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If the apostles asked Jesus to increase their faith how much more should we be asking of
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the Lord Jesus that he would increase ours. Now the question that gives us the trajectory
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for the message today. What was it that caused the disciples to ask Jesus to increase their
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faith?
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Welcome to Open the Bible with pastor Colin Smith. I’m David Pickard. Glad you could be
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with us today and Colin. We need to hear the answer to that question. Why did the apostles
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ask Jesus to increase their faith?
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Well, in the passage of the Bible where this question occurs Jesus has been speaking to
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them about temptation. He’s been speaking to them about the command to forgive. These
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things are big issues and it’s later in the same chapter that the disciples say, oh Lord
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increase our faith. What we’re going to look at particularly today is that the disciples
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experienced failure, as we do, and when you experience failure you find yourself saying
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Lord, I need more faith here because I’ve not done well. And then sometimes we’re put
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in a situation where we’re battling our own unbelief and our own doubts and our own questions
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and that a great place to pray this prayer, Lord increase our faith, that’s what we’re
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looking at today. So we’re going to look at that question in Luke 17 today as we continue
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the message Growing Faith. Here’s Colin. God says you shall not hate your brother in your
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heart but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor lest you incur sin because of him.
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Now what is this saying? Well, when a brother or a sister wrongs you, you will often find
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that you are simply able to pass over it and to move on. And if that is the case thank
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God for that but sometimes if the wound is deep, you may find in your own heart that
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you are beginning to struggle with resentment towards the person who has hurt you. Now notice
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the logic of this verse that speaks to that situation. God says you shall not hate your
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brother in your heart, you must not allow your heart to go there. That’s not an option
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that is open for you as a believer, so if you find resentment towards a brother rising
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your heart, what should you do? Well, you should go and you should reason with him or
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with her frankly. Why? Lest you incur sin because of him, or her, in other words, lest
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the wrong that he or she has done leads you into the sin of hating them. Now the aim then
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of this honest conversation, this confrontation that takes place here, is that help will come
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both to the person who has caused the offense and to the person who has been offended. And
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that surely is why Jesus tells us that this is something that in these circumstances we
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should do. If your brother sins, rebuke him.’ But then notice that Jesus says, giving a
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second charge to all who are his disciples, and if he repents, forgive him. And then he
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says, And if he sins against you seven times in a day. Seven times in one day, and then
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turns to you seven times in the same day and says, I repent, well, then you must forgive
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him and when the disciples heard these words, they said, Lord increase our faith. You see
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the point. They’ve realized that the life to which the Lord Jesus Christ is calling
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them is so far beyond them that they cannot do it in their own strength, they cannot do
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it in their own power. Lord, increase our faith.
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Lord, if this is what you are calling us to do, you are going to have to give us the strength
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to do it. Now here’s the principle and it’s a very important one, that we’re learning
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from the Bible here today. When you see the sheer difficulty of the life that the Lord
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Jesus Christ calls you to, then you will ask him to increase your faith. That’s what we
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learn here. Now I want you to think about this, what
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is the life to which we are called? Brother and sister, Christ calls you to love God with
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all your heart and soul and mind and strength. Christ calls you to love your neighbor as
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yourself. Christ calls you to be holy as God himself is holy. Christ calls you not to be
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overcome by evil but to overcome evil with good. Christ calls us to rejoice always. And
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Christ says to his disciples, be perfect. As your Father in heaven is perfect. You read
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these words, you hear these words of Jesus, you really take in the holy life to which
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you are called well then you are going to say Lord, increase my faith because I’m
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not going to be able to even pursue this kind of a life unless you give to me what I do
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not have. C. S. Lewis expresses this wonderful well in his book Mere Christianity. He says
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there no man knows how bad he is until he has tried very hard to be good. No one knows
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how bad he or she is until they have tried very hard to be good. Why does he underline
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this point about very hard? Well, he says a little later, unless we really try it will
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always be in the back of our minds that if we tried harder next time we could really
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be completely good. Faith grows when you come to the place of seeing that a holy life is
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beyond the capacity of your flesh and of your nature and you come to the place of saying
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Lord increase my faith, Lord give me what I do not have, because Lord this is beyond
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me and I can only do this if you give to me what it’s going to take.’ And you know
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that really is at the very heart of what brings us to Christ, what causes us to
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depend on Christ and to look to Christ, which is the very heart of the Christian life.
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So we’re looking at how faith grows and we’re looking at when we need to ask our
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Lord Jesus to increase our faith. We need to ask him for this because we ourselves
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are tempted. We need to ask him because we are called to a holy life. And then thirdly,
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ask the Lord to increase your faith because you will encounter great evil.
