The God Who Is Real

August 13, 2024 / Bobby Mayfield / Leave a comment

Remember What God Has Done

Book of Psalms Chapter 66

The lessons we have had up to this lesson have been prayers for God’s help.
We can identify with the lessons we have already had because we face these same problems today.
We will see before we finish this Psalm, that Psalm sixty-six is another prayer for deliverance.
The difference being that this Psalm will tell us what to do after we have been delivered.

God is not just the God of the Jews!
God is not just the God of the Christians!
Jehovah God is the God that is to be worshiped!
Jehovah is not some God that can be made into an idol to be put on display and wipe the dust off occasionally.

All of this earth is called to worship Jehovah and to acknowledge the greatness of the power of the Almighty Supreme God, our Creator!

*Psa 66:1 To the chief Musician, A Song or Psalm. Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:

Psalm sixty-six is a Psalm of “deliverance”!
The writer of this Psalm is not known but we can be sure God the Holy Spirit guided him.

2Ti_3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

I think we sometimes forget that we can profit from all the Bible and not just from our favorite passages.
Psalm sixty-six is a hymn of thanksgiving to celebrate God’s deliverance.
Psalm sixty-six begins with a command for all the earth to exalt the Living God.

Jehovah cares not only for all this world but He brings this care down to every single individual.
God wants to have a personal relationship with each and every one of us, all His creation.
We must understand that if we have victory in our lives, it did not come by our own hands!
It was more by the hands of God than any work that we have done with our own hands.
One of these days when this false evolution bubble is in trouble this world will figure out that there had to be a Creator.

The lie of evolution exists because of hatred for our Creator!
As far as Israel, it would not exist today if not for Jehovah God.
The world needs to realize that the Israelites are a special people to our God.

***Exo 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Exo 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

In reality God will not show favoritism so what He does for one He will do for another.
Rom 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

The Key to being a peculiar treasure to God is being obedient to the voice of God.
The Bible that we have compiled from the original Greek and Hebrew Text is in reality the voice of God and commandments that we are to obey.
So, we can understand that all those who are obedient to the Word of God are peculiar treasures that belong to Jehovah God, the Lord who loves us all.
So, all the earth is called on to make a joyful noise to the Lord.
If you have ever witnessed a large joyful crowd, the sounds coming from that crowd does sound a whole lot like noise because they are loud and have known the victory of the Lord.

*Psa 66:2 Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.

The one job we have after salvation is to praise and worship and glorify our God while witnessing to all others the news of His deliverance.
We must magnify God for His greatness and His Divine Majesty!
This is what this Psalm will do as it is sung in the worship of God.

All of us are to honor God’s name and tell all others just how glorious He truly is.
“All of us” would include the people of all nations and we may soon see that all remaining nations will do this when God delivers Israel from those who hate Israel.
When Israel came back upon the scene as a nation on May 14, 1948, it was telling this world that God put things in motion all things of the end times.
God has delivered this tiny nation many times and He is certainly not though with Israel now!
What was the first step?

Gal 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Gal 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Gal 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

We could say that the work that the Lord Jesus has done to save us is the first step.

1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

It is the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Prince of Life!

Act 3:13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
Act 3:14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
Act 3:15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

As we see every day most of this world stands in opposition to Israel but it does not matter, they will only cause harm to themselves.
God will never abandon Israel and we know that this thing is only going to get worse.
The hatred of God’s people will drive this world into non-existence.
The return of Jesus Christ will settle all these issues!

Rev 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Rev 19:12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
Rev 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Rev 19:14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

The promises God has made to Israel will be kept and fulfilled, and it may not be very much longer till we see the hand of God in motion.
Yes, all the world will praise His Holy Name or perish with the Sword of His mouth.

*Psa 66:3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.

We must understand that everything is possible with God and God will do just as He says He will.

Mar 10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

You can believe Him or reject Him, this is the choice we all have, there is no middle ground!
Nothing is too hard for God to achieve.

Gen 18:14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

If you read the history of Israel in the Scriptures you will be able to see that God never withheld His power when it came time to defend Israel.
He will not withhold His power today in the defense of Israel when that time comes.
It is the same for the Church except God will just remove His Church when the time requires for Him to do so.
We must understand that as long as the Church is in this world souls can be saved.
It is those “terrible works” that will cause this world to stand in awe of God!
It is the greatness of His power that will cause those “terrible works”.
God need only but speak and those “terrible works” will take place.

