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So this is the Anchor Scripture this morning for the reveal faith.

Looking onto Jesus, the hotel and the finisher of our faith.

Oh, for the joy that was set before him, endured this cross, despicing the shame.

And he has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Amen.

If you look at everything happening in the house this morning, you will now understand.

Because he has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And there were several things that happened before this particular verse.

Before this particular verse that says Jesus is the hotter and the finisher of our faith.

If somebody is the hotter this morning, it means he has written everything, he knew where the book is going to end.

He started the book writing it, and he knew exactly that at this point this book is going to end here.

And that was Jesus.

He went ahead of us to start writing.

And when everything is done, when myself and yourself, we've expressed ourselves.

Sorry, can I get my head what I say?

Amen.

Amen.

When everything is done, Jesus will still be there waiting at the finishing line.

Because he has gone through everything from the very beginning to the very end.

He is the author who started it and is the finisher of this faith life that we have been talking about.

In the last one month, there has been different expressions of faith.

Different expressions of faith.

Amen.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

Jesus.

Jesus.

Jesus.

Hebrews 11 6.

Hebrews 11 6.

So we think that Jesus is the author.

He started it and he finished it.

Hebrew 11 6 told us this.

But without faith, it is impossible to please him.

For him to call clothes to God was he that he is.

And that he is the rewarder of those who diligently thinking.

In Jesus' name.

Amen.

So Hebrews 11:6 was telling us, but without faith, it is impossible to please.

Hebrews 11:6

So there is something about our life.

There's something about this expression of faith that Jesus laid on the ground.

He started it, he finished it.

Then he's now telling us without what he has started and where he has finished it.

What he has expressed through his life, that was what Hebrews 12 was trying to tell us.

Without all these things that have been expressed, he's saying it is impossible to please God.

It is impossible to please God.

Without this faith, it is very, very impossible to please God.

One of the things where faith started, where faith started with every one of us, is that faith at the point of salvation.

Before me and you gave our life to Christ, faith activated itself.

I hope you know faith activated itself.

Every one of us, we were lost in sin.

But faith came, activated itself.

I said, if you can believe in me, if you can believe that Jesus is the Son of God, if you can believe that God is, that God exists, and is the reward of them that diligently seek Him.

If you believe Faith says I will come in time, and that was the faith at the point of salvation.

So I would like to take us through this revealed faith in that it's about six dimensions, it expresses itself in six ways.

So the first one is the saving faith.

At the point of salvation, when myself and yourself gave our life to Christ, the salvation faith activated itself.

It's the one that we used to believe that Jesus exists.

We were not there together 2,000 years ago to know what happened.

But 2,000 years ago, Jesus died.

But me and you today, we believe that Jesus died.

We also believe that God exists.

Have you ever wondered in your life that you sometimes just think God believes actually if you watch too much social media and you listen too much to those ages, you will start doubting yourself.

He was the one who went to the cross to start the faith war, and he activated it for me and you, and he said, God started it by saying, I will I so much love the world, I will give my son.

Anyone who believes, and that was where it said it was activated.

If you believe that is my son and that I exist, you will not perish.

Faith was activated at that point, and that was the salvational faith, it was the entry point of our faith.

Amen.

Amen.

If we look at Hebrews, if we look at Ephesians 2 8, Ephesians 2.8, what was telling us about this saving faith that was activated, Ephesians 2.8.

For by grace you've been saved.

We were saved through what we were saved through what?

So at the number one, at the saving faith, we were saved because of this faith.

We didn't bring it, it was given to us, it was imputed into us at that particular point, and that's what carries us.

Remember, Jesus is the hotter and the finisher.

So before me and you we accepted Jesus, Jesus activated the faith, then Jesus imputed the faith at the point of salvation to me and to you.

So nobody can claim that I have faith.

Because the faith you are claiming that you have that is a demonstration, was imputed to you.

It was not yours, it was Jesus's.

Because he was the hotter, he imputed it into us, then he gave us that faith.

And that was the saving faith.

That was the saving faith.

But after the saving faith, the saving faith cannot help us throughout the entire journey.

It's a marathon, it's not a sprint, it's not that once you accept Jesus, faith just comes in.

The faith that raises dead up is different from the one that you accepted at the point of giving your life to Christ.

At the point of giving your life to Christ, that faith was helping you.

But once you've given your life to Christ, you will now go to where Pastor Sam started from, which is the living faith.

You have to live because once we were dead, but now because we believe, we are alive in Christ, and because you are alive in Christ, you need a living faith.

There is a faith for those who live, and that's the second level of faith.

The second level of faith, and we can just go to James 2, 17 to 18.

James 2, 17 to 18.

Hallelujah.

Thank you so much.

Does also faith by itself, if it does not have work, is dead.

Sorry, before this, let's go to let's go to Hebrews 10 38 to go and see the living faith.

