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1 | What did Jesus mean by this | Mark 9:23 | Asis | 91475 | ||
Good Evening Ken Jesus was stating the power of faith. Even a faith as a mustard seed, which is a very small seed, is capable of doing whatever we say. We can speak to our troubles in faith and see them move. Faith even mustard seed faith can move mountains. Matthew 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. [KJV] Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. [KJV] Mark 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [KJV] Mark 11:22-24 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. [23] For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. [24] Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. [KJV] Luke 17:6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you. [KJV] John 14:12-15 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. [13] And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. [14] If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. [15] If ye love me, keep my commandments. [KJV] John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. [KJV] John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. [KJV] The reality of wonder-working faith is that our hearts are after Jesus so our words are according to our love for Him. It is not about selfish things it is about asking for God things. In Christ Asis |
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2 | What did Jesus mean by this | Mark 9:23 | Ken hepting | 91510 | ||
Good morning to all----Thanks for such a quick response and I must be honest that my asking this question is to try to understand where everyone is in their thinking about some of this that we read in the Bible that is difficult to grasp in light of all that comes against us in this fast food spiritual economy we live in.. I probably ought to ask the question again but this time bring to our rememberances where are to be living spiritually for effective faith be made real. Not that we aren't to have a faith of our own but, as I stated elseware, where do we let our faith end and the faith of Jesus Christ begin in our lives? If we say we surrender all to Him then it only makes sense that we are giving over everything of ourselves to the Master for His good pleasure and for His purposes of promoting Himself, through our obedience to Him, to the rest of the world. We, by our faith believing in Him, place ourselves on His 'wheel'. This is a sacrificial act on our part, 'Shall the clay then say to the potter, 'hey, what are you doing'? No, I believe the scriptures are quite clear in saying OUR faith should be alive to Him [because of hearing His word, Rom. 10.17] that His faith, now made alive in me, even as the size of a grain of mustard seed, would be sufficient for all the power we need of Him in THIS life. It is His FAITH we now live by when we take into ourselves the new nature He gives us, i.e., Himself, and not just His Faith. My faith, brought into existance in my OLD nature, takes me to Him who enters me with HIS nature/Himself. One of the two natures MUST decrease. It shouldn't His. John the baptist, who typifies this, said in Jn.3.30 "He must increase, but I must decrease". John, the old nature, Jesus, the new. John the old way of life, Jesus, the new way of living. One more thing to note in this: Jesus had the MIND of the Father at all times. So when He enters us with His nature He also brings the Mind of His Father with Him. Now when we read: Phil 5.5 "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" we can see something very great has happened to us that needs to be sorted out in our thinking. That's why Paul says in Phil 2.12: "... work out your own salvation with fear and trembling"; salvation in this sense not pertaining to eternal life but a coming out of the world's way of doing business, even business for Him. We can not have an adulterated mixer of our mind and His mind in His affairs. I repeat, they are His affairs. There's more to say on this subject that will exite you to greater heights in Him if you can get a hold of this part of it. Good hunting in Him, Ken |
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3 | What did Jesus mean by this | Mark 9:23 | Asis | 91589 | ||
Ken Why would God honor a faith that comes from our "Old Man" to bring into exixtance our new nature when He says in Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. [KJV] Doesn't this verse tell us if it is of our making then it is like filthy rags to God? Asis |
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4 | What did Jesus mean by this | Mark 9:23 | Ken hepting | 91606 | ||
Please consider what Jesus said to the woman in: Luke 8.48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: your faith hath made you whole; go in peace. Here he is speaking to an obviously unsaved woman who's faith took her to Him for Healing [salvation]. Question: How do we get faith established into our 'old nature' sufficient to bring us to Christ for His healing [salvation]? Doesn't the Bible say that "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God." We can carry this to the next dimension and readily state that that is how we continually take Christ's faith into ourselves AFTER He "heals" us [salvation] and by the fact of the new birth experince, only now it is He, Himself, THE WORD, Jesus, who is our faith that we must live by! ACTS 17.28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being;...... For we are also his offspring. |
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5 | What did Jesus mean by this | Mark 9:23 | Asis | 91648 | ||
The faith that we have comes from us. Then when we believe it comes from Jesus. What about Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. [KJV] Do you think the faith that Jesus saw in those people whose infirmities he healed was faith given them by God? Peter call Jesus the Messiah and Jesus said that knowledge came from God not man. Couldn't God have given those who believed that Jesus was the Messiah the faith required to believe He could heal the diseases? Now that we believe God, when we hear the word faith comes and we appropriate it. We make part of us and call it my faith. Are we not also to be established in righteousness given us just because we believe God (Romans 3:21-22) Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. [KJV] Jesus told us to have the "God kind of faith" Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. [KJV] Literally, "Have the faith of God." Such is possible or it would not be a command. Man was created with God's faith but doubt entered in at the fall (Genesis 3:1-7). Faith is restored in the new birth and if normally exercised and maintained it will grow to fullness and power (Romans 1:5,17; Romans 10:17; Galatians 2:20; Col. 1:23; Col. 2:6-7; 2 Thes. 1:3; 2 Peter 1:1-5). Dakes Annotated Bible Just something to think about. Asis |
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6 | What did Jesus mean by this | Mark 9:23 | Ken hepting | 91651 | ||
The faith that we have comes from us. Then when we believe it comes from Jesus. What about Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. [KJV] Measure of the faith of Christ, John. |
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