Two Huge Words

Hopefully I can keep all this this straight. So, the title of today's message is two huge words, two huge words for Christians, for believers in a higher power, intelligent design, a creator God, or even a God who walked on earth for 33 years. It's two words that I would encourage you to eliminate from your vocabulary, from your life. As a matter of fact, this Bible is built on the belief that these two words don't apply to members' mindset. We need to have our minds rewired, reprogrammed, and be thankful to know they're not curse words. So, but they are words that we need to look at and make sure we understand everything that goes on. The very first word of these two huge words, the very first word is impossible. Impossible! Maybe you use that word quite often. Maybe it's something that you, it's just part of your vocabulary. Oh, can I finish this job? Your boss needs you to do something. Oh, can you finish by two o'clock today? Well, that's impossible. Or, can I get across town in 10 minutes? Oh, that's impossible because of traffic. We use the word quite often, but if you think about it, if you were alive 200 years ago and you were standing there on a very clear night and you saw that beautiful moon shining, you would think, I wonder what it's like on the moon? I wonder if I could ever go to the moon. For everybody, they would use the word impossible. Now, 200 years later, we have gone to the moon. We're going back. We've been back quite a few times. So it wasn't impossible to go to the moon. Many people will tell you things that they view as impossible that we later find out what. It was possible. It's not impossible to do this, to go there, to to understand that. I know there was a movie in 2019 called The Aeronauts, and it was very good movies based on a true story, except they did in case you watched the movie. Again, it's about an air balloon that goes up 30,000 feet. It's the first time that had ever happened. What was interesting was they changed out one of the main characters. They put a woman in. Instead of being two men, it was a man and a woman. This made you understand in the 1860s, when this went down, how impossible it was to travel into space as they almost died. As they got up that high, they almost froze to death. It told their story. For most people to fly as we get on airplanes and come to the feast in the Caribbean every year, most of us, or a lot of you do, even 50 years ago, that would have seemed impossible to just be flying like we would have a bus or a car or anything else.

I read something the other day from an expert, and he was referring. He's a very educated man. He made the statement that it is impossible to know that there is a God. Let me say that again. He said it is impossible to know there is a God. Well, we're here today because we believe in a God. We also believe there is a God, and we believe that He is who He says He is in the pages of our Bibles.

Do you really have the faith to believe in God, that He's active and working in your life? Isn't that what this weekend is all about? Isn't that what Pentecost is all about? That's the time that the Holy Spirit was given in mass to God's called out on the ecclesia, the church? I hope so. I hope that's what we understand, and that things seen are proof of things unseen, as Hebrews 11.1 tells us. Things seen are proof of things unseen. So we look around wherever we're at, and okay, did this just magically appear? How I am able to talk to you today, possessors, 1650 miles away, and you're able to see my picture, you're able to hear me, we're able to communicate. How did that just magically appear? When we look around the planet, when you see how an airplane is designed, and the aerodynamics, and everything, did that just happen? No, it was created because those things seen are proof of things unseen because somebody did something. And as we know, God has created the beautiful palm trees that are in the back, the ocean that so many people in the Caribbean live near. He created all this. We typically do not have doubt about that fact, but it's interesting the same expert said, we live in a world that requires proof.

He says, we live in a world that requires proof. You just can't tell me there's some God out there, and I'm supposed to believe it, that this magic word that comes across as faith is what we need.

