"FAITH IN CONNECTION WITH KNOWLEDGE"
Wagner E Lize
Tell the story of a man who bought a ticket for a cruise at sea.
Only that it was unaware of the direct given him on this journey.
With little money, had the following idea:
Buy a huge bag and fill it with bread, and decided that the next two weeks would eat bread and water during journey.
When boarding, then searched the holds of the ship, because she feared being accosted by an employee of the boat, because I believed and felt ashamed for not having money to stay in one room of the ship.
On the first day in hiding, his meals were limited to bread and water as well as in the second, third and fourth days.
On the fifth day, no longer supporting up eating stale bread and hardened, rose to the top of the vessel, the sight of a ship's officer asked him:
- I have a few bucks to me, please, I could make a meal for four days because I'm in the basement eating dry bread with aged water!
The official story after hearing all surprised, asked:
- You bought the ticket?
- Yes, he replied.
- Give me your ticket, said the official!
- When looking at the ticket just stared at the man and told him:
- YOUR TICKET GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO ENJOY ALL THAT THE VESSEL HAS ALREADY IS INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE!
This is an illustration with application to our lives, many are living below the life that Christ won for us!
Passing through this life eating dry bread with water without realizing that on their tickets (the Bible) gives them the right to know what they have, can and is in God through Jesus.
In John 8:32 and 36 tells us the Word:
"-" (John 8:32) - You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
(John 8:36) - If the Son therefore shall make you free, be free indeed. "
(Galatians 5:1) - is, therefore, stand for freedom that Christ has set us free, and shall no more put you under the yoke of bondage.
When Jesus said, "and he knows the truth will set you free", if you go to chapter 17 vs. 17 of the same book you will see the truth that Jesus associated with the word itself:
"(John 17:17) - Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."
Thus we read John 8:32 as follows:
"And knowing what the Bible says about your condition, and behaving just like it tells you, you will have the release of your problem!"
If you know what the word says about your problem you can get rid of it!
In Hosea 4.6 says in the Word:
(Hosea 4:6 b) - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
What destroys us as God is not the devil!
Although the Word say that he came to kill, steal and destroy.Today we are in Christ who was manifested to destroy the devil's work, Christ overcame the devil, we stayed in his victory!
Religion has complicated God and His Word.
God is simple, as a mere breath!
Example:
If your problem is a disease, find out what God says about healing and behave according to the Word. (This goes for any subject).
So you know the truth that Jesus spoke in John 8:32.
I'll give you some texts about healing, and you can use them for their release.
There is much talk that God will change, God is immutable!
The statements of these truths will change you! Affect you!
God does not need healing, we do!
There comes a point in their lives that truth grounded in God's Word will change its entire interior, and soon all your external will be affected by the Word of God!
Here is the examples:
(Exodus 15:26) - ... I will put none of these diseases upon thee, for I am the Lord who heals you.
(Exodus 23:26) - There will be a miscarrying or barren in your land: the number of thy days I will fulfill.
(Psalm 103:3) - It is what pardons all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases;
(Psalms 107:20) - sent his word, and healed them and delivered them from destruction.
(Isaiah 53:4) - "Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows bore; and we reputable stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
(Isaiah 53:5) - But he was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by his wounds we are healed.
(Matthew 8:16) - And when the evening, brought to him many possessed with devils, and he with his word cast out the spirits and healed all who were sick;
(Matthew 8:17) - That might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities and carried our diseases.
(Romans 8:11) - And if the Spirit of Him who rose from the dead dwells in you Jesus, who rose from the dead in Christ shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
(Acts 10:38) - How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.
(I Peter 2:24) - Taking it in his own body our sins on the cross, that, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.
THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS BELONGS
(Matthew 28:18) - And he came to Jesus spake unto them, saying to me is given all power in heaven and on earth.
(Matthew 28:19) - Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son, and Holy Spirit;
(Matthew 28:20) - "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, until the end of time. Amen
Notice that Jesus says he received all power and authority in heaven and on earth. I ask you that?
He answers himself in VS. following "Go ye therefore."
He adds:
In my name! The name of Jesus is all he is!
To make disciples, taught them, they would become an extension of Jesus himself here on earth!
Note:
(Luke 10:19) - Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and the full force of the enemy: and nothing shall harm.
Jesus receives power and authority and reviews the Church.
