so yesterday we did we did look at faith and we looked at uh what it what it's faith and how what is faith and how you get it today i want to um again emphasize that faith in essence if i was to use one phrase to describe faith it's

and in your place of work did you live in faithfulness then even if your words are broken words and you can't sing in tune and we don't have good musical instruments it's a tremendous offering of praise and thanksgiving to God we never want to

And today we're going to start by we're going to take a series of going through all of these three things that we've considered, faith, hope, and love. And I'm going to begin by talking about faith today and we'll continue talking about faith some

word of God to you and considering the result of their conduct imitate their faith follow their faith Paul said in 1 Corinthians 11:1 follow me as I follow

dressed up like christ and they've got the beard and the long hair and all that like you know christ is drawn in pictures but their cardboard cutouts turn them sideways and there's no depth to them and so if one of these areas faith hope

Romans 8:29 and make it faith and life in you by believing it. Said, "Lord, you said it and you don't have to try to analyze it and uh just take it simply as it's written." And then allow God to as it were

us and I hope that through these meetings that brother Matthew and others have been organizing you are receiving faith that God has a plan for your life and he's going to finish it brother Matthew asked me if also in

friend today he speaks to me in my spirit and and I talk with him throughout the day he has carried me Faithfully through many ups and downs in my life there were many times in my life when I thought I wasn't sure how I was going to

to you this is what the Bible calls Faith see before we came to Jesus we all had hard Stony Hearts you can say a

problem in Jesus Christ then we saw that even though the free gift is available to everyone we must still receive it in Repentance and in faith that still hasn't fully solved the problem however

the things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses and trust these to Faithful Men so Timothy is second generation he's saying Timothy whatever you heard from me pass it on to a third generation Faithful Men Who will be able to teach a

putting food on my plate spiritual food and I'm feeding off of that Monday afternoon and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday and Saturday the bowl of flowers shall not be exhausted if you have faith this is God's promise

lot of faith. You the faith that God gave him he used to be a blessing to many, and he ran an orphanage. And I believe many in that orphanage who would not have otherwise come to know Christ came to know Christ.

example, God also created the earth. But the earth can never choose. The earth can never disobey him. In fact, since the time that God created it, the earth has faithfully obeyed God going around

spirit in our lives now his faith is assaulting this highly congested humans it's the anointing of the holy spirit that keeps us fresh and um excited about following jesus no matter how long we live on this earth it doesn't matter how long the lord

Today, it is God and money. And God forbid the day when CFC starts to chase after money like 99% of other churches. I believe in faith it will not happen, but why is it that these people

read that story and lowered him in and it says there in verse 5 that Jesus saw their faith and healed this paralytic man I've always been challenged that this is how I ought to come to the church meetting meeting this is how I ought to consider

sisters, dear young people, dear children, that is our destination. That little by little, from faith to faith, from glory to glory, I am getting closer and closer and closer and closer to the point where one day, when he see when I see him, when we see

the elementary teachings you've heard about forgiveness and repentance from dead works and faith towards god now you should press on to maturity good message for us as young people um and then he talks about how this jesus is a is a priest and a king

that this will be true like i said yesterday for any of you that have faith for it that tomorrow morning you're going to have a a youth camp of your own on your bed when you wake up in the morning with you you and the holy spirit

offended that they can't speak for more proud people the humble people say you know i don't even think i have 120 seconds worth of stuff to say but i have 30 seconds and i want to be faithful to give that 30 seconds and

time for a while because she had cancer you probably heard of billy graham who would serve the lord faithfully i believe according to my knowledge of his life and ministry uh for 99 years almost 100 he would have been 100 in october

faith god has special plans for you and it says in ephesians 1 he chose you before the foundations of the world that means you look around at the earth

so that i will repent even more and humble myself even more and have even more dependence on you so that you can conform me so that you can finish the work but i do have this faith i tell you dear brothers and sisters because i live in