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Now I want you to notice here that in Luke 17 we have a record of the words of Jesus
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but Luke does not tell us here when and where these words were spoken. In fact, if you look
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at this whole section of Luke’s gospel you will see that these verses are part of a long
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section in which Luke has really gathered together teaching of Jesus that would have
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been given on several different occasions. Now of course God has given to us in the Bible
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four Gospels, and sometimes when you put the different Gospels side by side, you can see
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some connections that at least suggest where and when the various words of Jesus were spoken.
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Now notice that Luke tells us that when the disciples asked Jesus to increase their faith
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our Lord responded, verse 6, by saying,
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If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed,
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you could say to this mulberry tree,
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be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you.
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Now you may recognize that these words are almost identical to the words that
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the Lord Jesus spoke in the story we looked at last week. The story about the boy who
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was oppressed by an evil spirit and Jesus wonderfully, wonderfully delivered him.
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Remember, Jesus had gone up the mountain with Peter and James and John.
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The other disciples were at the bottom of the mountain, and the father of the boy
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asked the disciples to help, they tried, and they failed.
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Then we read in Matthew’s gospel that Jesus came down the mountain and he
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delivered the boy from the evil power that had afflicted him, and then the
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disciples asked him privately, well why could we not cast it out? And then Jesus
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said, O you of little faith. And then He said, for truly I say to you, if you have
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faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain move from here
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to there, and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you. So these
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words are so similar, that it is very reasonable to think that the disciples
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would have responded to Jesus on this occasion, by saying, Lord increase our
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faith. And because Jesus was the master teacher it would have been very
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natural for him at that point to then change the analogy and repeat the same
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point again, in the words that we have in Luke Chapter 17, having spoken about
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the mountain, and then the disciples saying, oh, increase our faith. It’s very
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reasonable to think that Jesus would then say, if you had faith as a grain of
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mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in
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sea, and it would obey you. Now it seems to me very likely, then, that the
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disciples asked Jesus to increase their faith when they had been confronted by
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this great darkness at the bottom of the mountain and found themselves
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absolutely powerless to face it. And Jesus said to them, you couldn’t cast it
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out because of your little faith. That’s a problem. And they feel their need to
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grow in faith. When you encounter great evil, when you find yourself facing great
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darkness, ask the Lord to increase your faith.
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The apostle writes, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the
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spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole
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armor of God, which of course includes the shield of faith, that you may be able
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to withstand the evil day. When you face a struggle that seems beyond you, when
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you’re confronted by your own failure, when you find yourself surrounded by
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great darkness and evil, ask the Lord to increase your faith.
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I’m Frances Barnes from Pastor Colin today on open the Bible. You’re listening to the message
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Growing Faith and there are times when we all need to cry out that prayer,
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Lord increase my faith. The message is part of a series called Growing in Faith,
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Hope and Love and if you miss any of the series or if you want to go
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the programme. Back to the message now. We’re in Luke and chapter 17. Here’s Colin.
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We ask the Lord to increase our faith because we’re tempted. We ask him to
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increase our faith because we’re called to holy lives. We ask our Lord to
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increase our faith because we do encounter great evil and we often fail.
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And we ask the Lord to increase our faith, fourthly, because we all battle
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with unbelief.
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Now, it’s Mark who tells us in his account of the same story of the father
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who brought the afflicted boy to Jesus, that he said to the Lord, if you can do
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anything, have compassion on us and help us. The man had been disappointed by the
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disciples inability to help him. But notice this, that though the man had been
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disappointed by the disciples, He was still drawn to Jesus. If you can do
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anything have compassion on us, and help us. Don’t let the failure of other
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Christians keep you from discovering what the Lord can do for you. That’s what
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we learn here from this man in this story. Don’t let the discouragement of
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what you may have been disappointed in other Christians keep you from
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discovering what Jesus Christ is able to do for you. When this man came and asked
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Jesus directly for help, Jesus said to him, and this is Mark chapter 9 and verse
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23, all things are possible for one who believes. And then this man said to
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Jesus some very famous words, I believe, help my unbelieve. And for 2000 years
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Christians have been deeply grateful to this man who spoke these words. We relate
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to them, Lord I believe, help me with my unbelief. And then we’re told that Jesus
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delivered the afflicted boy from the evil spirit. The disciples saw Jesus do
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what they had been unable to do, and seeing the miracle they say, increase our
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faith. Lord we believe but like the father of this boy, what he just said is
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also true of us, we also battle unbelief ourselves. Lord increase our faith.
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Faith lives with unanswered questions, faith is often afflicted by many doubts.
