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- 0:03Jesus taught some powerful lessons, but we are going to deal with some things that had me scratching my head for years because I didn't understand.
- 0:17What are we talking about?
- 0:20We are talking about when Jesus is teaching about belief or unbelief.
- 0:30No, we be dealing with it now.
- 0:32See if you go to Mark chapter nine, verse 24, and we'll get back to the whole story.
- 0:38When he says, and straight away, the father of the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe help thou my unbelief.
- 0:51That confused me for many years.
- 0:53But we gonna get the whole story'cause we are talking about faith.
- 0:59In believing faith in your unbelief.
- 1:05Faith without faith, you cannot do anything when it comes to God.
- 1:10Let's get into the whole story.
- 1:12Jesus came down from the mountain of transfiguration and he is.
- 1:17Wondering what is the big commotion that's going on?
- 1:21So we start with verse 14 of Mark nine, and when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them and the scribes questioning with them and straight away, all the people when they beheld him, were greatly amazed and running to him, saluted him.
- 1:43And he said, he asked the scribe what question you with them?
- 1:48He said, why are you questioning my disciples?
- 1:51And one of the multitude answered and said, master, I have brought unto the my son, which has a dumb spirit it, and whatsoever he pickens him, he tears him and he form.
- 2:10Gas with his teeth and pitted away, and I spoke by disciples that they should cast him out and they could not.
- 2:21He answered him.
- 2:23And said, oh, faithless generation.
- 2:26Don't miss that.
- 2:27Now what?
- 2:28Oh, faithless generation.
- 2:31How long shall I be with you?
- 2:33How long shall I suffer?
- 2:35You bring him unto me.
- 2:39Oh, Jesus, about to do something now.
- 2:41And it brought him unto him.
- 2:43And when he saw him straight away, the spirit tear of him, and he fell on the ground.
- 2:53And he asked his father, how long is it again?
- 3:01No, he said, how long is it ago?
- 3:03Since this came unto him?
- 3:06And he said, of a child.
- 3:08Now before we go any further, I want you to realize now the mother's not here.
- 3:15Can you imagine having a child that's going through that, what it does to a mother?
- 3:22Sometimes people leave because it's too much to bear, but the father's there and oftentimes he has cast him into fire and into water to destroy him.
- 3:36But if, do Kenneth, do anything?
- 3:40Have compassion on us and help us.
- 3:43As Jesus said unto him, if thou Kenneth believe all things are possible to him that believe us, and straight away the Father, the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe help thou my unbelief.
- 4:06That's disturbed me for many years.
- 4:09But we going on.
- 4:10And when Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit saying unto him, thou dumb and deaf spirit.
- 4:22I charged Dee come out of him and into no more into him and the spirit cried and read him sore and came out of him and he was as one dead in so much.
- 4:38That many said he is dead.
- 4:43But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up and he arose.
- 4:49And when he would come into the house, the disciples asked him privately, why could not.
- 4:56We cast him out and he said unto them, this kind came forth.
- 5:04By nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
- 5:10We are talking about faith.
- 5:14Now let's just deal with this word belief.
- 5:18The word belief is accept something as true.
- 5:22Feel sure of the truth.
- 5:25But this word belief is trust.
- 5:28Faith or confidence in someone or something.
- 5:35See, first of all, faith is something we think everybody has.
- 5:43Here's my reality, it isn't.
- 5:47Now you're saying, well, you mean it is either half a again, but it's not something that's normal.
- 5:55If you go to Galatians chapter five, verse five, he says, for we through the spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness.
- 6:03What?
- 6:03By faith.
- 6:05Galatians 5 22, watch what?
- 6:10Watch this now.
- 6:11But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, love, suffering.
- 6:16Jt in his goodness, faith, faith comes through the spirit.
- 6:24And he, he, the man realized his son is suffering, but he also realized he doesn't have enough faith.
- 6:36Yes, he believes, but faith is that thing that moves God and he recognized, I don't have it, so help me with my unbelief.
- 6:47What he's saying is, help me with my faith.
- 6:50There's a lot of people today.
- 6:52They want God to move, but they don't have no faith.
- 6:57We can't operate because that fuel moves God.
- 7:03See, for a long time I never understood that.
- 7:06I thought most people just got faith.
- 7:09No, they don't.
- 7:12That's what drives God.
- 7:15He said, you have to believe that I am, that I am.
- 7:18Because if you don't believe that I am, I'm not doing it.
- 7:20Why?
- 7:21There's no need.
- 7:22You don't believe me.
- 7:23Anyway, so I want you to just think about this real quick because like I told you for many years, this bothered me.
