Dangerous Unbelief - Hinderances to the Kingdom

Turn over to Mark Chapter 9, verse 24.

Mark 9:24

Mark Chapter 9 verse 24. It says immediately the boy's

Mark 9:24

father cried out and said, I do believe, help my unbelief.

Do you know, you can have belief and unbelief, but unbelief is

dangerous. I said it's dangerous.

Now, I initially took the platform when Apostle Marsha was

under the unction of the Spirit and was reading from the Bible

the things that the Lord had spoken to her.

And so, you know, I had a desire to want to release something and

you know that as it just continued on, I'm like, well,

seems like the Lord says wait till you get the minister.

And so here I am. I'm going to release it now.

John 11 says in the beginning was the Word and the Word was

with God and the Word was God. Do you know that if we don't

watch out, we can miss that when someone comes up as Apostle

Marcy did, and open Scripture and began to read, what you

should visualize in your mind is the throne of grace, and that

the King Jesus is seated, seated on it next to the Father, and He

is speaking to you personally. We cannot see with natural eyes.

We must see with the eyes of the Spirit because when the

Scripture is being read, it is God speaking to you in that

moment, specifically in that atmosphere.

If you could have seen in the spirit, you should have been

able to imagine she disappears because these are not the words

of men. And all of a sudden you're, you

fix your gaze on the author and finish your of your faith and

you conclude the King is speaking to me, his beloved.

And when the King is speaking, what would you do?

I mean, what would you do if he just broke out of heaven and

manifested himself on this platform in the natural?

Now that's not more Jesus than the reading of the word.

You have to hold the reading of the Word with the same value as

if Jesus showed up, shows you his hands, showed you his feet,

showed you his side, and then began to speak.

It was the same Jesus that showed up in the planet from a

resurrection, spoke to a woman, and the woman went and ran back

to the apostles and said Jesus is alive, I've seen him.

And they did not believe. Although Jesus said to them with

them seeing his face, they will arrest me, they will scourge me,

they will kill me. But on the third day I will be

raised up right and Martha ran back.

Is that right? No.

Who was that? Mary Magdalene.

She had gone to the grave on the third day, came back and said I

have seen the king, he's alive. And they were stuck in a natural

instead of believing the word is much truth.

So when he showed up in A room that Thomas finally made the the

dinner, he said, Thomas, did they not tell you I was alive?

Shall I show you my hands and my feet?

You want to put your hand in my side?

And he says, Lord, I believe. He said, you're blessed 'cause

you believe, 'cause you saw more.

Blessed are those who believe and not not seen.

How do how can we be more blessed because Jesus does

should not have to show up for us to value his word as if it is

him Hallelujah. So if we will make just that

small adjustment there when the word is being when I just read

Mark Chapter 9. That is the word of God.

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That's as if the king just stood up, leaned out over heaven and

said, I know you believe, but don't you want me to help your

unbelief? That's good.

Same in Hallelujah. So Mark Chapter 9, verse 24, he

Mark 9:24

said immediately the boy's father cried out and said I do

believe, help my unbelief. Jesus asked him, do you believe

I can do these? He says I do believe help mine.

I like the honesty of this father because if the truth be

known, all of us have experienced times of unbelief

and we need to be honest and say Lord, I do believe, help my

unbelief. Now I'm going to bring this in

from something we ministered on Wednesday.

So if you're here Wednesday, these passages of Scripture will

be familiar, but they're applicable.

It's amazing how we can just connect the things of God.

And you know what I love about the Word of God?

The Word of God was never designed for you to pull

principles out and isolate them alone.

They were always to stay within context of the whole and we need

to make sure we maintain that. All right.

So in John chapter 15, we'll start in verse one.

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It says this. Jesus said I am the true vine

and my father is the vine dresser.

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away and

every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it so that it may bear

more fruit. Just stay right there for a

second. Notice the vine dresser is

examining his own branches. The branches are in him.

They're not saying they're in him and not no, they are in him.

They are literally connected to God.

They are of God. So they are born again.

Yet if the born again believer does not bear the fruit of the

Kingdom, the king himself will cut it off.

And fruit is seasonal, which means you do not bear fruit in a

season of your life and then retire when God says, well, it's

been good. You've done a lot of fruitful

things. Look what all you did done for

me. I'm so excited.

You know, I'm glad that we are Co laboring together.

