26th June 2022 - Teaching Service - Simon Chaffer - Fundamentals of Faith

Money. M hm. So this is the last of the series on fundamentals.

I wasn't supposed to preaching this series. It was spoken for somebody else,

but there you go. Anyway I am, and we're going to talk

about the fundamentals of faith. And before I go into going into the details

of that, I just want to give a bit of a introduction. When

we hear God's words preached and when we hear God's word taught, God can

speak to us in a service, something that we've heard or read and birth

times can just jump off a page or become alive to us front a better

description, and then that something, wherever it is, becomes real to us.

It's not just what that person is saying or what you're reading. As

a changing dynamic has experienced that you can put your hand up with audience participation,

and that's what God has to do today. He wants to take what

we've prepared here and make it real to you. Otherwise it just becomes words.

And sometimes people are getting mixed up and muddled with words, and it

takes something which is a godly principle and try to apply it without the right

understanding, and it causes problems because you don't have the understanding, you don't

know how to do it. But God gives us the understanding. So God,

so what's going to do is to take what's going to give today and

listen. If you don't get what he wants you to get in the service,

take it home and read it and pray over it and get your understanding

of what God wants you to do. Now, we're all at different places

in our development as Christians. But let God meet you where you are at.

Okay, I don't have to say that, but that's what I just

thought I should say. So it's about engaging and taking what God has for

you, Okay, and then you've got what God has, but nothing can

take that away from you. When you've got something, you've got it.

When I was a kid, and I've got a memory of learning how to

tie my shoelaces, it's just a parallel. And I remember being told,

you met these two hoops, and the bunny goes down this hoop, and

it goes round and it comes up to the side, and there you go.

I remember my grandmother, my mother's mother, watching me tie my shoelaces.

Kid. I must have been about three or four or something wherever it

was. I remember trying to tie his shoelace and yeah, it was very

big bose, you know, not a nice tider, but one was longer

than I think. Am I going to get this sort of thing? And

then it clicked and I was done. Now I can time my shoe life

like most other people can't suppose wherever the conversation on the phone or you're a

spot to out of your eyes closed and do it your sleep, And that's

just sort of a parallel to you get it and you move forward with the

understanding that you've got. And that's what going to do today. Wants us

to get what you're saying to us individually. It might be that the man

sets you're the latest, oping you might get something different from you're going to

get. The thing is you just get what God has for you today.

Okay, there's a lot of information I'm going to share, and I'm going

to share it very very quickly, valsably here for hours. But that's the

sense that God gave me to explain before we go through this thing. So

please have your hearts, hope and to our God to say to you,

and if you don't get what they have for now look at it. Afterwards.

You can listen to me again that's bizarre. Or you can look at

this, listen to the list, get the scription and just read them until

God gives you that nudge and said this one but on to show you from

this. Okay. Otherwise, what we do here is credit fireless because I

give it. I'll give a word, or Day gives us. It gives

a word which is there to build you up. It's spiritual food. You

know, after we're done here, we'll go get some lunch. If we

don't get some lunch after what that is any breath, we get thin and

get tired. You get us luggish. Spiritually speaking, it's the same thing.

We've got to take the word of God, which is our spiritual food,

and you've got to take it. You've got to chew it, or

about says, meditate on it, doesn't it? And so we get the

understanding out of it. So that's where God wants us to be today.

Is that? Okay? Okay, you've read thank you. That's just a

precursive The sorry started to preach because it was for you rather than for the

people. Okay, So the fundamentals of faith. For this bit we invite

you to speak to our hearts today and give us that understanding which gives us

a revelation of your word. But there won't be words on a page,

but there's something that is real to us in Jesus name. So I'm gonna

touch very quickly on six things. What is faith? We have faith?

What is the source of our faith? The love connection, the connection between

faith and pain and faith not fear. Okay, so it's going to be

quite quick. So the first thing is what is faith? The Bible says

the Hebrews eleven one. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for,

the evidence of things not seen. So faith is the substance or the

outcome of things we have hoped for. And that's not just oh I hope

it will come to pass. That's more earnest expectation that what God has said

in his word is going to be manifest in your life. Since if you're

believing God for a healing in your body or a financial miracle, and God's

showing you a scripture and said that scripture is going to get what you need.

Right now, that scripture becomes real to you, like just talk with

always started to preach and that it comes real to it just jumps off the

page to you. Before you might just read it through that or whatever.