He says in:
(Mark 16:17) - And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name shall they cast out devils, speak with new tongues;
(Mark 16:18) - They shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it does not hurt them, and put their hands on the sick and heal them.
Á signs for those who believe, in your name:
I. Cast out demons
II. Speak with new tongues;
III. They shall take up serpents;
IV. If they drink any deadly thing, it does not hurt them;
V. And shall lay hands on the sick and heal them.
All we are trying to convey here is for you to know about their rights and privileges in Christ and no longer be destroyed by lack of knowledge.
In Hosea 4.6 says in the Word:
(Hosea 4:6 b) - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
In Romans 12:3, Paul teaches us about the faith question:
(Romans 12:3) - For by grace given to me, I say to everyone among you not to think of himself than he ought, but to think soberly, according to the measure of faith God has given you.
All we receive from God a measure of faith.
And the measure of faith is enough to fulfill our calling in the body and get everything that is right.
Paul himself tells us that:
(Romans 10:8) - But it says? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is the word of faith which we preach;
(Romans 10:17) - So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
One sign that the believer is no longer spiritual boy is that he no longer walks over the second he sees, hears and feels more but what you believe.
(II Corinthians 5:7) - (For we walk by faith not by sight).
Many have needs to see that all is well so they are well, we do not live by what we see, we live by we believe believe!
Others need to hear that all is well, we do not live by what we hear, believe believe we live by!
Still others are directed and guided by your feelings, do not live by what we feel, we live by what we believe!
See, hear and feel can never determine how we will live the Word of God has for us the end point in question.
There will always be the
X FAITH ISSUE REASON.
ALL TIMES THAT SATAN CAN YOU TAKE TO THE FIELD OF REASON HE WILL KEEP ON WIN YOUR LIFE.
EVERY TIME THAT YOU TAKE TO THE FIELD OF FAITH, YOU KEEP IT ON VICTORY, VICTORY OF CHRIST!
REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID:
"(John 8:32) - You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
Always look at the word you need.
And to behave as she says;
Faith is a behavior according to what God says!
If we behave like the word says, we'll get our miracle.
I'll give you three simplified examples:
Behave according to THE WORD
I. EXAMPLE:
(Mark 3:1) - and again entered the synagogue, and there was a man who had a withered hand.
(Mark 3:2) - And they watched him, whether he would heal on the Sabbath, to impeach him.
(Mark 3:3) - And he said to the man who had the withered hand: Arise and come to the middle.
(Mark 3:4) - and asked them: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or harm? save life or to kill? And they were silent.
(Mark 3:5) - And looking round about on them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, said the man, Stretch out your hand. And he stretched it out and he was restored to his hand, sound like another.
Here is a classic example to behave according to what Jesus says;
Jesus is the synagogue, and there is a man with the withered hand.
On the other side were the religious, who had determined in their hearts that God could not even break their customs and traditions.
Jesus looks at the disabled man, calls to the middle.
Here we have three different situations;
II. I. Religious hardened and callous to human suffering.
III. 2. Jesus confronting dogmas and customs, and hardness of heart.
IV. 3. A man wounded and scarred by his physical disability.
On the one hand we have the picture of religion that kills and destroys in the name of the arrogance and lack of God.
Paul refers to them as:
(II Corinthians 4:4) - in which the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, which is the image of God.
The Apostle Judas the brother of the Lord also refers to them as:
(Jude 1:4) - For certain, that before were written for this condemnation, ungodly men, into lasciviousness the grace of God, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
(Jude 1:5) - But I want to remind you, as those who once knew this, that, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not;
(Jude 1:8) - And yet, also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion and speak evil of dignities.
(Jude 1:10) - But these speak evil of whatever they do not know, and whatever they know naturally as irrational animals are destroyed.
(Jude 1:11) - Woe to them! they went in the way of Cain, and were taken by the deceit of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
(Jude 1:12) - These are spots in your love feasts, feasting with you, and tending to themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried by winds to another party, such as trees are withered, fruit, twice dead, uprooted;
(Jude 1:13) - Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness.
(Jude 1:16) - These are murmuring, complaining of his lot, walking after their own lusts, and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.
(Jude 1:18) - Who you are told that in recent times there would be scoffers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.
(Jude 1:19) - These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
Religion has the power to apply between God and man to mow it and destroy it.
