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80 - Do Your Actions Prove What You Believe? · The One Gospel Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's open the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hi there and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Joan Toot, and as always, I am excited to share the Word of God with you.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: I've started this series called Heart Matters, and I've been covering already a few aspects of Heart Matters, and you know, the whole gospel, the whole you know, um walk of faith, if you could call it like that, has is a matter of the heart, and so there is a lot to share on that.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I'm not sure if I can cover all of it, but there are a few things that I thought was really important to teach on and will help us in our walk, you know, as a disciple of Jesus.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so I started basically with the heart of the gospel, and in the heart of the gospel, I uh uh have uh shin a light on two of the aspects of the heart of the gospel, and the first one is that from the beginning of creation, it's already has been God's heart to have relationship and intimacy with us, his people, you know, as a father.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: In 2 Corinthians 6 18, it says, I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and my daughters.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is this is what God wanted since the beginning of the earth, but then we all know what happened in the Garden of Eden, and then you know, we know how everything was broken, and God needed to place us outside of the garden to protect us from eating from the tree of life, and then everything that was born from Adam was broken because of sin nature, and because of sin nature they lived in sin, and there was separation between God and man because of that, and so you know, God came, you know, with something that temporally could resolve our problem so that so that we wouldn't die instantly, and that was that the sacrifice of animals, you know, we would be covered by the blood of those animals, you know, and so that was all a shadow of the things that would come.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_01: But in the in the beginning, God immediately had this redemption plan uh in place where you know He would uh make sure that Jesus would come to pass through the ages in the fullness of time.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: And so I've shared on the genealogy, I've shared on all that stuff, and really want to recommend you to go back to that episode.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, you could see the heart of the Father since the beginning of creation, even though man was disobedient, you know, and didn't believe God, but believed what the enemy said, you know, and then all the consequence of that, you know, that the curse, the ground was cursed for their sake and all that stuff for our sake, and so um, but you can see the heart of God through the whole scriptures, even from the old covenant, you know, until Jesus, you can see the heart of the Father, how gracious he was, and how merciful he was, and how patient he was, you know, with us men.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: And finally, the fullness of time came, so Jesus could come and restore, and then Jesus restored us unto God, he reconciled us unto God, and by his blood we have received the forgiveness and the remission of our sins.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that was really powerful.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, um the other aspect of it is that now that we have become children of God, now that we have become part of the gospel of the kingdom, of the kingdom of God, you know, uh the gospel teaches us that God expects us to be cop to be uh copies of him, that we should imitate him, Ephesians 5:1, that we should walk as he walks, that we should take up a cross, you know, and follow Jesus in his footsteps and apply all those things that he says that we can apply, act on it, do it, be obedient.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: Why are you calling me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, that's the other part of the gospel, and that we do that, you know, from a same heart that Jesus has, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: And so I am now born of God, and because I'm born of God, I have the nature of God, and because I have the nature of God, you know, I should walk as God walks on this planet, I should walk as Jesus has walked on this planet.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: And if we study Jesus in the Gospels, which is the heart of the gospel, you only see unconditional love, you see grace, you see mercy, you see that he was constantly moved with compassion.
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  SPEAKER_01: He wept over people's pain and sorrows, you know, he saw their needs and he had an eye for them, he wasn't judging them, rejecting them, condemning them.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, he was loving on those people, and he said, Oh man, they are just like scattered and weary, like sheep that have no shepherd.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and he was moved with compassion on the people, and so the same way we should have compassion on people, the same way we should look at people and treat people and take care of them and you know, and share something from ourselves with them.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so that is also the heart of the gospel, and so I've been sharing on all of that.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: And today I want to uh go into a new aspect that I believe is really important for us as disciples of Jesus, and that is believing, because believing is also a hard matter, and I want to show that to you from the word of God, but before we do that, I just wanted to rec uh recommend my book, The God of Restoration, that really shows the heart of the Father, and even though I am not teaching in this book concerning believing is a hard matter, I'm really teaching on the real heart of the gospel, and it's a really beautiful book that helped me a lot, also.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: You can get your free copy and you know, uh, in the link below and let me know what you thought of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_01: Father God, thank you so much for your word, thank you for your teaching, and I really pray it's gonna bless people and Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Prompt me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I depend on you to bring me into remembrance the things that you want to share with the with the spectators.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much in the name of Jesus, amen.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so today I want to start this new um uh aspect of a hard matter, and that is believing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Believing is a hard matter, and so although uh believing, faith, you know, has been a spoken topic of many, many, many uh generations, I mean there is a lot that you can learn on faith, and man, I don't even have revealed like you know, 10% or 5% onto me of you know the real depth of understanding how faith works.