There are nations that do not exist today because of the terrible works of God and there will be others.
All those nations that remain will fall down on their knees and worship the Almighty God!
In fact, all these nations will come cringing out of fear of the Supreme God.
Much of homage is unwilling but solely out of absolute fear of Jehovah God!
This is why God chose the plan to use His Son Jesus for salvation. He did not want people in the New Heaven who were only there because of their absolute fear of Him.
So thankful we serve a loving and merciful God so full of “Grace”!

*Psa 66:4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.

Many times Israel only returned to God because they witnessed His terrible power upon their enemies.
One day soon God will get tired of this and only accept the true worshiper.

Joh 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Joh 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
Joh 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

People may look at the sound of worship and if it is true worship then it is marvelous.
God on the other hand, looks into the heart and He knows the difference in joy and Spiritual joy.
When there is Spiritual joy then, the praise of God becomes glorious!
The entire earth will sing praises to the name of Jesus one day.

Rom_14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Php 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Php 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
Php 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

We must have a reverent fear of the Lord but we had better have a sure fear of the power of the Almighty God.
His power is endless and the greatest power of God that is seen today is seen in Creation and most of the world rejects our Creator.
How can anyone look at the creation of this universe and come to the conclusion that it happened by accident?
The important thing for the non-believer today is that, if our creation did not come by accident then it had to come by alien intervention.
The evolution bubble is about to bust.

Psa 111:4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.

The alien intervention theory is about to take over.
Those that know the Lord show great wisdom in the truth!

Psa 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

What is the truth of God on the day of His wrath?

Psa 110:5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
Psa 110:6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
Psa 112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Psa 114:7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
Psa 114:8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

It was the demonstration of God’s power that stirred up Israel to come together and worship Him.
The Apostle Paul said it like this: Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
What had God shown to the people of Israel?

*Psa 66:5 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
Psa 66:6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

I just wonder what that Egyptian Pharaoh last thought was as the waters held back by the Lord came crashing down on him and his army.

I believe he is in Hell today reliving that last thought and drowning forever and ever.

The Israelites had witnessed the power of God on many occasions.
They had witnessed the power it took to save them from enemies that were far more powerful than they were.

Israel’s glorious history recorded in the Bible shows the awesome power of God and the parting of the Red Sea may be the greatest of those miracles.

For those who do not believe, there are destroyed chariots with wheels broken off, the remains of dead men, the remains of dead horses, and the many weapons of the many Egyptian military located in that place of the crossing of the Red Sea for anyone who wants to see the truth of that momentous day when God delivered His people from Egypt.

Exo 14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
Exo 14:29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Exo 14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.

God will make sure that there is evidence of His great works left behind for the future generations to see but most of them are ignored and rejected.

There is much proof of the worldwide flood in the days of Moses!
There is much proof of the creation of this universe by the hands of God. Evolution is just a grand old lie that has no proof!
There is much proof of all the works of God but it is not accepted.

You see if you disagree with the world then you are just a troublemaker.

It is somewhat like what we see today. As Christians we do not agree with the world and we are labeled as troublemakers and even called terrorist in some places.

The works of the Lord are true, and the evidence of those works are readily available, and most of those works are in plain sight.

This same God can tame the sinner and cause them to be Born Again, a Spiritual birth a complete change.

All the remnants of this world after the wrath of God will come to worship the God that has such power.

*Psa 66:7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

Who are the true rebels? Those who reject the truth of God!
We live today in a nation and a world that is ruled by the rebellious who have exalted themselves.

God is in control of our destiny!
The worship of God is binding on all nations!
We can neglect many things in this world but to worship of our Creator.
The one thing we need the most is a personal relation with our Creator!
We are damned if we neglect our Maker!

Satan has succeeded in much of this world to get people to hate Jesus the Messiah but all he has is lies.

2Co_4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

This world is blind to the truth!

Joh 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Rom 11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
Rom 11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
Rom 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway

It should be obvious the God rules by His power because He keeps this one planet in all the solar system called earth capable of supporting life.
There are no other planets, moon, or anything else that can support life as we know it in all this universe.

There is only a place called Heaven and God has shown us how to get there.
Those same rebellious people who are searching for things that do not exist are destroying this earth we have today and they would succeed if our Creator does intercede.

We can see all the works of mankind till our hearts grow feeble and old and feel worthless because this world only accepts the rich and famous but if we take the time to see the works of God, we will see the lies of this world.

We know that it is about the time that all Christians will be going home because this world is primed and ready to accept the Antichrist and he is about ready to reveal himself. His claim will be that he will solve all the issues of this world.

