The Size of a Mustard Seed

You drove here. Many of you drove on the interstate, the turnpike. Others, you drove here on what? Maybe even a two- or four-lane road. And you met traffic, right? If you're on a two-lane road and you're driving, you meet someone. You're driving on a two-lane road from here to your house. You may come in passing contact with over a hundred to two hundred cars, right?

Does it ever cross your mind that someone in that other car is going to pull right in the lane in front of you? If you did, you'd be very nervous. Matter of fact, there are people who cannot even drive because that thought enters their mind quite often.

It does not enter most of our minds, does it? Why? It's an example of faith. We have faith because we've seen cars do it ever since we were small or young like Jonathan or Hannah. And so we just know it's going to be okay. Flying on an airplane requires faith, doesn't it? Faith in that pilot, faith in that airplane because you're 30,000 feet above ground, above water, and what's under you?

For me, it requires faith to get on a roller coaster. When I was younger, didn't think anything about it. My wife loves roller coaster. The faster, the higher, the bigger, the better. She just gets on. She loves it. Do it time and time again. The last one I can remember on her, I just kept looking around. When is this going to get over? And I kept looking for the maintenance guy because I wanted to see if he was a typical maintenance guy that was hungover from the night before, and he's the one that lubricated all those tracks and tightened those bolts, holding those cars together. Not a lot of faith on my part, but most people, there's faith in that. Bungee jumping requires faith in this cord, and then the person who has the cord set up. Skydiving. Scuba diving. Okay? We're girls back there scuba diving. I've never been scuba diving. But you're relying on the tank, you're relying on that oxygen. Otherwise, you're going to be dead, right?

We put our lives in other people's hands every day.

We have faith that everything's going to be okay by the end of the day, and we're still going to be here in one piece, right?

We have faith in things we can see. We see airplanes fly, we know they can fly. If I took you up to a 20-story building and said, fly, you're going to look at me like I'm crazy, right? What do you think 200 years ago, if people saw someone in some type of contraption flying? In 2 Corinthians 5 and verse 7, you don't have to turn there because I just want you to remember the Scripture. Paul is telling the people in the church at that time that he says, we walk by faith and not by sight. We walk by faith and not by sight. How many of us walk more by sight and less by faith?

If I'm honest, right?

I want to turn to John 20. I want to turn to John 20. I'll read from the New King James. I'll read John 20 and start in verse 24. We've got five verses here. Here Jesus Christ has died and been resurrected. And as we come to verse 24, it says, But Thomas, called Didymus, one of the twelve, was not with them when Christ came. The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord.

But he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my fingers in the print of the nails, and put my hand into his sight, I will not believe.

And after eight days, his disciples were again inside, and Thomas was with them this time. And Jesus came, the doors being shut, that just means he what? Miraculously appeared.

And stood in the midst and said, Peace to you, or Shalom. Then he said to Thomas, Reach your finger here and look at my hands, and reach your hand here, and put it into my sight. Do not be unbelieving, but be believing. And Thomas answered and said, My Lord and my God. He realized it really was him. Jesus said, Him, Thomas, believe.

Thomas, because you have seen me and have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.

So blessed are those who have not seen, and yet they believe in Jesus Christ. Christ was born of a virgin. He lived, he died, he was resurrected. Right? Yeah, everybody agree that? Yes. You didn't see it. You didn't see it. How do you know? How do you know?

There was no pictures, no Kodaks, no cell phones, to take a picture. We don't know.

You've only read or heard about it. It requires faith. It requires faith. You know, Mary's grandfather was in World War I. My grandfather was in World War II. I know when you add that up, she looks a lot younger than me, doesn't she?

I never met my wife's grandfather. She never met my grandfather. But we both believe they existed. We both believe they existed. To have faith, one must believe. Believe in something. Right? Last week, there was a prelude to this sermon about half empty, half full. By being positive or being negative, you have a choice. You make it every day. You make it every day when you wake up and get out of bed. It's either going to be a good day or a bad day. You have the choice. Even if bad things happen, it's your mindset. What are you going to do about it? And the goal was to get us all in a positive mindset. Because negative people rarely believe anything positive. Negative people have faith that the glass is half empty.

We don't want to be that way. You know, for us to have real faith, we must have real belief. To really believe in something, we must have what is called a belief system. It's what is formed in us.