- 7:34I was like, well, the man came from some place and he brought his son to Jesus.
- 7:45He, you would think he had faith know he he, he knew something needed to be done and he did it.
- 7:52But when he got there he realized, okay, I need something more.
- 7:58So who do I need to ask?
- 8:00I gotta ask God.
- 8:01See, this is the thing that most people need to start understanding.
- 8:06If you don't have what you need, you gotta do it.
- 8:10God for that.
- 8:12And that's what the man did.
- 8:13He said, help me with my unbelief.
- 8:18It's been many times we wanna be healed, but we don't ask.
- 8:23God, help me with our, with my unbelief.
- 8:26There are many times that I look at this man and this woman's situation with this child who's been possessed with a demon.
- 8:35See, right there, it tells you the child couldn't ascend why he was a child, so the sin had to come through the mother or the father.
- 8:46That's what makes this so deep to really understand.
- 8:49The mother's not there.
- 8:50Why?
- 8:51Mother would not be there with the husband to help the child.
- 8:56Somebody who probably had to leave, somebody who probably left.
- 9:03But most people never even look at the story of where's the woman, the father's trying?
- 9:09Every time he looks around, the spirit is throwing him in the fire or throwing him in the water, trying to kill the child.
- 9:15Now if you really ready to go for.
- 9:19Why this child?
- 9:22Because this child's gonna turn to be great one day, so the spirit is trying to kill him, but Jesus already got a plan.
- 9:32Sometimes you go through some things that you don't see other people go through and you don't understand why, or you'll see somebody go through things that other people don't go through, and you don't understand why.
- 9:44Because when God got a plan, he said, I gotta get you.
- 9:47Oh, I gotta allow you to go through some things so you can help somebody else that is not as strong as you.
- 9:55I gotta allow you to see some things that most people don't get to see because I need to show them, even in the darkest moment, there's a light.
- 10:04Even in the midst of not understanding why you have to go through, I need you to understand that you was just going through.
- 10:14I always go back to the story when you're driving and this a beautiful day.
- 10:22All of a sudden you a cloud way in the front of you and you're driving, and you're driving and you're driving, and eventually a couple drops of water hit your windshield, and then it's like a downpour.
- 10:36And then you look around and most of the cars pull on the side of the road and put their flashes on.
- 10:43And I keep on driving.
- 10:44I slow down, but I keep on driving.
- 10:46Why?
- 10:47Because the storm that you're going through is only for a period of time, and if you stop, you stay in the storm.
- 10:53But if you keep going, you get through the storm much quicker.
- 11:00That's what happens with a lot of people.
- 11:01They stop in the storm and the storm goes on.
- 11:05It should have only last maybe a couple minutes, but it lasts for hours and days.
- 11:11Why?
- 11:12Because in life, that's how we view time.
- 11:16You should have went through the storm of your life in only a couple of minutes or a couple of hours, but yet they go through it five years, 10 years.
- 11:27You hear, you see the same person, and it's 20, 30 years later and they said, how you doing?
- 11:32I'm in the same storm.
- 11:34Wow.
- 11:36He should have been in and out of the storm, but yet.
- 11:41You stop moving.
- 11:43That's all God want us to do.
- 11:45He said, keep moving.
- 11:46Why keep moving in the spirit?
- 11:48Keep allowing me to change you so we can move through the storm.
- 11:56So this whole story of belief and unbelief is showing us, you say you can believe something, but they didn't necessarily mean you got the spiritual faith.
- 12:10To push you through what you believe in.
- 12:14Can you imagine once Jesus cast that spirit out of that young man, he's no longer in bondage.
- 12:25He's no longer trying to kill himself, or the spirit is trying to kill him.
- 12:33See, everything is not physical.
- 12:37Some things.
- 12:39Spiritual, and I wanted to share that today because I think that's where a lot of people at today, they allow spiritual things to happen to them and they don't know how to get out because they try to deal with it physically and it's a spiritual problem.
- 13:00But once we understand, then we can move forward with understanding.
- 13:06This is.
- 13:08For God, and he says this disciple says, well, why couldn't we do it?
- 13:13Uh, y'all didn't fast in prayer.
- 13:15Jesus always was fasting and praying.
- 13:17Disciples didn't do that.
- 13:19They didn't learn to fast and pray until after Jesus left.
- 13:24That's how powerful the word of God is.
- 13:26It is all about faith.
- 13:29If you wanna move thing in the spiritual realm, you have to have the faith of God, but you also have to have the spirit of God.
- 13:36I hope you enjoy hearing the word of God.
- 13:38We talking about how to move in the spiritual realm.
- 13:42God bless you.