WHY FAITH? Part 5 (Keith Moore)

[Music] hello class welcome to faith school we've got another wonderful day opportunity to get our spirits nourished up in the words of faith and to let the Lord bring us up to a higher place of functioning like he does we've got your place saved right here right here in the front and I've got my ruler over here somewhere if you get a little rowdy or something we can get you back in line but get your Bible get your something to take notes on and don't let anything distract you for these next few moments and let the Spirit of God minister to you let's pray come into agreement and release faith about this father in Jesus name we submit ourselves to you for this time in this class of faith school and we're asking you to feed our spirits and and give us exactly what you know that we need give us answers direction and help eyes and ears and heart that's open and seeing and receiving and we'll give you the praise we'll be doers of it as you help us in Jesus name Amen faith is one of the most wonderful things you'll ever talk about or hear about it's God's choice for our way of living and functioning and operating it's the only way to please him in anything you can pray all day long but if you never prayed in faith that prayer would not please the father you can give huge amounts of money to help people but if you didn't do it in faith none of it it please him no amount of works is acceptable on its own or on its own merit God's always looking at the heart and a heart of faith pleases him and one of the reasons it pleases him so much is because he's the giver grace the grace of God has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness and what's going to please him is us rising up in faith and receiving of all that he's given to us so let's look at Scripture again and even though we say some things that you've already heard again if you were with us on previous class you know if you hear it in more faith this time you'll get more out of it than you did the first time and if this is your first time joining us you can go back in the archives and get the previous lessons and if you go through all of them you'll be as sharp as these guys right here and they're pretty sharp let's look in Romans the first chapter Romans 1 and 17 where it tells us that in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith progressive as it's written the just shall live by faith do you read Habakkuk if you read Galatians and read other places it says exactly the same thing the just shall live by faith some translations said the just shall live by his faith you'll live by your faith and this faith Romans reveals is a measure of God's own faith mark 11:22 I believe it is jesus said have the faith of God and Romans tells us that he's given to every man a measure of faith this is a measure of his own faith where did the faith of God come from it came from God and so if you ever hear somebody say I'm sorry I just can't believe or I can't believe like that they're wrong they they've become deceived about that not understanding what the nature of faith is if you're a child of God faith is part of your makeup it's part of the new creation you've been given a measure of faith and by nature of what faith is you don't have to understand to believe it's simply a choice you just choose to believe it's a matter of trusting the source of what you're hearing now being a Christian doesn't mean you should be gullible it doesn't mean that if you're kind and you have love and you have faith that you believe everything that everybody tells you that's just being foolish no we believe everything God tells us everybody else we check them out we may be slow to believe that or realize you know why should you believe somebody that you don't know anything about them and especially if somebody's lied to you repeatedly you're foolish to believe what they tell you without checking it out you can love somebody without believing everything they say you can love them without trusting trust is based on something that's been proven that you can count on and with God he has never lied to us not once in fact it's impossible for him to lie so when he tells you something no matter how crazy it may sound or how impossible it may sound if he tells you just go ahead and decide okay it's true if he said it I believe it it's a choice you don't have to understand it at all it's a choice brother Kenneth Hagin senior who's in heaven now he used to say that he said as a young boy he could not understand how a brown cow could green grass and give white milk and you turn it and make yellow butter because that dates you back when people are using church but he said all the while he's trying to figure that out he's enjoying the milk he's enjoying the butter and even ice cream that did make with the milk what does it what does that mean you don't have to understand a thing to enjoy the benefits of it a lot of folks drive cars around and they got no clue what happens when they put it in D for Drive they just know now can push the accelerator and it'll move folk they had no idea about the gears and the fluid and the valves and the electronic don't have to know it all about it but if you didn't believe it work you wouldn't get in the car you wouldn't start it you wouldn't put it in deed faith is not based on knowledge and understanding and when people say I'm sorry I just cannot believe that they're wrong they to say it correctly you should say I choose not to believe that because it is a choice when it comes to God let's not be unbelievers let's not be slow to believe let's not be stubborn let's be quick to believe if he says it in his word just immediately accept it and say well that's true no matter what I feel or see if he says it to you by his Spirit scholar that's always gonna be in line with the Bible to accept it believe it he said the just shall live by faith now go with me again to first Timothy we looked at this first Timothy and the sixth chapter the just live by faith the just walk by faith and there is also the good fight of faith 1st Timothy 6 and 