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: And um, but I do believe that I have a hold of the principles and that I want to share with you, but you know, there are a lot of people in the body of Christ that have no idea how faith works, they have no idea how they should apply faith or what believing truly means, and so you know, um believing, for example, is way more than just saying, and so there are a lot of Christians in the body of Christ, they say that they believe in Jesus, they say that they are Christians, they say, you know, that they believe what the Bible says, but they don't act on it.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: There is no evidence whatsoever that they truly believe what they say that they believe.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: So just saying that you believe is not true faith.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: Man, that's already like firework, you know, going off because you know, um, I know so many people, you know, and they say, Yeah, yeah, I believe, you know, that Jesus, you know, um is the Son of God.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: All right, why I'm not seeing any, you know, uh works according to your repentance.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Luke 3, 8, you know, John the Baptist says, you know, you you you know, then you have to have you know works, fruits, labor according to your repentance.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: Don't just say that you repented, but show that you repented.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's visible.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: I I can have a person standing in front of me that is a sinner now by nature, and then when the moment he accepts truly Jesus with his heart, believed with his heart, confessed with his heart, and then became a child of God, you instantly can see a difference.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: But then also in the weeks coming after that, if you will talk with him, you know, and he really had an encounter with Jesus, he will start to tell you what the all let go already.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: There is immediately fruit.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: There is immediate that are works of faith, you know, because you say that you believe and now you're showing it that you truly believe it.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: When I got home from prison, I told everybody that I now was a Christian and that I accept have accepted Jesus as my Lord and my savior, and that you know I believe in the God of the Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I'm gonna follow him.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: But man, I said things, you know, like blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, you know, not to repeat at whatsoever, you know.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, I had actions that didn't prove at whatsoever that I was a Christian.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_01: And so my family said, you know, if this is God, then we don't want him, you know.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_01: If this is, you know, being you know, follow of Jesus, then we don't want it, you know.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: And so my wife, she said, you know, I knew that something changed within him, but the things that he said were not really aligned with what he did.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: So now we understand that was struggling.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: I had no idea about my true identity in Christ Jesus.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know what the Bible taught me on my own identity and authority, who I was, you know, and so I was I was still living in the flesh, even though I believed in my heart that I was a son of God and you know I was born of the spirit, but I had no clue, you know, how that all worked.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: And so um, you know, they told me that it was not appealing to them in the beginning.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_01: They saw that they saw that I wasn't the same, but still, there were also still a lot of you know blind spots and things that they saw.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: But you say that you believe in God, how can you say this?
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: You know, like bleep bleep bleep bleep, you know, for example, and so um, and then I understood, you know, that if I say it, but I am not showing it, then what I am saying is empty.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: They are just empty words.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: They need to see that it's real for me because it was real for me in my heart, but I just I just had didn't had the understanding that I had the capacity to also show that in my actions, and yeah, of course, there were a lot of differences already.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: I wasn't no longer doing crime, I was no longer doing drugs, you know, and all that kind of stuff, but in the same time, you know, my attitude, you know, my behavior wasn't always aligning, you know, with what I said that I believed, and so I worked on that, and I was like, I'm gonna show them, you know, that I'm really changed.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: Now that is a work of faith, you see, because I believed it in my heart, and now I'm gonna act on that what I believe in my heart, and then it showed, and then my whole family came to the Lord because of that, because they saw that it was real for me, because they saw that it was a real transformation, they saw what it did for me, that what I believed in my heart, that what I was saying that I was believing, because I was acting on it now, and they saw it in my life.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: My life became the evidence, and that led them all to accept also Jesus as a Lord and Savior.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah! What a blessing that is, and so you know, believing is way more than saying.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: So, James 2:14, it says here, What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: Can faith save him?
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's a very interesting question that James has placed here, because you know the answer is no.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: Faith alone cannot save you, and just like grace alone cannot save you, you need to put your faith in grace to receive what has been established in grace and you know, receive it and let that be imputed to your account.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: And so if I only say it, but I do not act on it, you know, and I don't place my faith in someone, which is called Jesus, then that faith alone cannot save me.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_01: I need to have works of faith.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: Works of faith.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: And so, can that what you say that you got save you?