Abraham was called the father of the faithful because he had a belief system. He believed God. It was simple as that. He believed God.

God became active in his life at 75 years of age. Perhaps he was before that time, but that's all we have from the Scriptures. And so he told Abraham, pick up, take your wife, and you're going to go and live an attempt for the rest of your life. You're going to be called a sojourner, a pilgrim. You're just going to wander around till you die.

And you know what he did? He did it. He picked up and left one of the biggest cities on the planet at the time, Earth.

And then he told him, your wife, when she's 90 years old, well, he didn't say 90, but your wife is going to get pregnant and she's going to have a baby. He didn't know when. He tried to take things in his own hands. But he did trust in God. So his belief system was, okay, who is this child?

And at 100 years of age, Isaac was born. And his wife was 90, which would be an amazing story today, being all the papers, being all the television shows, and they'd have evidence showing she was not really born 90 years before.

But he believed it. He believed it so much that when the child was born and got to a certain age, God said, take him out and I want you to cut his throat and kill him. And he believed, God, that this was the child of promise. So he would be resurrected in some way, shape, or form, right? He believed it because he said, me and the boy will go yonder and then we will return to you. So he knew.

Incredible amount of faith. He believed in the resurrection. Do we believe in God? Or do we believe God? See, there is a difference. Do we believe in God, which a lot of people do? Or do we not only believe in God, we believe God. We believe what he says and we believe he's active in our lives. Do we have the faith?

You know, it's important to have faith. But it's not only important, it's powerful. It's powerful to have faith that God asked us to have. Not always easy, but it's very powerful. Incredible. As a matter of fact, I'd like to go and let's see what God says. If you turn over to Matthew, Matthew 17, this incredible story that is given to us here, as I find Matthew 17.

And here was a story that happened right after the Transfiguration. Jesus Christ and his three disciples came down off the mountain, and there was a group of people gathered there with the other disciples, and they were all...some were angry, some were excited, some were like, we don't know what's going on, because this man brought this young man, his son, with a demon, and they asked the disciples to cast it out, because this is almost three years into Christ's ministry, so they knew it had happened. Chances are that he had heard it had happened. He knew these guys could do it. They did it before. When Jesus Christ and the three disciples come down, Peter, James, and John, this father's always asking, your disciples can't cast them out.

What's wrong?

And then we come to verse 20, because the disciples asked, why couldn't we do that?

And verse 20, so Jesus said to them, because of your unbelief, or if you look in the margin, little faith, because of your little faith, for surely I say in the other, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here, and it will move. And it's an incredible statement. Nothing, nothing will be impossible. Nothing will be impossible for you.

Now, the New Living Translation says, if you have faith, even as small as a mustard seed, a small amount of faith, right?

In the Greek, the original Greek, it says, as a grain of mustard seed, as a grain. So if you have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, nothing is impossible for you. So a small amount of faith is what? Huge. Huge. A small, just a small amount of faith is so huge for us. That's a lesson Jesus Christ is trying to teach you. Matter of fact, I'm going to have my assistant here. Do you mind coming up here? My assistant, Jonathan, who helps in so many of my sermons. Alright.

Jonathan is going to come by and ask you to take a grain, a mustard seed, out of this little container. Okay? I'd like you to take one, and I'd like you to take just one out and sit it on your table. Just like that right there. Okay? Because I want you to look at it the entire time this sermon is going on. Because Christ said, A.C. That if your faith is so small, you can barely see this. If you have faith, just a little bitty, little bitty, bitty, bitty, bit of faith. Nothing is impossible for you. So I'm going to have him do that. If you can do that, go to each person, let them take one out, and set it on the table in front of you. Because I want a visual. I want you to see just how small Christ's lesson is here for us. All it requires is a little bit of faith. Not easy, is it, faith? That's so small.

How much faith do you have? If we had a scale here where we could measure faith, we might be surprised at some people's level of faith. And we might be shocked by the lack of faith of others. Because it's a one-on-one thing with God. I can't tell how much faith you have. My wife cannot tell how much faith I have. I can't tell how much she has. Only God knows that faith, because that faith is in Him and His power.

So what is faith? Are we left here thinking, well, okay, what is faith? Well, there's no ambiguity in the Bible about faith. God didn't leave us hanging out here going, well, I'm supposed to have faith, and I just need a little of it, but what really is it? So I'd like you to turn there, where He describes it in Hebrews. The faith chapter, of course, Hebrews 11.

