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A Closer Look At Luke 17:5-10, Increase Our Faith
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Feb 20, 2025
visit https://tayibs.com/ The Lord has led me into a quest to understand the meaning of “Faith”. We’ve looked at several passages in the Old testament in the past weeks but today, we’ll be looking at an account recorded for us in the book of Luke, Chapter 17: 5-10. Be sure to watch the video below in its entirety. References: Luke 17:5-10 Acts 3: 11-16
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hello good morning on this is ty he
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bought items calm and today we're gonna
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look at Luke 17 verses 5 to 7 and the
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title of the messages increase our faith
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a closer look in the last like six
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months I've been looking at the word
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faith and the concept of faith and what
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it means and I don't think I quite have
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grasped all of it yet because the Lord
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keeps stretching my understanding about
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it and I'm here this morning to to tell
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you more about every game I don't know
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if you've looked at my surrounded the
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past messages that I've shared if you
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haven't please do go on my website is
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called types calm ta Y IBS calm and you
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can watch my previous lectures on it now
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today we're gonna look at Luke 17 verse
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5 to 7 and the premise to this is our
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Hebrews 11 verse 6 he says without faith
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it's impossible to please God because he
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who comes to God must believe that God
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exists and got God rewards those who
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earnestly earnestly seek after him so
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for me is what does that mean because if
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faith pleases God then I want to have
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faith so the question is do i acquire
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fits by just mustering up enough
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strength to just say I want to have
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faith oh how does faith come about so
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those have been the questions in my mind
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and and and God showed me completely how
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little I understood what he meant to
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have faith so today we're gonna look at
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another chapter in Luke 17 verse 5 to 7
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to get to get us to understand this even
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better okay so follow on my screen and
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I'm gonna go to the next slide so the
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background like I said I've already told
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you about it so now let's just look at a
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passage and we're gonna ask a couple of
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questions so I'm gonna I might have to
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let me just lower this a little bit and
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just go on the Bible app and we can read
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from here so it looks 17 verse 5 to 10
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okay so this is what a passage is says
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are the Apostles said to the Lord
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increase our faith and
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God said if you had faith like a grain
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of mustard seed you could say to this
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mulberry tree be uprooted and planted
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EBC and he will obey you and then he
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goes on to expand on that he said will
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any one of you who has a servant plowing
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or keeping sheep say to him when he has
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come in from the field come at once and
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recline at table will he not rather say
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to him prepare supper for me and dress
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properly and serve me while I eat and
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drink and afterward you will eat and
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drink does he thank the servant because
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he did what was commanded so you also
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when you've done all that you were
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commanded say we are unworthy servants
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we have only done what was our duty so
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this is the background and now let's go
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back to the slides and unpack this a
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little more now here's the question that
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I have in the next slide here let's get
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to that if this is gonna load up a
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little quicker so the question is what
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does the disciple question and imply and
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what is our reveal when Jesus respond to
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their question so they said master
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increase our faith so if they are asking
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Jesus to increase their faith their
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assumption is they have faith that's
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what they have something they say we
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have faith what we want you to increase
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it right so when they are asking that
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question
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the implication is they assume that they
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have faith they've already had it that's
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what is with me
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so Jesus responded verse 6 of Luke 17
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with if you had faith like a grain of
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mustard seed you could say to this
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mulberry tree be uprooted and planted in
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the sea and he will obey you
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now why does Jesus revealed by saying
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this now Jesus is telling the disciples
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that they don't even have faith because
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if they even had a scintilla of faith
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they could have orderly tree and it's we
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will obey them so he's telling them if
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you even had faith as small as a mustard
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seed which is one way the most small
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thing that you will ever see a mustard
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seed I have one in my kitchen right now
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I can show it to you in a second okay
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let me let me pull it out so let me pull
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your screen a little fatter and you can
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see see
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this is as much a mustard seed I don't
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know if you can see that small it is
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having Mahaney can you see these are
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small in most obsidian very very small
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so Jesus is telling the disciple if you
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had faith are small as a mustard seed
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you can say to this tree be uprooted and
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planted into the sea and it would obey
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you so by talking to the disciple he is
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telling them you don't even have that
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much faith you don't even have a
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scintilla of faith because if you had
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faith you could have already tree and
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will obey you now let's go onto the next
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slide and we're gonna unpack this a
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little more so why did you just say that
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and we're gonna understand the relation
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with the origin of faith okay i underst
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we're gonna try to see what all this
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means
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so Jesus made the statement involved to
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teach the disciples that faith is a
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result of God through His Holy Spirit
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working in a person to will and act
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according to his purpose and to make his
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point clear he gives them this parable
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that I'm gonna read to you he says will
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any of you who has a servant plan or
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keeping sheep Satan when he has come in
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from the field come at once and recline
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at table we Lena rather say to him
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prepare supper for me and dressed
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properly and serving while I eat and
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drink and afterward you will eat and
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drink does he think that serve him
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because he did what was commanded so you
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also when you have done all that you
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were commanded say we are unworthy
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servants we have only done what was our
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duty
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basically God is saying this if we can
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do anything good at all
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whether we preach teach sing work hard
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feel feeling anything you want is
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because God made it possible by creating
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in us his desires and purpose for the
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perfecting of his will so we can take
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zero credit because every good and
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perfect thing begins with God and ends
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with God for God's own glory so that
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servant when God gives the command in
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this in this passage here when he says
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own prepare supper for me and and and go
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and serving when I drink and eat and
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after what you eat and drink the servant
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came thank the is master because he did
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what was commanded because God creates
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water coming
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so when God gives the command he happens
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see in Luke 5 verse 5 to 6 when Peter
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went fishing that he couldn't catch any
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fish Jesus tells them throw the net to
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the right side and he said we've toiled
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all night and we've caught nothing but
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at your word I would do so so basically