I'm glad that you're hearing and obeying my voice and look at all

the things that have we've been able to accomplish by the Spirit

through you. However, here's a couple of more

things that I want to shave off your life.

Prune out of your life. It's not a priority.

I left it alone in the last season and you were able to bear

this fruit. But in this next season for us

to get more, I'm going to prune here.

And you want him to prune you now notice in both verses you're

getting cut either way. So you want to be cut to be

pruned, not cut off. All right, verse three, you are

already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Abide in Me as I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit

of itself unless it abides in the bond, so neither can you

unless you abide in Me. That means you have to make your

abode. You have to be diligent to be

about the Father's business. His thinking must be first and

foremost in your mind. You are to seek first the

Kingdom of God. Verse five, I am the bond.

You are the branches, He who abides in me and I in Him.

He bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

If conditional statement anyone does not abide in me, He is

thrown away as a branch and dries up, and they gather them

and cast them into the fire and they are burned.

If conditional statement you abide in me and my words abide

in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you now.

That is not ask whatever you wish.

You're asking whatever He's placed in your heart to ask.

Because first John 5 says this is the confidence that we have.

If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us and we

have that which we asked for. So this is not you being born of

God, and now God becomes your genie in a bottle.

Will you get your wishes what you want?

And many have taken the one Scripture out of context, but it

says, well, God will give you the desires of your heart like

the desire originated with you and you're telling God what you

want. No, God gives you the desire in

your heart. You are to die to self.

And then he gives you a desire in your heart and that's what

he'll give you that desire. And then if you ask it, you'll

have it. Amen.

Why? If you abide in me, in my words,

if you abide in me in my, if you abide in me in my, If you abide

in me in my, if you abide in Me in my, I can't hear your port,

St. Joe.

If you abide in me, in my, thank you abide in you.

So words from God cannot just trickle past your ear gate.

They have to have a habitation, they have to live there.

They have to be a well of something that you can draw up.

It's of you all right. So if you abide in Me and my

words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for

you. Verse 8 My Father is glorified

by this, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my

disciples. Notice being born again alone

does not prove discipleship. Bearing fruit proves you are a

disciple. You can be born again and fail

to bear fruit, but a disciple will bear fruit.

Can I get an Amen? Now let's connect the dots in

order for us to understand why branches are being cut off, why

pruning is occurring. Do you understand this is not

the only time God uses an analogy of a plant of God being

a vine and there's branches. Turn over to Romans Chapter 11.

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Shout Amen. Romans Chapter 11, verse 16 says

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it this way. For if the first fruit is holy,

the lump is also holy, and if the root is holy, so are the

branches. Well, is the bond holy?

I said, is the bond holy? Jesus is holy.

He is separated from the things of the world.

He's separated from darkness, He's separated from sin, He's

separated from ungodliness, He's separated from unrighteousness.

He's holy, right? And if the root is holy, so are

the branches. Now you as a branch, you don't

have to be holy in and of yourself.

You just have to release what you already are in Christ.

But it's your responsibility to release it.

Look what it says, how is it released?

Look what it goes on to say this verse 17.

And if conditional statement. And if some of the branches were

broken off, and you being a wild olive tree, were grafted in

among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and

fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches.

But if you both do boast, remember that you do not support

the root, but the root supports you.

Now Paul is doing an analogy of Israel and the Gentiles.

He is saying the Israel was the nation God chose through Abram.

Abram was actually a Gentile originally.

He was a man from the land of Ur.

He was a Chaldean, but when God moved him into covenant, he

changed his name to Abraham. Abraham gave birth to Isaac.

Isaac gave birth to Jacob. His covenant carried through to

his sons. When he spent some time with

Jacob, Jacob wrestled with the Lord, and the Lord changed his

name to Israel. And that nation is still in the

earth today because God said to Abram, I'll make you a great

nation, not a religion, but a nation, a holy nation.

In fact, I'm going to bless you, and all the families of the

earth are going to be blessed. And so he carved out a people

for his own, where he was their king and they were his nation.

And man, when they followed the king, man did that nation

prosper. It was amazing how well that

nation conquered and and and overcame.

And it was a sad day in First Samuel chapter 8 when the nation

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came to the prophet and said, we want to see our king like the

rest of the Gentile nations. And Samuel said, you don't want

this God is your king. So he goes to the Lord And the

Lord is saying, says to him, says Samuel, give the people

what they want for they've not rejected you.