Hebrews 11, and it's laid out for us in verse 1. Hebrews 11 and verse 1. And from the New King James says, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Or as my margin says, faith is the realization of things hoped for, the confidence of things not seen. You may have a different translation that gives you some bit of understanding. So do we really understand this verse, exactly what faith is about? Faith in God. I want to make two statements to hopefully clear this point. I have faith, my first statement, I have faith that Mary's going to cook dinner tonight, and it's going to be the best meal I've ever eaten in my life. Right? I also make the statement, I have faith that Mary will prepare a good meal tonight.

Now, which is realistic? Great, but it's great.

Which is about me and my will. Which is about me and my will, because sometimes when we pray, as Namah says, and we pray and we hope for something, it is about kind of our will. Right? And if I want the best meal I've ever eaten, that's more about me and my will. And so many times when we pray and think we have faith that God's going to do something for us, we think about our will, our faith, kind of, and what we want more than His will and what He wants. Do you have faith in God's will? That He will answer it accordingly. And it's His will, not ours, just like Christ said, Father, let your will be done, not mine. That requires faith because He doesn't always answer, give us the answer, or why? Because how many people in here, without raising their hand, have actually said, you know, Father, if I won that lottery next week, I would tithe and tithe and tithe and they give you half of everything.

And then you're thinking, well, God is good for the church and is good for me. I will give the... I have faith that I'll win the lottery.

Is that real faith?

So how is your faith? Do you have real faith in God? You know, growing up, I had faith. I had faith in my parents, okay? When I was in Nathaniel's age, or Jonathan's, or Hannah, Lisa, I had faith in my parents.

I had faith that I was going to have a place to live. I had a bed to sleep in, and I was going to have food. Thank you, sir. Well, you didn't use many of them. You sure everybody got one? Okay. Did you get one? You didn't get one. Thank you, sir.

So I had faith that I had a bed to sleep in, and I had food to eat, and most of us did. And we really didn't think anything about it because we had true faith. We believed in the people that we could see, touch, hear, smell, taste. And when I was younger, I had faith in the police, okay? Because my parents taught me growing up that I needed to... You know, if there was trouble, we'd call the police. Well, over the years, kind of our faith in the police has kind of been tainted a little bit, hasn't it? As we read about corruption, like there is some in Miami, aha.

So our faith... Too many times is in the physical. I had no faith in a higher power when I was younger. No real faith. I didn't go to church. My parents talked about doing right or wrong, but nobody talked about God.

And then came a reality check. I was 13 years old.

I was 13, and my treasured grandmother dies. Loved her, she loved me, she was just the perfect grandmother. She died. First person I'd really been close to or even thought about that died. And four months later, my favorite grandfather died.

And it was a wake-up call to me. It made me realize that people I was close to could and would die. Which told me in my 13-year-old mind that my parents are going to die. Eventually. What do I do then? What do I really do then? Who will I turn to? Who will I have faith in?

And that's when God entered the picture. How old were you when God entered the picture in your life? We had a Bible study in West Palm Beach, and we asked that question. I think faith was there. I don't know whether Lewis was there. We went around the room and asked different people in the room how old. And it's amazing some people knew that he was active or entered the picture in their mind or entered the picture of their life when they were eight or nine years old. Some teenagers, some a little bit older, but most of them realized at a fairly young age as they look back now. That God was working with them. There's such a thing as called blind faith, and blind faith is not really faith at all.

Real faith involves a belief system. Now, I bring that up because, as the saying goes, to have real faith and not blind faith, you must know why you know what you know. Right? You must know why you know what you know. Then it's not blind faith.

There are many people who get worked up and walk the sawdust trail and come up and give their heart to Jesus, and the next day it's gone.

For a moment, they had a little faith, maybe. But it wasn't real faith. More blind faith.

Believing in an all-knowing, all-powerful God can be challenging to all of us. But it's not if you know why you know what you know.

See, real faith, according to Scripture, is an absolute necessity. As we're here in Hebrews 11, and after he tells us what faith is, God then comes down to verse 6 and basically says it's impossible to please God without faith.

