God’s
Only Provided Place of Worship # 11
Wednesday Evening
Faith is Being Sure
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I believe the church is beginning to hear the Message, and beginning to understand. But friends, listen, we've got to lay in the Presence of the
Son, we've got to be ripened. Our--our
faith isn't ripe. Intellectually
we're hearing the Message that God has give us, and seeing the signs that He showed us, and proving it by the Bible as that; but, oh, how the church needs to lay in His Presence till it tenders up in the
heart, gets sweet in the Spirit so that it can bathe down. Sometimes in
speaking the Message, you get harsh, have to break it
in like that, because you've got to clinch a nail to make it hold. But when the Church once gets It, the Elected is called out and separated (then in the
Presence of God), I know it'll be something like the people was there when it
takes its Rapture.
HEBREWS 11: 1 KJV "Now
Faith is the substance of thjings hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. "
AMPLIFIED "Now Faith is the assurance ( the
confirmation, the title deed of things)
we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction
of their reality- faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed by the senses."
NEW AMERICAN STD "Now Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things
not seen"
.
NIV "Now Faith is being sure of what we hope for
and certain of what we do not see."
when they are not
seen.
Substance = Hupostasis It should be rendered assurance or confidence
in most scriptures. You will notice how this very same Greek word is used in Hebrews 1: 3 it takes on more than just a thought of being sure or confident
or assured because it is used in expressing the real substance of God
Himself.
HEBREWS 1: 3
KJV Who
being the brightness of His Glory, and the express image of His PERSON
(Hupostasis), and upholding al things by the Word of Hispower....
AMPLIFIED He is the sole expression of the Glory of
God- the Light - being, the out-raying of the Divine- and he is the perfect imprint and very image of God’s Nature.....
New American Standar And He is the radiance of His Glory and the exact representation of His
Nature.....
NIV The
Son is the radiance of God’s Glory and the exact representation of His being...
Now here we see the word
hupostasis is used not only as the blessed assurance that comes by Faith but is
also used in a more real sense when it is actually used in reference to the
Fathers Person or being. Thus Christ is the very Image of God’s Hupostasis or
substance .Here the word has the meaning of the real nature in contrast to just the outward
manifestation, so actually it speaks of the Divine Essence of God existent and expressed in the Revelation of
His Son. The very
nature or Character of God Himself.
The same word hupostasis is
used as well in scripture as the word confidence in the following scripture.
HEBREWS 3: 14 KJV For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence
stedfast unto the end.
Now in getting back to Hebrews 11: 1 AMPLIFIED Now Faith is the assurance ( the confirmation, the
title deed) of things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and
the conviction of their
reality- faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed by the senses.
Now in examining this
thought on Faith being the Assurance,
we must ask ourselves what this means. Faith
is the Assurance.
Assurance = State
of being certain and confident. Having a firm belief & trust.without any
doubt!
Conviction = The state of being convinced... overcoming
doubts.....
Now we see here a state or condition of having no doubts
toward God at all. This means that no wavering is even considered.
ROMANS.4:20
He staggered not at the
promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
GREEK LEXICON Ä STRONG'S NUMBER
1252 diakrino {dee-ak-ree'-no} doubt ,
judge discern , contend , waver to separate one's self in a hostile spirit, to
oppose, strive with dispute, contend, to be at variance with one's self,
hesitate, doubt
MATTHEW.21:21
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have
faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this [which is done] to the fig
tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be
thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
MARK.11:23
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain,
Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his
heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass;
he shall have whatsoever he saith.
ACTS.11:2
And when Peter was come up to
ACTS.15:9
And put no difference
between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
ROMANS.4:20
He staggered not at the
promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
ROMANS.14:23
And he that doubteth is
damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith:
for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.
I.CORINTHIANS.4:7
For who
maketh thee to differ [from
another]? and what hast thou that thou didst not
receive? now if thou didst receive [it], why dost thou
glory, as if thou hadst not received [it]?
JAMES.1:6
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is
like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
JAMES.1:8 A double minded man [is]
unstable in all his ways
HEBREWS.10:23
Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for
he [is] faithful that promised;)
II.PETER.2:14
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot
cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls:
an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
II.PETER.3:16
As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in
which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they
do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
JAMES.4:8 Draw
nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners;
and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.