This is first same in chapter 8 verse 6.

I believe it is maybe a little bit left, maybe a little bit

further. But in first Samuel chapter 8,

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he said do what the people have said because they've not

rejected you as, but they've rejected me as their king.

Now we know Jesus as a savior. Savior is what Jesus did because

Adam fell from dominion. But Lord he's always been.

And Lord is not a religious word.

It means supreme and authority. And so here Jesus has come back

in order to establish a pathway for all humanity to be back in

the position God originally intended for them according to

Genesis 126. Let us make man in our image

according to our likeness, and let them have what dominion or

rule. And so God was opening up His

Kingdom for all humanity to be able to be a part of it where

they can rule and reign with Christ because He is the King of

and the Lord of who are those kings we are.

And so there's this time that the nation of Israel, because of

an issue we're going to read very clearly are broken off.

And this to tell you why John 15 is letting us know what breaks a

branch off, why the Lord would break you off, because it's

really not the Lord as much as it is you.

You put the Lord in a position that he never wants to be in.

So it says this. You will then say branches were

broken off, that I might be grafted in.

Well said. Because of why?

Why? Because of unbelief.

They were broken off. Unbelief is dangerous business.

Unbelief will cause a a secure relationship to be fractured.

Unbelief is not a quip of the lip.

Unbelief is not something we just like.

That's no big deal. It is very serious in God's

Kingdom. It is a hindrance for the

Kingdom of God to flow through you unbelief.

So these this nation that is God's people.

You understand we say we are with Israel, we are for Israel,

we pray for Israel, but you understand not every person that

is born of Israel are we standing with because those that

are in Israel that are not living for God are not following

God or living like the rest of the world.

God's having a problem with them.

We obviously have a problem. We want them to repent and come

to know the King. But the nation as a whole will

be always around. Just like I can pray for our

president, not because of the individual but because of the

office, I can pray for Israel. Even if the nation itself by

majority could be running from God, we still are to pray.

And you want to pray for their peace.

Now, the Antichrist soon will be offering peace of which they

will accept it. But it will be troubled times

because they accepted. And if you don't see the signs

of the times and all the the stuff that's going on in the

Middle East, it is it is getting ripe for someone to come in and

say I'm going to bring peace. I mean, it's becoming a

buzzword. So things are are happening and

an accelerated level and everything that needs to be for

the Antichrist is already in the earth.

And many believe he's alive now. Many believe that, which means

if he is, yeah, you can rejoice because you could be the

generation that hears the sound, the sound of a trumpet, and that

you are changed in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

Now I know people say, well now nobody knows a day or hour.

I understand that. But we do know the season.

And at the end of the day, it would behoove you to believe

it's in your lifetime, then to go through your lifetime

thinking it is not. I'd much rather die in belief

then be left behind in unbelief. All right, so their unbelief is

the reason they were broken off. And you stand by faith?

Faith is not unbelief. Faith is belief.

It's a firm persuasion. It is.

It is this way. No matter what I believe.

It's this way. I'm firmly persuaded I will not

be moved off. So the guy said to Jesus, I do

believe I do have firm convictions concerning you and

your ability, but help my unbelief.

Do you know what most I could walk almost into any church that

has Jesus where they're where they recognize him.

And I can say, do you believe that Jesus can raise the dead?

Do you believe that Jesus can heal the sick?

Do you believe that Jesus can cast out devils?

Do you believe that Jesus can bring provision?

And they would all say, yes, I do believe.

But when it comes to Jesus doing it for their life, they would be

an unbelief because many know what God can do.

They just don't believe he will do for their life.

That's the difference. So you can believe something yet

still sit in unbelief. He goes on to say then do not be

haughty but fear meaning just because someone and you've been

given an access now to the Father through Jesus Christ the

Son. Man, you don't want to get

sideways with Israel. You don't want to get it

sideways with the plan of God. In fact, you actually do not

want to get sideways with. It's anyone who's actually in

unbelief and have been broken off and have been pulled to the

side. Hallelujah, 'cause he said, for

if God did not spare the natural branches, he may not spare you

either. Because if you start going,

well, look, we're in man, they're out.