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if if I say that I believe, but it's not visible in my actions, if it's not in if it's not visible uh visible in my in my walk, then they're just empty words.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: It cannot save me.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: Those words cannot save me.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: If I only say I believe, I believe, I believe.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: There is this song that says, I believe that I can fly.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: Well, as long as you don't lift off, you know, you can say it, but if you're not gonna run and act on it, you know, if you're not gonna jump off a cliff and you know, prove that you believe what you say, even though you I don't know if that's a good example, but you know what I mean.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: It just you have to put action to it.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: You say that you can fly, then you know, walk and according to it, you know, start to flap your hands or whatever.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: But just saying it, you know, it's not enough.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: There's no heart in it.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: And believing is a hard matter.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: Because if you truly believe in your heart, then you definitely will act on it.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the Bible says in Hebrews 11:1 that faith now is the substance of the things hoped for and an evidence of the things not seen.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's very interesting, you know.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: Because it didn't say, you know, faith for the past is the substance of things hoped for.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: Faith for the future is the is the substance of things hoped for.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: No, it says, or faith when you have seen it is the substance of things hoped for.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: No, faith now is the substance of things hoped for.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: So if you go to John 20, no, I'm sorry, let's go to John 11.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to go to John 20.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: But here in John 11, Lazarus died, and Jesus, you know, he was on his way to them because he knew it would be to the glory of his father, and he knew he would raise him from the dead.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: That's why he says in John 11, he says uh in verse 14, uh, Lazarus is dead, and I'm glad for your sakes that I was not dead, that you may believe.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: Nevertheless, let us go to him, that they may believe, you know, that he is the resurrection and the life, amen, because he would raise him from the dead.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, so he was already four days in his tomb, stinking.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: And um, sorry, and then uh verse 20, it says, Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: Now Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: And then Martha said to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: So she believed that Jesus could rise, rise, raise him from the dead, yeah, raise him from the dead, but in the future, at the resurrection and the last day.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_01: And so, continuing here, you know, Jesus finds Mary, or Mary finds Jesus.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so here in uh John 11 uh verse 32, it says, Then when Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, Jesus saw her weeping, saw the Jews weeping, and he groaned in his spirit and was troubled, not because you know Lazarus died and they were all no, he he groaned, you know, in his spirit for them.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: He saw that they were suffering and that they had a lot of pain, even though that he knew what he was going to do.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: He felt for them.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: You know, he had he had compassion with them and was moved with them, you know.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's the heart, you know, of my father, that's the heart of my savior.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so Mary had faith for the past.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: If you had been here, then he wouldn't have died, but you were not, and so he's dead.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: Martha had faith for the future.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I know that you that he will rise again on the day of the resurrection, you know.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, so then Jesus, you know, uh raises Lazarus from the dead, and then verse 45 it says, Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things Jesus did believed in him.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: So they only believed after the resurrection, like you know, the people of Israel believed after the splitting of the Red Sea instead of before the Red Sea was split.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: But God is not looking for people who have faith for the past, God is not looking for people who have faith for tomorrow, God is not looking for people that are like Thomas that only believe after they have seen.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: God is looking for people that believe now.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: Now, when you cannot see it, when you have no evidence whatsoever that what you say is truly coming to pass, you just know for sure in your heart, and you believe it in your heart, and you are acting on it as though it is, you know, that's the faith that God is looking for.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: That faith now, that's the faith that will give substance to the things you are hoping for.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: That is just acting on it, you know, without knowing it for sure.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give you an example, you know.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I already shared my testimony um concerning, you know, how the Lord spoke to me to go to Brazil, and when we were in Brazil, he spoke to me to start a mission project, and we did.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_01: But in the beginning of the whole thing, sorry, let me sip of water.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: In the beginning of the whole thing, you know, um, when we um uh knew that when the Lord gave us the land and everything, you know, um, and we were in Brazil, COVID happened.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: And when COVID happened, we couldn't have mission teams.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: When COVID happened, we couldn't do crusades, conferences, or whatsoever.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: And so then uh, you know, a super miracle happened during COVID.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm not gonna share on that, also, but I did a crusade, it was amazing.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: But um, I was on the project and everything was in lockdown, and we had given everything away.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: There was no money.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: We had given away our house, our business, our possessions, our cars, everything we had given away, you know, and we were there in Brazil without any money on this project that the Lord had given to us with ruins, and so there was nothing there that we could do.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: We're just sitting there in the land, on the land, you know.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then um I was praying, and the Lord told me that I needed to start uh start building.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I'm gonna build because I've got no money, you know.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: And he said, Well, you gotta build like you have money, and so you know, something just switched on in my brain, or something, you know.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I went to Brenda and said, You know, the Lord wants us to start building.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, You know, we have this place here where we are receiving the teams.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: We already have a little room where the guys can stay, we have a room where the women can stay, but we need to have like uh this dining room that had no roof, no windows, no tiles, anything.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, let us get some stuff for that and just like like make that uh you know uh workable to have people there.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: And so in the beginning it was true survival.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: Man, if I look back, you know, like in within five years we have built a project, it's so beautiful, it's unbelievable, you know, debt-free.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: But that was all in the beginning, and the Lord, you know, told that the Lord spoke to me.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so me and Brenda went to a construction business, and I started to point out the stuff that I wanted stones, gravel, concrete, you know, tiles, and you know, um plates are on the roof, you know, and all that kind of stuff.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: So I was taking, and the guy was putting everything in the system so they could deliver it to my house.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: So they were leaving this and this and this, you need so much of this, so much of that, you know.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: And Brenda and me standing next to the guy, and she's he's like, Brenda's like, You can still run if you want, you know, because there was no money, I could not pay the bill while I was buying that stuff.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so when the guy is almost in the end amount, my phone rang.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: And I picked up my phone, and uh, this guy, you know, he says, Hey man, I was thinking about you, you know.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and I felt I needed to call you.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: What are you doing?