12 it says fight the good fight of faith it's a good fight not a bad fight lay hold on eternal life lay hold we we mentioned before that sometimes people say we just we just need to let go and let God well there's a lot of difference between letting go and layin home if you tell not letting go of your anxieties your worries in your fears and your doubts oh yeah let them let go of that but if you're saying it's all up to God and I just need to quit trying to do anything and just let God do it no no no no no you're trying to get him to do what he told you to do and that's not gonna turn out well he told us to fight the good fight of faith and lay hold when you lay hold you you come to Jesus for the first time you give him your life you get born again you lay hold of eternal life you lay hold of his love you lay hold of the forgiveness and cleansing that he's given you the acceptance as his child and his family that won't be the end of that there's a devil in this world there are evil spirits there are evil influences and the enemy will come and bring thoughts and feelings to you that are very very real and these thoughts and feelings will be to the effect that you can't live this kind of life you are not you won't be able to do this or to be consistent with this or you won't be able to resist this temptation or you won't be able to stay out of this bad habit or and if you just go I guess you know I'm just an old sinner I guess I just came you didn't fight you didn't fight you just gave up before the thing never got underway you got to fight everybody sit out loud fight the good fight of faith it's not a fight of feelings it's not a fight of reasoning it's a fight of faith faith you just keep believing what God said about you no matter how you look no matter how you feel you say I am the righteousness of God in Christ no matter how bad you feel about mistakes that you've made you say I am an overcomer in Christ no matter how many times last weekend last month that you fail and messed up and came short you say I can do it I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me no matter how impossible it seems and how much it feels like you can't you don't just give in to despair and hopelessness you fight the feelings of despair you fight the feelings of hopelessness you fight depression you fight temptation you know fighting God God's not the enemy he's not the problem you're fighting anything and everything that tries to tell you that you are not or can't be can't do what God says you are and can do go to 2nd Corinthians if you would the tenth chapter second Corinthians ten and notice this there's some some details and instruction on how to fight this good fight second Corinthians 10 and verse 3 2nd Corinthians 10:3 says for though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh if you're with us a couple of classes days ago then you know we saw Galatians where he said Christ lives in me now and the life I live I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God well we we walk not in not in the flesh after the flesh or war after the flesh but while we're living in this body we're walking by faith and notice verse 4 how you fight the good fight how you Worr spiritually the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds and then he specifies these strongholds he says next verse casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ how do you fight the good fight of faith what am i fighting against you're fighting against unbiblical unbelieving ungodly thoughts and images and the feelings that accompany these thoughts this is where the warfare is this is where the fight goes on and no matter how long you've walked with the Lord no matter how much of the Bible you know or how much you pray you're still gonna have to deal with these and every day is a new day and this surely is you get excited about something God's done for you something that God's given you something that Jesus bought and paid for in Redemption as surely as you say I'm having that and I believe I received that and I lay hold of that as soon as you do that you're gonna encounter resistance I know that's not nice to hear but it's the way this life is the enemy will come immediately to steal that word out of you how does he do it he can't make us the enemy can't make us do anything he's got to get us to agree with him how does he do that he brings thoughts he brings imaginations I know I was at a church a couple years ago and I was talking about this and and the Lord gave me a message and entitled slap it down slap it down well it said cast casting down and that's a strong word it's knock it down slap it down tow it down for what Downeaster thoughts these feelings and I didn't know it but there was a young lady there I got this testimony months and months later she wrote to the ministry she was there on the front row in that meeting and she said she enjoyed it and thought it was good but she's doing pretty good she was I don't know a few weeks pregnant she told me in the testimony later and come to find out after the meeting after we were gone the doctors told her there were problems with the pregnancy and there were problems with the child and she said that was still ringing in her ears slap it down slap it down then we're doing we're not talking about fighting the doctors they're trying to help you let I'm happy we're not talking about fighting our weapons are not natural but they're mighty they're spiritual in their mighty fight what down your baby's not gonna be alright your baby's not gonna be alright what do you need to do with that she said she saw it in her mind you slapped that thought down and go no no the baby will be fine in Jesus name I speak life over my baby I speak health and strength over my baby and so week after week and month after month went by and she said every day she had to slap those thoughts down because they would come to her and if something didn't feel right and if a test or something wasn't quite right you got these feelings oh no no this is not gonna be okay well came time for the child to coming she gave