Hebrews 10 38.

There's a lot of them.

Galatians also talk about it, but let's focus on Hebrews 10 38.

That one is sweeter for the living faith.

Now, can we read together?

Want to go?

So you can see at the beginning there was the salvational faith which was imputed into us.

Then, once we have given our life to Christ, then we went to level two.

The level two is there is a living faith for us to live in Christ, we have to know that the just and the reason why we are just now is because I'm not clean.

It was Jesus that cleaned me.

Remember, level one.

Jesus cleaned me at level one.

Now, because I've been clean, I'm now justified, I'm now a just person, I'm now on level two.

The just, the just me that we are now seeing now shall live by faith because I've left level one salvational faith.

I now need this to carry me out through the entire journey because it's a journey.

Remember, it's a work of faith, and I'm walking in him, and that is why every time the devil wants to test us, every time the devil wants to pull us down, you must remember that devil be careful.

I'm not in level one, I'm not just using salvational faith.

I was given that one.

Yes, it is in residence inside of me.

I've moved from level one faith, I'm now in level two faith.

I'm living because I'm a just and the just shall live by faith.

And because I'm the just of God, I'm now living by the faith that is in the Son of God.

Level two.

Somebody say amen.

Then Pastor Kedio did justice.

She took us to level three.

And what is level three?

Faith that waits.

Somebody says, faith that waits.

She taught us about the waiting faith.

But this morning, every scripture on the waiting faith talks about one thing, it talks about endurance.

Remember, if you're if you're an athlete and you need to run marathon, marathon is not something that is not sprint.

You don't you don't just train for 10 seconds, for 10.9 seconds, like we're saying boats.

Marathon requires endurance.

Marathon requires a lot of water along the way, it requires a longer stretch.

You cannot stop because a lot of time all of us are running this same race.

Remember, Jesus ran it first.

He's the hotter, is the finisher.

So Jesus started the faith run, he finished the faith run.

When he finished his own, he came back to the beginning for me and you, and he started saying, Let's start together.

Level one, what is level one?

You remember?

Let's say it wants to go.

Salvational faith.

Level two, living faith.

We are living.

Hallelujah.

The just must live by faith.

Then level three is the endurance faith because this journey is long.

Me and you need to stay rooted inside Christ and run the race.

And what is level three?

Let's look at the scripture because everything must be backed by the scripture.

Amen.

Amen.

So we grow in this faith.

Hebrews 10 35 to 39.

35 to 39.

Let's see what he's saying.

And if you remember, Pastor Kedio did justice to this, to the enduring faith.

To the enduring faith.

Therefore, do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.

Can you see?

Why did he say it has great reward?

It's only race that you win that you get reward from.

Are we together?

So he's saying, therefore, do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.

Let's move on.

For you have for you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Remember, finish.

Everybody started with Him, everybody had the salvational faith.

And after salvational faith, we came to the second line: the faith for the just, and we need the living, have done the living faith.

We needed the third level of faith.

The third level of faith is the enduring, enduring faith.

It keeps us checked, it keeps us on the road, it keeps us, you know, looking at Jesus.

Remember how we started.

He said, looking at Jesus, the author, the finisher of our faith.

You cannot take your eyes off Jesus.

When everything was happening this morning, that was why it was beautiful.

If I do not preach this morning, faith was already revealed, faith was already activated.

Everybody was already inside, living inside.

Salvational faith checked, living faith, checked, enduring faith.

That was what we were experiencing because it's our life.

Remember, the just shall live by faith.

Only the just can live by faith.

And remember what the scripture says: for without faith, it is impossible to please God, which means a life outside faith will never know God.

You cannot please him, you cannot enter his presence, you cannot know him, you cannot enjoy him.

Hallelujah.

Third level of faith because our time is running.

Let's move to the fourth level of faith.

Remember, I want us to go home with this.

Level one, what was there for us?

Let's go together.

One to go.

Thank you.

Level two, what is there for them?

Living faith.

Level three, what is there for us?

Endurance faith.

Thank you so much.

Endurance faith.

If we forget anything in our faith life, don't forget these six things because they keep you going.

When anything happens to you, just remind the devil.

I was not just born yesterday.

Sorry.

I know who I am, I know whose I am, I know where I started from, from salvational faith.

And I know I don't just have salvational faith, I have a living faith.

I don't just have a living faith, I have an enduring faith.

And I just have an enduring faith.

I have the fourth one, faith for doctrine.

And what does faith for doctrine do?

Faith for doctrine is the one that helps us to go back to the scripture.

Every time something is happening, we go back into the word of God.

This morning, everything we've been hearing is faith for doctrine.

For the last one month, everything we've been hearing is faith for doctrine, so that each one of us we can align ourselves on the journey, we can align ourselves in the journey of the huddle.