Let me quote that correctly, since I did that off the top of my head. Without faith, Hebrews 11, verse 6, without faith it is impossible to please Him. Right? For He who comes to God must believe that He is. He is what? He's God! So you have to believe He is God. But He says He who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently do what? Seek Him. Seek Him. How many people are seeking Him? Maybe a whole lot more than we think. Do you limit God? Do you limit His power? I hope not. I love the quote. I love the quote because it's anonymous. Nobody knows. I guess nobody wants to take credit for it. But it says, God is God and nothing else is not. God is God and nothing else is not.

I think that's powerful.

See, faith is a big five-letter word. And Hebrews 11, 6 takes the burden from God. If we really read that, it's impossible to please God without faith. It takes the burden from God and puts it squarely on us.

But I don't want to leave out. Let's go back to John. Gospel of John. There's a couple verses here. John 6. John 6, verse 44. John 6 and verse 44 says, No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. Okay, now down in verse 65, he says it again. Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by my Father. So there is a calling. It happens.

God and Jesus Christ are involved in your calling, and they use the Holy Spirit, God's tool, that's involved as a teacher, it says a comforter, but also a helper. So it's the actual power and essence of God that he uses, so that he can be everywhere all the time.

So Hebrews 11.6, it's impossible to please God without faith, which makes me say, uh-oh.

Uh-oh, because that's a big statement.

Here, we know God is very loving and caring, and cares for us more than anybody will ever care for us, loves us more than anyone will ever love us. But it says, if we really want to please him, which I wanted to please my Father, my physical Father as much as I could, if I really want to please my spiritual Father, I must, I need this faith. Why did he say that? Because he puts the burden back on us. Is God going to be so displeased with me if I don't have faith, he's just going to give up on me and abandon me? No. See, if he said that if we will have this faith, nothing will be impossible. Remember that little seed you have in front of you? It's that small. If you can have that much, that small of faith in God, nothing will be impossible. You can move mountains if you want.

See, God wants us to have that faith for us. He wants, we would not struggle if we have that faith. Problems would come up and we'd go, no big deal, Dad's got it.

There would be issues that came up, a sickness came up, that's all right. Dad's in charge. Dad, can you take this?

That's why he wants us. It just isn't for us, because if you don't have faith, I'm going to come down on you. No, it isn't that. He wants us to have faith because it's best for us. We can do incredible things, going to remove all these mental burdens, going to remove physical burdens. Well, boy, I think I'd better work 60, 70 hours and 90 hours this week, because I got to pay for this.

Dad's in charge. That's the incredible thing about this faith. I want to go back to chapter 11 of Hebrews.

Chapter 11 again.

And verse 1. And I want to read this from the New Living Translation. So if you don't have it, just sit and listen, okay? Because it puts it a little differently. And we've heard...

It says, faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen.

Faith gives us assurance about things we cannot see. So how confident are you? That we... That everything we hope for will happen. Do you have assurance in the invisible? Because you can't see God.

No, he could manifest himself, but chances are you're not ready for it yet. I'm not either. Okay? But he says something in verse 3, and I read this from the New Living Translation because I like how they put it. It says, by faith, we understand that the entire universe was formed at God's command.

That what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen. Scripture things seen are proof of things unseen. As I went this morning, got up and did my prayer out by the ocean this morning, I looked out at that water, as far as I could see. I looked at the sky, I looked at the sky, I looked at everything and said, you are awesome. You made it all. And God, I thank you for making it all and that you use the Big Bang Theory to do it all.

Because science says you do.

No. I have faith. How did he do it? I don't know. I don't have... I got enough on my plate without saying, well, you know, I need to know exactly how he created it.

Yes. Even she wants to know.

One of the big questions in life, as Dr. Ward always says, by faith, we understand that the entire universe was formed at God's command. So how was the whole universe formed at his command? He spoke it and it happened. Okay? That's good enough for me. I have faith that God created what I'm looking at out there. Take away the pavement, which he also created the properties to be able to do that. So everything I see, it's proof of things that I can't see. I have that much faith. But how precious is what we know? I want to... I want you to go back to Luke, if you will. To go back to Luke. Because I think this may pass over some people and they really didn't see this, because it's such an incredible statement when it happens. Let's see... Luke... Oh, yes. Here, Jesus Christ is, as I get this, as I put this together, he's giving a, as I would say, a sermon or a message. Okay? He's been speaking for a little while. He's got quite a few people all around him. Like you might think of, as I always picture, even a rock concert or some type of concert where hundreds of thousands are gathered around. And they're listening to him. And this woman gets worked up as he's speaking, and literally, from the transcript, interrupts him, as she is so inspired about what he's teaching. And she says an incredible word. Woman cries out, Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breast which nursed you.