We must stop what we are doing today and start a deep study of God and most of us will come away praising God for what He has already done and He will also show us what He is about to do.

God is fully aware of everything that goes on in our world and the enemies of God and the Church should take heed to what God is saying here.
God is aware of what evil men are doing and even what they are planning to do. They have no respect for the power of God but they will witness His power first hand one day soon.
Prophecy informs us that the Lord Jesus will return and He will deliver all of God’s people that this world hates so much.
It is then that the entire world will acknowledge the awesome power of God.

Rev 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Rev 15:4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

As Christ it behooves us to keep in mind the power of God and submit to Him with all our heart.
We are often tempted to think we can get away with sin, that God does not see us or that He will do nothing about it but we must not be deceived by this lie. We will reap what we sow!

Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Gal 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

God sees everything we do just as He sees what the evil and wicked are doing. God even hears every word that we say.

Pro 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

As Christians we are humble ourselves before God and before His Word.

*Psa 66:8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:

One of the greatest truths we can see today is that the Israelites are still alive, they are still a nation, and they are back in the land that God has given to them, at least part of it.
The world is trying to deny them the rest of it and allow robbers and thieves to claim part of the Holy Land.
God faithfully sustains our lives from day to day. In fact every day is a gift from Him!
It is God who put us upon this earth and it is God who keeps us here.

1) God faithfully sustains us.
2) God keeps us from slipping and losing our way.

As we go through the activities of our say, we can sometimes forget that we are under the watchful eyes of God and are always within range of His Awesome Power.

We are a stubborn but we are fools if we do not let the voice of our praise be heard in Heaven!

We should also praise God for His deliverance of Israel and we may be about to see a great deliverance of Israel again today.

It is God that has us in His hands: Psa 66:9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Amen

Look to Jesus

January 4, 2024 / Bobby Mayfield / Leave a comment

The Prominence of God’s Servant

Book of Mark Chapter 9

Prominence means something or someone who stands out above all others.

The problem with humans is, just about every one of us think we are better than anyone else and this is a great sin.

When we compare ourselves to other people, we will always get a false result.

When we compare ourselves to the Lord Jesus, we will find that we always come up short!

We must understand that the Lord Jesus, the true Messiah, is exalted above all others whether they are prophets, priests, preachers, millionaires, billionaires or even angels.

We must exalt the Lord Jesus Christ in our lives in order to be saved!

In the time of Jesus, the Pharisees were guilty of exalting themselves above all others including the Lord Jesus Christ.

What were some of the things that they did?

Luk 11:43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
Luk 11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.

Those that exalt themselves are all hypocrites.

We see in the government we have today that many of them have exalted themselves above all the common people, and it seems we are content in our roles of deplorables. When Hillary Clinton said this thing, she was referring to our stupidity to allow us to place ourselves in that position.

In other words she insists that we are the contemptible lowlifes who have messed up our nation and our own lives and we need people such as her to take care of us.

I agree on one point only. We have voted for the wrong people to run our government. In this we have been very stupid!

We have allowed the hoax of evolution to dictate the rules of science for far to long, that the common people have not realized that every so-called proof of evolution has been shot down by true science but they will not change what is written in those books.

The Bible is a Book of Faith and if we do not soon push our faith in the truth of God, we may not be able to.

A lack of faith in the Word of God is moving through the Church so fast, that many do not know what to believe anymore and they listen to the secular world for answers and to false preachers who have become millionaires off the pocketbooks of gullible people.

*Mar 9:17 And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;
Mar 9:18 And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

The Lord Jesus along with Peter, James, and John had just come down from the Mount of Transfiguration.

The Lord had shown these disciples how He would appear if He removed His humanity from His being.

We call it a “glorified body”!

Mar 9:3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.

Not only did the transfiguration show the disciples how the Lord Jesus appeared without His humanity, but it also showed them what all, we that are saved, will appear like after the Rapture or after our death.

Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Rom 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

What will we go through to get this glorified body?

Php 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Php 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Praise the Lord, this is the promise God is giving to the true Church.

The true Church are all those who follow in the steps of Jesus Christ!

As the Lord reached the bottom of the mountain, one of those who had been following Jesus and had remained at the bottom of the mount with the other nine disciples of Christ.

These disciples had performed miracles before, especially of healing.

This was not a power they had but a power that the Lord Jesus had allowed in His name.

This man was describing some terrible things his son had been going through all his life.

