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09 The Faith of Jesus Notes
09 The Faith of Jesus Notes
• But as you do Bible study, Holy Spirit will use the fundamentals as a sword to cut our heart.
This is when we have to put our faith to work. James 2:20.
• What do we call this? Obedience.
• Now, as our Christian life develops, we need to spend more time in the word. Why? It is
the double-edged sword that cuts our heart. It will help us to know what is right and
wrong. But will that alone help us to overcome? When you are having a fight, does it
help you to change? When you are dealing with addiction, or addicted to some secret
sin, how do you overcome?
• We need something more to faith. The word of God will cut our heart, but what else?
o “yield”
o What does this mean. What do you do when you yield? It’s not about
stopping. It is about yielding. At a yield sign, you slow down. Yield means to
slow down enough so that the Holy Spirit can push you in another direction.
• So how does this help?
• ANOTHER EXAMPLE:
o For those who are right handed. If I asked you to use your left hand for the
next 3-5 years, at some point, if I asked you to pick up the pen. What would
happen?
o Your mind would be confused. And you would pause for a second. You
wouldn’t know which hand to use for a moment.
o You see, we need to confuse our mind in a sense, through positive thinking in
our prayer and meditation lives. We have to plead with Christ and the Holy
Spirit to help us come up with a plan to overcome our sins. And we have to
pray about it, meditate about it. Every time we fall, we have to get on our
knees and ask God to reinforce in us what to do. We have to meditate on
how to RECKON ourselves dead and YIELD to God. Meditating helps us to
slow down and it gives us an option to do right because we are constantly
thinking about it.
o And as we continue to do this, we will get to a point, when we have thought
through so much how we are to overcome, tasting victory over sin in our
meditation lives, our minds will be confused.
o It will come to a point things will slow down more when temptation comes
and our minds will be confused enough because we have used our left hand
of faith and meditation so much and the Holy Spirit will be able to remind us
how to overcome and to call on God.
Do you want the faith of Jesus? If this is your desire, then make a commitment to meditate on
God’s word so that He can give you complete victory over sin.