Look at us now. You're moving into some

attitudes that are not of the Kingdom, and there were

attitudes they picked up that were not of the Kingdom that

moved them into unbelief. And you can easily move into

unbelief as well. Says therefore consider the

goodness and severity of God. Now we don't talk about the

severity of God. We only sing songs about the

goodness of God. I've not heard of praise song on

the severity of God recently, but there is a severity of God,

and we paint this picture in this dispensation as if there is

no severity. But this is Romans 11.

This is a new covenant writing that he's talking about the

severity of God, he said. Therefore consider the goodness

and severity of God on those who fail severity but towards you

goodness if conditional statement you continue in his

goodness. Otherwise you also will be what?

Come on, y'all doing all right, come on, help me.

Please do not get stuck in in in moving me into teacher mode.

OK? I mean, I I need expectation.

I mean I need you to believe you're going to hear something

that sets you free so that you'll be able to live a life

that's overcome and victorious that no matter what you face,

you can say I only believe. I only believe.

This is not lecture time. I'm not here to lecture you, I'm

here to inspire you by impartation of the Holy Spirit.

But it is requiring you to think a little bit.

It's requiring you to think Hallelujah.

We cannot go through this life mindlessly.

He's empowered our Spirit to be connected to a holy root by

which our mind can be renewed to produce the fruit of a holy

root. It does not happen just because

you can interfere with the harvest of your fruit.

We're trying to help this process.

OK, so therefore, verse 22, right?

Verse 23. So otherwise you'll also be cut

off. What would cause you to be cut

off? Thank you.

Unbelief is the answer. If the ones that were naturally

of the tree are cut off because of unbelief, what's he saying?

You weren't even supposed to be here, but now you're in here.

And if what caused them to be cut off, cut them off.

Don't think that you can't be. How can you think the grace of

God allows you to live any way you want to live?

And that's bearing fruit of the Kingdom.

All right, verse 23. And they also if the a lot of

ifs in here because again, as much as you want to teach only

the God side of the Bible, there is a man's side of the Bible and

God will not override your will. He will not.

As righteous as he is, and as righteous as He's made your

spirit in the new birth, He will still not override your will.

He wants you to want Him, and it would be an easy flow.

It's not hard when you yield to the spirit, but if you're not

yielding to the spirit, then unbelief can creep in.

And unbelief is dangerous. I said it's dangerous and they

also, if they continue, do not continue in unbelief.

So there's a cure for unbelief. I said there's a cure for

unbelief. This is good news.

That's why the man said I do believe, help my own belief.

You have the cure. You have the cure that keeps me

from being broken away from the results of your word.

All right. So he said if they do not

continue in unbelief will be grafted in, for God is able to

graft them in. Man, this is so good shout Amen.

So unbelief is the issue that occurs.

Unbelief is what it What is unbelief?

Unbelief is entertaining a thought that is an alternative

to the word of the king. Unbelief is a thought that you

are entertaining. That is contrary to the word of

the king. That's unbelief.

Let's say a few more things about unbelief.

Unbelief is not ignorance. Unbelief is not ignorance.

Unbelief is not ignorance. Now it says my people perish due

to lack of knowledge. But unbelief is not ignorance.

Unbelief actually is having heard and even entertained

seeing the word come to pass, yet disregarded still.

Unbelief is faith present, but one is overcome with a lack of

trust and confidence to see faith to completion.

So faith is actually present. Faith comes by and hearing from

the faith is present. You know that that is, but you

lack trust and confidence actually in God, the one who is

speaking, and you begin to consider alternative thoughts.

So this is not I don't know. This is I know, but I know.

But the minute you get a but in your faith, this is a problem.

It is the IT is that road or the door that opens to unbelief,

cause unbelief is having a belief that you're undoing.

Come on, it's if you look at the Greek word, it has the root

word, a Greek word, pistus, which is faith.

So it means faith is there. You know that.

You know what God says he will do, can do, should do, Yet

you're still going to say I'm not going to believe.

This is why unbelief is dangerous because unbelief is

not someone who doesn't know. This is someone who knows and

still chooses to not accept what he is saying.

And have we not been in circumstances where this has

occurred in our lives? I mean, I can start spouting out

all kinds of little statements that the King has said, the king

said, and I am my God shall supply all my needs according to

his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

But then all the sudden a bill shows up and you say but and you

start looking your plan and not seeking his way of accomplishing

that. That is unbelief.

Everything we should do should be launched from the position of

faith. And faith is hearing from the

king. And whatever you say, however

you say, that's how I'll do. And an alternative.

