that's what I want to be uh talking about this morning is is uh is Faith and so um the reason is and I think booi would agree with me I don't want any of us to be deceived and think

focused on the importance of belief of Faith do you believe that Jesus is praying for you and then you have the question well Josh what is he praying what is Jesus's burden right now and it's not that you never fail it's that your faith

faithful. Galatians 5:5 we read, "For we through the spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of

the world the law of gravity holds things down there's a law int scripture which says according to your faith be it unto you so if you

which he was in because they had faith and these people didn't the difference wasn't the complexity of the problem the difference wasn't oh he's dead he's still alive I can solve this problem I can't solve that problem that's not what

conduct, love, faith, and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this word you have given to us. I pray as

allotted right i don't want that spirit lord i want to be faithful in what little time that you've given to me i want to be a servant i want to be a nobody and i'm fine with whatever boundary you give me i want that attitude

remember it all right I'm getting a lot of non-movement so we'll go over it anyway I'll soon never heard it before right it tells us that you know being faithful in money or unrighteous Mammon or whatever translation you look at that that is how

you for the way it exhorts us and corrects us and shows us where our thinking may be off Lord give us a childlike faith that sings the song by our life of your light of Your Love of your mercy your compassion to a Dying

valuable through it. I'm going to test you. I'm going to use that to be the tool by which if you're faithful in that, you'll discover what's truly valuable. Now, the world stops at the money itself and says that money and

I will not join the 600,000 who say no no these sins are too powerful to conquer very important to understand it how do i strengthen my faith the Bible says faith comes by hearing Romans 10:17 and hearing by the word of Christ which

Luke 16 and verse 11 and 13 here it says if you therefore have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous mammon then

were on the same page and so we looked at four scenarios involving donkeys and the the first scenario was where we we were pretended that we were balaam and suddenly we have this donkey that is talking to us and correcting us and it's a faithful

Lord, for I'm a a sinful man." You know, he's he's uh just, you know, so taken up with his own sinfulness when he encounters Jesus. Yet, you know, another story, he has faith to go out on the water and when he, you know, to walk out

faith who for the joy set before him and I bolded that Jesus was focused on the joy before him when he endured the cross despising it shame and he sat down at the right hand of the Throne of God and we're commanded to consider Jesus like

of you do. Some of you are nodding. So, faith, the very faith, the very trust and belief in Jesus comes from hearing, right? Hearing and hearing by the word of Christ. Why do I believe in Jesus? Well, the Bible, the Bible tells me

nothing happened I said Lord I will I will never give up Christianity you love me I'll live for you but I'll stop preaching actually said that way back in 19 74 I said I will never give up my Christian faith or my love for you I

the other verse. I said two verses. I said the other one will be Luke 16:11. You know this one? Yeah. It's the one that tells us that money if we're if we're faithful in it. And when you think of faith, you know, when I say, "Do you believe in God or do

the faith of Old Covenant people we admire them sure we admire great men of God in the Old Testament greatest of all was John the Baptist where a spotless record unlike most of the others

do with my five talents Lord I got 100% profit from it I used it completely For Your Glory great M um well done you were faithful in a few things I put you in charge of many

Jesus said he who is faithful in a very little things is faithful also in much.

cross you and I may never die physically for our for our faith but you know that this is what it means to take up your cross and unless you're willing to take every cross and follow Jesus you cannot you may say that you're a