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Well, and I explained him the story, and he said, You know, I'm gonna put the money right now at the account of your ministry, and he just paid the bill, and that's and that's it.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: Now, you see, I didn't have faith because I already saw that happen before, you know, so I had faith for the past.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't have faith, you know, that it maybe will happen one day in the future, and I didn't have faith because I already saw it come to pass.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: I had faith now when it in the natural was impossible, when it was in the natural, you know, undoable, ridiculous for me to go to a shop, buy stuff with no money whatsoever, and then just believing on God that He will pay the bill.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: But that is what faith now is.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: That is what gives substance to your faith.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: And God is looking for a people that rise up and start to believe on him if they're gonna see it or not, if it seems possible and doable or not, you know, if it's ridiculous, you know, in the natural, you know, and there is no way that this could absolutely really happen or really would come to pass or whatsoever, and just believe.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Believe it because God has said it and He is not a man that He should like.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: If God had said it, then I'm gonna believe it.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: If He said it and it's done, it's a done deal.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: If God really is who He says He is, if He really is the God who He says He is, then whatever He says, it's a done deal.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: Man, that's powerful because that will, I'm telling you, that will really, really boost your faith life.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: Because you have no more doubt whatsoever that when God has spoken it, then it's true.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Even though if you don't see it come to pass, that doesn't matter, it doesn't change anything on what you believe.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't change anything on what you truly believe in your heart.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: And there is the key, my brother, my sister.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: There is the key.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: The key is in your heart.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: If you truly, truly believe it in your heart, then you will become unshakable.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: And you don't need to see it come to pass.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: You don't need to see it become manifest.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: You don't need to have proof or evidence or anything like that.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: Because you believe now.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: Now, at this moment, before your breakthrough, before you know the manifestation of your healing, before you know whatever you believe now, no matter what, that faith now, that is what gives substance of those things that you are hoping for or that you have hoped for.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: You have hoped it, but faith now gives substance to it, it makes it real.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: It is an evidence of the things that you have not seen.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: It is a proof of the things that you have not seen, that you believe it now, even though you do not see it.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm telling you, that really, really, you know, will help a lot.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't know if I just told it or not, you know, because I'm doing a lot of recordings today, but you know, when I just got out of prison, you know, uh people, you know, they they knew that something was changed, but then again, also I did a lot of things and said a lot of things that were not, you know, uh very godly.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: And so I really had to renew my mind and start to show them by my actions, you know, that what I'm saying is true, that I really that I really believe what I'm saying.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: Because I told people that I'm a Christian and I'm a follower of Jesus now, you know, and all that kind of stuff, but then I was saying sometimes things or doing sometimes things that were not aligning with what I was saying, and so there was a bad testimony, and so it's faith without works that is dead, you know.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: And I will get on that in the next episodes.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: But the moment I started to show what I truly believed, it led my whole family to the Lord, and you see, so you know, faith now is a substance of all the things we hoped for, but faith now is the only faith that will please God.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: Faith now is that it is in your heart well, that it is in your heart, it is secured.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: You know that you know that you know you are so absolutely sure of your case that there is no shadow of a doubt, there is not even space for any doubt or insecurity.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: You just know that is what faith now is.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: You just know.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I know that I know that I'm gonna be with the Lord, and I know that I know that I'm gonna be in his presence forever, and I know that I know that I have gathered up treasures in heaven that are waiting for me.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: All those people that are gonna shake my hand because I stood up and started to preach the gospel and have reached so many people with the goodness of the gospel.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: I know that I know I'm gonna get a glorified body, more glorified than it's already is, amen.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I know I'm gonna get a glorified soul, and I know that I'm gonna see Jesus face to face, you know.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: And man, I know it's the substance of the things I hoped for.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's a substance.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: So that's my security.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, my time is up in this episode, but I will continue in the next one on this series Heart Matters.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: I hope you enjoyed it and hope to see you again.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: Bye-bye.
• 26:08
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