Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor

Mountain Moving Faith

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00:14 Doug Batchelor: There's a power of faith that God has wired
00:17 in every human.
00:18 You know, Jesus never said, "My faith has made you whole."
00:21 He always said, "Your faith has made you whole."
00:28 Doug Batchelor: You know, we're gonna be talking about
00:29 "Mountain-Moving Faith" tonight and that Jesus--
00:33 I'll tell you why.
00:34 Jesus made a statement in Mark 11, verse 22,
00:37 "Have faith in God.
00:39 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain,
00:42 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his
00:46 heart, but believes those things that he says will be done,
00:50 he will have whatever he says.
00:52 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray,
00:57 believe that you receive them, and you will have them."
01:01 Now that's a big promise.
01:02 But what is Jesus talking about?
01:04 Say to a mountain, "Be plucked up and moved into the sea."
01:07 You can read in Micah 7:19, "He will again have compassion
01:11 on us, and will subdue our iniquities.
01:14 You will cast all of our sins into the depths of the sea."
01:19 So what is it that we moved-- need moved?
01:21 We don't need a mountain of dirt, we need to have God
01:23 remove a mountain of sin.
01:26 And some of us have bigger mountains than others,
01:29 but God is in the business of moving mountains.
01:31 And through faith in Christ, that mountain can be moved
01:35 and cast into the sea.
01:37 And I remind you again that the deepest ocean in the world, the
01:39 Marianas Trench, is 36,000 feet deep and the tallest mountain,
01:44 Mount Everest, is just under 29,000 feet, meaning you could
01:48 submerge Mount Everest in the deepest ocean and it would be
01:51 completely covered.
01:53 You can submerge all of our sins in God's mercy
01:57 and it'll be completely removed from God's sight.
01:59 He casts our sins into the depths of the sea and he sets up
02:03 a "no fishing" sign.
02:05 Faith, mountain-moving faith.
02:09 So we're gonna be talking about this subject of faith because it
02:13 is crucial in our salvation, but I want to begin by previewing a
02:17 story about the Promised Land, talking about these 12 spies.
02:21 So in your Bibles, the story we're going to use
02:23 as a springboard is Numbers chapter 13.
02:27 Before they entered the Promised Land,
02:30 people had not been there their whole lives.
02:33 They hadn't been there in generations.
02:34 They wondered what it looked like.
02:36 And they persuaded Moses to let them send some spies to sorta
02:40 preview things, see what the state of things was,
02:44 and he agreed.
02:45 And then it tells us the names of these 12 spies.
02:48 Most of them have evaporated into history, but we remember
02:51 two of them: Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb,
02:55 the son of Jephunneh.
02:56 And he sends them out and it says that now Moses--verse 17.
03:00 Numbers 13, verse 17, "Then Moses sent them to spy out the
03:05 land of Canaan, and he said to them, 'Go up this way into the
03:09 South, and go up into the mountains, and see what the land
03:11 is like: whether the people who dwell there are strong or weak,
03:15 few or many; whether the land they dwell in is good or bad;
03:19 whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds;
03:22 whether the land is rich or poor; whether they are forests
03:26 or not.
03:27 Be of good courage.'"
03:28 He's saying, "'Be courageous, have faith, and bring some
03:31 of the fruit of the land.'
03:32 Now the time was the season of first ripe grapes.
03:36 So they went and they spied out the land from the Wilderness of
03:39 Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.
03:42 And they went up through the South and came to Hebron."
03:45 These are the mountains of Hebron.
03:46 "And Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak,
03:50 were there.
03:51 And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and there they cut down
03:54 a branch with one cluster of grapes; and carried it
03:57 between two of them on a pole.
03:59 And they brought some of the pomegranates and the figs."
04:03 And it says, "They returned," in verse 25, "from spying out
04:06 the land after forty days."
04:08 So they departed and they come back.
04:09 Now, right away you find out when they return there's a big
04:12 difference between ten of the spies and two of the spies.
04:17 Two of the spies get there first, Joshua and Caleb
04:20 I suspect.
04:22 I think they're probably the ones carrying this enormous
04:23 cluster of grapes.
04:25 And they said, "The land through which you send us is a land that
04:29 truly flows with milk and honey, and here's the fruit of it."
04:32 And they began to toss big old grapes to everybody.
04:35 You got grapes as big.
04:36 I was in Australia and I really saw grapes that big.
