The NOW of Faith
Bishop James C. Hash, Sr.
BEYOND YOUR OWN STRENGTH THE CHRIST EMPOWERED LIFE
“THE NOW OF FAITH”
Living in a NOW power, a NOW blessing, a NOW God, a NOW heaven, a NOW glory, a NOW virtue, a NOW faith, a NOW confession, a NOW believing, a NOW healing, and a NOW deliverance.
1 John 3:2...KJV Beloved, “NOW” ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
· “...NOW ARE WE THE SONS/DAUGHTERS OF GOD.”
1 Peter 2:9-10...KJV But YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, AN HOLY NATION, A PECULIAR PEOPLE; THAT YE SHOULD SHEW FORTH THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO HATH CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELLOUS LIGHT;
10 WHICH IN TIME PAST WERE NOT A PEOPLE, but ARE “NOW” THE PEOPLE OF GOD: WHICH HAD NOT OBTAINED MERCY, but “NOW” HAVE OBTAINED MERCY.
2 Corinthians 6:1-2...KJV We then, AS WORKERS TOGETHER WITH HIM, BESEECH YOU ALSO THAT YE RECEIVE NOT THE GRACE OF GOD IN VAIN.
2 (For he saith, I HAVE HEARD THEE IN A TIME ACCEPTED, and IN THE DAY OF SALVATION HAVE I SUCCOURED THEE: behold, “NOW” IS THE ACCEPTED TIME; behold, “NOW” IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.)
· “... “NOW” IS THE ACCEPTED TIME...”
· “... “NOW” IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.”
Ephesians 2:11-13...KJV WHEREFORE REMEMBER, THAT YE BEING IN TIME PAST GENTILES IN THE FLESH, WHO ARE CALLED UNCIRCUMCISION BY THAT WHICH IS CALLED THE CIRCUMCISION IN THE FLESH MADE BY HANDS;
12THAT AT THAT TIME YE WERE WITHOUT CHRIST, BEING ALIENS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL, AND STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS OF PROMISE, HAVING NO HOPE, AND WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD.
13 But “NOW” IN CHRIST JESUS YE WHO SOMETIMES WERE FAR OFF ARE MADE NIGH BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.
Ephesians 2:18-19...KJV For THROUGH HIM WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT UNTO THE FATHER.
19 “NOW” THEREFORE YE ARE NO MORE STRANGERS and FOREIGNERS, but FELLOW-CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS, and OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD;
Hebrews 10:38-39...KJV “NOW” THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH: BUT IF ANY MAN DRAW BACK, MY SOUL SHALL HAVE NO PLEASURE IN HIM.
39 BUT WE ARE NOT OF THEM WHO DRAW BACK UNTO PERDITION; but OF THEM THAT BELIEVE TO THE SAVING OF THE SOUL.
· “NOW” THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH...”
· “...BUT IF ANY MAN/WOMAN DRAW BACK (Step out of the “NOW” of Faith) ...”
Hebrews 11:1...KJV “NOW” FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.
· “NOW” FAITH IS ... Faith is “NOW.”
Hebrews 11:6...KJV BUT WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM: FOR HE THAT COMETH TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS, and THAT HE IS A REWARDER OF THEM THAT DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM.
· “... FOR HE THAT COMETH TO GOD MUST BELIEVE...”
· Believe NOW!
· Bring your belief system into the NOW.
What does it mean to “fully believe”?
Mark 11:24...KJV Therefore I say unto you, WHAT THINGS SOEVER YE DESIRE, WHEN YE PRAY, BELIEVE THAT YE RECEIVE THEM, and YE SHALL HAVE THEM.
· WHEN YE PRAY, BELIEVE THAT YE RECEIVE.
· NOW!
· Your proof of RECEIVING “NOW” is God’s WORD. The Word is NOW.
· Faith in God’s WORD becomes your substance and your evidence that you have it NOW!
Ephesians 1:19...KJV And WHAT IS THE EXCEEDING GREATNESS OF HIS POWER TO US-WARD WHO BELIEVE, ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF HIS MIGHTY POWER,
· His power is to us-ward who believe “NOW.”
Romans 3:3-4...KJV For WHAT IF SOME DID NOT BELIEVE? SHALL THEIR UNBELIEF MAKE THE FAITH OF GOD WITHOUT EFFECT?
4 GOD FORBID: YEA, LET GOD BE TRUE, but EVERY MAN A LIAR; AS IT WRITTEN, THAT THOU MIGHTEST BE JUSTIFIED IN THY SAYINGS, and MIGHTEST OVERCOME WHEN THOU ART JUDGED.
Romans 4:1-3...KJV WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN THAT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER, AS PERTAINING TO THE FLESH, HATH FOUND?
2 For IF ABRAHAM WERE JUSTIFIED BY WORKS, HE HATH WHEREOF TO GLORY; but NOT BEFORE GOD.
3 For WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE? ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, and IT WAS COUNTED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
· ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD.
Romans 4:19-20...KJV And BEING NOT WEAK IN FAITH, HE CONSIDERED NOT HIS OWN BODY “NOW” DEAD, WHEN HE WAS ABOUT AN HUNDRED YEARS OLD, NEITHER YET THE DEADNESS OF SARAH’S WOMB:
20 HE STAGGERED NOT AT THE PROMISE OF GOD THROUGH UNBELIEF; but WAS STRONG IN FAITH, GIVING GLORY TO GOD;
· He considered NOT his own body “NOW” dead.
· HE STAGGERED NOT AT THE PROMISE OF GOD
THROUGH UNBELIEF.
· Faith is “NOW” ....” A “NOW” FAITH.”
· Just do it!
2 Chronicles 20:20...KJV “…HEAR ME, O JUDAH, AND YE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM; BELIEVE IN THE LORD YOUR GOD, SO SHALL YE BE ESTABLISHED; BELIEVE HIS PROPHETS, SO SHALL YE PROSPER.”
BEYOND YOUR OWN STRENGTH THE CHRIST EMPOWERED LIFE
“THE NOW OF FAITH”