I'm not even going to entertain. I'm not going to entertain.

And again. But what do we do?

Sometimes we'll make excuses for our unbelief.

Yeah, but God knows. Just because God knows is not

meaning. He's authorizing you to go down

that path. Does God know how hard it is?

Yeah. Does God know how difficult it

can be? Yes.

Does God know how tempting it can be for you to try to do it

yourself? Yes.

He was tempting on all accounts like us, yet without sin because

he always believed God at His word.

Now look at Hebrews chapter 3 again.

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These are examples in another covenant that is being

highlighted in the new covenant to let us know it can happen

over here just like it happened back there, because unbelief is

in every dispensation of God. He said verse Hebrews 3 starting

in verse 12. Take care who who So we talking

to the lost. Come on, we talking to the lost

here. No says take care church, that

there not be in any one of you and say the word, come on, say

the word evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living

God. How would you fall away from a

living God? You would know what he says and

yet choose to disagree with it. That is an evil action.

Oh, yo, no, we don't. We don't want to hear this.

We, we've got, we've got the Western churches too candy

coated, too nice, too nice and nicey, right?

God's not mad at you. God's not.

You know this with you guys. You know he's done everything

for he's done everything for you.

So he's saying, why in the world would you ever doubt me?

Why would you get an unbelief? Unbelief in God's eye is evil.

Why are we calling? Well, you know, God understands

that. You know, I have some challenges

there. God says that's evil, quit it.

Why are we calling stuff that we're doing like it's OK when

God's saying that is an evil, unbelieving heart that falls

away and he's saying, brethren, brethren.

Now again, you get with some people, they're so centered on

the finished work of Jesus that they think that we can't mess up

the finished work of Jesus in our life.

But we can. We can.

I mean, that's why we're with that excuse.

He's like, man, I did a finished work.

All you had to do was believe me at my word and my word will do

the power. But the minute you got yourself

involved and started doing it yourself, you're short

circuiting was already in the spirit realm for you.

Because we can thwart, we can make God's command of null

effect because of our issue. It isn't his issue and yet we've

made this like it doesn't matter what you do, God's going to do

it through you anyway. You're a child of God.

God's going to do it anyway. Yet there's so much scripture

about God saying, listen man, you're without excuse.

I've elevated you to a class of people in the planet right now

that their spirits alive unto me and I put the Holy Ghost on the

inside with you. All you got to do is let my

spirit lead you. So why are you considering

alternative ideas verse 13, but encourage one another day after

day, as long as it is still called, it Is it called today?

I said is it called today? I said, is it called today.

So that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of

sin. Sin will give you competitive

alternatives. Sin is simply a word different

than what God has said. Adam sinned.

Why? Because he accepted an

alternative word from a fallen anointed cherub.

God said do not eat the fruit, for the day you eat you will.

Surely he doesn't need to know anything else.

But the minute that serpent says you're not going to die, he gave

him unbelief. Now you know what God has said,

but I'm telling you, God's holding something from you.

You know what? This is pretty cool.

But if He's holding this from you, what else is He holding

from you? You know how many believers

believe that? Four, We have become partakers

of Christ. If conditional statement, we

hold fast the beginning of our assurance.

Notice, an assurance still has to be held.

You know why I'm secure, 'cause I'm holding, I'm holding this

thing. I'm holding this thing, I'm

holding this thing by the power and the grace of God in my life,

I'm not looking to the left or to the right.

I'm staying my eyes fixed on the author and finish from my faith.

I have an assurance that when I do the word, whoa, man, it's

going to come to pass. Ain't that right, Coach Ted?

So we have become partakers of Christ if we hold fast the

beginning of our assurance firm until the end.

While it is said, while it is it is said today, if you hear his

voice, do not harden your hearts as when they provoked me.

When did they provoke him? Verse 16 For they provoked me

when they had, when he said, for who provoked him when they had

heard? Indeed, did not all those who

came out of Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he?

And whom? Then again, people say, well,

that's old covenant, that he was angry then listen, God's storing

up wrath. Now, God's position and his

thoughts concerning unbelief are no different in a new covenant

than it was in the old covenant, because God's character is

consistent. With whom was he angry for 40

years? Was it not with those who

sinned? Whose bodies fell in the

wilderness? What would they do?

They were cut off. They were cut off from going in.

Look what it says. And and to whom did he swear

that they would not enter his rest?

But those who were what? Disobedience.

