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Where Is Your Faith Series
Contributed by Rico Tuloy on Jul 15, 2015 (message contributor)
Summary: Jesus was looking for Faith because when Faith is Gone the meaning of being a believer is gone also
Text: Luke 8:22-26
Title: Where is Your Faith?
Intro:
This question was asked by Jesus to His disciples….
Because of their horrifying deadly situation….
It was asked by Jesus to the believers….it was asked by Jesus to His followers
Where is your Faith?
Why Jesus asked where is your faith?
Because He has given us faith…
He did something for us to believe in Him…
He had shown us His power…
He had shown us His greatness…
He had shown us that He can do the impossible…
“‘If you can'?" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for one who believes."
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Think of impossible things….
Because impossible things will create doubts…
And doubts will erase Faith…
But Jesus said: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD
Dead is impossible to live again but Jesus made Lazarus live again
Blindness is impossible to see again but Jesus made Bartimeus born blind man to see again
Lame is impossible to walk again but a man begging for money in the temple walked again
These are some of many miracles and wonders God made so that we will believe in Him…
Faith is not…God do something now and I will believe you….
Faith is…God I believe in you…..
Why Jesus Asked Where is your Faith…
Because Jesus saw His Disciples
Fear
Doubts
Hopelessness
Defeats
Negatives
Peaceless
Anxiety
Worry
Live in the edge
Where is Your Faith?
22 One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out.
23 As they sailed, he fell asleep. A storm came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger.
24 The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!”
He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm.
25 “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples.
In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”
Like of the disciples….they had experienced what we have experience today in our life…
Maybe we are not in the boat in the midst of storm..
But we are in the situation in the midst of storm….
We are in the Family na ang gulo
We are in the situation na ang pera ay tama lang o kinakapos pa
We are in the monthly situation na bayaran na naman…
Kakatakot kaya…
WHERE IS YOUR FAITH?
Because Faith in God will free you from that situation…
Where is your Faith?
I. Faith in the other Side of Life
22 One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out.
Jesus told His disciples lets go to the other side of the lake…
To the other side of life…
To the other situation of life..
We call that the reality of life…
When there is laughter…..the other side is crying
When there is happiness…there is loneliness
When there is joy….there is sadness
When there is love…there is hate
When there is success…there is failure
When there is fulfillment…there is disappointment
When someone is born…someone will die…
These are the other side of life…
Jesus said: Let us go to the other side…
Jesus brought His disciples the other side of life…
Jesus was with them to the other side of life…
No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Psa 139:8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
Psa 139:9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
Psa 139:10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
Psa 139:11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
Psa 139:12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
God is here when you are hurting
