Phil,

I love this, and for goodness sakes, I'm looking forward to reading 
more of what you say. I believe as you do, exactly!


LOVE,

Reeva Parry.


On Wednesday 5/30/2007 08:01 AM, Phil Scovell said:

>Mid-Lesson REVIEW.
>
>
>      Our topic is the Force Of Faith.  Trusting that I made my
>preference clear in the first two lesson for the choice of titles
>to indicated the true nature of faith rather than titles such as
>The Strength Of Faith, or The Exercise Of Faith, and other such
>titles which might leads one to believe that faith is something
>that must be practiced, exercised, made stronger, developed, or
>somehow increased, let's move on.
>
>      The outline I am using for the Force Of Faith is simple.  The
>Origin, the Operation, Opposite, Object, and the Open Door of
>Faith.
>
>      I tried my best to make you mad by suggesting four things
>about faith which are not commonly accepted by evangelistic
>circles, or even by many Pentecostal and Charismatic
>denominations, in today's church.  They are:
>
>1.  Faith is a fixed value.
>2.  God has faith, or God is faith to be more precise.
>3.  You will, as a Christian, never have any more faith than you
>did at the very moment you became Born Again.
>4.  More faith is not what we need.
>
>Under Romans numeral I., or one, The Origin Of Faith, I had three
>points we discussed in lesson two.
>
>A.  The Source Of Faith.
>B.  The strength of faith.
>C.  The size of faith.
>
>      My major point was, that Jesus did not fulfill the request of
>His disciples, apostles, when they came to Him and said, "Lord,
>increase our faith.  He did, on the other hand, answer their
>request when these same disciples asked Him to teach them to pray.
>when it came to their faith, on the other hand, He always launched
>off into a comparative story, as it would seem, about mustard
>seeds, trees, mountains, and what would happen to these objects,
>if spoken to by these same disciples, when they verbally commanded
>them.  As they say, "What's up with that.  Speak to inanimate
>objects?  Come on, Lord!  We want more faith.  That's the ticket
>to victory.  right?"  If Jesus is supposed to be our example, did
>Jesus speak to inanimate objects?  Oh, like dead people who had
>already been buried four days?  What about the little girl he
>raised from the dead when he spoke and said, "She isn't dead but
>is asleep," and the doubters laughed themselves silly because he
>couldn't see she was dead.  How about sick people, the demonized,
>the blind, the deaf, and those unable to speak?  In one case, He
>even spoke directly to the dumb and deaf lying spirit to come out
>of a man.  (See Mark 9:25).  What about the six water pots of
>stone that were filled with plain every day water which he turned
>to wine?  How about horrible, out of control, ship sinking,
>storms?  Remember the time Peter was concerned about not paying
>taxes and Jesus sent him fishing and he caught a fish with a piece
>of money in his mouth?  (See Matthew 17:27).  How did Jesus pull
>that one off?  What about the time He told his disciple, after
>fishing all night and catching nothing, which side of the boat to
>cast their net?  go figure.  God, for that matter, not only
>numbers all the stars in the universe, (See Psalm 147:4), but He
>even individually names each one.  Do you know why?  I do, but do
>you?
>
>      In lesson three, we are going to begin discussing exactly how
>Jesus indeed, explained in pains taking detail how faith that we
>already have, should work.  Some of you are not going to like it,
>but I will prove, to your satisfaction, it is what Jesus taught on
>the subject.  If you choose not to believe, this doesn't mean I
>think I am a better Christian, nor will I judge you any
>differently, nor will Jesus, for that matter.  If you learn
>nothing else in these lessons, learn that Jesus works with his own
>children exactly where they are.  Not on different or various
>levels of spirituality, not because some are stronger Believers
>than others, even with others certainly not on my personal terms
>of supposed understanding and great spiritual insight, and who
>claimed to have giant faith, when at the same time, others of His
>children are designated by some as nothing more than pip squeaks
>when it comes to initiating faith.  This isn't God's nature and
>you might as well learn that fact now rather than later.  It will
>save you a load of spiritual grief and misery.
>
>
>End Of Review.
>
>
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