04:40 And so they're giving all these grapes to everybody and they're
04:42 tossing them figs, and pomelos, and there's probably fruit flies
04:45 everywhere 'cause they've been carrying all this sticky fruit
04:47 for days.
04:48 And the people are rejoicing, but then the other ten guys who
04:51 had been dragging along, Joshua and Caleb knew this wasn't going
04:55 to go well.
04:56 They brought back a negative report.
04:58 You see, as they first began to go through the Promised Land,
05:02 they looked at the walls of Jericho and they thought,
05:04 "Wow, those walls are massive.
05:06 How are we ever gonna conquer a city with a fortress like that?
05:09 Impossible.
05:10 Look at the size of their armies."
05:13 They came to the mountains of Hebron, "Look at the size
05:15 of the Anakim.
05:17 They're giants.
05:18 We feel like grasshoppers.
05:20 How can we conquer a nation like this?"
05:21 And everywhere they went, they just saw all the problems and
05:25 they forgot the promises of God.
05:27 The reason it was called the Promised Land is because God
05:30 promised to give it to 'em and they forgot how far God had
05:34 brought them out of Egypt.
05:35 Have you ever made that mistake?
05:37 You forget all the miracles that God performs for you and
05:39 you wonder if he can finish what he started in your life.
05:43 Well, those ten spies show up and they say, "Oh no,
05:46 we're never gonna make it."
05:47 You can listen.
05:49 And it tells us, after they say it's a beautiful land
05:52 in verse 28, then the ten spies begin the majority report.
05:56 "Oh, the people who dwell in the land are strong; and the cities
06:00 are fortified and very large; moreover we saw
06:03 the descendants of Anak there.
06:05 The Amalekites dwell in the south; the Hittites, and the
06:08 Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains."
06:10 How can we conquer these mountains?
06:12 "And the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks
06:15 of the Jordan."
06:16 And all the people began to moan, I suspect, 'cause it says,
06:19 "Caleb quieted the people."
06:21 Why would it say that except they were starting to moan
06:23 and complain?
06:25 "He quieted them before Moses, and said, 'Let us go up
06:27 at once.'"
06:29 Now, he had just come back from wandering through this land
06:31 for 40 days.
06:33 He's ready to go take it right now.
06:35 It says, "'Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are
06:38 well able to overcome it.'
06:40 But the men who had gone up with him said, 'We are not able to go
06:43 up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.'
06:47 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land
06:50 that they spied out."
06:51 Alright, friends.
06:52 Right there I've summed up just if you wanna know who's gonna
06:54 make it and who's not gonna make it.
06:57 If you don't think you'll make it, you won't make it.
06:59 If you believe that God can lead you in, you can make it.
07:03 All things are possible to those that believe.
07:06 Caleb said, "We are able."
07:09 The other group said, "We are not able."
07:12 And what's really sad is they were all church members.
07:16 Now, when we talk about taking the Promised Land and conquering
07:19 the mountains, having mountain-moving faith, you know,
07:23 there are people in the church today that says Jesus just came
07:27 to give you grace to cover your sin.
07:30 Don't really expect any change in your life or victory over
07:34 sin, just accept his grace and just enjoy that, and don't worry
07:39 about striving, or fighting, or wrestling against temptation,
07:45 or running the race of life.
07:47 They act like if there's any effort involved in being a
07:50 Christian, it's a lack of faith.
07:51 That is categorically not true.
07:53 The Bible is very clear that faith means that you might need
07:57 to fight a good fight of faith.
07:59 Caleb believed they could take the Promised Land and Caleb was
08:02 also willing to fight for it.
08:04 David believed he could conquer Goliath and he said even when he
08:08 went against Goliath, "You come against me with a sword,
08:11 and a spear, and a shield.
08:12 I come against you with the Lord."
08:14 His faith was in God, but he had a sling, and he had a stone,
08:18 and he had a staff.
08:20 And so the Christian life is using all of the ability that
08:25 God has given you, trusting God, moving forward, trusting God.
08:30 But you must surrender all of your human ability to the Lord.
08:34 You do need to engage your will.
08:37 You must surrender your heart to him.
08:39 And there is effort involved.
08:40 Why does the Bible say, "Resist the devil.
08:43 Flee from temptation"?
08:45 And sometimes there's a struggle involved.
08:47 I think people need to be reminded that part
08:49 of the conversion is fighting the good fight of faith,
08:52 but it takes courage to do that.