We live in a world that requires proof, yet I must say the same world that believes Darwin's theory of evolution, because it is a theory, this world that demands proof, got their beliefs or all these thoughts from from the book Origin of Species, that we magically, or somehow, they don't say magically, but somehow they evolved from slime on the ocean, that land, and then this changed, and this changed, and this changed. So, 14 billion years later, after supposedly the Big Bang, and all these things came about, 14 billion years later, we now have the capability to go to the moon, to go into space. Elon Musk has started his own company going into space. Branson started his own company. So, but this started from, as Darwin said, the changing of cells, and so we just evolved into this incredible creature that we are here now, because then that eliminates a god. That eliminates a intelligent designer, a higher power, a, as we call it, creator god. I hope you find this interesting, because I do, because I've studied it, but Darwin's book came out in 1859, I believe, 1859, 1860, and it took a few years for it to pick up pace and begin to people buying into it, but pretty soon, within a hundred years, the majority of the people in the world, they accept evolution of some type or form, and they believe it more than they believe the pages of this book.

They believe that there can be an animal that can then change its complete cell structure, its molecular structure, and go from one creature to another creature, which, a hundred years ago, we didn't understand the cell structure. We didn't understand molecules as we do now. Now, with the advancement, and just in the last 20 years, it's off the charts how much more we know about the molecular structure of a cell, about atoms, about proteins, about amino acids, that the experts in each field have been studying these, and they always thought, because of the theory of that Darwin put out, that, well, you can't say that we didn't evolve because it was possible. You can't say it wasn't, it wasn't possible, because if you take all these things that can happen, and then you take it back far enough, which they had to do 14 billion years to go back, that things could evolve. And you put some of the numbers together, and you could find that it's possible. And so everybody said, well, yeah, I guess that's more possible than there being a creator God. And that's why we have evolution taught as it is today. But something's happened in the last even five to ten years, because of the study of the molecule, because our study of the basic amino acids. There's 20 different amino acids that can be combined to make a protein. Now, is that so much different than what they knew before? No, not that much, except now we understand that a single cell has 42 million different protein molecules. 42 million is in a single cell. So, as you can see, for something to change, and that's what all these doctors and even mathematicians said to happen, then you have all these different combinations. You have 20 different amino acids making a protein, then you have 42 million different proteins in a cell. Well, wait a minute. For you to say that that couldn't happen, and that a cell couldn't change, you would have to run the numbers and put all these this combination of things together and basically prove it didn't. That it couldn't happen. And how are you going to do that over 14 billion years ago? Well, it's interesting, because a scientist became more involved and looked at not only the numbers but the DNA, and everything that goes into the compounds of a cell.

They found out something. There's all these combinations, and there's something called now a supercomputer. So, where they were never able to go back and put all the billions and trillions of combinations of this cell structure together over the billions of years to prove, okay, a lot of scientists did it to prove that this could actually happen, and evolution may not be a theory anymore.

But they found out something very unique. They found out at first they were saying that the theory of evolution is possible, right? Because all these things can come into factor. But then, as they started working and finding out all these numbers and putting everything together, it went from a hundred years ago to possible to just 10 or 15 years ago, a scientist, who their whole world is wrapped up in science, found the theory of evolution became improbable. The numbers didn't seem to match. Everything they would put together, the mathematics didn't match.

They just couldn't go back and in anyone's lifetime and put all the figures together. But then came the supercomputer. A supercomputer that we now have, and they were able to use to put all these combinations of amino acids, the single-cell proteins, match with time to find out if it was possible for there to be an evolution. That we could evolve from one creature to another. And they were able to do that because the supercomputer does one thing. It can do 27 trillion calculations in one second. 27 trillion calculations in one second. So they fed this through, and guess what all these scientists have found out in the last few years? That evolution went from being possible a hundred years ago to 15 years ago being improbable to now impossible.

Because they were able to go back 14 billion years ago. They can do the calculation and they can go back of 200 billion years. And it just doesn't work using the science. That's why for years they thought that, wait a minute, if everything evolves and we become smarter, we can put a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters. And guess what? They'll be able to put together a Pulitzer Prize novel. Matter of fact, it's so common that it was actually used on a couple of TV shows. Jeff, you want to hit those just so you can understand where I'm coming from?