But now it's like that becomes real to you, and that becomes a realm

of work to you, alive to you. You hang onto that Reema word

and you you speak that Reema word out, you believe it until that earnest

expectation gives you the evidence of what you're wanting, whether that's healing your body

or a financial miracle or wherever it is. Wherever it is, whatever that

miracle you need, that's what God will do. But it's taking a spiritual

principle. It's not following a set of rules. Right. It's not like

time my shoe lay says and that's how we do it. It's not rules,

it's spiritual principles which God has here. When we go to spiritual school

on the lea to work with spiritual spiritual principles, we don't learn how to

work. A spiritual principle is not going to work. You cannot copy what

somebody else did and get what you need. You need to get it from

the source yourself. If you don't get it from the source yourself, it

just becomes going through some motions and you don't get what God wants you to

get. And people do that and they make a mistake and they upset people

and hurt people because they just do this and it works. No, you

get hold of the word of God, God speaks to you, you believe

it, you persevere, and you get what God wants for you to get

to meet your need at that point, or to meet something other the need

at that point. And that's how it works. It's not following rules and

regulations. It's about we've going some big words. Now, it's about getting

it. It's about having a revelation of something then seeing the manifestation of that

something. Okay, she could say revelation and manifestation. And that's just about

what faith is. Faith is a spiritual force. Right. You can't go

down the shop and buy it. You can't bardon for it. It's a

spiritual force. That's just how it is. And that force connects us to

God. Right, it connects us to God. Ephesians two eight says,

for by grace, you have been saved through faith. That's not in yourself.

It's a gift from God. So far, for by grace, God's

grace you have been saved through faith, not yourself. It's a gift from

God. So faith is God's gift to us. Okay. Everyone likes gifts,

don't they. And my wife loves gifts. If she gets the gifts,

she cannot wait to see what's inside that gift. Is that for me?

No, for somebody else, Yes, it's for you, okay,

And something's very excited about getting the gift. Now it doesn't really work for

me. But I like you know, I don't. I'm giving gifts to

people. I don't get excited about stuff. I'm not an excitable person.

Some people get excited. I don't. I'm just fairly sort of like that.

Some people go, oh, I'm really excited. I go, good

for you. So when I give a gift, I give a gift because

I want to bless somebody. Some people get excited about giving gifts if you've

got the gift. If you've got the gift, that's not me. But

I do give a gift, and I expect when some jobs it to get

what they want to do because I know they want somebody, so give them

what they want. I don't. I don't guess what do you want?

I want this Okay, here you go. I'll not be the bisoness of

They don't want to do. So God gives us a gift, to give

us, the gift of faith, because it's what we need. It's not

let's say what we want, what we need because to work in God's world,

right, you've got to have faith. You don't have the faith it

gives, it doesn't work because God works by faith. In the world,

we transact with money used to be cash nowadays you know, you know and

place for this guy's it's it's a it's a touch of your card if you're

going to pay for something, or it's a transfer, isn't it on your

on your phone or your where have a device of God? But then the

transaction in the world is you know, we do either piece of paper or

electronic. God transacts with faith. When you're transact in the Kingdom of God,

you're transaction transacting with faith. That's the that's the vehicle. Okay Hebrews

eleven sixcess Without faith, it is impossible to please God. For he who

comes to God and must believe that he is. And it's a reward of

those who diligently seeking. But because God transacts with faith. We need to

have that faith in our lives. You know, He expects us to operate

in that faith. It's not some weird thing. It's just how God does

it. I didn't say to God, Okay, God, how we're going

to do this, said No, God works in a certain way. We

just plug into how He works and we just we just we just go with

that. Romans ten seventeen says, so faith comes by hearing, and hearing

by the word of God. So I said earlier, when God gives you

that word for you, specifically for your specific situation, which jumps out of

the page where He gives it to you, and you apply that word and

hold on to that word to you get what you want. And that's that's

the word of God, the spoken word. If you like. God gives

you that word and you hang on to that word. So it comes by

the word of God, because God's word is written by the Holy Spirit.

And there's faith in that book or faith in my phone. This is my

Bible right now. I don't carry the book are how much now because it's

big, and I just put the phone in my pocket. But the word

is alive and full of power. Actually operty beneafatize and effect is sharp and

the two age it sort patre into the byline of the soul and the spirit.

That's what it says in Hebrews. For yeah, it's alive. It's

not just the words on a piece of paper. It's real. It's God's

somebody says God's love letter to words. For me, it's like God's manual

about how we do life. You know, you get stuck when you're doing

something. You go into a search engine and you'll type in the details,

what is this? What is that? And it comes up with an answer.

God's answer is the Bible, as simple as that. So you have

to hold this bitter what they do here? Mate? Or do you hear

hold this bird? And I say, mate to the Lord? And you

get the answer simple as that. Well, we talk on this segment what

is faith. It's important to say that faith works by love Galatians five six.

All right, it works by love. That's just how God fixed it,

That's how God made it. And so I said, oh, it's

important that we operate in love.