We know there are many out in the world today that are called deaf and dumb and it appears that this young man was listed as dumb.

Dumb means he could not speak and I believe he could also not hear.

How did this happen? He had a dumb spirit living within him!

Now we have the power of the Holy Spirit within us once we are saved, but we are not complete without the Lord Jesus.

Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

I believe that this is the condition of being saved, but not being Christian.

To be Christian is being like Christ!

It is a terrible situation to be like this young son and not be able to take care of yourself, but also needing someone near all the time to keep him from causing harm to himself.

No matter what we think of this thing and how it began, the one good thing was the fact that because of his condition, he was brought to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Had he not been in this condition, he would have never met Jesus, nor his father and nor could his family see what can happen when we meet Jesus.

This young man was about to be “Born Again” to new life.

None of the disciples of Christ had been able to help this young man.

The first problem I see is, that this father knew Jesus was near and he should have waited on Him before going to His disciples.

All he needed was a little patience and a lot of faith!

When Jesus came down the mountain, He had seen this great crowd that had gathered, but He had also seen that a group of scribes were questioning His disciples.

We would probably call this intimidation and ridicule, and Jesus first delivered His disciples from this.

Before the scribes answered Jesus, this father came with his great need for his child, his son.

We should understand evil spirits did exist in the time of Christ, and they still exist today and the answer to rid them is to be saved.

This young son seemed to be deaf and dumb, but also had epilepsy and was demon possessed.

It seems that this evil spirit had made these things worse because it was in the presence of Jesus.

How did Doctor Luke see this thing?

Luk 9:38 And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.
Luk 9:39 And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.

How did the Lord Jesus respond to them all?

*Mar 9:19 He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
With all the things that the Lord has done for us, “how can we not have faith”.

Without faith we cannot be saved!

Php 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

It is not so much the amount of faith we have, as it is the kind of faith that we have and the fact that we have that faith!

Mat 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Mat 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

The lack of faith “grieves” the Lord Jesus Christ.

Since we have the Spirit of Christ in us, then it grieves the Holy Spirit.

Eph 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

When we upset the close connection we have with the Holy Spirit, how can we expect our relationship to the Lord to get closer or get better?

This shows us how affectionate the Holy Spirit is toward us if He can be grieved by our lack of faith.

Our lack of faith shows our lack of love for our Savior!

The job of the Holy Spirit is to keep us upon that path of righteousness, that righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lord Jesus casts out demons by the power of the Holy Spirit!

Without faith, we have no power in our lives!

The lack of faith means that the Church has no power and I believe this is the biggest problem in the modern Church today.

The Church lacks the power to stand up to this world!

There was a multitude that followed Jesus and there was not one among them, that had the power to cast out this dumb spirit, this demon.

Not the father, not the crowd, not the disciples and not the Jewish religionist.

There was a lack of faith in this entire crowd!

The Lord was grieved at the condition of this young boy who was helpless, under the power of this evil spirit.

You see, John 3:16 describes the love Jesus Christ has for us and it is because of this great love that His heart is touched as He witnesses our suffering in this world.

Jesus cared for this father as much as He cared for his son and He knew this father was also suffering for his son, yet this father did not have enough faith that the Lord could heal his son.

Jesus asked this father all these questions to get this father to focus on his dilemma.

To focus upon his need.
To focus upon Jesus who could fill his need.
To focus on Jesus so much, that his faith would increase enough that his son could be healed.

We should ask ourselves these questions every time we put a name on the prayer list.

“Do we have enough faith that Jesus can heal these people”?

So they brought this son to Jesus.

*Mar 9:20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.

We must understand that the earnest Love that Christ has for us is also the key to His miracles!

2Co_7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

We must understand that as Christians we are representatives of the Lord Jesus Christ!

If we cannot represent the truth of Christ Jesus then, we are not Christians and we do not reflect the truth of God!

It is really that simple!

We do not have the power of Divine healing as an individual!

We do claim the presence of Divine power in the Church!

When the Church has lost the presence of Divine power then mankind will question and despise Christianity, and we see some of this today.

The Holy Spirit has never left the true Church, but we must realize we have grieved the Holy Spirit and return to the Lord for Divine power to be restored to the Church.

This is why fasting and prayer is much needed in the Church today!

We must fast and pray until the Divine power of the Lord has been restored to the Church.

As Christians, we must make the world to know that we are not going to give up the raising of our children to this wicked world.

As Christians, we must also not assume so easily that our children are innocent, good, and harmless, as they are under the control of Satan until they are led to the Lord.