This is a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters. Soon they'll have written the greatest novel known to man. Let's see. It was the best of times. It was the blurs of times. You stupid monkey! Oh, shut up. Oh, ah, Schmott. Put enough monkeys in a room with a typewriter. They'll produce Shakespeare. Uh, let's see, a something by any other name. Carnation? Peony? No, they did that on last week's Marlow. What about Daisy?

Chrysanthemum? Iris? Rose? What about Rose? Did you say Rose? Rose is fine. Rose by any other name. Yeah, that works. All right. All right. Moving on. Hey, what about Tula? Rose is fine. Moving on. If the Simpsons have a hard time believing it, so then we should too. I bring that up just to show that our minds need to believe what this book says.

You know, in the last 40 or 50 years, people believe in aliens. They believe that beings from other, from space, can come down here and they live somewhere else. And you have Star Trek, you have Star Wars, you have all these, and you had movies way before. Even Buck Rogers back in the 50s. And so people believe in aliens. Even though Romans chapter 8 tells us that they don't exist.

The whole creation, the whole universe is waiting for the revealing of the sons of men. So that there's, because basically it's in the state of chaos now, state of deterioration. But yet it doesn't take long before people believe in aliens. Besides, how could we be the only things here? How could you have the whole universe and it's just on the third rock from the sun?

Earth is the only place we have man. And I bring that even to the last four or five years they did a survey of those under the age of 30. Under the age of 30, 78% of those people under the age of 30 believe that there are zombies on earth or that there will be in the future. Is it any wonder that when Christ returns, he said, when the son of man returns, will he find faith? But it's only going to get worse. To many, God is a fairy tale.

Not only incomprehensible, but impossible. Impossible. Go with me to Matthew 17. Matthew 17 and verse 20. Let's talk about impossible. Matthew 17 and verse 20. So Jesus said to them, because of your unbelief, for surely I say unto you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, if you've ever seen a mustard seed, it's very, very small, you will say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it will move, and nothing will be, what?

Impossible for you. With God, all things are possible. Right? He said, when you have faith, faith the size, faith in this book, faith in God, nothing will be impossible for you. Go to Matthew 19. Matthew 19 and verse 26. So, but Jesus looked at them and said to them, with men, this is impossible.

There's a lot of things impossible with men. With men, this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible.

This whole weekend, with God, it's possible. We'll look at a couple other things a little bit later, but let's let's finish the scripture. In Luke 1 and verse 37, you have this incredible story of the angel coming to Mary and telling her all about it, and telling her she's going to be with child, and she said, how can this be? That's impossible. But he said, for with God, nothing is impossible. Do you believe that? Do you believe? With God, nothing is impossible. Everything, in other words, everything is possible with God.

I believe it. I believe it. Can I prove all of it? Do I need to? Do you need to?

Let's go to Luke 18 and verse 27. Luke 18 and verse 27. But he said, the things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

See, we can't really understand God because he has no limitations. He can do anything whenever he wants, and he wants us to have that kind of belief in him, that kind of faith in him. But that's not easy to have because our human nature rules us to say, well, that's impossible. But see, with God, it's not. That's why we needed the Holy Spirit. That's why we need it now. That's why we need to use it and stir it up, as we'll talk about tomorrow, at services. Christ came down off a mountain and his men couldn't, disciples couldn't heal this young son, and Christ was able to do it. He said, if you can believe all things are possible to him who believes. So for us to believe that all things are possible, we must have faith. We must believe that God is who he said he was, that Jesus Christ was who he said he was, and he came down and he lived with man for 33 years, and now he's at the right hand of God. This Bible says there's only one thing that's impossible for God to do. One thing. Hebrews 6 and verse 18, it says, it is impossible for God to lie. It's impossible for God to lie. Well, that's nice because he tells us everything in here, and it's impossible for him to lie. So we can believe everything that's in this book.

