You and I are living in a time of great confusion. People who don’t know God don’t hear from God, and we know from 1 Corinthians 14:33 that He is not the author of confusion.
Life works. Death fails.
Light works. Darkness is confused.
What we are seeing going on around us now, is truth being manifest.
When I first heard it, I got up and read that verse in 10 different English translations. In every case, it is a direct commandment. But even bigger, is the fact that Jesus is not commanding us to use our natural, human faith.
Let’s look today into the message Jesus preached during His ministry on earth. Most people don’t realize He came first and foremost as a preacher. The first sermon after He came back from the wilderness is in Luke 4:18-19:
As believers, we know Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10). We also know that the just shall live by faith (Galatians 3:11).
Take hold of this word, let it get big in your heart and mind: GRACE is far more powerful than sin! It’s more powerful than death.
We are witnesses to things no other generation before us has seen.
Today, I want us to look into the God-given right to choose our own destiny. God will not impose or in any way force Himself on anyone. The devil does. God does not. That’s what is unique about man. God has given every man a free will to choose.
When Jesus spoke in Mark 11:14, “No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever,” He turned and walked away. That first step put the tree behind Him. So, that step was the step of faith. Every step after that was walking in faith.
I’ve been hearing in my spirit for some time now, ”Step over the line of faith.” What does that mean? It means I have faith in God, and this situation is now behind me.
Have you ever seen such a mess? Everywhere you look, people are doing one dumb thing after another. The word for it is confusion. Everyone has a different idea, and none of them work.
What do we do now? The same as we always do: HAVE FAITH IN GOD! This is no time to start looking somewhere else for answers. Jesus is still THE answer. He hasn’t changed. He hasn’t left. He hasn’t quit, and He never will.
It is time to restudy, rethink and recommit ourselves to THE God who paid the price to make this freedom available to all men. It is not His will for any man to live in hell—not here on earth, and not in the hereafter.
There has never, ever been a time when we need Jesus more than now. Men, trying to do things without Him, have created this monster of a mess all around us.
Actually, when you think about it, there haven’t been any good times since sin and death came into the world. So, does that mean we just have to put up with hard and troubled times until we die and go to heaven? No! Absolutely not.
The dictionary calls a hurricane, “any violent tempest.” That term is used to describe this storm in three separate verses. They sailed into a hurricane and couldn’t break out of it.
"I believe, I will, I take being exalted above all these cares; I have it! I thank You, Jesus, for Your mighty grace. I am perfected. I am established. I am strengthened, I am settled. I don’t have a care! To God be the glory!”