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No one has a perfect faith, however much we grow in the Christian life, we
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struggle with doubt and unbelief and many fears remain. I’ve been greatly
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helped on this by some words from John Calvin that I want to quote to you. He
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says this, the godly heart and I want to underline that the godly heart the heart
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of a godly person this is how he describes the godly heart, the godly
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heart feels in itself a division because it is partly imbued with sweetness from
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the recognition of the divine goodness, that is it has a comfort of believing
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that God is good and yet partly grieves in bitterness from its own calamity. The
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godly heart looks at itself and says oh there’s so much here that’s not as it
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needs to be. It partly rests on the promise of the gospel, partly trembles at
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the evidence of its own iniquity, partly rejoices in the expectation of life and
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partly shudders at the thought of death. Now says Calvin this variation arises
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from the imperfection of faith since in the course of this present life it never
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goes so well with us that we are wholly cured from the disease of unbelief and
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entirely filled and possessed by faith. Now you see that is why the Scriptures
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repeatedly use language that calls us to grow in faith. We’re always in need of
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our faith growing we’re always in the place of saying Lord increase our faith.
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Listen to the language of scripture. We are to pursue faith that’s second
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Timothy chapter 2 in verse 22. Scripture speaks about us being strengthened in
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faith. That’s Colossians chapter 2 in verse 7.
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It speaks about putting on faith as a breastplate, first Thessalonians
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chapter 5 in verse 10. It speaks about faith growing more and more
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That’s second Thessalonians chapter 1 in verse 3. It speaks about being
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encouraged in faith. That’s first Thessalonians chapter 3 in verse 2 and
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Paul speaks on one occasion about supplying what is lacking in your faith.
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That is first Thessalonians chapter 3 and verse 10 so we have every reason to
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join unashamedly with the disciples in saying to our Lord, increase our faith.
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And faith grows as we ask of Jesus. So ask the Lord to increase your faith.
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Are you tempted? Do you feel the weakness and the vulnerability of your own flesh?
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Ask Jesus to increase your faith. Have you seen that the life to which you’re called,
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the holy life to which Jesus calls you is beyond the range of what you can do?
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Ask Jesus to increase your faith. Do you find yourself surrounded by great darkness? Do you
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find yourself grieving over your own failure? Do you find yourself confronting some great
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evil? Ask the Lord Jesus Christ to increase your faith. Do you find yourself struggling
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with doubt, with fears? Do you find yourself in a battle sometimes with unbelief? Ask the
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Lord Jesus to increase your faith. And pursue all the things that we’ve seen in this series
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that are the means by which faith grows, and we’ll be coming back to more God-willing in
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the weeks that lie ahead. Listen to the promise of Jesus. All things are possible for one
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who believes. In Christ, you will have all that you need for all that you face in every
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circumstance of your life. Grow in faith and by God’s grace, you will be able to say with
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the apostle Paul, I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength.
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Master Colin on Open the Bible, wrapping up the message, Grow in Faith, and I hope you’ll
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be able to come back and listen to the next part of our series, which is called, Growing
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in Faith, Hope and Love, and that’s next time on Open the Bible. If you can’t join us then,
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Open the Bible Daily, a series of 2-3 minute daily reflections based on Pastor Colin’s
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teaching and read in the UK in the UK by Sue MacLeish.
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Open the Bible is supported entirely by the generosity of our listeners, and we thank
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you for supporting our Ministry in that way. If you haven’t previously supported Open the
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Bible, but you’d like to begin doing so, we’d like to thank you by sending you a copy
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of Kevin de Young’s book, Impossible Christianity. It has a very long subtitle.
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The subtitle is, Why Following Jesus Does Not Mean You Have To Change The World, Be
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An Expert in Everything, Accept Spiritual Failure, and Feel Miserable Pretty Much All
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The Time.
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Colin, how did the book help you?
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It brought a fresh sense of peace to my soul. The problem is that sometimes we put burdens
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on ourselves that God never intended us to carry. We all know that we never do anything
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perfectly and that none of us is perfect, but what we can lose sight of is that it is
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actually possible to live a life that is pleasing to God and that acts of faith and hope and
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love really are pleasing to Him, and Kevin de Young brings this out in a beautiful way
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that I think will bring a sense of relief to the souls of many people who read this
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and that’s why I’m really excited that we’re able to share it this month. It was immensely
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helpful to me and I think that it will be immensely helpful to everyone who reads it,
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especially people who have a tendency to put too great burdens on themselves.
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Well we want to send you a copy of this book Impossible Christianity, by Kevin de Young,
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as a way of saying thank you for your financial support this month. If you’re able to set
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up a new payment of five pounds per month or more to the work of Open the Bible we’d
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love to send you this book. Full details of this on our website and you can give online.
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For Open the Bible and Pastor Colin Smith, I’m David Pick and I hope we’ll see you again
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next time.
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What is faith? It may not be quite what you thought it is! Find out next time on Open
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the Bible.
