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7/28/2012 recording date. audio/video is 7 minutes takes a few minutes to load so be patient please. Or just read ahead. Also the following week it is air on utube on turtle30cshell channel. Just type in website name when you got to utube. Believing the Word of God I am your host Christina Farris. I coming live from turtle30cshell home to present the Gospel of Jesus. Today we are going to be talking about believing the Word of God. What is faith one might ask? How can you believe in God when you can not see Him. It because God’s word is true. Man has tested the Word of God over and over and it has been proven true without failure. Many will say the word of God failed them. No it did not, you did not read conditions on the word of God. Man so easily wants to take the word of God and sin all day and all night, saying all they have to do is believe in Jesus. Jesus says if you love me keep my commandments. God says honor me and obey my commands and I will bless you. Two conditions must be meet. Love and obedience. However God also works miracles so we can believe. Miracles are so we can have faith to continue our journey with God, to take away a stumbling blocks in our life. Israel was not the only people headed to the promise land with Moses. However they believed without the promise of salvation, because of the miracles in Egypt. No doubt they learn what it meant to be righteous for there were proselytes to the Hebrew faith. Seldom is Gentile conversation mentioned in the Old Testament. Naaman a Leper was convert and so was Ruth. When Christ came He came for the Gentiles so that they might believe. He came to His own and His own received Him not. Yet to all that believe He gave them the right to be children of God. Now Jews did not believe in the Messiah because their hearts were harden. Yet there were Jewish conversions and are still today to Christianity. For faith begins first when one believes in God. For in order to believe in the Son of God who’s name is Jesus one has to believe there is a God. You can not have a son without a father. Jesus grew up in Galilee. And lived with his family and worked as a carpenter, at thirty years of age He began his public ministry. The first miracle Jesus did was turning water into wine in Galilee. Though prophet are not usually welcome in their own hometown, a prophet can be welcome after proof of his calling. Jesus gained favor even in His own hometown. The miracles wrought by His own hands in Jerusalem at the feast spoke of who He was to the Galileans, and so they believed. Let us read today’s passage. John 4:43-54 KJV (43) Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. (44) For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. (45) Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast. (46) So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. (47) When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. (48) Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. (49) The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. (50) Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. (51) And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. (52) Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. (53) So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house. (54) This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee. A nobleman came and told Jesus his son was dying and ask him to come. Jesus said, “your son liveth.” The man believed and went and his servant meet him on the way home and said “your son liveth.” The man inquired of the hour and it was the same hour. Can you imagine the rejoicing that took place. No doubt this man faith was renewed upon hearing the seventh hour, the hour Jesus spoke to him. How many times we fail to believe, yet it only takes the first step of a few words like the words the nobelman spoke to Jesus, “come here my son dies.” The belief already beginning with a few simple words of request. Yet the purpose for the healing was the nobleman and his whole household would believe. Faith comes with proof of miracles, faith comes with proof of God, yet the first step is belief. One can believe and not have faith. For even the devil tremble and has no faith in God. To have faith one not only believe but does the will of God. The man testified to his family and they believed. Now what position are you in. Are you already a believer, yet have not faith in God consider today becoming a child of God and obeying God. Faith will come but it starts with belief. Read the word and hold God to His word when applied to your life. Realize when you do not always get what you want, that perhaps there is some more reading in scripture you need to do to find out why and then fix the problem. You may find what you want is not of God. God will not honor all request the way we want. However believe God desires good things for you and what He takes He can restore. Dear Heavenly Father, help us to understanding miracles are for a purpose to share the Gospel of Jesus. In Jesus precious name, Amen. |