Why? Because it's so important. It's so important for us to have this faith, to have this belief, and I challenge all of you tonight, or this afternoon, or this evening, or in the morning, or whatever, just go and for even for the next week, turn to Hebrews 11 and read verses 1 through 7, and then read it again, and read it again, and read it again. It is a faith chapter, but those first seven verses, they, if you study them, and I have for a week, and they are so loaded, they are so loaded with stuff for us to help us with this faith so we can understand with God all things are possible, even us, even us of all the people in the world. Hebrews 11 verse 6. Hebrews 11 verse 6 says, but without faith it is impossible to please him.

For he who comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. This is it. You either believe it or you don't. But it requires faith, and we have to have that faith. How do we have that faith? I had a very good friend I haven't seen in a few years in Hawaii, Jimmy Lum. We heard a sermon on faith one time as I was over in Hawaii at the time, and I was listening. We were listening, and I said, well, I think that's a great message about faith, and he goes, no, I didn't think it was. And Jimmy's a very converted man, a very dedicated student of the Bible. And I said, why not, Jimmy? He said, because I don't need somebody to tell me to have faith. I needed to tell me how to have faith. I need to know how. And don't we all? That's why I'm wanting you to read Hebrews 11, 1 through 7. And dwell on that, and let that let those words run into your mind and ruminate on them and take them through to where you truly understand what faith is and what you need to do about it. And I'll talk a little bit later on that. So do we have the mindset of Christ? If we have the mindset of Christ, then as we understand what God says, nothing is impossible with God. All things are possible with God. And we need to have an understanding of those words, because they're so easy to throw around. Oh, that's impossible. That's impossible. That's impossible. When God is working with us, when He is in us, when He dwells in us, as this book says He does, then what happens? He's working with us. He's working with us. He's challenging us. He's wanting us to use that Spirit so that we understand that with Him we can do anything and everything.

World peace. You say, that's impossible. Not with God, it's not. We have a job to do. We have a job to preach this gospel into all the world as a witness. Okay. And they say, have you ever seen an honest politician? No, that's impossible. There isn't one. Well, I met one one time. I met one, and I talked to him. Very honest man. And I asked him, you know, why didn't you stay in politics? He said, because I had to do what other things, other people wanted me to do this and do that.

And I couldn't do it because I wasn't right. But there is. It is possible. Faith is believing all things are possible. Is that your thought?

Because our faith must be in God, not in some job, not in some politician, not in some theory, not in any of this, but our faith must be in God. That God is working with us. And we are very important to God. The only question God has is, is He that important to us? Is that what we want to do?

So you may ask the question, why me? Why am I a first fruit? How is this all possible? You know, of all the people in the world, and He calls me, that's almost impossible when there's 7.5 billion people on earth. 7.5 billion people on this earth as of today. Now, we sometimes even talk about, and I think about this because when I was a kid growing up in Tennessee, we would go back to Indiana where I was born, and we would drive the eight hours that it took on that little Volkswagen Beetle. And I remember sitting in the back seat. There wasn't a radio in the car. It wasn't anything. So you would sit there for all that time just waiting to get low on gas so you could stop at a Stucky's and get some gas and free something to eat, if you remember those days. But I remember thinking, well, okay, this is so boring. I'm going to count. I'm going to count and see how far I can count. Maybe by the time I get there, you know, I both counted. I started counting one, two, three, four, and then I got into the hundreds and then I got into a thousand. And then saying those words, you're like, wow, I quit. I quit. That's too big a task. I was like, I didn't want to do that. Well, I didn't know it was going to take so long to count. So it made me begin to appreciate numbers. And an expert said that if you take time to count to a billion, not 7.5, but one billion, and you use one number per second without sleeping, eating, drinking, or anything for just 24 hours straight, how long will it take you to count to a billion? 31 years, 251 days, 6 hours, 50 minutes, and 47 seconds to count to a billion. Try 7 billion. Now, why am I bringing this up? Because, brethren, it's not but one word, our second word for the day. Unbelievable. It is unbelievable to everybody in the world that God would call you, and he would call me, and want us to be first fruits. Can you believe that of all the 7.5 billion people he calls us? Most people say that is unbelievable. But with God, nothing is impossible or unbelievable. As a child, I used to go to very first Feast of Tabernacles I was ever at. I wasn't with the church. My father just started keeping the holy days. We went up to Gatlinburg and spent seven, eight days. And in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, they had a Ripley's, believe it or not, some place that you went through. And I was big into facts and reading and stuff. And it took me, you know, two hours to go through this thing. And I would read all these little unbelievable things. Ripley's, believe it or not. And they would have all these things.