08:54 What happened to these other ten spies?
08:55 Moses said, "Don't be discouraged.
08:58 Have courage.
09:00 Believe."
09:01 Well, they get discouraged.
09:02 They looked at the problems instead of the promise.
09:05 They lost faith because they kept focusing on the negative.
09:08 And we still have the same issue today.
09:10 Here we are now, we are on the borders of the Promised Land.
09:14 The question is, do God's people believe that he is still a God
09:18 that can move mountains?
09:19 So I'm going to go through some points that I hope will help
09:21 illustrate this truth, so let's begin talking about
09:25 the prerequisite of faith.
09:27 Why is faith so important?
09:28 You cannot be saved without faith.
09:31 Now, God wouldn't say that unless it was possible for you
09:33 to have faith.
09:35 Hebrews 11, verse 6, "Without faith it is impossible to please
09:39 him, for he that comes to God must believe that he is,
09:44 and he is the rewarder of those that diligently seek him."
09:49 Faith is possibly the single most important element
09:52 in the Christian life.
09:54 Anything a person does in attempting to be a Christian
09:56 means absolutely nothing if he lacks faith.
10:00 The Bible says, "Whosoever believeth in him," John 3:16.
10:04 It all boils down to believing in God.
10:07 The words of Christ, Matthew 6, verse 30, "Now if God so clothes
10:12 the grass of the field, which is today, and tomorrow thrown in
10:15 the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O ye of
10:18 little faith?"
10:19 How often Jesus made a big issue out of a little faith.
10:23 Matthew 8:26, he said to the disciples, "Why are you fearful,
10:27 O you of little faith?"
10:30 And then Luke 18, verse 8, Jesus said, "Nevertheless, when the
10:33 Son of Man comes, will he really find faith on the earth?"
10:37 What was Jesus looking for?
10:39 He wanted to see faith.
10:41 A weak faith his weakened by predicaments and catastrophes,
10:44 whereas a great faith is strengthened by them.
10:48 The reason that Job is mentioned in the Bible is because he was
10:51 a man who had developed faith before he ever got
10:53 to his trials.
10:56 One man came to Jesus with his son and said, "Lord, if you can
10:59 do anything."
11:01 And Jesus said, "If you believe, all things are possible to him
11:05 that believes."
11:06 That "statement, All things are possible with God," is found
11:08 about four times in the New Testament.
11:11 The angel said to Mary, and several times with God,
11:14 "All things are possible."
11:16 All things is--really means all things.
11:20 Mark--I'm sorry, Ephesians 2, verse 8, "For by grace you've
11:24 been saved through faith."
11:26 Habakkuk 2, verse 4, "The just will live by his faith."
11:31 Galatians, "For you are all sons of God through faith
11:35 in Christ Jesus."
11:36 Romans 5:1, "Therefore, having been justified by faith,
11:41 we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."
11:43 So I hope I've made my case, friends, that a prerequisite
11:47 for anyone to be saved is believing in God.
11:51 We must believe in God.
11:53 Well, that leads us to the next important point and I'm going to
11:56 spend a little time on this, and that's the prevalence of faith.
12:00 You might be thinking, "The Lord is making it so impossible
12:04 by asking me to have this supernatural, extraordinary
12:06 faith, and I just--I'm not a person of faith."
12:09 I don't believe that.
12:10 I believe that everybody has faith.
12:13 The question is, where is your faith?
12:15 Now, the Bible tells us this.
12:17 Romans chapter 12, verse 3, "God has dealt to every man
12:22 the measure of faith."
12:24 And keep in mind, salvation doesn't just come by faith,
12:26 it comes by faith in the Lord.
12:28 Every time someone was healed by Jesus, you know,
12:31 Jesus never said, "My faith has made you whole."
12:34 He always said, "Your faith has made you whole."
12:38 Doug Batchelor: Don't go anywhere, friends.
12:39 We'll be back in just a moment for the rest of
12:41 today's presentation.
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13:50 and learn some more amazing facts from the Word of God.
13:54 Doug Batchelor: You know, the two people that Jesus especially
13:56 complemented in the Bible were Pagans that demonstrated
14:01 their faith in him.
14:02 You remember, there was this woman that she persisted
14:06 in asking Jesus to heal her daughter.
14:09 And even though Christ was trying to send her away,
14:12 he said, you know, "Can't take the children's food and give it
14:14 to the dogs."
