The God-Kind Of Faith Is Divine
THE GOD-KIND OF FAITH IS DIVINE
Bishop James C. Hash, Sr.
Faith is a reality and God wants to bring us to the fact of it.
Faith lives in a commanding position where you know God will work the miracle – if you dare to stand upon the WORD.
There are three tenses of Faith:
“...BEING CONFIDENT OF THIS...THAT HE WHO BEGAN A GOOD WORK...WILL CARRY IT ON THE COMPLETION.” (Philippians 1:6).
The Christian’s confidence is that what God was. He is and will be, and what God said, He will do, and He will make it good.
1. WE ARE REDEEMED.
Ephesians 1:7...KJV IN WHOM WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD...
· Webster defines the word “redeem” as:
1. “To buy back.”
2. “Freedom from captivity by payment of ransom.”
· To walk in the highest Kind of Faith, you must know the reality of
your redemption in Christ – not as a doctrine, a philosophy, or creed – but as an actual redemption out of the authority of satan.
· We are redeemed and delivered “NOW” from the authority of darkness, from the power of satan.
2. WE ARE TRANSLATED.
Colossians 1:12-14...KJV GIVING THANKS UNTO THE FATHER, WHICH HATH MADE US MEET TO BE PARTAKERS OF THE INHERITANCE OF THE SAINTS IN LIGHT:
13 WHO HATH DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS, and HATH TRANSLATED US INTO THE KINGDOM OF HIS DEAR SON:
14 IN WHOM WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, EVEN THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS:
· Darkness is the kingdom of satan. And in that world “darkness” is everything satan is.
· Light is the Kingdom of God.
· By means of the New Birth, you were translated out of the kingdom of darkness and into the Kingdom of God’s dear Son, in the Kingdom of God, and in the Kingdom of Light.
· “God has made you meet (able) ...He has delivered you...He has translated you.”
· Thank God you can partake of your inheritance “NOW!” Don’t relegate it to the future.
3. WE ARE BORN – AGAIN.
I Peter 1:23...KJV BEING BORN AGAIN, NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED, BUT OF INCORRUPTIBLE, BY THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH LIVETH and ABIDETH FOR EVER.
· We are begotten of God.
· We are born of God.
· We are children of God.
· We are heirs of God.
· We are joint heirs (“joint” means equal) with Jesus (Romans 8:17).
In declaring this, we do not magnify ourselves.
· We magnify God and what He has done for us through the Lord
Jesus Christ.
· We do not make ourselves new creatures.
· We are new creatures created by God in Christ.
· Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our Faith.
WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP
Ephesians 2:10...KJV For WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS UNTO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD HATH BEFORE ORDAINED THAT WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM.
· We believers didn’t make ourselves who and what we are – God did.
· We are God’s workmanship! When you belittle yourself, you are actually complaining about what God has done; you’re belittling His Workmanship.
· You are “CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS,” so quit looking at yourself from the natural standpoint. Look at yourself in Christ Jesus.
· God sees you in Christ.
Luke 10:19...KJV BEHOLD, I GIVE UNTO YOU POWER TO TREAD ON SERPENTS and SCORPIONS, and OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY: and NOTHING SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU.
John 16:23-24...KJV And IN THAT DAY YE SHALL ASK ME NOTHING. Verily, verily, I SAY UNTO YOU, WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK THE FATHER IN MY NAME, HE WILL GIVE IT YOU.
24 HITHERTO HAVE YE ASKED NOTHING IN MY NAME: ASK, and YE SHALL RECEIVE, THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE FULL.
· The word “ask” means “demand.”
Isaiah 45:11...KJV THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, and HIS MAKER, ASK ME OF THINGS TO COME CONCERNING MY SONS, and CONCERNING THE WORK OF MY HANDS COMMAND YE ME.
· You are not commanding God to give, but you are exercising authority “OVER THE WORKS OF HIS HANDS” as a son/daughter of God.
· Your Faith takes its rightful position as a son/daughter of God.
· Faith lives in a commanding position.
Matthew 16:19...KJV And I WILL GIVE UNTO THEE THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN: and WHATSOEVER THOU SHALT BIND ON EARTH SHALL BE BOUND IN HEAVEN: and WHATSOEVER THOU SHALT LOOSE ON EARTH SHALL BE LOOSED IN HEAVEN.
· Heaven stands behind the Voice of Faith and the Authority of God.
THE GOD-KIND OF FAITH IS DIVINE