He kind of like concerts, you know, thank God. We love you, man! Yeah, in the middle of the starry eye, yeah, I love you, too. But it's amazing what Jesus Christ said. When she made that incredible statement, because you have to understand, women typically didn't speak up like that.

She didn't care. But then he makes this incredible statement, because how wonderful is that statement? You know, here, God had the choice of any woman in the world, of all the millions of women that lived in that town. He chose the perfect woman. May have been the only woman He could have chosen to give birth to His Son. And she was fantastic. She was a follower of Him at Pentecost. We know that. She raised Him. She did everything for Him. What a fantastic woman! And it was, we would think, how many of us would feel righteous enough if He wanted to do it again, to say, Yeah, use my wife, my sister, my friend. But Jesus Christ didn't go, He said, more than that. When she made that statement, how blessed is a woman, how blessed are the breasts, the inertia, He said, more than that. Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it. Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it. Incredible lesson. How blessed are we that we hear the Word of God and we keep it. How do we have faith? Remember, hearing the Word and keeping it. I want to go back to Matthew 14, if you will. Slowly get to the end here. Matthew 14.

Oh, Luke 11, 27, 28. Excuse me. Not any of them. Yes, my bad. That's just an incredible statement by Christ. But I wanted to look at a lesson in Matthew 14.

Matthew 14. This incredible teacher teaches about faith. And I want to tell this because we need to understand. Jesus Christ is the greatest teacher ever. The greatest example ever. If you want to be a good teacher, teach like He teaches. If you want to be a great servant, serve like He served. If you want to be as righteous as Christ, study His righteousness. What He said. How He answered things. But let's jump into Matthew 14, verse 13. We go through this little story here that Christ helps us understand about faith. And said, John the Baptist had been beheaded. The previous story, and so Jesus, He kind of went off by Himself. And then later on, it says in verse 13, When Jesus heard of it, He departed from there by boat to a deserted place by Himself. He needed time to Himself. But the multitudes heard of it, and they followed Him on foot from the cities. And when Jesus went out, He saw a great multitude, and He was moved with compassion for them and healed their sick. We have quite a few nurses in here today. Right? There's compassion. Otherwise, who in their right mind would do that job? Being around sick people all the time. Okay? Heard people. Right? But there has to be compassion. Right? You had compassion showed to Fernanda this week. They were very good when she had her surgery. Okay? When it was evening, His disciples came to Him saying, This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food. But Jesus said to them, They do not need to go away.

And then what did He say? You! You! Tally to His disciples! You! Give them something to eat.

Here was their chance. Here was their chance.

But what happened? They said to Him, We only have five loaves. If somebody gave me this little five loaves of bread, and there's actually three fish here, there's only two fish in that one. But it says, We have here only five loaves and two fish. And He said to them, Bring them to Me. Then He commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and His disciples gave it to the multitudes.

So they all ate and were filled. They got full. All you could eat. Mary cooked a nice meal last night. I had all I could eat. Okay, you know what it is. Can't eat any more. Okay, you may want more. That's gluttony, right? So we all have to, you know, everybody's great except me about just eating one piece of dessert last night. Okay, so they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained.

So they had all this stuff left over. Now, those who had eaten were about five thousand men besides women and children. Ten to fifteen thousand people were fed from two fish and five loaves of bread. Impossible, right? And who would have been impossible for the disciples? They were handing this all out. Ten to fifteen thousand people standing around there just keep giving food, and it just keeps reproducing itself. Twelve baskets picked up later. Incredible. Who? Peter was a fisherman. He knew two fish didn't feed fifteen thousand people. Right? He also was involved in handing it out.

He saw this incredible miracle. He had incredible faith. Because you know him. He was out there. He was a go-getter. Right? So what happens next in verse 22? Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side while he sent the multitudes on. Go ahead. You leave. You healed, you fall. Yep. Got everything. And when he sent the multitudes away, he went on a mountain by himself to pray, as he did quite often.