Well, what about God?

To a lot of people, a higher power, someone that's active in our lives, someone who is involved with us, who listens to our prayers, who works with us, who can heal us, who can do all these things. It's just a little too unbelievable.

Because they, as the scriptures say, they look at the things of the earth instead of what's above. Everything that we need is up above. When we have problems, it's up above that we get the answers. Not too many times is found down here.

Unbelievable is one of the most overused words today. How many times have you used it? Oh, it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. What God is doing is believable if you believe in God. And you believe in He is who He said He is, and that He is all powerful. Does God want us to be believers? Well, in His Word, He has talking about faith and believers, but He also talks about the unbelieving. And it's not good. It's not good to be an unbeliever. Let's go to Revelation 21, verse 8. Revelation 21, verse 8.

God says, but the cowardly, hopefully we're not, an unbelieving, unbelieving. Wow, that's that's pretty tasty. We'll do what? Shall have their part in the lake of fire which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. The lake of fire. Unbelievers will end up in the lake of fire. You either believe God is who He said He is, or guess what?

So with us, how do we deal with that? Turn to Titus. If you will go to Titus. We all talk about Timothy all the time, but his other assistant and young minister was Titus. In Titus 1, verse 15. And we should read this scripture and understand exactly what it is meaning to us. To the pure, all things are pure. How many people have a problem with that? They don't believe in a God. They don't believe in a Christ. They don't believe that Christ came, lived on this earth, and never committed once in and died for all of humanity. Or that when it says, become you perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect. Well, they don't believe, well why should you even try? You can't make it. They don't even know what pure is. To the pure, all things are pure. We look to God and realize that our trust is in Him.

We're not looking for fault. We're not looking to see, oh wait a minute, I see this in this verse over here. As as Bernardo is talking, some people just, oh well, wait a minute, they use this scripture for this. We're not looking for that. We're looking what God teaches us about Him. But He says to all things, to the pure, all things are pure. But to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Even their mind and their conscience are defiled. That's why they don't want to know about a God. They want to believe in evolution. They want to believe that there's some thing that man has done. That we are the beginning and end of everything. And we understand it's not.

That God is the beginning, the Alpha, the Omega. And that everything relates to Him. That makes us so different. That makes us unbelievable to some people. That we are so naive. I remember a governor of Minnesota one time came and asked, he was asked about God and people at churches going to churches and God, he says, oh, they're weak-minded individuals who have to believe in in a fairy tale, have to believe in something. Because they don't believe in themselves.

What about us? Are we weak-minded? No.

Our minds are set on God. Our minds are directed and guided and worked with because of the Holy Spirit as it begins to help us learn, help us begin to see where we need to change how we can become more like God. Not less like Him, not more like ourselves as the world thinks.

I'd like you to turn to Luke 12 verse 40. Luke 12 verse 40. This is an interesting, interesting story here that Jesus teaches. He said, therefore, you also be ready for the Son of Man is coming to an hour when you do not expect, right? Are you ready? Are we preparing ourselves now? That's the question. Then Peter said to him, Lord, do you speak this parable only to us or to all people, which Christ then said in verse 42, Who then is that faithful and wise servant whom his master will make ruler over the household to give them their portion of food in due season? That's talking to us. We've been called.