As we look at the huddle and the finish of our faith, we can tell ourselves that Jesus, I'm looking at you, I'm focused on you, and I know that this on this faith journey, I keep my eyes on you, and I believe in you.

The moment I believe in you, I started walking in you, and I know the just shall live by faith.

After that, the just is living by faith.

I've stepped into the enduring faith.

I know that the faith that I have is enough, it has the potential and the capacity to lead me from the beginning to the end.

And after that is done, oh, I stay firm in your word because there's doctrine that I need to know.

Every scripture that we've laid on the ground this morning, every scripture that you've been hearing for the last one month, they are doctrines of faith, and they are the ones that will keep you on.

You need to know who started it, who is going to finish it, who holds it, who gave it.

Why was it given to me?

Why am I the custodian?

Once you take your eyes off Jesus, you already know that you have depleted your faith level because you have taken your eyes from the owner of the faith.

Looking on to Jesus is the hotel and the finisher of our faith.

So you must stay focused on Him this morning.

Doctrinal faith, Jude 3.3.

Let's just quickly look at the book of Jude 3.3.

Hallelujah.

And we'll see what Jude says.

Amen.

Media is telling us to endure this morning, and we are enduring.

Yes, hallelujah.

Okay, beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, why is it that all of them are writing about the same thing on this topic of faith?

See where Jude also started from.

Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common, it went back to the beginning, salvation.

I found it necessary to write to you, exhorting you to contend earnestly, level three.

So it started while I'm writing to you about level one, and we know that we're already living in level two, and we know that we are enduring at level three.

I found it necessary to write to you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the same.

It was delivered unto us, we have to deliver it to the next generation, and that is why it is a doctrine.

If there is anything believers must know, is this faith level?

It was given unto us.

We did not own it, we are just custodian of it for some time.

Paul, the apostles, all of them that went, Jude, all of them that went ahead of us, they were custodian of it, and they ensured that the faith that they've received they delivered it to the next generation.

Me and you also have that responsibility.

Once we have received this faith, we need to deliver it to the next generation.

Amen.

Tell yourself I will deliver it to the next generation.

This faith will not fail on me.

I hope you know that faith failed on some people.

They received it and they backslide, and the generation that followed them could not have it because they changed.

But this morning, doctrinal faith is saying we will contend earnestly for it, and we will give it to the next generation that is be that is behind us, amen.

So let's go from the beginning again.

First level, second level, third level, fourth level that we have now, doctrinal faith.

So deliver the doctrinal faith to the next generation.

Amen.

Let's move to the fifth one.

The fifth one is now ministering faith.

Once you've given your life to Christ, we all from level one to level four is you enjoying.

But at level five, you become a branch in Christ because you cannot just stay in Christ and not be fruitful.

Now you need to start producing, your faith needs to start producing and must.

Results, and that is why you need faith for ministry.

Faith for ministry.

Somebody say it with me.

Faith for ministry.

Faith for ministry.

Let's go to the book of Romans 12:3 to 8.

Romans 12:3–8

Romans 12, 3 to 8.

We'll just pay attention on verse 3.

Sorry, on verse um, yes, on verse 3.

Hallelujah.

For I say, look at it again in the book of Romans.

You see that it's consistent.

This topic of faith, the teaching and the doctrine around it is consistent.

It's saying, For I say, through the grace given to me, it was given the hotel.

Remember, at the beginning, through the grace that was given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he had to think, but to think soberly as God has dealt to each one measure of faith.

So at this point, it becomes a measure of faith because if you take level one, level two, level three, and level four and you sit on it, there is a measure that you are operating with.

But if you take level one, two, three, and four and you activate it, there is a measure that you are operating with.

Everybody has a measure of faith that they are operating with.

So when you look at your life, you need to ask yourself, where am I functioning this morning?

In which ministry have I been called to?

If I've been called to the pulpit ministry, you must understand that there is a measure of faith that has been given unto you.

You've been called into singing, into songs, there's a measure of faith that has been assigned to you.

If you are a mystery in the house, there's a measure of faith that has been assigned to you.

Everybody has been assigned a measure of faith, and we need to function in it.

We need to function in it.

Faith serves faithfully according to the grace that activated it.

There is a grace that activates it, and faith has to serve corresponding to what activates it.

So if we believe so strongly, if we know, and the doctrine which has been given unto us, which we are passing on to the next generation, it gets to a point you need to know.

I now need to start seeding, I need to start producing fruits because the faith that has been given can reproduce itself.

Somebody says amen.

And lastly, in this journey, remember where we started from.

Where did we start from salvational faith?

Then we move to what living faith.

Then we move to what enduring faith, and we move to what doctrinal faith.

From doctrinal faith, we now move to what ministering faith.

Five levels.

Remember, hotel, finisher of our faith, he has operated in all of them before he came to the beginning to come and start with me and you, and that is why you need to understand which one do I activate at what point.