A good example to us sometimes, we just need to get away to the environment, not just to a room. Sometimes it's good to be out there and do that. And when evening had come, he was alone there. But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary, as mine says. Well, it shouldn't bother him. Half of them were fishermen, right? They knew what a contrary boat wind was and knew what a contrary boat was.

Right? Now, in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went to them walking on the sea. Somewhere between three o'clock and six o'clock. A.M. And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, it is a ghost! And they cried out for fear. But immediately, Jesus spoke to them and said, be a good shear. It is I, do not be afraid.

And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water. And what did he say? Come, come! And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. He was walking. He was walking on water. This is a man that grew up living on the water. He was a fisherman from a very young age. He knew you couldn't walk on water. You could swim on water. You could have a boat on water. But nobody walked on water. But what he had just seen a few hours before, eight hours, ten hours before, he had seen these baskets.

He had seen it defied logic. The impossible was possible because of a little fish and bread. They had 15,000 people. And if he could do that, I could walk on water because he said so. But 30, verse 30 says, But when he, Peter, saw that the wind was borscht, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, Lord save me.

Haven't we all said that a few times? Maybe even in the last couple weeks when we needed it. And immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught him and said to him, Oh ye of little faith, why did you doubt? Why did you doubt? Oh ye of little faith. Got your seed? That's all he required. He was walking on water because of that little big seed you're looking at because of faith beside that little big seed.

Hey, Sal, you almost had it. And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased, and then those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, Truly, you are the Son of God. We need to have confidence. We need to be positive. We need a positive attitude. But brethren, we need just a little faith.

I'm not saying I'm asking you to move a mountain. I'm asking you. I'm asking myself. I'm asking all of us. We need this little faith.

Just that little. It will not only transform your life, it will transform your world. It's what he was telling them.

See, it's more than seeing. Peter saw. Doubting Thomas saw. It's more than physical. It's a spiritual aspect. John, turn over to John 10. John 10. John 10, I want you to have this scripture to think about, because it's just one scripture in John 10, but it is so powerful because of what it says. In John 10, verse 27, Jesus Christ answered them and said, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. Very simple. Just a couple of lines. But he said, this is the key. This is the key for my sheep. And then he says, there's three pointers. There's three signs that you can have this. Because first he says, My sheep hear my voice. How does he hear my voice? You read his word. Man, you're not lived by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. You hear the voice. You read his word. My sheep, they hear my voice. One. Number two, I know them. He says, I know them. Jesus Christ knows his sheep. Does he know you? How do you know someone? Usually takes communication, doesn't he? He gets to know you because you talk to him.

You see, so many times when we pray, we talk to God. But when he talks to us, it's through our Bible sin. It's when he talks to us as we're moved. And then finally, the third one, they follow me. Whatever I lead them to do when they come to a verse and you say, well, I've read this 20 times and now it's just so new. What's he doing? He says, follow me. We need to take it and apply it. The last verse as we wrap up today. And the scripture I'd like you to chew on, you don't even have to turn there. Don't even have to turn there. Turn there later. Because it kind of backs up what I've been saying. It's in Romans 10, verse 17. As Paul is teaching the Romans who believed in all these gods, they had all these things out there. But they still had doubts. But then he makes this incredible statement about faith. And you know what he says? He says, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

You want faith? Just a little bit? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

As that man that was crying out at the foot of the Transfiguration Mountain because his son had a demon that the disciples couldn't get rid of. And he was crying out, please help when they could not cast out that demon. And Jesus Christ cast it right out. But before he did, he said, do you believe? He said, do you believe? And he said, I believe. Help my unbelief. Father, is that us?

Child, we want just that. Help my unbelief. Chew on that this week. For six days, I give you food for six days, no more. Faith, word is a strong word. Today, we have waited in the stream of faith. Rather than it is deep water. We've just waited in it. It's very deep water. You know, we cannot swim in deep water after one sermon. That's why part two will be next week, next Sabbath. Because last week was a prelude. As it talked about the positive, we need to get our attitude right. Now we need faith. We know we need faith. I need more faith because it culminates on the day of Pentecost. It's an incredible day when His Holy Spirit was given the Mass. Because it's a feast of miracles. It's time we had some miracles in the Church of God. It's time we had miracles in our lives that have never happened before. So next week, I want to give you some strong visuals of faith in Christ's ministry. They're recorded lessons just for us, telling us to keep the faith. Just the size of a mustard seed.