And he's telling them, hey, I've been preparing you. Bless is that servant. We are his servant.

Bless is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. We've been given the task. 44. Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. Who's he promised that to? Firstfruits. But if that servant says in his heart, why my master is delaying his coming and begins to beat the male and female servants and to eat and drink and be drunk. So he is kind of like, well, he's not coming. I have all this. He's called me. I realize this, but I'm just I'm just going to enjoy life.

God says, no, we can't do that. We can't let down. We must continue enduring to the end, whatever that end is.

Verse 46. The master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and an hour when he is not aware and he will cut him into and appoint him his portions with the portion with the unbelievers. Unbelievers. So God says, guess what? You do not. I don't want you to be part of the unbelievers. But if you follow this way, if you're going to follow me with everything I've given you, you need to use it. Use it like the Holy Spirit. You lose it if you don't use it. It's an incredible gift, and it makes us a believer when we use that Spirit and know that it is his gift to us. You believe everything is said about Christ. Christ healed the blind. You believe it? As somebody healed my... I was reading a apologetics argument about Scripture, and you're so back. You're so go.

It was interesting because they had a human reasoning for everything that people brought up in Scripture. And so they brought up about Christ healing the blind. Now they didn't go into all the examples of all the healing of all the blind people that are in Scripture. They just took one, and that's the one where the guy couldn't see. And so Christ went out and spit on the ground, took this, and put it on his eyes. You remember that? And so here it explained that, and they had an ophthalmologist explaining that, well, yeah, some mud, some moisture, that he possibly didn't have before in his eyes, that when Christ put it on and the saliva combined with the with the special mud or whatever, that that could cause him to no longer be blind.

And then there was a leprosy. One of them argued that, well, leprosy sometimes plays its time. And so this leper in Matthew 8 that came to Christ, and he came there, and all of a sudden it's like, he's healed. Well, Christ is saying, I healed you. And the guy knew he had been healed. But yet our people arguing, our theologians or anti-theologians, I guess you would call them, argued that it just happened to end at that time. A raising the dead. Their argument was that, well, wait a minute, the young girl that he raised was like 12 years old, and he went in there, and they were taking the scripture apart. They were saying, well, she really wasn't dead. There wasn't a stethoscope. There wasn't a stethoscope. So they don't know. She was probably barely breathing in there, and then when she heard a new voice, she woke up. Brethren, how much...where is your...what kind of faith does that require that people raised their head? They didn't talk about Lazarus, who'd been in the grave for three days, over three days.

A man once told Christ, when he told him to believe, he said, help my unbelief. Do you need help with your unbelief? Your help comes in the form of not only the Holy Spirit, but His Word. He said, my Word is Spirit. That's what feeds us. You feed that Spirit with His Word.

Faith. A belief that can see the impossible and believe the unbelievable. Are we part of that world? Are we part of the world that our faith relies on a God who created the entire universe and who will someday set up His kingdom? That we're not going to go to heaven and we're not going to go to hell as is so common today as people want to use that, use that excuse.

Over a hundred years ago, a young child was born.

And his parents knew something was different, but it wasn't good.

The child grew and he didn't speak until he was three years old. He was later tested by experts and found out that he was not only autistic, but he was dyslexic, as they knew it at that time as he was older when he was checked out. And that this young man was so slow in school that his teacher said, you better find a trade for him because his mind wanders. He just looks out the window and he can't seem to grasp just simple lessons. He was so different that when he was applied for college, he took a test. He took a test and he failed it. He couldn't get in college. He was 19 years of age. Was he different? Oh, he is. He was quite different. Did he take the path as everyone else? No. As a matter of fact, he was later called a genius. A genius is a word that he didn't like people to use with him. The individual? Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein said, everybody is a genius. He recognizes all of us have these talents. All of us have gifts. They're just in different directions. And with God working with us, we were chosen by God. God, you know, we didn't choose God. God chose us for a reason. He knows the reason even if we do not. He knows the gifts, the talents, the abilities. Everything is possible. Everything is possible with God, and that's for us.