Religious people in the synagogue were not interested in the life of his neighbor, as Jesus had said about having mercy of their animals to fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, but could not exert the same mercy to the man standing there.
On the other hand we have Jesus watching them;
Jesus calls the man in the middle of the synagogue.
Do not you think that was an easy situation for this man.
On the one hand he had the opportunity to be called by Jesus and leave a lifetime of trauma and shame behind.
On the other hand he had the toughness of religion that condemned him for being about to collaborate with the failure of their customs and laws, or the Sabbath.
Religion scares the cowardly and the weak becoming slaves of men and their rules.
A battle was being waged between reason and faith at the time for that man.
If exposed and not be a damn about what others will think and convict him of his happiness, or step back and let her miracle that so impatient waiting for years.
The fact is that, what the religious do not stop to think about the suffering of this man, I even do not know many girls who relates to people with special needs, you know?
The social life becomes hard and embarrassing for many, and even prefer the anonymity, the traumas in the depths of someone like that is hard to handle, we ordinary people have been blessed by God with our health in perfect condition no idea such suffering.
The fact that he go to the center of the synagogue says a lot more than we think. He took the responsibility of being exposed to the death sentence for those who voluntarily broke the law of Moses.
There was no turning back on his decision, he becomes complicit in Jesus' call transgression of the Mosaic law.
The fact is that much more than a step toward the command of Jesus, that man needed to leave the comfort zone to venture into the unknown. Exit the place, which was for years, betting on everything and even life itself in the words of Jesus.
A QUESTION THAT DOES NOT WANT TO SHUT UP!
(Mark 3:4) - and asked them: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or harm? Save life or to kill? And they were silent.
I ask you:
Something must be established by God to death or to life?
The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.
We now know that Saturday was a kind of shadow that prefigured the rest of faith for us today!
(Colossians 2:16) - So no one judge you in food or drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon or Sabbaths,
(Colossians 2:17) - Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.
The question of Jesus cries out strong today.
The answer lies in the behavior of Jesus himself;
(Mark 3:5) - And looking round about on them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart,
By remaining silent, if the religious were giving Jesus a negative response to his call for compassion, showing all sides cold and indifferent to the problems of religiousness outside the next.
(Matthew 22:39) - And the second is like it is: Love your neighbor as yourself.
The mixed feelings which such anger and sorrow of Jesus reveal the misery and poverty of religiosity in which he can not respond to a distress call of humanity.
Jesus then says:
Said the man, Stretch out your hand.
This is a point I want to stick to me;
Note that this is behavior of Faith;
What is to behave according to what the Word says:
Consider:
I. The nerves of the hand were atrophied.
II. Reaching out was impossible because of atrophy.
III. Jesus did not extend the arm, he extends the hand!
IV. For years or even since birth that man can never do what is asked.
V. All I say all of their senses such as: sight, touch, hearing, taste, smell and feelings together chanted the reason that it was impossible that this may happen!
Reason and faith were in conflict;
It would be up to him alone, decide to believe in Jesus' words at that time.
The question now is not more said about the law, religious or whoever, that time it was the word of Jesus!
Jesus then says:
Said the man, Stretch out your hand.
What happened?
And he stretched it out and he was restored to his hand, sound like another.
Faith is and always will be a behavior!
It is up to you and I submit our minds and renewal in obedience to the Word of God.
Everything contributed to make anything happen man: His faith was based solely and exclusively on what Jesus said:
Said the man, Stretch out your hand.
By ignoring the real facts and true to its shortcomings and put into practice what Jesus commanded him, he practiced the faith, and received his miracle.
Faith is the behavior of what God says!
Faith is the behavior of what God says!
Believe it and receive your miracle from God!
OTHERS THAT WILL GIVE TWO EXAMPLES ARE:
(Matthew 17:24) - And when they came to Capernaum, Peter approached those who demanded the drachmas and said, "Does not your teacher pay the shekel?
(Matthew 17:25) - He said: Yes, and went into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the land taxes, or the census? Of their children, or of strangers?
(Matthew 17:26) - Peter said to him, Of strangers. Said Jesus unto him, Then are the children free.
(Matthew 17:27) - But, that does not offend them, go to the sea, cast a hook, take the first fish to rise, and opening his mouth, you will find a static, Take it and give it a me and thee.
Give the example of Peter in relation to Faith and Behavior
After being asked about the tax payment Jesus gave Peter an opportunity to practice the faith.