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God spoke it and and and and Peter had
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to obey do you understand it
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okay so when God gives us command he
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said you shall be holy and when we
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become holy we don't take credit because
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God spoke it and the result was we
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obeyed it okay so that's why he's saying
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we've only done our duty because God
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speaks and he happens the same thing
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with the Roman centurion he says Jesus
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say the word and my servant will be
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healed
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so Jesus spoke the word and the servant
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was healed so who takes credit Jesus
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because Jesus speaks so when we obey
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God's command is because he's molded our
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hearts to obey his commands so we can't
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take credit for it
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you understand that this is a difficult
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concept to understand but I'm hoping
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that this is making sense to you because
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obeying God's command is because God
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create in us the capability to obey so
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when we obey and do good works it's not
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because we are trying to show God that
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we can obey much because he worked in us
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to will and act according to his purpose
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he says in Isaiah somewhere that my work
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my my words will not return to me for it
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but when God sent His Word he
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accomplished his purposes so when God
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tells me today type we shall stop being
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unholy I will obey not because I want to
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but because God created a design me
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through His Holy Spirit to obey the
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command so God Himself kept the glory so
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this is why without faith it's
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impossible to please God so when the
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disciple were challenged Jesus increase
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our faith they were assuming that they
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could produce that faith and he was
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trying to tell them you can't leave him
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put his faith apart from me because he
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says apart from me you can do nothing so
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if anything is possible at all is
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because of God so faith is a result of
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God himself birthing our faith in us by
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his word because scripture says faith
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comes by
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hearing and hearing by the Word of God
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so God speaks and he gives off the
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sensibility to hear and to respond to it
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and then we respond my faith by God's
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Word because he spoke the word and
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things happen let there be light and
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there was light it's the same process
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now the disciples understood exactly
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what he was saying because if you look
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at the next chapter we're gonna look at
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something else here I'm gonna show you
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exactly what happened in acts 3 okay
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knocks on Chapter three she just had
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left already the Holy Spirit came on
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Pentecost and then the disciples are
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going to the UM they are going to the
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temple to worship and there's a beggar
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there has been like asking for alms or
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like that's all he's been doing so Peter
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looks at him alongside John and says in
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the name of Jesus Christ rise up and
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walk right and he took him by the right
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hand and the man leaped up now when that
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happened listen to what Peter says next
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okay people are coming and they are like
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praising God and saying all these things
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and Peter takes the opportunity to
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explain what faith means in there right
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he says and when Peter saw saw it he
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addressed the people men of Israel why
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do you wonder this or why do you stare
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at us as though by our own power or
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piety we've made him walk so Peters
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giving proper glory to God Peter says
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the God of Abraham the god of Isaac and
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the God of Jacob the god of Our Fathers
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glorified his servant Jesus whom you
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delivered over and denied in the
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presence of Pilate when he had decided
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to release him but you denied the holy
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and righteous one and asked for a
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murderer to be granted to you and he
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killed the author of life whom God
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raised from the death and and this is
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the point lying this is - this we are
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witnesses and his name by faith in his
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name has made this man strong whom you
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see and know and a faith that is true
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Jesus has given this man this perfect
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health in the presence of you all so
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basically Peter understood exactly what
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was going on he said I'm going to the
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point where I did this today not because
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of my own piety or my own abilities but
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by faith in his name so God spoke the
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word to Peter
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saying go touch this man and heal this
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pain and Peter obeyed because Peter had
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no option he understood what Jesus
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parable meant at a time look when you
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said you also when you do everything
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that you've been told to do say we are
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unworthy servant Peter got it because he
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knows if I heal this man today it's not
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because I have this kind of piety of
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this kind of faith no it's because God
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created the faith in me by working in me
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to win and act according to his good
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purpose which is go and touch that man
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he will be healed so therefore I've only
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done my duty because God spoke the word
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and I obeyed by faith by hearing so God
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himself prepared Peter
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so Peter understood it so he lived in
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freedom he wasn't afraid anymore he was
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just moving alongside on the Holy Spirit
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but because the Holy Spirit lived in him
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and with him so he was able to do all
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this because God spoke and he happened
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so that takes away our abilities
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thinking we can kind of muster up his
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kind of faith to make things happen now
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it's not from you as now from years
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enough for me it's God Himself must
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speaks into a person st. iiep go do this
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thing and now and when things happen I
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can thank God say I'm thankful that you
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are using me to do this thing that
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you're doing so I respond by faith I
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respond because he creates the desire in
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me to respond so I take no credit you
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see so if I can even do these videos and
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understand scripture is by faith so God
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speaks the time you shall listen to this
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passage you shall read it you shall
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understand it and you shall share it
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with people I'm not a robot but God's
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Spirit works in me to will enact
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according to his purpose so it's not a
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robot is understanding these things
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because the Spirit of God Himself is in
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my spirit pouring into me so that I can
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obey and hear and see the sweetness of
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Jesus you see what I'm saying so faith
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comes by hearing and hearing by the Word
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of God so God creates the faith in you
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God creates the desires in you and you
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respond because he commanded it so he
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gets the glory and we get to say to
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people I am an unworthy servant so if I
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can do this on this computer now is
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because I'm no worthy servant I'm all
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responding and I'm only doing my
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it's out of love because he creates that
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desire in me and I thank him for using
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me for our purpose so hopefully this
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makes sense to you and I'm sure and this
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is the time where a lot of people are
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confused with the coronavirus for I will
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invite you to just dig deep and and then
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seek the Lord as he gives the desire to
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seek Him and thank you for for Korean
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that desire in you all right thanks
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again and I'll see you next time