14:16 He was testing her faith.
14:17 She said, "Yes, but even the puppies get the crumbs."
14:19 He said, "Woman, great is your faith.
14:21 Your daughter is healed."
14:23 He just did that to illustrate something for the apostles.
14:25 Then there's the Roman centurion.
14:27 He said, "You don't even need to come to my house."
14:29 And Jesus turned around in amazement and said, "I've not
14:32 seen this kind of faith in all of Israel."
14:34 Two blind men come to Jesus and said, "Lord!"
14:36 He said, "What do you want?"
14:38 "That our eyes might be opened."
14:39 He said, "Be it unto you according to your faith."
14:43 Now, that seems like a pretty tall order.
14:46 Jesus is telling us that if we have faith in him, all things
14:50 are possible to him that believes.
14:51 I'm not suggesting you go buy a lottery ticket and then have
14:54 faith you've got the winning number.
14:56 It's not that kind of faith.
14:57 The principle thing that Jesus wants to have us learn about the
15:02 power of faith is that through faith in him, we can have the
15:06 mountain moved, that we can get victory over our sins, that we
15:10 can be transformed, that we can become like Christ.
15:13 The purpose of the plan of salvation, the angel said,
15:16 "You'll call his name Jesus for he will save his people
15:19 from," what?
15:21 "From their sins."
15:22 God wants us to have faith that we can be saved, that he can
15:25 transform us.
15:26 You know, so often the battles in the Bible, you see when they
15:29 went into battle trusting the Lord, they won.
15:31 Old Testament's full of battles.
15:33 People say, "Pastor Doug, why is the Old Testament full of war?"
15:36 All of those battles are illustrating our battle
15:39 with the devil.
15:40 Doesn't matter if there were 20,000 enemy soldiers and they
15:43 only had ten, when they went into battle--Samson killed a
15:48 thousand with a jawbone with the Spirit of the Lord.
15:50 When you go into battle with the Lord, someone once said you and
15:54 God are always a majority.
15:56 And when Jonathan and his armorbearer went against the
15:59 Philistine garrison, he said, "There's no restraint for the
16:02 Lord to deliver by few or many."
16:04 They went it faith and they got the victory over this
16:07 whole contingent of soldiers.
16:08 Two men because they had faith.
16:10 So there's this prevalence of faith that we see all through
16:13 the Bible and the Lord wants us to demonstrate that.
16:16 Then you've got the production of faith.
16:20 All right, so there's faith out there and I've got a little bit
16:23 of faith.
16:24 How do I grow my faith?
16:27 Well, the answer's in the Bible.
16:29 The disciples came to Jesus.
16:31 They said, "Lord, increase our faith."
16:35 And Jesus said, "Impossible, you only get so much at birth
16:38 and that's your quota."
16:39 That's not what he said.
16:41 The reason they said, "Increase our faith," and Jesus responded
16:45 is because it is possible for you to have
16:48 your faith increased.
16:50 How does that happen?
16:51 "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."
16:57 As you read the Bible, your faith will grow.
17:01 Which leads me to another important element in how you can
17:04 have more production of your faith.
17:09 Look at the story of David, David and Goliath.
17:14 So when David says to King Saul, "I believe that I could whip
17:17 that giant," the king said, "He is a soldier from his youth
17:22 and you are just a youth.
17:23 What makes you think you can beat him?
17:24 He's twice your size."
17:26 David said, "Well, I've just got blind faith."
17:28 That's not what he said.
17:30 David said, "I've got evidence for my confidence.
17:34 When I was taking care of my father's sheep, a bear showed up
17:38 and God gave me the strength and the spirit to kill the bear.
17:42 And then later a lion came to get the sheep and God delivered
17:47 the lion into my hand.
17:48 And through God's faith working through me, I killed a bear,
17:52 I killed a lion.
17:53 True, they're smaller than the giant, but I've got evidence,
17:56 and based on the evidence of what God did for me with the
17:58 lion and the bear, I believe that he can help me
18:01 kill the giant."
18:02 When the Lord brought the children of Israel to the
18:04 shores, the borders of the Promised Land, hadn't the Lord
18:08 given them evidence to believe?
18:11 Look at all those incredible plagues that came on the
18:13 Egyptians, and how God provided water out of a rock, and bread
18:17 for heaven, and victory over the Amalekites.