The miracle itself is about the rise of Peter.
... Go to sea, cast a hook, take the first fish to rise, and opening his mouth, you will find a static, Take it and give it to me and thee.
Looking at the above think Peter promptly accepted this fact, but we must remember that there will always be a war being waged by reason vs. faith.
Peter was a born and raised at sea, never heard that someone had found money inside a fish!
Have you found?
Not me!
As much as why Peter screamed and questioned the word of Jesus has already harmed him to the point of putting faith above reason, who said that faith has something to do with logic and reason, faith does not see Faith believes!
I suppose there was any money fish, but when it comes to Peter and begins to walk toward the beach with his hook musing, "If Jesus said there is a fish with money in there then."
To behave as Jesus commanded him, Peter practiced the word of Jesus, that is, Faith is a behavior!
At that moment the miracle began to be generated, a fish swallowed money somewhere!
Faith is an attitude behavior!
Next example:
(Matthew 14:22) - Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go to the other side while He sent the crowd.
(Matthew 14:23) - And, parting the crowd, climbed the mountain to pray, to share. And since the late arrival, he was there alone.
(Matthew 14:24) - the boat was already at sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary;
(Matthew 14:25) - And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking upon the sea.
(Matthew 14:26) - And the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It's a ghost. And they cried with fear.
(Matthew 14:27) - But Jesus said to them soon, saying, Be of good cheer, I'm not afraid.
(Matthew 14:28) - And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
(Matthew 14:29) - And he said, Come. And Peter went down the boat, walked on water, to go with Jesus.
(Matthew 14:30) - But, feeling the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, cried out, saying, Lord, save me!
(Matthew 14:31) - And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, held it, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, why did you doubt?
(Matthew 14:32) - And when they climbed into the boat, the wind ceased.
(Matthew 14:33) - So close to those in the boat worshiped him, saying, Thou art truly the Son of God.
This example is classic!
Peter walks on water.
I hear many preachers accuse Peter for his temper, but never knew of no other man but Jesus who had walked on water.
(Matthew 14:28) - And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
Did you notice what Peter said?
Lord if thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
He did not venture on their own to walk on water, he asked for a word!
And what Jesus said:
(Matthew 14:29) - And he said, Come.
Peter behaves exactly as Jesus tells him:
Peter stepped down from the boat, walked on water (not behave according to the word) to go to Jesus.
Next comes the fact that so many preachers love to falter, but the fact of the matter is that Peter walked on water!
AND MORE, NOT ONLY AS A WALK WITH JESUS WALKING BACK TO THE BOAT!
"Faith is a behavior!
"An attitude!
The paraplegia and PIANO
An elderly couple had a son, a paraplegic who lived in a bed, the boy was already a teenager and was in that situation since birth.
The room was all on the second floor of the house, the room was on the ground floor, there was a piano in the corner of great room.
Every day after the elderly couple take their coffee, her husband leave for work, his wife expected her husband to go out and climbed to the second floor where the boy was paralyzed.
Took the boy in her arms and down the stairs, putting the boy on a carpet of the room, it happened every day after her husband left for work, and her husband knew nothing about this fact.
The mother took the two ends of the carpet where the boy was and walked around the room from one side to another saying:
- Jesus MY SON'S POWER TO YOU WALK! WALK IN THE NAME OF JESUS BE CURED!
This actually happened for four long years without interruption after the departure of her husband to work.
In one morning while the couple slept, a piano sound woke them, they soon found that the sound came from the piano room.
Rose rapidly and were rushed to the stairs that led to the ground, frightened and with the piano sound increasingly leaned close to see who was playing the piano!
What was the surprise mixed with shock at seeing his son to bed now imprisoned before playing the old piano sitting in the family;
The father stood amazed as the mother approached to wander up to sit next to son on the piano.
Son, what happened, her mother asked?
"He replied:
- Mom, I was in my room like every night, and suddenly the door opened, he entered it, he approached my bed called me by name, he extended his hand and lifted me, with me down the stairs, satthe piano with me and taught me to play ...
GLORY TO GOD!
FAITH IS A PERFORMANCE!
AN ATTITUDE BY WHAT GOD SAYS!
That old mother did not give up until his miracle happened!
What ya been?
Learn what God says about your case and put into practice and get, get your miracle!
In Christ
Wagner Lize
