them's going to win out right with peter which one won out come on help me out which one wind and waves one out over jesus and come we've got no rocks to throw we've all we've all messed up right it ain't reasonable but it has happened too many times you won't be able to do this you know indefinitely you'll settle somewhere and the tendency is to settle on what's real to the senses because to most people what they see and feel is more real than god that they don't see and feel but that's the wrong choice that's how you miss your miracle and so uh abram is in the book did they get that child huh did they get that miracle they got it how'd they get it we're told how they got it they quit considering the opposition they quit considering the contradiction they quit considering the things they saw and felt that were telling them it can't be they had to make the decision i'm not looking at that anymore i mean once you know what the problem is once you know what's wrong how much more do you need to talk about it [Music] you don't because just like faith comes by hearing fear comes by hearing too you keep hearing about the problem it's going to feed your fear and your fear is going to get stronger and it'll win out over your faith you can't do both right you can't talk about your bills all day and how bad the economy is and how badly you need the money and how much you need you can't do that and stay in faith about your needs being met y'all with me you can't talk about how bad your marriage is and about how crazy your spouse is right and about all their mistakes and all the problems you can't talk about that night and day and be in faith about a miracle in your relationship you can't you can't you got to make the right choice abraham made the right choice right peter made the wrong choice winning ways jesus he picked the wrong one abram's got my body sarah's body what god said yeah but i'm old yeah but god said yeah but she's old yeah but god said yeah but and finally one day he said forget it i don't want to hear any more about how old i am come on class are y'all with me or not that's it we're not talking about it anymore i know i'm old i'm not dumb but that's got nothing to do with what god said god said this verse 20 he staggered not that's the same word as waver he he wavered not at the promise of god well what would he have wavered between we just got through reading it his body and her body and his age and her age and her being barren when she was young that's what he would have wavered between but he wavered not at the promise of god through unbelief i'm elaborating on what the man says help my unbelief help him with what what he needed help with is he needs to cut off considering the other thing when to get in faith there's you have to consider him you have to keep your eyes on him you have to keep thinking about what he said and you have to stop thinking about what contradicts him you've got to stop looking it's what's telling you it can't happen and it came you've got to stop talking about it stop considering it he staggered not at the promise of god through unbelief but he was strong in faith some somebody like that phrase beside me strong in faith and that gave glory to god he was giving glory to god what he was doing was giving glory to god and being what fully persuaded hallelujah he got to the point where he wasn't saying i believe help my unbelief he was just saying i'm fully persuaded no unbelief no alternative no what if it doesn't work no consideration of anything else only what he said i am fully persuaded that what god told me is true is happening will happen in the story period done finished don't want to hear it [Music] right right don't want to hear anything else somebody say fully persuaded fully persuaded fully persuaded and our time's up again today say it out loud i live by faith i walk by faith i do i'm strong in faith giving glory to god hallelujah we'll see you next time here in faith school thank you for joining us at faith school class is dismissed for today but you can watch this and other episodes of faith school free of charge at faithschool.org for more information visit our website or call us at 941-702-7390 [Music]

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Published: Mon Sep 06 2021