18:20 He had given them evidence for their faith and that's why they
18:22 were without excuse when he said to that generation, "You can't
18:27 go into the Promised Land because you just don't believe."
18:30 And friends, that's something-- it's kind of a sobering thought,
18:34 but I don't want to rush past it.
18:36 Those that did not believe that God could bring them
18:40 into the Promised Land and give them victory did not make it
18:43 into the Promised Land.
18:44 You must believe that your Jesus is bigger than your devil.
18:49 Nobody has a problem having faith in the devil.
18:52 Everybody glorifies the devil all the time, saying, "Oh yeah,
18:54 the devil got me to do this and the devil got me to do that."
18:57 And you know, they just take it for granted that the devil is
19:00 gonna have his way in their life.
19:02 But when you say, "Well, don't you think that Jesus
19:05 is bigger than the devil?
19:06 Doesn't the Bible say, 'Greater is he that is in you than
19:10 he that is in the world'?"
19:12 And so through Christ, we are able to get the victory and
19:16 conquer and overcome these mountains.
19:19 So you can have more faith.
19:22 Matthew 17, verse 20, "Assuredly, I say to you,
19:25 if you've got faith as a mustard seed, you'll say to this
19:28 mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move;
19:33 and nothing will be impossible for you.
19:36 However, this kind does not go forth except by prayer
19:38 and fasting."
19:40 So read the Bible, you get faith, look at the evidence
19:43 of God's leading in your past and it'll grow your faith,
19:47 and prayer will grow your faith.
19:49 So when you pray and you get answers to your prayer,
19:54 your faith gets bigger.
19:55 Have you ever prayed before for something that was just really
19:57 extraordinary, and then God answered your prayer and you go,
20:00 "Wow, why would I doubt God?
20:02 He's so powerful.
20:04 He's answered so many prayers before."
20:07 Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible,
20:10 and receives the impossible.
20:13 All right, well, at this point I want to talk a little bit about
20:15 the poison of pessimism.
20:18 You can read here where it says in Matthew chapter 4, verse 3,
20:21 "When the tempter came to Jesus, he said, 'If you're
20:24 the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.'"
20:28 Now, what did he say?
20:30 "If."
20:32 For the devil, everything is about an "if."
20:35 You know, when Christ was hanging on the cross, there was
20:37 that thief on the left and he said, "If you're the Son of God,
20:41 save yourself and us."
20:44 And the high priest, when Christ was being tried, he said,
20:49 "If you're the Son of God."
20:51 So the word "if," it obviously denotes some doubt.
20:56 And so God is not wanting us to have doubt,
20:58 he's wanting us to have faith.
21:00 James chapter 1, verse 6, When someone comes to the Lord and
21:04 they're wanting deliverance, he said, "But when a person prays,
21:08 let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is
21:12 like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
21:16 For let not that man suppose he'll receive anything from the
21:19 Lord; a double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways."
21:23 Some of us need to pray and say, "Lord, forgive my unbelief."
21:30 Start believing that God can.
21:33 And you know, I think it's important for us to speak
21:37 positively to those that are around us.
21:38 So many Christians are negative to each other.
21:41 We need to encourage each other that we can do all things
21:44 through Christ.
21:45 Abraham Lincoln said, "We complain because roses have
21:49 thorns, but we ought to rejoice that the thorn bushes
21:52 have roses."
21:53 And that's--several variations of that have been quoted.
21:57 So not only do we have the production of faith to avoid the
22:01 poison of pessimism, so don't be constantly rehearsing disbelief,
22:07 then there's the perseverance of faith.
22:10 Faith is not something that just happens in a moment.
22:13 Faith represents a persistence.
22:16 They were 40 days exploring the Promised Land even though they
22:20 saw--they saw that the giants were bigger.
22:24 They saw the walls of Jericho were bigger.
22:27 They saw that they had, you know, better weapons, the people
22:31 in the Promised Land.
22:32 Caleb and Joshua, they saw that, but they persisted in believing
22:36 in God.
22:37 They hung on. Faith persists.
22:40 You know how you move a mountain?
22:41 An ant can move a mountain one grain of sand at a time.
22:45 You've just got to persist.
22:48 1 Timothy 6:12, "Fight the good fight of faith."
22:52 It is a fight.
22:54 It's a battle.
22:55 "Lay hold on eternal life."
22:56 Now, the language that Paul is using there, he's kind of
22:59 talking about, like, when Jacob got ahold of the angel
23:02 and he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
23:06 Take ahold of the promises of God.