I'll finish this statement by Einstein. Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it'll spend the whole, spend its whole life believing that it's stupid. See, we have been called out of the world and been given a gift, the gift of the Holy Spirit, to use it, and it defies logic.

That God would give a part or a piece of himself, the very essence of him, to us, to help us, to guide us, to direct us, as we'll talk about that a little bit more tomorrow. So do you believe God called you to help rule the world? Because that's what this book says. His believers will rule the world, not only the world, but the universe, and that all human beings who choose to believe in God will be part of the God family. Now, I'm a smith. There's a lot of smiths out there. We have a large family, but can you imagine the entire world, the entire universe, filled with the children of God? You think that doesn't excite God? You think he isn't looking for that in the future?

But think again. Not many times we will go out and somebody says, oh yeah, well, what do you believe? What do you believe happens after death? What do you think is going to happen in the next hundred years?

You know, if we were to tell people what we really believe, what this book says, they would call us not any kind, where they call us nuts.

They'd say we're insane for believing this book.

Because if you put it down and you follow the words of God, he's given a deposit, a down payment on us now called the Holy Spirit. Just a deposit that will later become who we are.

We will be like God. We will be spirit.

And that your destiny is to be a God.

Impossible? Absolutely not. Unbelievable? I'm afraid with too many people it is. Even in the Church of God, people will say, well, wait a minute, we don't really say that, do we? The book says it. 1 John 3, verse 2, we will be like him as he is.

My friend from Trinidad, thanks to Dano, brings the Scripture out because it reminds us of what our destiny is.

Is that both impossible and unbelievable? If you're going to be a God? I think it's both to most people in the world. It's a Dirty Harry movie many years ago, where he was playing Inspector Harry Callahan.

And one of his classic lines was, a man's got to know his limitations.

Well, brethren, that's a movie, and that's not for us.

Do we know our limitations?

Human limitations, maybe, but not with God.

Because with God, all things are possible. Can you walk on water?

I don't know that I can't.

Don't know that I tried, but I do know one fact.

I know two humans who did.

Jesus Christ and Peter both walked on water. I believe they did.

And that's what we need to do. You talk about faith is for Jimmy Long.

Exercising faith is not keeping God on the bench.

We must not keep God on the bench. And too many times we do that. That's what he wants to be involved. It's not like, oh, wait a minute, too many of us, time out, time out, time out, time out. God, I need you to be involved. I need you to be involved. I need you to be involved. I need you to be involved. I need you to be involved.

God, I need you to come in now.

Come on in, because I need your help. Okay, I'm doing well now. Go sit back on the bench.

That is not what God wants. He wants to be in the game. He wants to be with us in the game every single day, every single year.

But do we want him there?

It requires faith to know that we walk.

We walk by faith and not by sight.

It's an incredible, incredible journey for us.

Can you move a mountain?

God said we could.

I have no reason to move a mountain, but I hope when it's time for me to move a mountain, I have the faith to move a mountain.

Right now, I have quite a few little bitty hills and little things like this that I need to build my faith on.

And see those steps, because that's how it starts. The more I have God involved in my life, the more that I can walk down that path to righteousness and feel good.

Brethren, faith is another dimension.

We have five senses. It's almost as if it's a sixth sense.

It's a sixth sense that we know that he's there, and he's there to help us.

And we need to have that faith. We need to work up that faith. We need to exercise that faith.

And when we do, we are exercising the Holy Spirit. We are using it.

We are putting it to use, as I know we need to.

With God, all things are possible.

Believing is the key to our faith, brethren.

So I leave you today with these words. Faith.

Faith is believing all things are possible.

Because God saw you, and God saw me, and God saw his first fruits, and he's promised us everything.

But remember, faith is believing all things are possible.