GROW: Faith and How to Have It

Without faith, it's impossible to please God. Now we can stop right there, but the writer Hebrews goes on. He says, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly, some translations use the word, diligently him. When when when do you know that you have true biblical faith? Well, I I don't know a simple way of saying this for this little country boy that you obey what you hear the father saying. It just leads to greater obedience. See, love is like we don't still say, oh, I love you. You know, that that's pretty wordy and we can say that it may mean something, but where it gets deep and meaningful is when you do something. [01:07:31] (47 seconds)  #FaithThatObeys

And so he had a big board up and had this all these sayings and everything, and he says something that really hit me pretty hard. I just never really thought this way. Goes, when you're seeking God's forgiveness, you're seeking it based on the the character of who God is. So when you read Psalm 51, you'll see how David's crying out to the mercy of God. He's crying out for the graciousness of God. He's crying out for the compassion of God. To do what? That's gonna lead him to deeper forgiveness. And so he just wasn't calling out to God just because of he's God. He was calling out to God because of who he is. [00:53:41] (35 seconds)  #HelpMyUnbelief

If there's sin in your life and you are cherishing it more than you cherish Jesus, I'm telling you, you will not hear from him, and he can scream from heaven and you not hear him. Unconfessed sin is like growing potatoes in your ears. Nothing's gonna get through. Alright? And and so we wanna make sure that what the to hear from God if you're if you're struggling with that part of it in your life, make sure you're not cherishing sin in your life so that God could not hear you or that if he's speaking, you can't listen. [01:06:56] (35 seconds)  #TrustAndObey

But yet, the faith that does not come from our head, it goes right to our heart. That's where we want faith to really rely on. It's not we don't want faith up here, we want faith to rest right here. That's why faith, when you go back to Galatians, I believe, about the fruit of the spirit, one of the flavors of the fruit is faith. Faith comes from God. We can't manufacture it. We can't grow it in our own garden. We can't pluck it from trees. Faith comes from God. That's why the man, the father, I've been relating to his son said, help me with my unbelief. [01:11:23] (41 seconds)  #FaithPreventsDisobedience