Jesus Christ rebuked this entire crowd for a lack of faith just as the Holy Spirit is grieved at the entire Church for a lack of faith today!

How long had this young son been in this condition?

*Mar 9:21 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.
Mar 9:22 And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.

Obviously, the Lord Jesus knew the answer to the questions He was asking, but he was asking these questions of the father to inspire hope and confidence in the work of the Lord.

You see, if we have faith as that of a mustard seed, then we will cry out for God’s mercy and God’s compassion.

There is no way that the Lord Jesus will turn away from a cry of mercy and compassion!

These are the traits of God that brought Jesus to us to begin with!

Luk 18:13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

As we see what is going on in our world, we should be grieved to a point that we act and minister just as our Lord Jesus did!

We need to show His compassion.
We need to show His mercy.
We need to show His forgiveness.
We need to show His grace.
We need to show His love.
We need to believe in all these things.

*Mar 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

What does our faith mean? It means we are taking God at His Word!

All things are possible to the Son of God who has all of God’s Power, but we must trust that God has this power!

We have made God to be some small God, when He is truly the God of All Power!

We must believe that this world is full of sinners and we must include ourselves.

We must accept that there is a punishment for our sin!

We must accept that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only remedy for that punishment.

Heb 6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
Heb 6:14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
Heb 6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Heb 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Heb 6:19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
Heb 6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

How did this man respond?

*Mar 9:24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

We see humility and faith.

Our hearts will be moved when we understand the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ!

We see His desire to have the blessings which our faith will secure.

We know that because of faith in the work of the Lord, we can flee from the wrath that is to come to this world.

We must seek forgiveness just as this man did.

We must long for the healing of the disease of the soul!

In other words, we must have a desire for salvation!

*Mar 9:25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
Mar 9:26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.

The Lord Jesus healed this boy when He saw the crowd running toward them.

We notice that the Lord Jesus had pulled this father and son aside while He led this father to the Lord.

The Lord likes to get one on one with those who doubt Him to teach them the truth.

This crowd had not only followers, but also deceivers and naysayers in the mix.

It was the Words of Christ that healed this boy.
It was the Words of Christ that broke the Devil’s power.

Satan cannot stand before the Word of God!

It is the Word of God and the Divine Power of God that has spoiled the principalities and the powers of evil.

These are the same things we will war with all our days!

Col 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Col 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

How will the Lord end the evil in this world when He returns?

Rev_19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Rev_19:21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

We see that when the Lord speaks things happen!

There is nothing in all of God’s creation that can disobey Him!

It is only us puny humans who have tried to defy the Almighty God!

Isa_40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

Isa 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

We see this evil spirit made one last effort to disrupt and discredit the power of Jesus Christ by trying to kill this boy, but the Lord would not allow his death.

*Mar 9:27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.
Mar 9:28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

These disciples wanted to know why they had failed, what was the cause?

The Lord Jesus had previously given them the power over evil spirits and they had been successful with it.

As Christians there is only one reason, we do not feel the power of God in our lives!

That reason is, that we are not living close enough to the Lord!

We feel like we can do spiritual things under our own power so, we see the reason the answer that Jesus gave.

They needed to pray more and fast!

These are the ways to get closer to the Lord.

Earlier, Jesus had said that His disciples need not to fast because He was with them.

The difference now was, that they had been sent out two by two and had done some things under the power of God.

They began to feel that they had this power themselves, and they began seeking things such as food before the Lord.

The modern Church is in this same rut today!

The power of the Church is almost non-existent because they have strayed from the foundation of the Church, which is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Fasting and prayer is the only solution to this problem and of course obedience to the Word of God.

God must be so important in our lives that we are willing to give up anything that could sustain our lives and give that to the Lord.

We must place our lives in the Lord’s hands and let Him dictate our life as He wishes.

Deu 4:29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

When our power from being a Christian is waning it is always because our faith is lacking!

*Mar 9:29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

While the Lord Jesus was up on the Mount of Transfiguration, He seem to be too far from some of His disciples who felt they could do things without the presence of the Lord and this is impossible.

It was not that this demon inside this boy was so powerful, it was because the disciples of the Lord were so weak!

It is important to see here how Satan attacks.

He will tear us and cause all sorts of bodily harm.
He will cause us to fall from the “grace” of God.
He will cause changes to our language and filthy language will come out of our mouths or nothing at all.
He will send us wallowing in the foam of our own sin.