Why were they disobedient? Verse 19 So we see that they

were UN not able to enter because of unbelief is the first

step. The second step is disobedience.

Unbelief is the first step. The second step when you follow

that path is disobedience. And when you're disobeying, it's

called sin. Say Amen anyway.

So Jesus marveled at this. Now he'll marvel at great faith,

but he'll also be blown away at unbelief.

Mark chapter 6, verse 6, it says he wandered at their unbelief.

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He wandered. You know what?

There are people that are praying right now that are

crying out to God. They want to see miracle signs

and wonders. They want to see a move of God.

They want to see a passion. They want to see God move

mightily. And you know, God's moving.

He is moving, but in this case in Mark chapter 6, also in

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Matthew's account, Jesus comes with power to do miraculous, but

it says he could not do the miraculous because of their.

And if the USA church is so ignorant of scripture, how can

we expect the power of God to move when it's their unbelief

that's hindering it? Now that can't be with anchor

faith. Churches cannot be with us.

We should not hold back the power of God because of

unbelief. We should not.

We have to say I only believe. I only believe.

And you know what God will tell you to do some crazy.

I mean, out-of-the-box, it makes it will make you look like an

absolute fool to the world. I mean, the world will look at

you when they hear what you're believing for and say this is a

joke. Are you even serious right now?

Are you out of your mind? You say I'm slap out of my mind.

I'm slap out of my mind of the world.

My mind's been renewed by the word my, My mind's been washed.

My mind is transformed. My mind is connected with the

King. My mind has been washed with the

water of the word God. So Jesus wondered at their

unbelief. Good news.

He knew the cure. I said he knew the cure.

And listen, there's no cure. Let's see how he fixes it.

I'm going to throw in a few statements and tell me if it's

right. And he won't put that scripture

back. And he wondered at their

unbelief. And he went around and

entertained them. And he went around and gave them

stories that were relevant to their life only.

And he went around and and spent less time with the flock because

he knew their lives were so busy.

Well, you're just so busy. I know it, God knows it, you

know, can you just read 1 scripture a day?

That's all. That's all God really cares

about. No, look what it says.

And he was going around the villages.

What teaching? Now teaching is line upon line,

precept upon precept. He began to drop Kingdom truth

bombs that were so amazing. He was dropping them so hard.

He would say, he who has ears, let him hear.

Because you know what he said? I'm not going to cast my pearls

before the swan. You want to stay in unbelief,

stay there. But those that are hungry,

they'll come mining the treasures I'm dropping out of my

mouth right now. This is why if you can be

comfortable in a place that is not teaching the engrafted word

of God to the place that they are not withholding the full

counsel of God, then you want to stay in unbelief.

But God says I have a cure. I have a cure.

And that is I'm going to have to teach you.

And you know what? If he's teaching, he's going to

say this. What you're thinking is say that

word again. Say it again.

And you got to accept I'm wrong. It's OK.

It's OK many time. Like, yeah, that's not the way

to do it. I'm wrong.

We're doing it your way because his way is better.

Oh my gosh, this is the answer. Look what it says in Romans

Romans 4:17–21

chapter 4 verses 17 to 21. Man, when you get the word of

God spoken to you, says as as it is written, I have made, I made

you a father of many nations in the presence of him whom he

believed. God, who gives life to the dead

and calls those things that do not exist as though they did,

who, contrary to hope and hope, believed so that he became the

father of many nations. According to what was spoken, so

shall your descendants be. And not being weak in faith, he

did not consider his own body already dead, since he was about

100 years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, when a

person's wavering unbelief is present, but was strengthening

faith, giving glory to God, being fully convinced that what

he had promised, he was also able to perform.

He was able to perform. He did not grow weak in faith.

I said He did not grow weak, He would not consider God's way

would not come to pass. He would not even take it into

account. Hallelujah.

Unbelief is dangerous in the Kingdom of God.

Come on, you know this. Romans 1011 to 17.

But let's hear it today. With this attack against

unbelief, there will be no unbelieving heart, no evil

unbelieving heart among us. There will be no evil

unbelieving heart among us. For the scripture says whoever

believes in him will not be disappointed.

Now, I am going to show you today that this is not a

singular expression. We've already did we.

We already took the time to show that when we believe God and He

saves us, saving is. He'll save us from all kinds of

things. Anytime you triumph over a

situation, you are being saved. Salvation is a belief that Jesus

died and rose from the grave, and you come out of the domain

of darkness into the Kingdom of His beloved Son.