If you've given your life to Christ permanently, it is already there.

You don't need to be walking on it again.

It's already, I believe God exists, and I believe is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

So when I'm asking for something, let me tell you this is the this is what we must know as believers.

When I need something from God, I take his word back to him.

I don't ask like somebody that doesn't know, I ask like somebody that has the right knowledge that God, if it is faith for salvation, you are looking for, I've given my life to you.

I obey you and I honor you.

I've given my life.

So, what else do you want from me?

I gave it.

Then when you pass this test, go to the second level.

God, remember the just can only live by faith.

It's not my own justness, if there's a word like that, it's not my righteousness, it is your righteousness.

You imputed it into me, so I will take this righteousness and will run with it.

I have the righteousness of Christ, so I qualify for anything that heaven can give.

If you are truly the rewarder of them that diligently seek you, then I qualify.

Then there is another one which says, enduring faith.

Yes, I might qualify, but I will not give a driving license now, not because he cannot handle it, but there are some level of maturity.

Those who drive, you know what I'm saying.

When accident is about to happen, something clicks in that makes you more mature.

If you give a small child to drive, if accident wants to happen, that child might not know what to do.

But if you are matured, there's a lot of things that run through our mind.

Um, the work, money, my parents are still alive.

So there's so many things that rub around your head that makes you to adjust.

That's why some of us, not because you cannot press the turtle to 160, but when you remember all the people that are at home, you will just remove your leg naturally and you play safe.

But if you give somebody like Ari, if he has just finished watching, um, you know all these movies, exactly fast and furious, what is in his mind?

Because he has no responsibility behind him.

He wants to also test it that in fast and furious, this thing I could get to 260.

At 260, you don't see anything on the roadside again.

Everything would have become lines.

Those people you see in NASCAR car, that's the average speed by which they run 260 and above.

At that point, they are not using their eyes, they are using their senses, they are using the training.

All those left turn, four seconds, right on, four seconds, move forward, break, accelerate.

At the same time, they are using the knowledge, is they can't see anything.

Go and check it.

You will see that everything has become lines at that point.

They want to try it, but because there's a lot of responsibility on my shoulder, I will, even if you give me money, I cannot, I can't, I don't think I will go past 130.

Worst case.

Why?

Because there's a responsibility.

Are you with me?

Are you with me this morning?

So there's a ministry faith, and the last there's a ministry faith.

That's why it's not good to do too much ex examples.

I've done I've done too much examples that I left.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

There is a measure of faith which we have received, and that's the ministering measure, and that is the one that we take to the world because we are not just coming from the salvational faith.

Neither are we coming from living by faith, neither are we just coming from an enduring faith, neither are we coming from a doctrinal faith.

Now we are at the point of ministering faith, faith that gives that don't just receive alone, irrespective of what is happening at stage three, while I'm still enduring, and I'm hoping that one day the fruit of what I'm praying for will come to materialization.

As I'm thinking about that, I'm also at this level.

There was a time in my family we were looking, we were just praying, God, only if this immigration people will just allow, only if they would just you know give us the right paper.

Many a times on the day the thing will expire, we don't have anything to show, nothing, but only Jesus, and we just look at each other's faces, say this is it.

This is it.

Today is the day.

Is either Jesus do it today or it doesn't do, it doesn't.

Should I shock you in the house this morning?

I know a maker, I know a father.

Even if it remains, if it remains one day, I've seen him done it, and actually he didn't do it one time, he did it three times on the same day that it was supposed to do on the same day at the exact spot.

A male will just come in, and I'll be like, uh-uh, this Jesus, the hotter and the finisher.

I would never leave it.

No matter what you like, you can say, I've tasted him, I know what Jesus tastes like.

I know exactly how it feels to know him.

Hallelujah.

This morning, I'm just going to tell you that do you know who he is?

I'm going to leave the last one so that we go figure it out.

Amen.

But let me just tell you the last one is now the gift of faith, it's the one when you have satisfied all of them, this one he gives as if as he wishes.

That's the one that you go to mortuary and you tell Lazarus, Lazarus, after four days, is already smelling.

Oh, yeah, come out.

Lazarus, rise up because it's the gift of faith and is the honor of that.

Let me tell you, if you see anything online, if you see people doing any you know, doing miracles, just tell them we can do it too.

Are you with me this morning?

Because it's a gift, he only gives it when he wants to give it.

You don't have control over it.

You can pray for the dead the way you like.

It's only if God wants that person to come back to life that the person will come back to life.

Jesus is the hotter and the finisher of our faith.

So this morning, long for the gift of faith because, above all, it's like the highest of them all.

Amen.

As we go this morning, don't forget, don't let anything deny you of these six steps that are in the journey, because this is the revealed faith.

Amen.

Let us pray.

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