birth child's perfect child's healthy somebody say praise God but do you see where her fight came in and of course the Lord knew that and that's one of the reasons why he had me preach on that right before she found out this bad report that she was going to have to fight and lay hold of health and healing and and and normal perfect development complete development for her child not enough to just say Lord you know touch the child and make the child's right you got to lay hold of that and believe you receive it and then what's gonna happen it's not the end it's the beginning every morning noon and night you got to be ready for thoughts to come and feelings no you're not gonna get it no it's not gonna work oh it's gonna be terrible it's gonna be awful the enemy is so persistent these things can come to your mind these feelings and these thoughts hundreds of times in an afternoon it can get tiring you can get weary what do you got to do you got to fight the good fight of faith you've got to lay hold of that life from God and you've got to cast down every imagination that doesn't line up with what he told you how he told you it is and how he said it'll be you've got to grab every thought that's contrary to that and you got to slap it down and throw it down and say no no no so the blessings of God even though they're bought and paid for and Grace has so freely given them to us they don't just fall on you and even though you say I believe I receive it it's not the end it's the beginning and the enemy will fight you all the way I know some years ago I was believing for a natural thing a material thing and I had sown seed for it and I'd asked the Lord for one and thanked him for it well months went by a year went by year and a half went by and we're further from it looks like then we had been in the beginning and these thoughts kept coming to me it's not working that's not working look look what should I do with that thought you reckon he's thoughts but it kept coming and the Spirit of God quickened to me said well if it's not working why would he be bothering you telling you that it's not working see this is how the enemy worked the and I saw it I thought it must be working or else wise he wouldn't be what's what's he trying to do if he can't get me to stop believing and expecting this thing is going to break through and show up and it'll be a good testimony and he noon with that and so the Lord gave me a song I started singing it to myself hold on hold on keep believing be strong in a little while it'll be alright hold on hold on it won't be long your faith will turn to sight and sure enough it wasn't just a month or so that thing came to pass but can you see that the enemy was trying to turn up the pressure as things got closer it's a fight it's a struggle not fighting trying to get God to do it he's already done it but my faith receiving it the enemy will resist your faith and he will try to wear you down he'll try to talk you out of it but if you won't quit if you're hold fast your confidence and let faith and patience faith and persistence have it's perfect work you wind up the Bible says perfect complete wanting nothing can you say Amen praise God well go to first John and see this great great truth first John the fifth chapter we've talked about in this first week of faith school why faith why's faith such a big deal why is God chosen him faith is not a theological position it's not a group it's not a movement faith is how God Himself functions and how he has ordained that we should live day in day out faith is how you live we've also seen faith is the only way to please God there is no other way there's no substitute that's acceptable to him and thirdly we see this first John 5 first John 5 and 4 it says for whatsoever is born of God over comes the world and this is the victory that overcomes the world even our faith there's a lot of problems in the world there's a lot of difficulties there's a lot of things that'll attack and try to hurt you and try to steal from you and kill and destroy but when you're born again you took on the nature of your father he didn't know how to lose he never loses and this faith is how he overcomes everything every time and that's in us now we are faith children of a faith God and then makes us overcoming children hallelujah of an overcoming God the agency by which we do it is the faith that he's put in us the faith that comes from his word the stronger you get in faith you just don't have down days no matter what's going on you believe you'll come over it you believe you'll come through it no matter how awful it is you believe it's just temporary until you see God glorified in this thing some way and the will of God accomplished and done you just become one of those incurably positive people a faith person hallelujah and God's work in us working this in us well that's our faith class for the day stay right where you are I'm gonna come back in just a minute to talk to you about partnership [Music] hello friends glad that you've joined us for faith school and our classes this week the scripture says in Romans 10 how will they call in him whom they've not believed how would they believe in him of whom they have not heard how will they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent as it's written how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things God has ordained that we be saved and that includes every sense by the preaching and teaching of the gospel the good news and he says how shall they preach except they be sent God has also ordained that he sins by his call but also through partners these classes this week were brought to you by our words sender partners and they brought to you free of charge if you'd like to help send these to other people if they're blessing to you you can become a word sender partner also there's information and at the bottom of your screen to contact and we would welcome you and thank you for your partnership god bless you we love you Jesus is so good [Music] you

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Published: Fri Aug 31 2018