That is an occurrence, but that is saving, saving you from

eternal separation. But God will do more than just

save you from eternal separation.

He will save your marriage. He'll save your kids, He'll save

your job, He'll save your health, He'll save your finance.

He'll save all kinds of things. He'll save your mind.

So we have to quit being singular with the Romans.

Rd. 'cause Paul is not only talking

about being born again, it includes it, but it's not

isolated. So for the scripture says who,

whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.

I mean, I'm not disappointed to know that by His stripes I'm

healed. And I believe that there is no

distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same is Lord, the

same Lord as Lord of all abounding in riches, who all

call on him. Again, we've been engrafted in.

We're of a holy root, and we're engrafted in 'cause we believed

in faith, the Scripture said by faith we were engrafted in.

We were not in unbelief. We were not in disobedience.

When we're in, we're engrafted in because of faith.

We believe that Jesus Christ died, rose from the grave, His

blood was shed so that our payment, our our redemption was

bought and paid for. We could not have done it on our

own work, separated from God, but we can do it with God 'cause

God's done it. We just have to believe and

believe is our part. How Then let's go on it says

verse 12. For whoever will call on the

name of the Lord will be If you call on his name and everything.

What did he say? If you ask the Father anything,

not one thing, He said if you ask the Father anything, not one

thing, anything in my name, he'll do it and you'll bear much

fruit. So when we call on the name of

the Lord and anything that we need to accomplish for His

Kingdom, that He's given us that assignment, we will be saved.

Verse 14. How then will they call on him

and whom they've not believed? And how will they believe in Him

whom they've not heard? And how will they hear without a

preacher? Preachers are not sent just so

you can be born again. The church did not show up in

locations just to preach salvation from eternal

damnation. Paul's letters to the churches

covered a lot more subjects than that.

That would save them out of idolatry out of of of all kinds

of former way of living and move them into the Kingdom, He goes

on. Unless how will they preach,

unless they are sent just it is a written how beautiful are the

feet of those who believe, who bring good news of good things.

I mean, I'm giving you good news right now about how to get out.

Stay out of unbelief. Is it good news to know that you

do not have to stay in unbelief? You do not have to run the risk

of being broken off. Verse 16.

However, they did not all heed the good news for Isaiah says

Lord, who has believed our report.

So when he's saying that again, in Isaiah's time, they had a way

to live to be righteous and protected by God.

God had given them through the law of Moses and the prophets of

how they could follow God in that dispensation and be

divinely protected and prosper. All you got to do is read

Deuteronomy chapter 28. That was applicable during the

Deuteronomy 28 · chapter mention

prophet Isaiah's time. But the problem is they did not

believe the report of the Lord concerning living for him as a

nation. Didn't believe it all the ways

God was saying this is what I'll do for you, and this is what

I'll do for you, and this is what I'll do for you, and this

is what I'll do for you. I just need you to do this in

the new covenant, Jesus said. I've paid it all, I've done it

all, I've finished it all. Now I just need you to believe.

Just believe, just believe, just believe.

But if you have an evil and unbelieving heart, even those

engrafted in can't be broken back off.

So faith. So faith comes from hearing and

hearing from the word of Christ. Every time you come to church,

you're at risk. Every time you stay away from

church, you're at a greater risk.

Every time you come to church, you're at risk.

Every time you're not at church, you're at a greater risk.

Because faith comes by hearing, not having heard.

And today, as long as it's called today, we are here to

hold each other, encourage each other.

We're able to champion one another.

Say listen, His word works what he says concerning us is going

to come to pass what he said concerning this in your life

personally, it's going to happen what he's given us as his

Saints, it's going to it it it overcome.

That's why when we were with the elders were like go to the house

and connect with them because they're feeling it.

They're experiencing an alternative thing to the Word,

but you speak the Word, you prayed the power of God, and you

stay in faith with them and hold their arms up and we'll see the

result of what the Word says in their body.

We just spend a little extra time.

Not well. Hope you get it.

Well. If it's the Lord will, they

will. It is the Lord's will.

It is the Lord's will, but it's through this perseverance, it's

taking every thought captive. It's not allowing unbelief to

show up. It's being honest in our

day-to-day walk. I do believe, Help mom believe.

Let's pray.