23:07 Lay hold of them, and reach out for the horns of the altar,
23:11 and just plead for mercy.
23:13 Sometimes we give up so easy.
23:15 Pray persistently.
23:17 1 John 4, verse 4 and 5, "For whatever is born of God
23:21 overcomes the world.
23:22 And this is the victory that has overcome the world."
23:25 What is it?
23:26 "Our faith.
23:27 Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes
23:31 that Jesus is the Son of God?"
23:33 Spurgeon said, "A little faith will bring your soul to heaven.
23:37 A great faith will bring heaven to your soul."
23:41 Faith does not--George Mueller, who's a great man of faith,
23:44 he said, "Faith does not operate in the realm of possibility.
23:47 There's no glory for God in that which is humanly possible.
23:50 Faith begins where man's power ends."
23:54 You might say, "Lord, I'm helpless.
23:56 I can't do it."
23:57 That's when you really give God permission to roll up
24:00 his sleeves.
24:02 Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
24:05 The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time.
24:10 You've heard the expression, and that, by the way,
24:13 is Thomas Edison, who wasn't a Christian but he made
24:15 some good statements.
24:16 Someone said, "Triumph is the combination of try and oomph."
24:19 Sometimes Christians forget about the oomph.
24:21 There is some effort involved in being a Christian.
24:24 You gotta wrestle sometimes in prayer.
24:27 And this is a great quote by Bernard of Clairvaux,
24:32 "Only by desertion can we be defeated.
24:34 With Christ and for Christ, victory is certain.
24:37 We can lose the victory by flight, but not by death.
24:41 Happy you are if you die in battle, for after death you'll
24:44 be crowned.
24:45 But woe to you if by forsaking the battle you forfeit both
24:49 at one time the victory and the crown."
24:53 So many people give up, and for little temporary relief,
24:57 they sacrifice to the devil.
24:59 Friends, and then there is power in faith when you believe
25:03 all things are possible.
25:05 You know, I didn't give you the rest of the story.
25:08 You can look in the book of Joshua, in chapter 14.
25:11 Caleb is 85 years old and he comes to Joshua.
25:15 They'd conquered a bunch of other nations.
25:17 And Caleb says to Joshua, "You know that 40 years ago, when we
25:21 were spies, I believe that God could lead us in.
25:24 And I saw these mountains where these beautiful, fertile soil,
25:27 the southern exposure, and the springs," in what we now call
25:30 Judea, the area of Hebron, better known as the mountains of
25:34 the Anakim where the giants lived.
25:37 Caleb said, "I'm 85 years old now, but I am as strong now for
25:41 going out to battle, for coming in."
25:43 And then he makes these famous words.
25:44 He says, "Give me this mountain."
25:47 He believed that with faith he could overcome a mountain.
25:51 Joshua blessed him.
25:53 Caleb led the children of Judah.
25:55 They conquered the giants.
25:57 And the reason the Jews settled in where are we now say
26:00 Jerusalem is is because that old man had faith that he could
26:04 overcome mountains and giants because all things are possible
26:07 with God.
26:08 Friends, don't underestimate what you can do.
26:10 Don't give the devil the glory.
26:12 Jesus said that he can set you free.
26:14 He can save you from your sins and cast that mountain
26:17 into the depths of the sea.
26:19 Do you believe what Jesus promises?
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27:00 Doug Batchelor: the Bible tells us that salvation,
27:02 of course, emanates from God.
27:04 So we need to know something about God to rightly understand
27:07 and embrace salvation.
27:09 Yet in the church today, there's a great deal of confusion about
27:12 the nature of God.
27:13 The Bible says God is one god, but is He three persons?
27:17 Is Jesus also eternal God?
27:20 Because Jesus is the son of God, does that mean there was a time
27:22 when He did not exist or He was brought into existence?
27:26 Is the Holy Spirit a person, or is He just the force
27:30 and the energy that God uses to communicate?
27:32 You know, I thought this was so important I really felt led
27:35 of the Lord to write a book on the subject called
27:38 "Exploring the Trinity: One God or Three?"
27:40 In this book we answer those very important questions.
27:43 We talk about the history of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament
27:47 as well as the history of the Holy Spirit in the church and
27:49 how it has been much debated.
27:51 This is something we really need to understand,
27:53 because Jesus said eternal life comes from knowing God.
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